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Structure of Human Mad1 C-Terminal Domain Reveals Its Involvement in Kinetochore Targeting Structure of human Mad1 C-terminal domain reveals its involvement in kinetochore targeting Soonjoung Kima,b,1, Hongbin Suna,1,2, Diana R. Tomchickc, Hongtao Yua,b,3, and Xuelian Luoa,3 aDepartment of Pharmacology, bHoward Hughes Medical Institute, and cDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390 Edited by Edward D. Salmon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, and accepted by the Editorial Board February 28, 2012 (received for review November 4, 2011) The spindle checkpoint prevents aneuploidy by delaying anaphase and sufficient for its kinetochore localization and checkpoint func- onset until all sister chromatids achieve proper microtubule attach- tion (18). By contrast, an N-terminal fragment of Xenopus Mad1 ment. The kinetochore-bound checkpoint protein complex Mad1- lacking the CTD has been shown to localize to kinetochores (19). Mad2 promotes the conformational activation of Mad2 and serves Finally, mutation of T680, a residue within the CTD and a poten- as a catalytic engine of checkpoint signaling. How Mad1 is targeted tial Plk1 phosphorylation site, in human Mad1 has been reported to kinetochores is not understood. Here, we report the crystal to diminish its kinetochore localization (20). It is thus unclear structure of the conserved C-terminal domain (CTD) of human whether Mad1 has conserved kinetochore-targeting domains. Mad1. Mad1 CTD forms a homodimer and, unexpectedly, has a fold The kinetochore receptor or receptors of Mad1 are also unknown. similar to those of the kinetochore-binding domains of Spc25 and In this study, we have determined the crystal structure of the Csm1. Nonoverlapping Mad1 fragments retain detectable kineto- CTD of human Mad1. Unexpectedly, Mad1 CTD has a fold si- chore targeting. Deletion of the CTD diminishes, does not abolish, milar to those of the kinetochore-targeting domains of the Ndc80 Mad1 kinetochore localization. Mutagenesis studies further map complex component Spc25 and the yeast monopolin subunit the functional interface of Mad1 CTD in kinetochore targeting Csm1, despite the lack of obvious sequence similarity. We show and implicate Bub1 as its receptor. Our results indicate that CTD that nonoverlapping fragments of Mad1 can achieve detectable is a part of an extensive kinetochore-binding interface of Mad1, kinetochore targeting. Deletion of Mad1 CTD diminishes, does BIOPHYSICS AND and rationalize graded kinetochore targeting of Mad1 during not abolish, Mad1 kinetochore targeting. Structure-based muta- checkpoint signaling. genesis identifies a conserved RLK motif in Mad1 CTD critical COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY for Mad1 kinetochore targeting in human cells. Interestingly, the dimerization ∣ mitosis ∣ X-ray crystallography ∣ multivalency ∣ chromosome same RLK motif is required for the checkpoint-stimulated Mad1- Bub1 interaction in yeast (21). Consistently, Bub1 is required for neuploidy is a major form of genomic instability in human Mad1 kinetochore targeting in human cells, and depletion of Acancers and can result from chromosome missegregation in Bub1 by RNA interference (RNAi) does not further reduce mitosis. The spindle checkpoint is a cell-cycle surveillance system the kinetochore targeting of a Mad1 RLK-motif mutant. These that guards against chromosome missegregation (1–3). Unat- results implicate Bub1 as a possible kinetochore receptor for tached kinetochores that exist intrinsically during normal prome- Mad1 CTD. Therefore, Mad1 has an unusually extensive kineto- taphase or as a consequence of spindle damage caused by exogen- chore-binding interface with multiple quasi-independent contact- ous chemical agents activate the checkpoint. The spindle check- ing sites, one of which involves the CTD. point proteins, including Bub1, BubR1, Bub3, Mps1, Mad1, and Mad2, are recruited to unattached kinetochores in a hierarchical Results fashion and undergo enzymatic and conformational activation. Mad1 CTD Forms a Dimer and Has a Fold Similar to Spc25. Mad1 con- The activated checkpoint proteins collaborate to inhibit APC∕ tains an N-terminal coiled coil domain and a CTD (Fig. 1A). The CCdc20 (the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome bound to Mad2-interacting motif (MIM) is located just N-terminal to the its mitotic activator Cdc20) (4–6), thereby stabilizing the APC/ CTD. The structure of a 120-residue Mad2-binding fragment of C substrates, securin and cyclin B1, and delaying anaphase onset human Mad1 bound to Mad2 had been previously determined until all kinetochores reach proper spindle attachment. (11). Other domains of Mad1 had not been structurally charac- The constitutive Mad1-Mad2 core complex is a downstream terized. Because Mad1 CTD was highly conserved from yeast to component of the kinetochore-targeting hierarchy. The recruit- man, we sought to determine its structure. We expressed and pur- ment of Mad1-Mad2 to unattached kinetochores requires up- ified a series of CTD-containing human Mad1 fragments with dif- stream kinetochore-bound components, including the Ndc80 ferent N-terminal boundaries and examined them using nuclear complex consisting of Ndc80, Nuf2, Spc25, and Spc24 (7, 8). At the magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Heteronuclear single kinetochores, the Mad1-Mad2 core complex catalyzes the confor- mational activation of the unusual two-state protein Mad2, which has two natively folded conformers, open-Mad2 (O-Mad2 or N1- Author contributions: H.Y. and X.L. designed research; S.K., H.S., and X.L. performed research; S.K., D.R.T., H.Y., and X.L. analyzed data; and H.Y. and X.L. wrote the paper. Mad2) and closed-Mad2 (C-Mad2 or N2-Mad2) (9–16). C-Mad2 in the Mad1-Mad2 core complex recruits cytosolic O-Mad2 through The authors declare no conflict of interest. asymmetric dimerization and converts O-Mad2 into intermediate This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. E.D.S. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board. Mad2 (I-Mad2) or unliganded C-Mad2, which then binds to Data deposition: The atomic coordinates have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank, Cdc20. Formation of the Mad2-Cdc20 complex further promotes www.pdb.org (PDB code 4DZO). the binding of BubR1-Bub3 to Cdc20, forming the APC/C-inhibi- 1S.K. and H.S. contributed equally to this work. tory mitotic checkpoint complex (17). Thus, the Mad1-Mad2 core 2Present address: Bio-NMR lab, High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of complex is a key catalytic engine of the spindle checkpoint. Sciences, Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China. Despite the importance of kinetochore-bound Mad1 in the 3To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: hongtao.yu@utsouthwestern.edu or spindle checkpoint, the mechanism of its kinetochore targeting xuelian.luo@utsouthwestern.edu. is not understood. A C-terminal fragment of yeast Mad1 contain- This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/ ing the highly conserved C-terminal domain (CTD) is necessary doi:10.1073/pnas.1118210109/-/DCSupplemental. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118210109 PNAS ∣ April 24, 2012 ∣ vol. 109 ∣ no. 17 ∣ 6549–6554 Downloaded by guest on September 24, 2021 The N-terminal segments of two αA helices (one from each monomer) form the stem. αC and the C-terminal end of αA med- iate the dimerization of the globular head. The fold of Mad1 CTD was strikingly similar to those of the kinetochore-targeting C-terminal domains of Spc25 (a subunit of the microtubule-bind- ing Ndc80 kinetochore complex) and Csm1 (a subunit of the yeast monopolin complex) (Fig. 1 B and C) (22–24). This fold was also related to those of the RWD (RING finger-, WD-repeat-, and DEAD-like proteins) domain and ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes (25, 26). The fold similarity between Mad1 CTD and the CTDs of Spc25 and Csm1 was unexpected, as they share no obvious se- quence similarity. Both CTDs of Mad1 and Csm1 form homodi- mers while Spc25 forms a heterodimer with the CTD of another Ndc80 subunit Spc24. Spc24 CTD is topologically related, but not identical, to Spc25 CTD (22, 23). The Mad1 CTD homodimer is thus structurally similar to the Spc25-Spc24 CTD heterodimer and to the Csm1 homodimer (Fig. 1B). Mad1 Has Multiple Quasi-Independent Kinetochore-Binding Inter- faces. The globular CTD heterodimer of Spc25 and Spc24 med- iates the kinetochore targeting of the Ndc80 complex through interactions with the Mis12 complex (23, 27). Similarly, the glob- Fig. 1. Structure of the Mad1 CTD reveals fold similarity to the Ndc80 ular CTD homodimer of Csm1 has also been shown to bind to complex subunit Spc25 and the monopolin subunit Csm1. (A) Domain archi- kinetochores and interact with both the Mis12 complex and tecture of human Mad1. MIM, Mad2-interacting motif. CTD, C-terminal do- CENP-C (centromere protein C) (24). The unexpected structural main. (B) Ribbon diagrams of human Mad1 CTD homodimer (left), the Spc25- similarity between Mad1 CTD and well established kinetochore- Spc24 CTD heterodimer (center; PDB code: 2VE7), and the Csm1 homodimer (right; PDB code: 3N4X). (C) Topology diagrams of Mad1 CTD (left), Spc25 CTD targeting domains prompted us to test whether the CTD was in- (middle), and Csm1 (right). All ribbon diagrams were generated using the deed involved in kinetochore targeting of human Mad1. On the program Pymol (http://www.pymol.org). other hand, previous studies had shown that the N-terminal do- main of Xenopus Mad1 was critical for kinetochore targeting (19). quantum correlation spectra revealed that the Mad1 CTD frag- To systematically define the kinetochore-binding domains of – ment containing residues 597 718 was well folded and had no human Mad1, we created truncation mutants of Myc-Mad1-5A A flexible regions (Fig. S1 ). Based on gel filtration chromatogra- and examined their kinetochore localization using immunofluor- phy, it had a native molecular mass of about 35 kDa, consistent escence (Fig. 2). Overexpression of Mad1 caused spindle check- with it being a homodimer (Fig. S1B). We next obtained crystals point defects by titrating free Mad2 (Fig.
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