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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
Pt 26
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-13
pubmed:abstractText
The large coiled-coil protein NuMA plays an essential role in organizing microtubule minus ends at spindle poles in vertebrate cells. Here, we use both in vivo and in vitro methods to examine NuMA dynamics at mitotic spindle poles. Using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, we show that an exogenously expressed green-fluorescent-protein/NuMA fusion undergoes continuous exchange between soluble and spindle-associated pools in living cells. These dynamics require cellular energy and display an average half-time for fluorescence recovery of approximately 3 minutes. To explore how NuMA dynamics at spindle poles is regulated, we exploited the association of NuMA with microtubule asters formed in mammalian mitotic extracts. Using a monoclonal antibody specific for human NuMA, we followed the fate of human NuMA associated with microtubule asters upon dilution with a hamster mitotic extract. Consistent with in vivo data, this assay shows that NuMA can be displaced from the core of pre-assembled asters into the soluble pool. The half-time of NuMA displacement from asters under these conditions is approximately 5 minutes. Using this assay, we show that protein kinase activity and the NuMA-binding protein LGN regulate the dynamic exchange of NuMA on microtubule asters. Thus, the dynamic properties of NuMA are regulated by multiple mechanisms including protein phosphorylation and binding to the LGN protein, and the rate of exchange between soluble and microtubule-associated pools suggests that NuMA associates with an insoluble matrix at spindle poles.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0021-9533
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
117
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6391-400
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-3-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Antibodies, Monoclonal, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Antigens, Nuclear, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Centrosome, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Green Fluorescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-HeLa Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Kinetochores, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Microtubules, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Mitotic Spindle Apparatus, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Nuclear Matrix-Associated Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15561764-Time Factors
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Multiple mechanisms regulate NuMA dynamics at spindle poles.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Molecular Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12201, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural