Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New JerseyRobert Wood Johnson Medical School,
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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The heavy chain of cytoplasmic dynein is required for nuclear migration in Aspergillus nidulans and other fungi. Here we report on a new gene required for nuclear migration, nudG, which encodes a homologue of the "8-kD" cytoplasmic dynein light chain (CDLC). We demonstrate that the temperature sensitive nudG8 mutation inhibits nuclear migration and growth at restrictive temperature. This mutation also inhibits asexual and sexual sporulation, decreases the intracellular concentration of the nudG CDLC protein and causes the cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain to be absent from the mycelial tip, where it is normally located in wild-type mycelia. Coimmunoprecipitation experiments with antibodies against the cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain (CDHC) and the nudG CDLC demonstrated that some fraction of the cytoplasmic dynein light chain is in a protein complex with the CDHC. Sucrose gradient sedimentation analysis, however, showed that not all of the NUDG protein is complexed with the heavy chain. A double mutant carrying a cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain deletion plus a temperature-sensitive nudG mutation grew no more slowly at restrictive temperature than a strain with only the CDHC deletion. This result demonstrates that the effect of the nudG mutation on nuclear migration and growth is mediated through an interaction with the CDHC rather than with some other molecule (e.g., myosin-V) with which the 8-kD CDLC might theoretically interact.
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Introduction |
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NUCLEAR positioning is of fundamental importance
to the growth and development of both higher
and lower eukaryotes. In higher eukaryotes, nuclear migration plays a significant role in a wide variety of
processes, which include epithelial folding (Sauer, 1935;
Schoenwolf and Smith, 1990
; Viebahn et al., 1995
), cancer cell migration (Klominek et al., 1991
), pronuclear migration during fertilization (Schatten, 1982
; Reinsch and Karsenti, 1997
), nuclear corticalization in insect eggs (Zalokar
and Erk, 1976
; Baker et al., 1993
), mitotic spindle orientation in Drosophila (McGrail and Hays, 1997
; Theurkauf,
1997
), and development of the Drosophila eye (Fan and
Ready, 1997
). Among lower eukaryotes, nuclear migration is required to distribute nuclei through the hyphal
mycelium in filamentous fungi (reviewed by Morris et al.,
1995
), to move daughter nuclei into the bud in budding
yeast (reviewed by Hoyt et al., 1997
; Stearns, 1997
), to partition nuclei into daughter cells in fission yeast (reviewed
by Hagan and Yanagida, 1997
) and for karyogamy (reviewed by Rose, 1996
). In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cytoplasmic dynein, dynactin, and a set of
kinesins play overlapping roles in nuclear positioning and
migration into the bud. Deletion of dynein or any other individual motor has little effect on either mitosis or colony
forming ability because of this functional redundancy. In
contrast, dynein deletion in the filamentous fungi has a
profound effect on both nuclear migration and colony
forming ability (Plamann et al., 1994
; Xiang et al., 1994
).
Nuclear migration is almost abolished in the absence of the cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain, yet dynein-deficient
colonies are still able to grow slowly, suggesting some redundant function that can mediate low level nuclear migration. A subtle effect of kinesin deficiency on nuclear
distribution in Neurospora crassa (Seiler et al., 1997
) suggests that kinesin also plays a role in nuclear migration and
might provide this redundancy.
In higher organisms, cytoplasmic dynein has been shown
to be a multisubunit, minus-end-directed, microtubule-dependent, motor protein that is involved in the motility
of a wide variety of organelles (reviewed by Sheetz, 1996;
Vallee and Sheetz, 1996
; Hirokawa, 1998
). It consists of
two or three very high molecular weight heavy chains
(~500 kD) that are responsible for microtubule (MT)1
binding and motor activity, several intermediate chains of
~74 kD, and several light intermediate chains of 52-61 kD
(Holzbauer et al., 1994
; Schroer, 1994
). Different heavy
chains have been associated with different cellular organelles (Vaisberg et al., 1996
). In addition to the heavy,
intermediate, and light intermediate chains of cytoplasmic
dynein, an "8-kD" light chain component was recently
identified by a database search for sequences similar to
flagellar outer arm dynein from Chlamydomonas reinhardii. This revealed sequences related to the outer arm light
chain in organisms without cilia or flagella (King and Patel, 1995
) and led to the subsequent copurification and
colocalization of the 8-kD light chain with cytoplasmic dynein from mammalian brain (King et al., 1996
). The 8-kD
cytoplasmic dynein light chain (CDLC), which has an electrophoretic mobility of 8 kD, but a calculated molecular weight of 10.3 kD, exhibits extraordinary amino acid
sequence conservation in a wide variety of organisms including Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Dick et al., 1996a
),
Schistosoma mansoni (Hoffmann and Strand, 1996
), Caenorhabditis elegans, (GenBank accession number U00043),
Drosophila melanogaster (Dick et al., 1996b
), Chlamydomonas reinhardii (Piperno and Luck, 1979
; Pfister et al., 1982
; King and Patel, 1995
), and Rattus norvegicus (Jaffrey
and Snyder, 1996
). In addition to cytoplasmic dynein, a
second large multisubunit complex known as dynactin,
which interacts with dynein, has been shown to be required for migration of membranous vesicles in higher eukaryotes (Allan, 1994
; Sheetz, 1996
). Mutations in various
components of dynactin inhibit long range nuclear migration in filamentous fungi and short-range migration into
the bud in yeast (Muhua et al., 1994
; Plamann et al., 1994
;
Clark et al., 1994
; Robb et al., 1995
; Bruno et al., 1996
;
Tinsley et al., 1996
; Geiser et al., 1997
; Kahana et al.,
1998
). Thus the dynein/dynactin system is both structurally
and functionally conserved between higher eukaryotes
and fungi.
Early observations of nuclear migration through the hyphae of living fungi suggested that nuclei were pulled
through the cytoplasm by a tractive force on their spindle
pole bodies (SPBs). Because tubulin mutations in filamentous fungi affect nuclear migration, and because a yeast
mutant that specifically lacks SPB microtubules has a nuclear migration defect (Oakley and Morris, 1980, 1981
; Sullivan and Huffaker, 1992
; Palmer et al., 1992
), it is generally believed that nuclear migration is mediated by an
interaction between SPB MTs and cytoplasmic dynein.
Cytoplasmic dynein has been localized to astral microtubules and spindle pole bodies and has been shown to affect
microtubule stability in yeast (Shaw et al., 1997
; Carminati
and Stearns, 1998
) and in the filamentous fungus Nectria
haematococca (Inoue et al., 1998a
). We have shown by
staining hyphae with antibodies raised against the cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain (CDHC) that the dynein
heavy chain is concentrated at the hyphal tips in A. nidulans (Xiang et al., 1995a
). This observation was recently
confirmed with green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged
CDHC, which, however, showed that, in addition to the
material at the tip, some of the GFP-CDHC is associated
with packets of material migrating rapidly toward the hyphal tips (Xiang et al., 1997
; Xiang, X., and N.R. Morris,
unpublished observations). These observations support
but by no means prove a class of models in which nuclei
are moved in filamentous fungi by the interaction between
cortically fixed dynein/dynactin and SPB microtubules (Plamann et al., 1994
; Morris et al., 1995
; Carminati and
Stearns, 1998
; Efimov and Morris, 1998
). Presumably, dynein, which is a minus end-directed motor, moves nuclei
by attempting to migrate along SPB MTs toward the SPB
microtubule organizing center, thereby reeling in the nucleus. In the absence of dynein, as seen in various dynein
mutants, the nuclei are not reeled in. Additional support for this idea comes from laser optical trap experiments
showing that nuclei are fixed in position during interphase
such that the laser beam cannot move them in wild-type
cells of Nectria haematococca. In contrast, nuclei are freely
movable in a strain from which cytoplasmic dynein has
been deleted (Inoue et al., 1998b
), presumably because
they are no longer fixed to the cortex by the interaction
between their SPB MTs and dynein at the cortex.
Our laboratory has previously identified (Morris, 1976)
and cloned three genes, nudA, nudC, and nudF that affect
nuclear migration in A. nidulans. Mutations in all of these
genes cause a similar phenotype. Nuclear migration is defective during both vegetative growth and differentiation.
As a consequence, colony size and the production of asexual and sexual spores are severely reduced. NudA encodes
the heavy chain of cytoplasmic dynein (Xiang et al., 1994
).
NudC encodes an evolutionarily conserved 22-kD protein of unknown biochemical function (Osmani et al., 1990
;
Cunniff et al., 1997
; Morris et al., 1997
). The nudF gene
encodes a 49-kD, WD-40 protein related to the human
Miller-Dieker lissencephaly (LIS1) neuronal migration
protein (Reiner et al., 1993
; Xiang et al., 1995
b), which
binds to tubulin (Sapir et al., 1997
) and purifies as part of
platelet activating factor acetyl hydrolase (Hattori et al.,
1994
). The NUDC and NUDF proteins appear to function upstream of dynein and are believed to be part of a regulatory pathway that controls cytoplasmic dynein function
(Xiang et al., 1995
b; Willins et al., 1997
). In this paper, we
describe the characterization of a fourth gene, nudG, required for nuclear migration in A. nidulans. NudG encodes a close homologue of the 8-kD CDLC. Here we
show by analyzing the effects of the temperature-sensitive
(ts) nudG8 mutation that the nudG CDLC plays a role in
both nuclear migration and cytoplasmic dynein localization at the mycelial tip.
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Materials and Methods |
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Isolation of the nudG8 Mutation and Growth Conditions
Strain ts289 (nudG8, pabaA6, biA1) carrying the nudG8 mutation was
identified by fluorescence microscopic inspection of nuclear distribution
in 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindone (DAPI)-stained germlings from a collection of 1,164 temperature sensitive mutants generated by 4-nitroquinoline oxide mutagenesis of strain FGSC (Fungal Genetics Stock Center)
A28 (pabaA6, biA1). This collection of ts mutants was made by S. Harris,
M. Momany, and J. Hamer of the Department of Biological Sciences of
Purdue University (Lafayette, IN), who generously shared their collection
with us. Crosses between ts289 and XX19 (nudA2, chaA1, pyrG89, nicA2,
and/or nicB8), AO1 (nudC3, wA2, pabaA1, nicA2, and pyrG89), and
XX21 (nudF7, yA2, and pyrG89) identified nudG8 as a mutation in a new
nud gene. ts289 was outcrossed to GR5 (wA2, pyroA4, and pyrG89) to introduce pyrG89, a selective marker suitable for transformation selection,
into the strain. The resultant strain, named SB09, (nudG8, wA2, pyroA4,
pyrG89, and biA1) was crossed to A391 (chaA1 and biA1) to produce
SB10 (nudG8, chaA1, pyroA4, pyrG89, and biA1). Media and growth conditions were as previously described for other nud mutations (Xiang et al.,
1994; Xiang et al., 1995a
,b). Progeny from a cross between SB09 (nudG8,
wA2, pyroA4, pyrG89, and biA1) and A391 (chaA1 and biA1) were used
for self-crosses to test for fertility defects. A double mutant strain was generated by crossing SB10 with XX60 (
nudA::pyrG; pyrG89; Xiang et al.,
1995a
).
DAPI Staining and Indirect Immunofluorescence
To observe nuclei of A. nidulans germlings, spores were inoculated onto
coverslips overlaid with medium on the bottom of a Petri dish and grown
8-12 h at either permissive or restrictive temperatures. Cells were fixed in
100 µl of 5% glutaraldehyde in 50 mM K2HPO4, pH 6.5, 0.25 µg/ml DAPI
and 0.2% Triton X-100 for 20 min at room temperature. The coverslips
were then rinsed with water and air dried. Coverslips were mounted on
glass slides with a drop of Citifluor (UKC Chemlab, Canterbury, UK) and
observed on an epifluorescence microscope (Carl Zeiss, Inc., Thornwood, NY). CDHC indirect immunofluorescence was performed as described previously (Xiang et al., 1995a). The nudA CDHC antiserum has been described previously (Xiang et al., 1995a
). Tubulin was stained with DM1A
antibody (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO) against alpha tubulin. Antibody against actin was a gift from Andersland et al. (1994)
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Mapping and Cloning of nudG
We mapped the nudG8 mutation to chromosome VIII by conventional
parasexual genetic methods (reviewed by Clutterbuck, 1992). We used a
chromosome VIII-specific cosmid library (Brody et al., 1991
) obtained
from the Fungal Genetics Stock Center and sib selection as described in
Xiang et al. (1994)
to clone the wild-type nudG gene. The library was divided into seven pools, each containing 50 cosmids. The SB10 (nudG8,
chaA1, pyroA4, pyrG89, and biA1) strain was transformed with each pool,
and we looked for DNA-mediated complementation of the mutant phenotype. The cosmid was subcloned to the smallest fragment, 2 kb, that
would complement nudG mutation in the SB10 strain.
A. nidulans Transformation Protocol
A. nidulans was transformed according to the protocol of Yelton et al.
(1984) with the following modifications. We initially used ~3 µg of cosmid
DNA plus 13 µg of pyrG DNA. The final protoplast pellet was resuspended in STC buffer containing 1.2 M sucrose instead of sorbitol. An
equal volume of 60% PEG solution (polyethylene glycol 4000, #81240;
Fluka Chemical Corp., Milwaukee, WI) was added to the protoplast/DNA
mixture, and after 20 min incubation, 1.0 ml of YGS (0.5% yeast extract,
2% glucose, and 1% sucrose) medium containing sucrose in place of sorbitol was added and the eppendorf tubes were shaken at 150 rpm for 1-2 h
at room temperature. The protoplasts were plated on YAG-KCL (0.5%
yeast extract, 2% agar, 2% glucose, 1.6% KCl) and incubated at 32°C for
12-20 h, after which YAG top agar was added to the plates and incubation continued at 44°C until colonies grew through the top agar. These were regridded and retested at 44°C on YAG. Rescue of the nuclear migration
defect phenotype produced wild-type colony growth and abundant production of asexual spores at restrictive temperature.
cDNA Library Screening
We screened a lambda gt10 A. nidulans cDNA library (Osmani et al.,
1988) using the 2-kb genomic fragment that rescued the nudG8 phenotype. The library had been transformed into Escherichia coli C600 strain
using the modified procedure described in the Cloning Kit Instruction
Manual (Stratagene Inc., La Jolla, CA). Prehybridization and hybridization of the filters and preparation of the probe was done according to the
nonradioactive Genius kit (Boehringer Mannheim Co., Indianapolis, IN).
E. coli (DH5
) were made competent and transformed according to Sambrook et al. (1989)
. The phage DNA was isolated as described in Sambrook et al. (1989)
and subcloned into pBluescript II LS+ (Stratagene
Inc.), purified through CsCl and sequenced using the 4000L Sequencer
(LI-COR, Inc., Lincoln, NB).
Preparation of A. nidulans Protein Extract
Spores were inoculated into YAG medium containing uridine and uracil
and grown overnight at restrictive temperature (44°C). The mycelia were
harvested by filtration through Miracloth (Calbiochem-Novabiochem, La
Jolla, CA), pressed dry, and frozen in liquid nitrogen. The frozen mycelia
were ground to a powder with a mortar and pestle in liquid nitrogen. Proteins were extracted by vortexing the powder in a 30-ml capped tube containing 2 ml of acid-washed glass beads (425-600-µm diameter; Sigma
Chemical Co.) and Tris/KCl buffer (20 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.6, 50 mM KCl,
5 mM MgCl2, and 0.5 mM EDTA) (Collins and Vallee, 1989). After a 4°C
centrifugation at 3,000 g in an HB-4 Sorvall rotor for 5 min to remove cell
wall debris, the supernatant was recentrifuged at 17,000 g in a Sorvall centrifuge (Newtown, CT) for 15 min at 4°C. The protein concentration ranged from 10 to 30 mg/ml as measured by the Bradford assay (Bradford, 1976
).
Antibody Preparation, Western Blotting, and Immunoprecipitation
NUDG antiserum was generated against the first 14 amino acids of the
CDLC sequence, H2N-MASEKKDKLEPQIK-COOH, conjugated to keyhole limpet hemagglutinin and injected into rabbits by Alpha Diagnostic Int. (San Antonio, TX). Each of two rabbits produced antiserum that
recognized the 8-kD CDLC band by Western blotting of protein extracts
at 1:15,000 dilution. Because only a single band was detected, we did not
find it necessary to affinity purify the NUDG antiserum. The preparation
of affinity purified anti-NUDA antibodies was described previously
(Xiang et al., 1995a). For immunoprecipitation experiments, we incubated
4 mg of protein extract in 1 ml of Tris/KCl buffer for 2 h with 40 µl of A.
nidulans NUDG (CDLC) undiluted antiserum at 4°C on a rotating wheel.
100 µl of 50% Protein A Sepharose (Pharmacia LKB Biotechnology Inc., Piscataway, NJ) was added, and incubation continued for an additional 2 h
at 4°C. The mixture was then washed six times with 1 ml Tris/KCl buffer
by centrifugation for 4 s in a microfuge. The immunoprecipitate was resuspended in Laemmli sample buffer, subjected to electrophoresis on a
4-20% gradient SDS-PAGE gel (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Richmond, CA)
and transferred to an Immobilon-P membrane (Millipore Corp., Bedford,
MA). The transfer efficiency was monitored by Ponceau S (Sigma Chemical Co.) staining. After primary antibody and goat anti-rabbit alkaline
phosphatase-conjugated secondary antibody incubations, the blots were
developed colorimetrically with nitro blue tetrazolium chloride and
5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-phosphate from Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories, Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD).
Sedimentation of NUDA and NUDF Proteins
Wild-type and nudG3 mutant cells were grown in YG medium 15 h at 42°C and protein extracts prepared as described above. 1 ml of extract was sedimented through a 12 ml linear 17-51% sucrose density gradient made with the same buffer in which the extract was prepared. The gradient was centrifuged in a SW41 rotor for 4 h at 270,000 g at 4°C. 600-µl fractions were collected from the top of the gradient and 20 µl of each fraction was subjected to gradient (4-20%) SDS-PAGE and transferred to membrane for Western blotting as described above.
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Characterization of nudG8
A new collection of temperature-sensitive mutants of A.
nidulans (see Materials and Methods) was screened by
DAPI staining of nuclei and fluorescence microscopy at
restrictive temperature (42°C) to identify mutants with a
defect in nuclear migration (nud mutants). Several mutants with this phenotype were identified and crossed with
previously characterized nud mutants (nudA, nudC, and
nudF) to determine whether they represented new genes.
One such mutant was identified as a new nud gene because it produced 25% wild-type progeny when crossed
with strains carrying either a nudA, nudC, or nudF mutation. This new mutation was designated as nudG8. Colonies of the nudG8 mutant strain grew slowly at restrictive temperature with a growth rate 10-15% that of wild type
and a tight colony morphology indistinguishable from that
of other previously described Aspergillus nud mutations
(Fig. 1) (see also Osmani et al., 1990). DAPI staining of
hyphae germinated at restrictive temperature revealed the
typical nuclear migration defect characteristic of nud mutants. The nuclei divided normally, but failed to migrate from the spore end of the germling into the germ tube,
leaving a cluster of nuclei at the spore end. When crossed
with a wild-type strain, the temperature sensitivity of
nudG8 segregated 1:1, confirming it was a single gene mutation. Diploids heterozygous for nudG8 grew as well as
their wild-type parental strains at restrictive temperature
(44°C), indicating that the nudG8 mutation was recessive and therefore presumably a loss of function mutation.
NudG8, like other previously characterized nud mutants
of A. nidulans, was also defective in the production of
asexual spores (conidia). Because the asexual spores are
responsible for colony color (Clutterbuck, 1990
), this was
easily seen by inspection of colonies growing on YAG
agar, which were gray-brown rather than brightly colored. Because other previously characterized nud mutants of A.
nidulans exhibited low fertility in matings, we compared
the ascospores (sexual spore) production of self-crosses of
wild-type strains and nudG8 strains. The nudG8 mutation
was linked to a reduction in fertility, as demonstrated by
the low numbers of ascospores (sexual spores) produced
in self-crosses in contrast to wild-type ascospore production. Among eleven ascospores examined, the nudG mutant produced ~3-10% the number of conidia as the wild
type.
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To determine whether the nuclear migration defect
caused by nudG was mediated by an effect on cytoplasmic
dynein or by an effect on some other motility system involved in nuclear migration, we constructed a doubly mutant strain carrying both nudG8 and a nudA CDHC deletion mutation (Xiang et al., 1995a
). If the function of the
nudG gene product was similar to that of the nudA
CDHC, the growth defect of the double mutant should be
no more severe than that caused by the more deleterious
of the single mutations. Alternatively, if the mutations affected different processes, the effects of the mutations
would be expected to be additive and the phenotype of the
double mutant more extreme than either single mutant.
The result of this experiment was that the nudG8,
nudA
double mutant grew no more slowly than the worse of the singly mutant parental strains, suggesting that nudG was
involved in the same motility function as the nudA-encoded
CDHC (Fig. 1).
nudG Encodes a Homologue of the 8-kD Dynein Light Chain
The nudG8 mutation was mapped to chromosome VIII. A
cosmid that rescued the mutant phenotype was identified
by DNA-mediated complementation of nudG8 temperature sensitivity using sib selection from pools of chromosome VIII cosmids. The rescuing cosmid, SW27C04, is located on the right arm of chromosome VIII near bimG,
abaA, and can67 (Brody et al., 1991; Wang et al., 1994
).
The 40-kb cosmid clone was subcloned to the smallest
fragment, 2 kb, that was able to rescue the nudG8 mutant
phenotype. Southern blot analysis using the 2-kb fragment
as a probe showed a single band when genomic DNA was
cut with BamHI and EcoRI, and two bands when cut with HindIII (data not shown). We later determined that the
nudG sequence contains an internal HindIII site, which
explains the presence of two bands. Thus, nudG appears
to be represented by a single gene in the A. nidulans genome. The 2-kb genomic fragment was used to isolate two
cDNA clones of 572 and 619 bp from an A. nidulans lambda gt10 phage cDNA library. The two clones encoded
sequences that differed by a 54-bp sequence, possibly the
result of a splicing abnormality. Both clones were able to
completely rescue the growth and nuclear migration defects of nudG8 by DNA-mediated complementation (data
not shown). The sequence data for the 572-bp cDNA
clone is available from GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ under accession number U81827.
Characterization of the Putative NUDG Protein
The nudG 572-bp cDNA encodes a putative protein of 94 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 11,031 D
and an isoelectric point of 6.49. It shares 67% identity with
the 8-kD outer arm CDLC from Chlamydomonas reinhardii flagella (King and Patel, 1995), 66.3% with the Caenorhabditis elegans cosmid T26A5 sequence (GenBank accession number U00043), the CDLC1 of Drosophila
melanogaster (Dick et al., 1996b
), the Rattus norvegicus
protein inhibitor of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (Jaffrey
and Snyder, 1996
) and the Homo sapiens CDLC1 (Dick
et al., 1996b
), 53.9% with the Schistosoma mansoni CDLC
(Hoffmann and Strand, 1996
), and 43.5% identity with the
SLC1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Dick et al., 1996a
)
(Fig. 2). An antibody was generated against the first 14 amino acids of the wild-type nudG CDLC sequence. Western blotting of extracts from wild-type strains identified a
NUDG protein band migrating at 8 kD on SDS-PAGE
gels even though the molecular weight predicted by the sequence is 11 kD. This is similar to the anomalous migration of CDLC protein from other species. The 8-kD
CDLC band was absent from Western blots of nudG8 protein extracts grown at restrictive temperature (Fig. 3 A).
Thus, the effect of the nudG8 mutation is either to increase the rate of degradation of the NUDG protein, to
decrease its rate of synthesis, or both. We attempted to use our antibody to localize the nudG light chain within the A.
nidulans germling; however, this antibody was not useful
for immunocytochemistry.
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Coimmunoprecipitation of the A. nidulans 8-kD CDLC with the CDHC
To determine whether the nudG CDLC interacts with the CDHC in A. nidulans, we used antibodies against the nudG CDLC and the nudA CDHC to immunoprecipitate proteins from cell-free extracts and analyzed the immunoprecipitates by Western blotting (Fig. 4). The NUDG antiserum precipitated both the nudG 8-kD CDLC and the nudA CDHC from wild-type extracts. Similarly, antibody against the nudA CDHC also precipitated both the CDHC and the 8-kD CDLC from wild-type extracts. Control experiments without antiserum or with protein extracts prepared from a nudA1 mutant grown at restrictive temperature, which lacks CDHC protein, or the nudG8 mutant grown at restrictive temperature, which lacks the 8-kD CDLC protein, demonstrated the specificity of the interaction. In the absence of NUDA protein (the nudA1 strain), antibody against NUDA failed to precipitate NUDG protein and, in the absence of NUDG protein (the nudG8 strain), antibody against NUDG failed to precipitate NUDA protein. These coimmunoprecipitation data show that nudG CDLC and nudA CDHC are associated in a protein complex in A. nidulans. They do not, however, necessarily indicate that the CDHC is bound directly to the light chain. The association between the nudG 8-kD CDLC and the nudA CDHC could be mediated by another chain of cytoplasmic dynein or by some as yet uncharacterized protein. Nor does this result necessarily mean that all of the CDLC is bound to the CDHC or vice versa. In fact, sedimentation analysis (see below) indicates that most of the 8-kD light chains are not associated with the CDHC.
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Sedimentation Analysis of the Cytoplasmic Dynein Heavy and 8-kD Light Chains
Sedimentation of cell free extracts of wild-type A. nidulans showed that the NUDA cytoplasmic heavy chain protein sediments as a large molecular weight complex at ~20 S. The NUDG CDLC for the most part sedimented faster than expected from its calculated molecular weight and exhibited a very broad distribution, suggesting that it was involved in multiple protein complexes. Although there was an overlap between the sedimentation profiles of the NUDA and NUDG proteins, most of the NUDG protein did not cosediment with the 20-S cytoplasmic dynein complex (Fig. 5), indicating that the major fraction of NUDG is not associated with the cytoplasmic dynein complex under the conditions of this experiment. Sedimentation of extracts from nudG8 mutant cells grown at 42°C produced NUDA and NUDG sedimentation profiles that were indistinguishable from that of wild-type extract grown under the same conditions (data not shown). Thus, the nudG8 mutation has no observable effect on the structure of the cytoplasmic dynein complex as detectable by this assay.
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The nudG8 Mutation Causes a Defect in Dynein Localization
We have shown that cytoplasmic dynein is concentrated at
the growing tips of wild-type A. nidulans germlings by immunocytochemistry, using an affinity purified rabbit polyclonal antibody directed against the CDHC (Xiang et al.,
1995a), and more recently by observation of a green fluorescent protein tagged-CDHC fusion protein in living cells (Xiang et al., 1997
). To determine whether the nudG8
mutation affected the localization of cytoplasmic dynein,
we stained nudG8 germlings with affinity purified anti-
NUDA (anti-CDHC) antibody. In wild-type germlings,
antibody against the CDHC stains a dot at the hyphal tips
at both permissive and restrictive temperatures. A similar
dot of stain is also seen at the hyphal tips of nudG8 germlings at permissive temperature. At restrictive temperature, however, the dot of CDHC at the tip disappears (Fig.
6), and the anti-NUDA antibody produces only a faint,
diffuse staining throughout the cytoplasm. Because the
loss of CDHC staining from the tip might represent a decrease in the total amount of heavy chain in the cells, we
compared the amount of CDHC in wild-type and nudG8
cells by Western blotting. Equal amounts of protein were loaded on the gels. Western blot analysis of protein extracts from wild-type and mutant cells revealed that the
CDHC protein level was similar in the wild-type and
nudG8 mutant strains (Fig. 3 B). Another potential source
of artifact was the possibility that the nudG8 mutation
might affect the accessibility of the tip to antibody. To control for this possibility, we stained hyphae with antibodies
against actin and tubulin. Both antibodies stained structures at the hyphal tip. We found no discernible difference in actin or tubulin staining at the tips of the nudG8 mutant
as compared with wild-type cells (data not shown). Thus,
the nudG8 mutation did not cause a difference in CDHC
tip staining either by altering the amount of CDHC in the
cell or by altering tip permeability to antibody, but caused
a loss of CDHC protein from the hyphal tip. Because the
8-kD CDLC band was absent from protein extracts of
nudG8 grown at restrictive temperature (Fig. 3 A), these
data suggest that the nudG 8-kD CDLC is required for
targeting of the nudA CDHC to the hyphal tip in A. nidulans. We were unable to determine whether the 8-kD
CDLC was located at the hyphal tip in wild-type cells because our anti-light chain antibody did not stain the mycelium.
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Here we report on the cloning and characterization of a new gene, nudG, required for nuclear migration in A. nidulans. The wild-type gene was cloned by DNA-mediated complementation of the temperature-sensitive nudG8 mutation and encodes a homologue of the 8-kD cytoplasmic dynein light chain protein. Experiments to determine how the nudG8 mutation affects cytoplasmic dynein showed that the nudG8 mutation caused a large decrease in the intracellular concentration of the 8-kD CDLC when the mutant fungus was grown at restrictive temperature. This decrease had two observable effects on the cell. It inhibited nuclear migration through the mycelium, and it caused CDHC staining to disappear from the hyphal tip. Western blotting showed that the loss of tip staining was not caused by a decrease in the intracellular concentration of CDHC, as the total amount of CDHC protein was not reduced in the mutant at restrictive temperature. Nor was the failure of anti-CDHC antibody to stain the tip caused by decreased antibody permeability, since anti-actin and anti- tubulin antibodies stained the tip of the nudG8 mutant as well as they stained the wild-type tip. Thus, altered CDHC tip staining caused by the nudG8 mutation apparently reflects a real change in the distribution of CDHC within the cell.
The effect of the nudG8 mutation at restrictive temperature is to cause a decrease in the amount of 8-kD CDLC in
the cell. Whether this is the result of decreased synthesis
or increased degradation is unknown. Precisely how the
deficiency of 8-kD CDLC affects tip localization and nuclear migration is also unknown. Among the possibilities,
the 8-kD CDLC could be required for assembly of the cytoplasmic dynein complex, it could be required for the interaction of dynein with dynactin, or it could be required
for dynein motor function per se. Any of the aforementioned defects might prevent dynein from reaching and becoming localized at the hyphal tip. The fact that the nudG8
mutation does not affect the sedimentation of the CDHC,
however, indicates that the lack of NUDG protein does
not cause a gross disruption of the cytoplasmic dynein
complex. Alternatively, the 8-kD CDLC might be involved in anchoring the dynein/dynactin complex to the
hyphal tip. Whatever the mechanism, our results are consistent with a model in which cortically anchored dynein
moves nuclei by pulling on astral MTs attached to nuclei
(Palmer et al., 1992; Plamann et al., 1994
; Morris et al.,
1995
; Carminati and Stearns, 1998
; Efimov and Morris, 1998
). However, it is important to recognize that they by
no means prove the model.
In higher eukaryotes, cytoplasmic dynein is bound to
vesicles (Sheetz, 1996; Vallee and Sheetz, 1996
; Hirokawa,
1998
). The tips of fungal hyphae are packed with vesicles,
and the CDHC tip staining in the wild type could simply
represent vesicle-associated dynein. Were this the case,
decreased tip staining in the nudG8 mutation could result
from any CDLC requirement for dynein translocation of
vesicles to the tip. Interpretation of the role of the nudG CDLC is further complicated by the fact that the 8-kD
CDLC has recently been shown to be associated with
myosin-V (Espindola et al., 1996
), with I kappaB alpha
(Crepieux et al., 1997
), and with the tegument of the blood
fluke, Shistosoma (Hoffman and Strand, 1996). It has also
been shown to act as an inhibitor of the neuronal form of
nitric oxide synthase (Jaffrey and Snyder, 1996
). The difficulty of definitively understanding the molecular function
of the CDLC protein in higher eukaryotes is exemplified by phenotypic analysis of mutations in genes for the 8-kD
CDLC in Drosophila melanogaster and Chlamydomonas
reinhardii. Mutations in the Drosophila gene (known as
DLC1 or cut up) cause axon projections to follow abnormal pathways in the central nervous system (Phillis et al.,
1996
). Other partial loss of function mutations in DLC1 cause disorganization of the ovaries and female sterility.
Total loss of function mutations in D. melanogaster are lethal. Because the 8-kD protein has been shown to interact
with myosin-V, I kappaB alpha, and nitric oxide synthase,
these interesting phenotypes do not necessarily implicate
the 8-kD light chain in cytoplasmic dynein function in D.
melanogaster. In C. reinhardii, the 8-kD light chain has
been shown to be essential for the retrograde intraflagellar
transport of migrating "rafts" by a mechanism unrelated to its flagellar dynein function and therefore is likely to be specific for cytoplasmic dynein (Pazour et al., 1998), but an interaction with one of the other molecules cannot rigorously be excluded. In principle, the effect of nudG8 on tip
staining and nuclear migration in A. nidulans could similarly be mediated through myosin-V or the nuclear factor-
B transcription factor rather than via cytoplasmic dynein.
An effect mediated via nitric oxide synthase is unlikely, as
no NO synthase activity has been detected in A. nidulans
(Beckwith, S.M., N.R. Morris, and D. Wolff, unpublished
observations). Because the nudG8 CDLC mutant accurately phenocopies the nuclear migration, colony growth,
and sporulation defects of nudA CDHC mutants, it seems
probable that nudG CDLC function is mediated via cytoplasmic dynein. The fact that the phenotype of the nudA,
nudG double mutant is the same as that of the single mutations provides additional evidence that nudG functions
via dynein.
In summary, the characterization of the nudG 8-kD CDLC of A. nidulans has extended the evolutionary range of this dynein light chain to the filamentous fungi, has demonstrated that it is an essential component of the main machinery responsible for nuclear migration, and has provided strong evidence that its effect is mediated through a physical interaction with the cytoplasmic dynein complex.
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Received for publication 20 April 1998 and in revised form 6 October 1998.
Dr. Beckwith's present address is U.S.U.H.S., 15104 Dufief Dr., N. Potomac, MD 20878. Dr. Roghi's present address is University of Manchester,
School of Biological Sciences, 205 Stopford Building, Manchester, M13
9PT, UK, and Dr. Liu's present address is Section of Plant Biology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616.
Address all correspondence to N.R. Morris, Department of Pharmacology, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854. Tel.: (732) 235-4166. Fax:
(732) 235-4073. E-mail: morrisnr{at}umdnj.edu
We thank S. Harris and J. Hamer for sharing their collection of temperature sensitive A. nidulans mutants with us. The nudG mutation was isolated from this collection. We also thank Peter D'Arpa and Xin Xiang for constructive comments on this manuscript.
This work was supported by grants to N.R. Morris, S.M. Beckwith, and B. Liu from the National Institutes of Health and to N.R. Morris from the American Cancer Society.
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CDHC, cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain; CDLC, cytoplasmic dynein light chain; DAPI, 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindone; MT, microtubule; SPB, spindle pole bodies; ts, temperature sensitive.
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