We hypothesized that remodeling could alleviate SPB damage in these strains either by growth, which could add new Spc110, or by exchange, which could replace damaged Spc110 with functional Spc110. Secondary screens identified four genes required for SPB remodeling. UBC4 is required to maintain SPB size during the cell cycle, and NCS2, POM152, and NUP60 are required for SPB growth during a mitotic cell cycle arrest. SPB remodeling has been shown to occur at discrete times during the cell cycle. However, very little is known about the process of remodeling and the proteins involved in regulating and facilitating SPB growth and component exchange. In this study, we have identified several candidates for involvement in the SPB remodeling process. Proteins identified include microtubule motors, protein modification enzymes, and nuclear pore proteins. Many of the yeast microtubule motors were identified and had a synthetic growth defect with Spc110 cleavage. This information, coupled with previous studies on motors in other organisms, suggests that motors play a role in assembly of the spindle and specific SPB components. Dynein and Ncd have previously been shown to move microtubule bundles to the centrosome in Drosophila, and dynein has also been shown to transport pericentrin and c-tubulin to the centrosome in mammalian cells. While deletion of the motors identified in our study did not lead to a defect in SPB growth during metaphase arrest, further characterization of these proteins and their roleinSPB remodeling could shed light on the process of spindle assembly. Our secondary screens identified four proteins that regulate SPB size: Ncs2, Nup60, Pom152, and Ubc4. Loss of Ncs2, Nup60, or Pom152 led to an impaired ability to increase SPB size during metaphase arrest, implicating these proteins in SPB component assembly. Ncs2 is involved in the ubiquitin-related modifier Urm1 pathway and is necessary for thiolation of Lys and Glu tRNAs. Ncs2 has no known association with SPB proteins. However, our results suggest involvement of the urmylation pathway in regulation of SPB size. Components of the urmylation pathway have been previously shown to have genetic interactions with nuclear pore component NUP133: deletion of URM1 or UBA4 leads to a synthetic growth defect when combined with NUP133 deletion. Furthermore, deletion of NUP133 is synthetic lethal with deletion of another nuclear pore component gene, NUP60. We have shown that Nup60 and Pom152 are necessary for surviving Spc110 cleavage and for SPB growth during metaphase arrest. The only protein previously described as having a role in assembly of SPB components is nuclear pore protein Mlp2. We found that mlp2D does not have a synthetic growth defect when combined with Spc110 cleavage and U0126 therefore was not found in our SGA screen. However, attachment of Mlp2 to the nuclear pore is mediated by Nup60. Pom152 has previously been shown to form a complex with Ncd1 and Pom34, which assembles to form a ring around the nuclear membrane structure of the pore.
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hallmark of many cancer types and severity of these defects increases during tumor progression
Although multipolarity is often a consequence of centrosome abnormalities in cancer cells, several studies have shown that the amplified centrosomes coalesce and form a bipolar spindle. This has also been demonstrated in normal cells forced to have a double complement of DNA and centrosomes: Compound Library inhibitor retinal pigmented epithelial cells treated with a cytokinesis inhibitor are able to cluster the centrosomes to form a bipolar spindle and proceed through the cell cycle. Minus-enddirected microtubule motor proteins are involved in this clustering process: inhibition of dynein in fibroblasts leads to disassociation of clustered centrosomes and Drosophila kinesin 14 motor protein Ncd is required for focusing of spindle poles and maintaining spindle bipolarity when centrosome amplification is induced. These data demonstrate a cellular response pathway for repairing centrosome and spindle assembly defects. The spindle pole body is the functional equivalent of the mammalian centrosome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and organizes microtubules for chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis. The SPB is not a static structure. Instead, the SPB is remodeled in two ways: by growth, in which new components are added, and by exchange, in which old components are replaced by new components. These changes are cell cycle dependent, with growth occurring late in the cell cycle, and exchange occurring around the time of SPB duplication leading to the parent SPB having a mix of old and new components. Cell cycle arrests have various effects on these remodeling phenotypes. When arrested in G1 with a-factor, the SPB core becomes smaller. Conversely, when cells are arrested at metaphase, the SPB core grows. For example, overexpression of Mps1 kinase, which activates the spindle assembly checkpoint, causes SPBs to double in size. Based on the fact that the SPB is remodeled at discrete times during the cell cycle and in response to checkpoint activation, this process is likely to be important for maintenance of the SPB and possibly for assembly of the spindle. SPB remodeling was observed by tagging the integral SPB component Spc110 with fluorophores and using quantitative fluorescence to determine the level of incorporation or exchange of labeled protein. lmodulin. One protein that has been previously shown to affect assembly of SPB components is Mlp2, a nuclear pore-associated protein that binds to SPB core components and affects their assembly into the SPB. Deletion of MLP2 leads to formation of smaller SPBs, and combining Mlp2 depletion with spc110-220 exacerbates the assembly defect and is lethal. These data make Mlp2 a likely SPB remodeling factor and implicate nuclear pore proteins in SPB assembly and remodeling. To identify additional proteins involved in the remodeling process, we developed a system for conditionally inducing SPB remodeling. The remodeling strain contains a version of Spc110 that can be cleaved by TEV protease. Using a synthetic genetic array analysis.
It is also observed that the peptide is able to induce aggregation of cell viability were incubated in the absence
At the same time we added MTT reagents to prevent cellular loss during the high content screening inhibitor washing step. In general, insect and mammalian cell monolayers were intact after 30 min incubation with up to 16 or 24 mM of MbCD, respectively. Fig. 1B shows that insect cells were more affected by cholesterol depletion than mammalian cells. Indeed, 16 mM MbCD was able to decrease 50–60% of cholesterol in mammalian and insect cells but only affected the viability of insect cells. Thus, our results showed that some different MbCD concentrations can induce similar levels of cholesterol depletion but different responses in cellular viability. In our studies, low MbCD concentrations, which cause depletion of cholesterol but do not affect the cellular viability, were chosen to examine the role played by cholesterol during protein-membrane interaction. Recently, we have solved the NMR atomic structure of the Ebola fusion peptide in the presence of mimetic membranes, where a loop with a central 310-helix appears to be stabilized by aromatic-aromatic interaction. The ability of the Ebola peptide to induce membrane fusion has been related with the presence of phosphatidilinositol in the host cell membrane and Ca2+ during this process. Recent studies have suggested the critical role of lipid rafts in filovirus entry into the host cells. Lipid rafts are microdomains in biological membranes that are rich in cholesterol and sphingolipids and play an important role in many events including the endocytic, bio-synthetic and signal transduction pathways. The requirement of lipid rafts for the virus to enter host cells has been related with the localization of receptors and co-receptors in these microdomains. Many viruses use a specific interaction between their GPs and cell surface receptors to initiate the attachment to cells and subsequent fusion. Thus, lipid rafts may promote virus entry by concentrating the viral receptors and facilitating binding via an efficient interaction of these receptors with viral proteins. Interestingly, the filovirus co-factor folate receptor-a is a raft-associated glycophosphatidylinositol-anchored protein. However, the critical role of FRa has been questioned due to the fact that FRa ˜negative cells are fully infectible by GP pseudotypes. In order to determine the importance of cholesterol during membrane fusion and the real importance of the aromaticaromatic interaction in the peptide structure, we studied the interaction of the wild type fusion peptide and its mutant W8A peptide with either cholesterol-depleted cells or rafts isolated from Vero and BHK-21 cells. Our results show that the Ebola fusion peptide interacts with living cells, and its capacity to induce cellcell fusion is decreased in cholesterol-depleted cells. Force spectroscopy based on atomic force microscopy assays reveals a pattern of high affinity force when the Ebola fusion peptide interacts with membrane rafts.
NT3 in the lysM line and the later activation in the catK line suggest that the major effects of the alternative pathway
The earlier expression of occur after commitment to the OC lineage. In addition to finding increased OC differentiation, our in vitro experiments indicated that NIK activation also enhances the resorptive capacity of each OC. When we plated equal Masitinib msds numbers of preosteoclasts on bone at high doses of RANKL, which further normalizes the numbers of OCs formed, we still saw a large increase in bone resorption by NT3-expressing OCs. Intriguingly, actin rings were 3-fold larger in area in NT3.catK OCs compared to Ctl OCs, extending almost to the cell edge. Preliminary experiments suggest that even on plastic, NT3 drives increased expression of a subset of cytoskeleton-associated proteins. Although there are a number of suggestions in the literature that the cytoskeleton can alter signaling pathways including NF-kB, there are no direct studies indicating that the alternative pathway can regulate the cytoskeleton. Once the actin ring and sealing zone are formed, the OC must secrete enzymes and acid to accomplish bone resorption. Our observation that NT3 OCs are highly efficient bone resorbers may indicate NIK also plays a role in these processes. Exposure of OC precursors to RANKL causes NIK-dependent processing of p100 to p52, an event necessary for OC differentiation in vitro. Expression of the stabilized form of NIK, NT3, increased this processing event and enhanced osteoclastogenesis. However, we do not know whether this traditional role for NIK is responsible for all of the observed stimulatory effects on OCs. Ablation of NIK causes accumulation of p100 which inhibits classical NF-kB signaling by binding p65, although this does not contribute significantly to the observed block in OC differentiation. Nevertheless, activation of the classical pathway by NT3 could contribute to increased OC numbers, either by supporting the differentiation program or inhibiting apoptosis. In other cell types, NIK has been shown to impact STAT3 signaling and ERK activation, and activation of these pathways could impact the OC as well. Further studies will be required to determine all of the pathways impacted by NIK stabilization in the OC. The most common form of systemic bone loss is postmenopausal osteoporosis caused by estrogen deficiency. In the early phases of this disease, the activity of both OCs and OBs is increased leading to high bone turnover. However, bone resorption and formation are not balanced, and the net effect is bone loss, primarily in the trabeculae. Most studies have focused on stimulation of OCs as the primary event. In physiologic bone remodeling, the differentiation and activity of OBs is coupled to that of OCs via as yet incompletely defined factors, and in early osteoporosis the OB activation is also thought to be secondary to the OC. Analysis of NT3.catK mice demonstrated that, at baseline, the number of OCs was increased, as were serum levels of CTX, a marker of OC activity, indicating that bone resorption was increased.
The similarity in phenotypes the degradation that normally keeps NIK levels low in resting cells
Using mice expressing this mutant NIK allele in OC lineage cells, we describe the effects of constitutive NIK activation in OCs both in vivo and in vitro. We find that NIKDT3 transgenic mice are osteoporotic at baseline, and are much more sensitive to inflammatory osteolysis than nontransgenic littermates using the serum transfer model of arthritis. In vitro, NIKDT3 drives more robust OC differentiation and generates more active OCs characterized by an enlarged actin ring, indicating that the alternative NF-kB pathway controls not only OC differentiation but also resorptive activity. Thus, inhibition of NIK is a promising therapeutic Screening Libraries inhibitor strategy for preventing pathological bone loss, while activation of NIK, such as might occur with cIAP antagonists, may accelerate bone loss due to OC activation. Unlike the classical NF-kB pathway, which is activated by a wide array of inflammatory and infectious stimuli, the alternative NF-kB pathway is activated by only a small subset of cytokines, including RANKL, Ltb, CD40L and BAFF. Knockouts of various alternative pathway components have demonstrated roles in maturation of B cells and induction of TH17 cells, as well as differentiation of osteoclasts, suggesting that this pathway might be a relatively specific target for autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with bone loss. The stability of NIK is one of the key control points for activation of the alternative NF-kB pathway. Recent studies of mutations in multiple myelomas revealed that NIK, or more frequently proteins such as TRAF3 and cIAPs that control NIK degradation, are targets for mutation in these tumors. This observation led to generation of transgenic mice expressing a stabilized form of NIK, using a tissue-specific Cre-mediated activation approach, which results in tissue-specific constitutive alternative pathway activation. By expressing this NT3 transgene in the OC lineage, we now describe the effects of NIK activation on bone homeostasis and inflammatory bone loss. In order to express NT3 in OCs, we utilized two Cre transgenic lines that have previously been shown to delete floxed alleles in this lineage. LysM-Cre mediates deletion in neutrophils, macrophages, and OCs, while CatK-Cre is more specific to the OC lineage, deleting at the preosteoclast stage. We found that both NT3.lysM and NT3.catK mice had severe osteoporosis at 8 weeks of age, with an approximate 50% loss in trabecular bone volume. In vitro, osteoclastogenesis occurred at lower doses of RANKL in both NT3.lysM and NT3.catK BMMs, even though NT3.catK BMMs did not show expression of NT3 until they had been cultured in RANKL for 2 days. Nevertheless, even in low doses of RANKL, only an additional 2 days were sufficient for full OC differentiation in NT3.catK cells. Overall, NT3.catK BMMs differentiated more quickly and at lower doses of RANKL than Ctl BMMs, and expressed higher levels of OC differentiation markers NFATc1, b3 integrin, DCStamp and calcitonin receptor.