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ArticleLife science alliance2019

KIF18A's neck linker permits navigation of microtubule-bound obstacles within the mitotic spindle.

Heidi Lh Malaby, Dominique V Lessard, Christopher L Berger, Jason Stumpff

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Article in Life science alliance, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Heidi Lh MalabyDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
Dominique V LessardDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
Christopher L BergerDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
Jason StumpffDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA jstumpff@uvm.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0392-1254
University of Vermont · US

Funding

Tuning Mitotic Kinesins Through Motor Domain Post Translational ModificationsR01GM130556 · NIGMS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI GROSS, STEVEN P, MURETTA, JOSEPH M. · 2019 to 2022
$2.4M
Spatial and temporal control of mitotic chromosome movements.R01GM121491 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI STUMPFF, JASON K · 2017 to 2021
$1.8M
Regulation of Axonal Transport by TauR01GM132646 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI BERGER, CHRISTOPHER L. · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
Tau-mediated regulation of axonal transportR01GM101066 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI BERGER, CHRISTOPHER L. · 2013 to 2016
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM101066NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM121491NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM130556NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132646
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

KIF18A (kinesin-8) is required for mammalian mitotic chromosome alignment. KIF18A confines chromosome movement to the mitotic spindle equator by accumulating at the plus-ends of kinetochore microtubule bundles (K-fibers), where it functions to suppress K-fiber dynamics. It is not understood how the motor accumulates at K-fiber plus-ends, a difficult feat requiring the motor to navigate protein dense microtubule tracks. Our data indicate that KIF18A's relatively long neck linker is required for the motor's accumulation at K-fiber plus-ends. Shorter neck linker (sNL) variants of KIF18A display a deficiency in accumulation at the ends of K-fibers at the center of the spindle. Depletion of K-fiber-binding proteins reduces the KIF18A sNL localization defect, whereas their overexpression reduces wild-type KIF18A's ability to accumulate on this same K-fiber subset. Furthermore, single-molecule assays indicate that KIF18A sNL motors are less proficient in navigating microtubules coated with microtubule-associated proteins. Taken together, these results support a model in which KIF18A's neck linker length permits efficient navigation of obstacles to reach K-fiber ends during mitosis.

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ChromosomesHeLa CellsHumansKinesinsKinetochoresLeupeptinsMetaphaseMicrotubulesRNA, Small InterferingSpindle ApparatusTransfectionbenzyloxycarbonylleucyl-leucyl-leucine aldehydeKIF18A protein, humanKinesinsLeupeptinsRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID30655363
PMCPMC6337737
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