RRC ID 32431
著者 Taniguchi K, Kokuryo A, Imano T, Minami R, Nakagoshi H, Adachi-Yamada T.
タイトル Isoform-specific functions of Mud/NuMA mediate binucleation of Drosophila male accessory gland cells.
ジャーナル BMC Dev Biol
Abstract BACKGROUND:In standard cell division, the cells undergo karyokinesis and then cytokinesis. Some cells, however, such as cardiomyocytes and hepatocytes, can produce binucleate cells by going through mitosis without cytokinesis. This cytokinesis skipping is thought to be due to the inhibition of cytokinesis machinery such as the central spindle or the contractile ring, but the mechanisms regulating it are unclear. We investigated them by characterizing the binucleation event during development of the Drosophila male accessory gland, in which all cells are binucleate.
RESULTS:The accessory gland cells arrested the cell cycle at 50 hours after puparium formation (APF) and in the middle of the pupal stage stopped proliferating for 5 hours. They then restarted the cell cycle and at 55 hours APF entered the M-phase synchronously. At this stage, accessory gland cells binucleated by mitosis without cytokinesis. Binucleating cells displayed the standard karyokinesis progression but also showed unusual features such as a non-round shape, spindle orientation along the apico-basal axis, and poor assembly of the central spindle. Mud, a Drosophila homolog of NuMA, regulated the processes responsible for these three features, the classical isoform Mud(PBD) and the two newly characterized isoforms Mud(L) and Mud(S) regulated them differently: Mud(L) repressed cell rounding, Mud(PBD) and Mud(S) oriented the spindle along the apico-basal axis, and Mud(S) and Mud(L) repressed central spindle assembly. Importantly, overexpression of Mud(S) induced binucleation even in standard proliferating cells such as those in imaginal discs.
CONCLUSIONS:We characterized the binucleation in the Drosophila male accessory gland and examined mechanisms that regulated unusual morphologies of binucleating cells. We demonstrated that Mud, a microtubule binding protein regulating spindle orientation, was involved in this binucleation. We suggest that atypical functions exerted by three structurally different isoforms of Mud regulate cell rounding, spindle orientation and central spindle assembly in binucleation. We also propose that Mud(S) is a key regulator triggering cytokinesis skipping in binucleation processes.
巻・号 14
ページ 46
公開日 2014-12-20
DOI 10.1186/s12861-014-0046-5
PII s12861-014-0046-5
PMID 25527079
PMC PMC4300151
MeSH Amino Acid Sequence Animals Cell Nucleus / physiology Cell Polarity Cell Shape Cytokinesis Drosophila Proteins / physiology* Drosophila melanogaster / cytology Drosophila melanogaster / metabolism* Epithelial Cells / physiology Epithelial Cells / ultrastructure Genitalia, Male / cytology Male Membrane Proteins / physiology* Metaphase Molecular Sequence Data Nerve Tissue Proteins / physiology* Protein Isoforms / physiology Spindle Apparatus / metabolism
IF 2.0
引用数 8
WOS 分野 DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
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