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. 2006 Nov;50(5):281-94.
doi: 10.1007/s00294-006-0095-9. Epub 2006 Sep 27.

Chromosome segregation in fission yeast with mutations in the tubulin folding cofactor D

Olga S Fedyanina  1 , Pavel V Mardanov, Ekaterina M Tokareva, J Richard McIntosh, Ekaterina L Grishchuk
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Chromosome segregation in fission yeast with mutations in the tubulin folding cofactor D

Olga S Fedyanina et al. Curr Genet. 2006 Nov.

Abstract

Faithful chromosome segregation requires the combined activities of the microtubule-based mitotic spindle and the multiple proteins that form mitotic kinetochores. Here, we show that the fission yeast mitotic mutant, tsm1-512, is an allele of the tubulin folding chaperone, cofactor D. Chromosome segregation in this and in an additional cofactor D mutant depends on growth conditions that are monitored specifically by the mitotic checkpoint proteins Mad1, 2, 3 and Bub3. The temperature-sensitive mutants we have used disrupt the function of cofactor D to different extents, but both strains form a mitotic spindle in which the poles separate in anaphase. However, chromosome segregation is often unequal, apparently due to a defect in kinetochore-microtubule interactions. Mutations in cofactor D render cells particularly sensitive to the expression levels of a CENP-B-like protein, Abp1p, which works as an allele-specific, high-copy suppressor of cofactor D. This and other genetic interactions between cofactor D mutants and specific kinetochore and spindle components suggest their critical role in establishing the normal kinetochore-microtubule interface.

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