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  • EB1 regulates attachment of Ska1 with microtubules by forming extended structures on the microtubule lattice.

EB1 regulates attachment of Ska1 with microtubules by forming extended structures on the microtubule lattice.

Nature communications (2016-05-27)
Geethu E Thomas, K Bandopadhyay, Sabyasachi Sutradhar, M R Renjith, Puja Singh, K K Gireesh, Steny Simon, Binshad Badarudeen, Hindol Gupta, Manidipa Banerjee, Raja Paul, J Mitra, Tapas K Manna
ABSTRACT

Kinetochore couples chromosome movement to dynamic microtubules, a process that is fundamental to mitosis in all eukaryotes but poorly understood. In vertebrates, spindle-kinetochore-associated (Ska1-3) protein complex plays an important role in this process. However, the proteins that stabilize Ska-mediated kinetochore-microtubule attachment remain unknown. Here we show that microtubule plus-end tracking protein EB1 facilitates Ska localization on microtubules in vertebrate cells. EB1 depletion results in a significant reduction of Ska1 recruitment onto microtubules and defects in mitotic chromosome alignment, which is also reflected in computational modelling. Biochemical experiments reveal that EB1 interacts with Ska1, facilitates Ska1-microtubule attachment and together stabilizes microtubules. Structural studies reveal that EB1 either with Ska1 or Ska complex forms extended structures on microtubule lattice. Results indicate that EB1 promotes Ska association with K-fibres and facilitates kinetochore-microtubule attachment. They also implicate that in vertebrates, chromosome coupling to dynamic microtubules could be mediated through EB1-Ska extended structures.

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