Inoue, Yoshihiro H. and do Carmo Avides, Maria and Shiraki, Michina and Deak, Peter and Yamaguchi, Masamitsu and Nishimoto, Yoshio and Matsukage, Akio and Glover, David M. (2000) Orbit, a Novel Microtubule-Associated Protein Essential for Mitosis in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Cell Biology, 149 (1). pp. 153-166. ISSN 0021-9525. PMCID PMC2175100. doi:10.1083/jcb.149.1.153. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20201007-123359484
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Abstract
We describe a Drosophila gene, orbit, that encodes a conserved 165-kD microtubule-associated protein (MAP) with GTP binding motifs. Hypomorphic mutations in orbit lead to a maternal effect resulting in branched and bent mitotic spindles in the syncytial embryo. In the larval central nervous system, such mutants have an elevated mitotic index with some mitotic cells showing an increase in ploidy. Amorphic alleles show late lethality and greater frequencies of hyperploid mitotic cells. The presence of cells in the hypomorphic mutant in which the chromosomes can be arranged, either in a circular metaphase or an anaphase-like configuration on monopolar spindles, suggests that polyploidy arises through spindle and chromosome segregation defects rather than defects in cytokinesis. A role for the Orbit protein in regulating microtubule behavior in mitosis is suggested by its association with microtubules throughout the spindle at all mitotic stages, by its copurification with microtubules from embryonic extracts, and by the finding that the Orbit protein directly binds to MAP-free microtubules in a GTP-dependent manner.
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Additional Information: | © 2000 The Rockefeller University Press. After the Initial Publication Period, RUP will grant to the public the non-exclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the Article under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license, as described at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode, or updates thereof. Received: 24 August 1999. Revised: 28 February 2000. Accepted: 29 February 2000. We would like to thank Fumiko Hirose for supplying staged total RNA and Maria Deak for technical assistance at initial stages of the project. This work was supported by a program grant from the Cancer Research Campaign (CRC), and by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) on Priority Areas from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan. Project grant support was provided by the Medical Research Council and the Association for International Cancer Research. The CRC Cell Cycle Genetics Group is also a member of a TMR Network of the EU. | ||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | mitosis • microtubule-associated protein • Drosophila melanogaster • mitotic spindle • centrosome | ||||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1083/jcb.149.1.153 | ||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Yoshihiro H. Inoue, Maria do Carmo Avides, Michina Shiraki, Peter Deak, Masamitsu Yamaguchi, Yoshio Nishimoto, Akio Matsukage, David M. Glover; Orbit, a Novel Microtubule-Associated Protein Essential for Mitosis in Drosophila melanogaster. J Cell Biol 3 April 2000; 149 (1): 153–166. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.149.1.153 | ||||||||||
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