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ArticleCommunications biology2024

NuSAP4 regulates chromosome segregation in Trypanosoma brucei by promoting bipolar spindle assembly.

Qing Zhou, Ziyin Li

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Qing ZhouDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2096-1960
Ziyin LiDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA. Ziyin.Li@uth.tmc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3960-9716

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Mechanisms Of The Unusual Cytokinesis In TrypanosomesR01AI101437 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI LI, ZIYIN · 2013 to 2025
$6.4M
Regulation of cell cycle transitions by cyclin-dependent kinase in trypanosomesR01AI118736 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI LI, ZIYIN · 2016 to 2025
$3.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI101437NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI118736U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (OER) AI101437U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (OER) AI118736
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Abstract

Faithful chromosome segregation in eukaryotes requires the assembly of a bipolar spindle and the faithful attachment of kinetochores to spindle microtubules, which are regulated by various spindle-associated proteins (SAPs) that play distinct functions in regulating spindle dynamics and microtubule-kinetochore attachment. The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei employs evolutionarily conserved and kinetoplastid-specific proteins, including some kinetoplastid-specific nucleus- and spindle-associated proteins (NuSAPs), to regulate chromosome segregation. Here, we characterized NuSAP4 and its functional interplay with diverse SAPs in promoting chromosome segregation in T. brucei. NuSAP4 associates with the spindle during mitosis and concentrates at spindle poles where it interacts with SPB1 and MAP103. Knockdown of NuSAP4 impairs chromosome segregation by disrupting bipolar spindle assembly and spindle pole protein localization. These results uncover the mechanistic role of NuSAP4 in regulating chromosome segregation by promoting bipolar spindle assembly, and highlight the unusual features of mitotic regulation by spindle-associated proteins in this early divergent microbial eukaryote.

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Chromosome SegregationProtozoan ProteinsSpindle ApparatusTrypanosoma brucei bruceiKinetochoresMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsMitosisMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsProtozoan Proteins

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PMCPMC11569230

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