Characterization of the Kinetochore Binding Domain of CENP-E Reveals Interactions with the Kinetochore Proteins CENP-F and hBUBR1

• Published in: The Journal of cell biology Vol. 143; no. 1; pp. 49 - 63
• Main Authors: Chan, G. K. T., Schaar, B. T., Yen, T. J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Rockefeller University Press 05.10.1998; The Rockefeller University Press
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Amino acids; Animals; Antibodies; Base Sequence; Binding Sites; Cell Cycle; Cells; Cellular biology; Centromeres; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone - chemistry; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone - genetics; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone - metabolism; Chromosomes; Cloning, Molecular; Complementary DNA; Genes, Reporter; HeLa Cells; Humans; Kinetochores; Kinetochores - metabolism; Kinetochores - ultrastructure; Mice; Microfilament Proteins; Mitosis; Molecular Sequence Data; Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Protein Kinases - chemistry; Protein Kinases - genetics; Protein Kinases - metabolism; Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; Proteins; Rats; Recombinant Fusion Proteins - biosynthesis; Regular; Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Transfection; Yeasts
• DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.1.49
• ISSN: 0021-9525

We have identified a 350-amino acid domain in the kinetochore motor CENP-E that specifies kinetochore binding in mitosis but not during interphase. The kinetochore binding domain was used in a yeast two-hybrid screen to isolate interacting proteins that included the kinetochore proteins CENP-E, CENP-F, and hBUBR1, a BUB1-related kinase that was found to be mutated in some colorectal carcinomas (Cahill, D.P., C. Lengauer, J. Yu, G.J. Riggins, J.K. Wilson, S.D. Markowitz, K.W. Kinzler, and B. Vogelstein. 1998. Nature. 392:300-303). CENP-F, hBUBR1, and CENP-E assembled onto kinetochores in sequential order during late stages of the cell cycle. These proteins therefore define discrete steps along the kinetochore assembly pathway. Kinetochores of unaligned chromosome exhibited stronger hBUBR1 and CENP-E staining than those of aligned chromosomes. CENP-E and hBUBR1 remain colocalized at kinetochores until mid-anaphase when hBUBR1 localized to portions of the spindle midzone that did not overlap with CENP-E. As CENP-E and hBUBR1 can coimmunoprecipitate with each other from HeLa cells, they may function as a motor-kinase complex at kinetochores. However, the complex distribution pattern of hBUBR1 suggests that it may regulate multiple functions that include the kinetochore and the spindle midzone.