The Drosophila claret segregation protein is a minus-end directed motor molecule.

Abstract:

:A product encoded at the claret locus in Drosophila is needed for normal chromosome segregation in meiosis in females and in early mitotic divisions of the embryo. The predicted amino-acid sequence of the segregation protein was shown recently to be strikingly similar to Drosophila kinesin heavy chain. We have expressed the claret segregation protein in bacteria and have found that the bacterially expressed protein has motor activity in vitro with several novel features. The claret motor is slow (4 microns min-1), unlike either kinesin or dyneins. It has the directionality, the ability to generate torque and the sensitivity to inhibitors reported previously for dyneins. The finding of minus-end directed motor activity for a protein with sequence similarity to kinesin suggests that the dynein and kinesin motor domains are ancestrally related. The minus-end directed motor activity of the claret motor is consistent with a role for this protein in producing chromosome movement along spindle microtubules during prometaphase and/or anaphase.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Walker RA,Salmon ED,Endow SA

doi

10.1038/347780a0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-10-25 00:00:00

pages

780-2

issue

6295

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

journal_volume

347

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