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Centriole triplet microtubules are required for stable centriole formation and inheritance in human cells

View ORCID ProfileJennifer T. Wang, Dong Kong, Christian R. Hoerner, Jadranka Loncarek, View ORCID ProfileTim Stearns
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/147975
Jennifer T. Wang
aDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford CA
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Dong Kong
bLaboratory of Protein Dynamics and Signaling, Center for Cancer Research – Frederick, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick MD
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Christian R. Hoerner
cDepartment of Medicine – Division of Oncology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford CA
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Jadranka Loncarek
bLaboratory of Protein Dynamics and Signaling, Center for Cancer Research – Frederick, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick MD
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Tim Stearns
aDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford CA
dDepartment of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford CA
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Summary

Centrioles are composed of long-lived microtubules arranged in nine triplets. In unicellular eukaryotes, loss of the noncanonical tubulins, delta-tubulin and epsilon tubulin, result in loss of the triplet microtubule structure. However, the contribution of triplet microtubules to mammalian centriole formation and stability is unknown. Here, we report the first characterization of delta-tubulin and epsilon-tubulin null human cells. Centrioles in cells lacking either delta-tubulin or epsilon-tubulin lack triplet microtubules and fail to undergo centriole maturation. These aberrant centrioles are formed de novo each cell cycle, but are unstable and do not persist to the next cell cycle, leading to a futile cycle of centriole formation and disintegration. Disintegration can be suppressed by paclitaxel treatment. Delta-tubulin and epsilon-tubulin physically interact, indicating that these tubulins act together to maintain triplet microtubules and that these are necessary for inheritance of centrioles from one cell cycle to the next.

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Centriole triplet microtubules are required for stable centriole formation and inheritance in human cells
Jennifer T. Wang, Dong Kong, Christian R. Hoerner, Jadranka Loncarek, Tim Stearns
bioRxiv 147975; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/147975
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Centriole triplet microtubules are required for stable centriole formation and inheritance in human cells
Jennifer T. Wang, Dong Kong, Christian R. Hoerner, Jadranka Loncarek, Tim Stearns
bioRxiv 147975; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/147975

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