Abstract:
:During mitosis, kinetochores need to attach to microtubules emanating from spindle poles. Several protein complexes have been shown to mediate the kinetochore-microtubule interaction. However, with the continually growing number of newly identified kinetochore proteins, it is unclear whether all major components of the kinetochore-microtubule interface have been identified. We therefore performed a high-throughput RNAi screen to identify additional factors involved in kinetochore-microtubule attachment, and identified RAMA1 as a novel regulator of this process. Depletion of RAMA1 results in severe chromosome alignment defects and a checkpoint-dependent mitotic arrest. We show that this is due to reduced kinetochore-microtubule attachments. RAMA1 localizes to the spindle and to outer kinetochores throughout all phases of mitosis and is recruited to kinetochores by the core kinetochore-microtubule attachment factor Hec1. Interestingly, unlike Hec1, the association of RAMA1 with kinetochores is highly dynamic, suggesting that it is not a structural component of the kinetochore. Consistent with this, all other kinetochore proteins tested do not require RAMA1 for their kinetochore localization. Taken together, these results identify RAMA1 as a novel kinetochore protein and suggest that RAMA1 may have a direct role in mediating kinetochore-microtubule interactions.
journal_name
J Cell Scijournal_title
Journal of cell scienceauthors
Raaijmakers JA,Tanenbaum ME,Maia AF,Medema RHdoi
10.1242/jcs.051912subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-07-15 00:00:00pages
2436-45issue
Pt 14eissn
0021-9533issn
1477-9137pii
jcs.051912journal_volume
122pub_type
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