タナベ ケンジ
  田邊 賢司
   所属   研究施設 研究施設
   職種   准教授
論文種別 原著
言語種別 英語
査読の有無 査読あり
表題 Dynamin 2 associates with microtubules at mitosis and regulates cell cycle progression.
掲載誌名 正式名:Cell Structure and Function
巻・号・頁 36,pp.145-154
著者・共著者 Ishida, Nobuhisa Nakamura, Yuichi Tanabe, Kenj i Li, Shun-Ai Takei, Kohji
担当区分 筆頭著者,責任著者
発行年月 2011
概要 Dynamin, a ~100 kDa large GTPase, is known as a key player for membrane traffic. Recent evidence shows that dynamin also regulates the dynamic instability of microtubules by a mechanism independent of membrane traffic. As microtubules are highly dynamic during mitosis, we investigated whether the regulation of microtubules by dynamin is essential for cell cycle progression. Dynamin 2 intensely localized at the mitotic spindle, and the localization depended on its proline-rich domain (PRD), which is required for microtubule association. The deletion of PRD resulted in the impairment of cytokinesis, whereby the mutant had less effect on endocytosis. Interestingly, dominant-negative dynamin (K44A), which blocks membrane traffic but has no effect on microtubules, also blocked cytokinesis. On the other hand, the deletion of the middle domain, which binds to γ-tubulin, impaired the entry into mitosis. As both deletion mutants had no significant effect on endocytosis, dynamin 2 may participate in cell cycle progression by regulating the microtubules. These data suggest that dynamin may play a key role for cell cycle progression by twodistinct pathways, membrane traffic and cytoskeleton.