A novel role for clathrin in cytokinesis
AUTOR(ES)
Niswonger, Maria L.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
RESUMO
Using clathrin-minus Dictyostelium cells, we identified a novel requirement for clathrin during cytokinesis. In suspension culture, clathrin-minus cells failed to divide and became large and multinucleate. This cytokinesis deficiency was not attributable to a pleiotropic effect on the actomyosin cytoskeleton, since other cellular events driven by myosin II (e.g., cortical contraction and capping of concanavalin A receptors) remained intact in clathrin-minus cells. Examination of cells expressing myosin II tagged with green fluorescent protein showed that clathrin-minus cells failed to assemble myosin II into a functional contractile ring. This inability to localize myosin II to a particular location was specific for cytokinesis, since clathrin-minus cells moving across a substrate localized myosin II properly to their posterior cortexes. These results demonstrate that clathrin is essential for construction of a functional contractile ring during cell division.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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