鉴定S. cerevisiae kinetochore的重要组成部分
K F Doheny1, P K Sorger, A A Hyman
1Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
Cell
|May 21, 1993
概括
研究人员使用新型测试在酵母中确定了两个必不可少的kinetochore蛋白. CTF13和CTF14对于维持细胞分裂期间的染色体稳定性至关重要,CTF13是新发现的成分.
科学领域:
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
- 遗传学 是一个遗传学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
背景情况:
- 基因托科尔的完整性对于精确的染色体分离在线粒分裂过程中至关重要.
- 这项研究的重点是识别Saccharomyces cerevisiae (酵母菌) 中的新型kinetochore成分.
研究的目的:
- 为了识别和描述S. cerevisiae中的新型必不可少的kinetochore蛋白质.
- 为了验证已识别的基因在维护基内托科尔完整性和染色体稳定性方面的功能.
主要方法:
- 开发和应用两种体内测试来评估动态细胞的完整性:转录块放松在中间体和二中性染色体的线性稳定性.
- 基因查以识别影响动脉功能的突变物.
- 在体外使用抗体进行生物化学分析,以探测蛋白质-DNA相互作用.
主要成果:
- 使用这两种测定方法确定了两个假定的动态基因突变,ctf13-30和ctf14-42.
- 证实CTF14与NDC10/CBF2相同,NDC10/CBF2是已知的重要动态基因组件.
- 确定了CTF13,一种编码新型蛋白质的基本基因. ctf13突变体表现出染色体误分和细胞周期停止.
- 生物化学数据显示,CTF13蛋白与中心基DNA相互作用.
结论:
- CTF13是一种新型,必不可少的基因基因组蛋白质,对于正确的染色体分离而言是必不可少的.
- CTF14 (NDC10/CBF2) 和CTF13一起作为S. cerevisiae中kinetochore的关键组成部分发挥作用.
- 开发的测试是识别和研究动脉功能的有效工具.
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