Cell-Cycle Dependent Phosphorylation of Yeast Pericentrin Regulates Γ-Tusc
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1 Cell-cycle dependent phosphorylation of yeast pericentrin regulates -TuSC- 2 mediated microtubule nucleation 3 4 Tien-chen Lin1,3, Annett Neuner1, Yvonne Schlosser1, Annette Scharf2, Lisa Weber2 and 5 Elmar Schiebel1,* 6 1-Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Allianz, 7 Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 8 2-Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Allianz, 9 Z-MS, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 10 3-The Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular and Cellular 11 Biology (HBIGS), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany 12 13 *Correspondence: [email protected] 14 Key words: pericentrin, Spc110, Spc98, spindle pole body, Mps1, Cdk1, gamma-tubulin 15 complex, phosphorylation, mitosis, microtubules, oligomerization 16 17 Summary 18 Budding yeast Spc110, a member of -tubulin complex receptor family (-TuCR), recruits - 19 tubulin complexes to microtubule (MT) organizing centers (MTOCs). Biochemical studies 20 suggest that Spc110 facilitates higher-order -tubulin complex assembly (Kollman et al., 21 2010). Nevertheless the molecular basis for this activity and the regulation are unclear. 22 Here we show that Spc110 phosphorylated by Mps1 and Cdk1 activates -TuSC 23 oligomerization and MT nucleation in a cell cycle dependent manner. Interaction between 24 the N-terminus of the -TuSC subunit Spc98 and Spc110 is important for this activity. 25 Besides the conserved CM1 motif in -TuCRs (Sawin et al., 2004), a second motif that we 26 named Spc110/Pcp1 motif (SPM) is also important for MT nucleation. The activating Mps1 27 and Cdk1 sites lie between SPM and CM1 motifs. Most organisms have both SPM-CM1 28 (Spc110/Pcp1/PCNT) and CM1-only (Spc72/Mto1/Cnn/CDK5RAP2/ myomegalin) types of 29 -TuCRs. The two types of -TuCRs contain distinct but conserved C-terminal MTOC 30 targeting domains. 31 32 Highlights 33 1. Phosphorylation of Spc110 N-terminal domain (N-Spc110) regulates -TuSC 34 oligomerization. 35 2. Both SPM and CM1 are required for N-Spc110 to activate -TuSC oligomerization. 36 3. The conserved N-Spc98 is required for Spc110-mediated oligomerization. 37 4. -TuCRs can be categorized into CM1-only (Spc72/Mto1/Cnn/CDK5RAP2) and 38 SPM-CM1 (Spc110/Pcp1/PCNT) type of receptors. 39 5. While the SPM-CM1 type is targeted via the PACT domain to centrosomes/SPBs, 40 the CM1-only type has either MASC (Mto1 and Spc72 C-terminus) or a CM2 motif 41 for MTOC targeting. 42 Introduction 43 The budding yeast spindle consists of ~40 microtubules (MTs) that extend between the two 44 opposed spindle pole bodies (SPBs). Because of the closed mitosis in yeast, the SPBs 45 remain embedded in the nuclear membrane throughout mitosis. Cell-cycle regulated 46 spindle assembly begins in S-phase with nucleation of MTs onto the surface of the newly 47 assembled SPB. As soon as MTs emanate from both SPBs, they interdigitate (pole to pole 48 MTs) or attach to the kinetochores (pole to kinetochore MTs) at the end of S phase, forming 49 the bipolar spindle (O'Toole et al., 1999). 50 The -tubulin complex is the core player in MT nucleation. In budding yeast Saccharomyces 51 cerevisiae, two molecules of -tubulin (Tub4) assemble together with one molecule of 52 Spc97 (ortholog of human GCP2) and Spc98 (ortholog of human GCP3) into a tetrameric - 53 tubulin small complex (-TuSC), which is conserved in all eukaryotes (Geissler et al., 1996; 54 Guillet et al., 2011; Knop et al., 1997). The purified -TuSC of budding yeast is able to self- 55 oligomerize into symmetric ring-like structures under low salt buffer conditions. The 56 diameter and the pitch of the -TuSC ring resemble that of MT cylinder, suggesting that the 57 -TuSC ring functions as a MT nucleation template. However, the in vitro nucleation activity 58 of the -TuSC assemblies remained poor, presumably because of the suboptimal spacing 59 of every second Tub4 within the -TuSC ring that blocks interaction with tubulin in the MT 60 cylinder (Choy et al., 2009; Kollman et al., 2010; Kollman et al., 2008). The concept of- 61 TuSC oligomerization is further supported by in vivo measurements of budding yeast - 62 tubulin complex components on detached single MT nucleation sites. The - 63 tubulin:Spc97:Spc98 ratio was 2.4:1.0:1.3 with a total of ~17 -tubulin molecules per 64 nucleation site (Erlemann et al., 2012), suggesting a slight excess of -tubulin and Spc98 65 molecules over Spc97 in the assembled MT nucleation site. 66 In most eukaryotic organisms, such as fission yeast, Drosophila, Xenopus and human, 67 multiple -TuSCs further assemble with additional GCP family members (GCP4-6) into the 68 larger -tubulin ring complex (-TuRC) (Anders et al., 2006; Gunawardane et al., 2000; 69 Murphy et al., 2001; Zhang et al., 2000). However these additional GCP proteins are not 70 encoded in the budding yeast genome. 71 Various proteins are involved in the recruitment of -tubulin complexes to microtubule 72 organizing centers (MTOCs) such as centrosomes and SPBs. The small protein Mozart1 is 73 encoded in most eukaryotic genomes except the one of budding yeast (Teixido-Travesa et 74 al., 2012). In Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Arabidopsis thaliana Mozart1 interacts with 75 the GCP3 subunit of -tubulin complexes (Batzenschlager et al., 2013; Dhani et al., 2013; 76 Janski et al., 2012; Masuda et al., 2013; Nakamura et al., 2012). In S. pombe Mozart1 77 appears important for the -TuSC recruitment to SPBs (Dhani et al., 2013; Masuda et al., 78 2013). 79 Besides Mozart1, a group of conserved proteins called -tubulin complex receptors (- 80 TuCRs) are required for targeting -tubulin complexes to MTOCs. Most of them carry a 81 highly conserved centrosomin motif 1 (CM1) that interacts with GCP subunits of -tubulin 82 complexes (Sawin et al., 2004). How Mozart1 and -TuCRs cooperate is not understood. 83 However, in budding yeast cells that lack a Mozart1 gene, -TuCRs are the sole factors 84 responsible for -TuSC recruitment to SPBs. Spc110 is the budding yeast homolog of 85 pericentrin (PCNT) and functions as -TuCRs at the nuclear side of the SPB (Knop and 86 Schiebel, 1997; Sundberg and Davis, 1997). The N-terminal Spc110 encompasses the 87 CM1 that interacts with the Spc98 subunit of -TuSC (Fong et al., 2008; Knop and Schiebel, 88 1997; Nguyen et al., 1998; Samejima et al., 2008; Sawin et al., 2004; Vinh et al., 2002; 89 Zhang and Megraw, 2007). In addition, the N-terminal region of Spc110 is phosphorylated 90 in a cell-cycle dependent manner. Phospho-Spc110 appears as cells progress from S 91 phase, continues accumulating during mitosis and vanishes at the anaphase onset 92 (Friedman et al., 1996; Stirling and Stark, 1996). Spc110 phosphorylation accounts for the 93 impact of Cdk1 and Mps1 kinases on spindle dynamics (Friedman et al., 2001; Huisman et 94 al., 2007; Liang et al., 2013). However, a clear understanding behind this observation is 95 lacking. Interestingly, when -TuSC and an N-terminal fragment of Spc110 (amino acids 1- 96 220 of Spc110; Spc1101-220) were co-expressed in insect cells, a filament-like -TuSC- 97 Spc1101-220 complex formed. The nucleation capacity of this purified -TuSC-Spc1101-220 98 complex exceeded that of the -TuSC alone (Kollman et al., 2010). Thus, Spc1101-220 99 influences -TuSC properties with yet unclear mechanism. 100 Here we have tested the possibility that phosphorylation of the -TuCR Spc110 regulates 101 MT nucleation by inducing -TuSC oligomerization. Single particle analysis of -TuSC 102 incubated with phospho-mimetic Spc110 mutant proteins showed that Mps1 and Cdk1 103 promoted MT nucleation through Spc110 phosphorylation. Phosphorylated Spc110 and the 104 interaction with the N-terminal domain of Spc98 induce -TuSC oligomerization. In addition, 105 bioinformatic analysis revealed a conserved region around T18, that we named 106 Spc110/Pcp1 motif (SPM). SPM and CM1 motifs are both important for -TuSC binding and 107 oligomerization. A comparison of -TuCRs for the presence of SPM and CM1, identified 108 SPM-CM1 (Spc110, Pcp1, PCNT) and CM1-only types of -TuCRs (Spc72, Mto1, Cnn, 109 CDK5RAP2, myomegalin) in most organisms. While the SPM-CM1 type of -TuCRs carries 110 the PACT domain and is targeted only to the centrosome or the nuclear side of the SPB, 111 the CM1-only type of -TuCRs has either a MASC (Mto1 and Spc72 C-terminus) (Samejima 112 et al., 2010) or a CM2 motif and is recruited to, centrosomes, the cytoplasmic side of the 113 SPB or acentrosomal MTOCs. 114 115 Results 116 117 Phosphorylation of N-Spc110 at Mps1 and Cdk1 sites is required for efficient 118 interaction with -TuSC 119 To test whether Spc1101-220 phosphorylation promoted -TuSC ring formation, we purified 120 GST-Spc1101-220 (named Spc1101-220) from both E. coli and the baculovirus expression 121 system. Spc1101-220 encompasses Cdk1 and Mps1 phosphorylation sites and the 122 conserved CM1 motif (Figure 1A). Because of the post-translational modification 123 machinery, Spc1101-220 purified from insect cells harboured phosphorylations on S60/T68 124 and S36/S91 (Figure 1—figure supplement 1A-D), that correspond to established Mps1 and 125 Cdk1 sites, respectively (Figure 1A) (Friedman et al., 2001; Huisman et al., 2007). In 126 contrast, Spc1101-220 was not phosphorylated when purified from E. coli. 127 We incubated purified -TuSC with either the phosphorylated Spc1101-220 from insect cells 128 (Spc1101-220-P) or the non-phosphorylated Spc1101-220 from E. coli and then analyzed the 129 protein complexes by gel filtration. Spc110 dimerizes via the coiled-coli region in the centre 130 of the protein (Kilmartin et al., 1993; Muller et al., 2005).