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Live Cell Imaging of Chromosome Segregation During Mitosis
Published on: March 14, 2018
La reorganización del filamento intermedio durante la mitosis está mediada por la fosforilación p34cdc2 de la
Y H Chou1, J R Bischoff, D Beach
1Department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
Cell
|September 21, 1990
Resumen
Durante la mitosis, las proteínas del filamento intermedio (IF) como la vimentina son hiperfosforiladas por un complejo de kinasa p34cdc2, lo que lleva al desmontaje de la red IF. Esta fosforilación es crucial para la reorganización celular durante la fase M.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología celular Biología celular.
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
Sus antecedentes:
- Los filamentos intermedios (FI) se despolimerizan durante la mitosis.
- La vimentina y la desmina se hiperfosforilan en sitios específicos durante la mitosis.
- Las quinasas responsables de la hiperfosforilación de la vimentina no están completamente caracterizadas.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para caracterizar una vimentina quinasa involucrada en la reorganización mitótica del IF.
- Para identificar los componentes del complejo de vimentina quinasa.
- Para determinar si la vimentina es un sustrato de p34cdc2.2.
Principales métodos:
- Purificación de la actividad de la vimentina quinasa a partir de lisatos celulares mitóticos BHK-21.
- Copurificación con actividad de la histona H1 quinasa y unión a la p13suc1-sefarosa.
- Ensayos de fosforilación in vitro utilizando complejo de quinasa purificada y vimentina.
Principales resultados:
- La actividad de la vimentina quinasa se copurifica con la histona H1 quinasa y se une a la p13suc1-sefarosa.
- El complejo de quinasa purificado contenía polipéptidos p34cdc2, 65 kDa y 110 kDa.
- El complejo de quinasa fosforila la vimentina in vitro en sitios mitóticos e indujo el desmontaje de las IF.
Conclusiones:
- La vimentina es un sustrato directo del complejo de la quinasa p34cdc2.
- La fosforilación de la vimentina por p34cdc2 contribuye a la reorganización de la red de filamentos intermedios durante la fase M.
- Este estudio identifica un mecanismo clave para la reestructuración celular mitótica.
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