Instituto de Microbiología Bioquímica, CSIC/Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
* These two authors contributed equally to this work
Author for correspondence (e-mail: smo{at}gugu.usal.es)
Accepted March 10, 2001
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SUMMARY |
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Key words: Cell cycle, Meiosis, APC, Proteolysis, Fizzy, mfr1, Yeast
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INTRODUCTION |
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Two APC activators have been described in all organisms analyzed so far. These are proteins containing seven WD repeats that associate to and activate APC. In fission yeast, slp1 (known as Cdc20 in budding yeast, Fizzy in Drosophila and p55cdc in animal cells) initiates APC-dependent degradation of securin and mitotic cyclins during the metaphase-to-anaphase transition. A second APC activator, ste9/srw1 (or Hct1/Cdh1 in S. cerevisiae, Fizzy-related in Drosophila or Hct1/Cdh1 in animal cells), binds to APC and continues with the degradation of cyclins up to the end of G1. ste9/srw1 (or Hct1/Cdh1) binding to APC is negatively regulated by cdk phosphorylation (Blanco et al., 2000; Jaspersen et al., 1999; Kramer et al., 2000; Yamaguchi et al., 2000; Zachariae et al., 1998). In S-phase and G2, when cdc2 is active, ste9/srw1 is phosphorylated and does not associate with APC. At the end of mitosis, ste9/srw1 is dephosphorylated, binds to APC, and promotes the degradation of mitotic cyclins in G1. This ordered activation of APC by slp1 in metaphase/anaphase and by ste9/srw1 in anaphase/G1 is essential for mitotic exit, cytokinesis, and for G1 arrest (Blanco et al., 2000; Kim et al., 1998; Kitamura et al., 1998; Yamaguchi et al., 1997; Yamaguchi et al., 2000).
Little is known about the regulation of APC in meiosis. Meiosis is a specialized cell division with two major differences relative to the mitotic cell cycle. First, following premeiotic DNA synthesis, recombination takes place between homologous chromosomes in meiotic prophase. Second, after recombination two consecutive nuclear divisions occur without an intervening S-phase. In the first division (reductional division or meiosis I), homologous chromosomes are separated. In the second (equational division or meiosis II), sister chromatids segregate (Roeder, 1997). Once the two nuclear divisions have been completed, a differentiation program is induced to generate haploid germ cells. In yeast, the four haploid nuclei formed are packaged into spores.
Here, we describe a third activator of APC (mfr1 for meiotic fizzy-related 1), which is specific for meiosis in fission yeast. APCmfr1 is involved in the rapid and timely degradation of the cdc13 M-phase cyclin at the end of meiosis II, which is necessary to inactivate the cdc2 kinase and thereby to bring about sporulation.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Cloning of mfr1+
The mfr1+ sequence was identified by searching the fission yeast database deposited at the Sanger Centre (UK) (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/S_pombe/) for homologues of ste9 using the BLAST 2.0 (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) algorithm. To isolate a DNA fragment containing the mfr1+ gene, an S. pombe genomic library containing partially digested Sau3A DNA fragments constructed in pUR18 plasmid was screened by colony hybridization using a mfr1+ ORF probe generated by PCR. A 3.8 kb genomic fragment containing the 1.3 kb mfr1+ open reading frame flanked by 1.9 kb in the 5' untranslated region and 0.6 kb in the 3' untranslated region was cloned into pTZ18R (pTZ18R mfr1+-genomic) and sequenced.
Disruption of mfr1+
The mfr1 null allele was generated by a PCR-based approach as described previously (Bahler et al., 1998). The S. pombe ura4+ gene was amplified by PCR using the KS-ura4+ plasmid as template and the primers 5'-ATTTATTCACGAAATAGGAATCTCAACATTTCCCTTCCATCCCGACTAACTTCAACTTATAAAGAATTGGTTGACACGCCAGGGTTTTCCCAGTCACGAC-3' and 5'-ATCACCTGATAATCCTGGAACGAATGCTGAAGAGGATGAAGATGATGATGGGGTTGAGATGATTGATGTTGTTTGAAGCGGATA-ACAATTTCACACAGGA-3' (5'-ends are targeting sequences corresponding to 76 nucleotides immediately upstream and downstream from the mfr1+ ORF and 3'-ends are 24 underlined nucleotides corresponding to sequences on either side of pBluescript multiple cloning site). S. pombe ura4-d18 diploid cells were transformed with this 2.2 kb PCR-amplified fragment, and the ura4+ transformants were checked for the correct integration of the DNA fragment in the mfr1+ locus by Southern blot analysis. A heterozygous diploid was sporulated and the spores germinated in rich medium. After tetrad dissection the four spores were able to grow. Haploid ura4+ cells deleted for mfr1 were viable.
HA-tagging of mfr1+
The plasmid pTZ18R mfr1+ containing the 3.8 kb genomic fragment was used to introduce a NotI restriction site just before the mfr1+ stop codon by site-directed mutagenesis using the Muta-gene phagemid in vitro mutagenesis kit (BioRad) and the oligonucleotide 5'-AGTACATTAATTCGCGGCCGCTAATCAAACAACATC-3' (the NotI site is underlined). A 110 pb fragment containing three HA-epitope repeats was then cloned in frame in the NotI site. The construction was confirmed by DNA sequencing. A genomic fragment containing mfr1-3xHA was then subcloned into the integrative pJK148 plasmid containing the leu1+ marker and used to transform the haploid strains h- pat1-114 mfr1::ura4+ ade6-M210 leu1-32 and h- pat1-114 mfr1::ura4+ ade6-M216 leu1-32. Stable single-copy integrants were obtained and checked by Southern blot and a diploid strain was prepared by protoplast fusion. This diploid strain essentially behaved like a wild-type h-/h- pat1-114/pat1-114 mfr1+/ mfr1+ (Fig. 2).
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Coimmunoprecipitation analysis of mfr1 and lid-myc
Total protein extracts were prepared from 3x108 cells using HB buffer (Moreno et al., 1989; Moreno et al., 1991). Cell extracts were spun at 4°C in a microfuge for 15 minutes, and protein concentrations were determined using the BCA protein assay kit (Pierce). Approximately 3.5 mg of total protein extracts were subjected to immunoprecipitation by consecutive incubation with the monoclonal anti-HA 12CA5 (1 µg) or anti-myc 9E10 (1 µg) antibody for 1 hour on ice, and protein A-Sepharose or protein G-Sepharose (Pharmacia-Biotech) for 30 minutes at 4°C with agitation. Immunoprecipitates were washed six times with 1 ml of HB buffer. Lysates and immunoprecipitates were resolved on 12% SDS-polyacrylamide gels, followed by western blot analysis as above.
Flow cytometry and microscopy
About 107 cells were spun down, washed once with water, fixed in 70% ethanol and processed for flow cytometry or DAPI staining, as described previously (Moreno et al., 1991; Sazer and Sherwood, 1990). A Becton-Dickinson FACScan was used for flow cytometry. To estimate the proportion of cells in meiosis I, meiosis II or in sporulation, we determined the percentage of cells with one, two or four nuclei after DAPI staining and the percentage of asci with mature spores under phase contrast microscopy.
For mfr1 subcellular localization, indirect immunofluorescence was performed as previously described (Sohrmann et al., 1996) except that the cells were fixed in 4% p-formaldehyde (Sigma) in PEM and digested for 5 minutes in 1 mg/ml zymolyase 20T. Monoclonal anti-HA (1:200) or polyclonal anti-sad1 (1:25) antibodies and anti-mouse Cy3-conjugated (Jackson) or anti-rabbit FITC-conjugated (Kappel) secondary antibodies (1:500) were used to detect mfr1-HA and sad1, respectively. Lid1(APC4)-myc localization was done using rabbit polyclonal antibodies (Upstate Biotechnology) against the myc epitope (1:50).
RNA preparation and northern blots
RNA from cells was prepared by lysis with glass beads in the presence of phenol (Moreno et al., 1991). RNA gels were run in the presence of formaldehyde, transferred to GeneScreen Plus (NEN, Dupont) and probed with the mfr1+ open reading frame according to the manufacturers instructions.
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RESULTS |
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The mfr1 mutant is defective in spore formation
To investigate the function of mfr1, a deletion of mfr1+ was constructed by one-step gene replacement. The complete open reading frame of mfr1+ was replaced with the ura4+ marker and transformed into a diploid ura4-d18 diploid strain. Stable ura4+ transformants were selected and successful disruptants were identified by Southern blot analysis. Diploid cells, in which one copy of mfr1+ was deleted, were sporulated and tetrads were dissected. All tetrads gave rise to four colonies, of which two were ura4+ and two were ura4-d18. Haploid ura4+ cells, deleted for the mfr1+ gene, showed no apparent growth defects and were able to mate with the same efficiency as wild-type cells (data not shown). We conclude that mfr1 has no obvious function in the mitotic cell cycle, which is consistent with the fact that mfr1+ is expressed only during meiosis.
In order to test whether mfr1 has a function in meiosis, a homozygous h+/h- mfr1/mfr1
diploid strain was constructed. These cells were able to complete both meiotic nuclear divisions but showed severe defects in spore formation (Fig. 3A). Sporulation was delayed considerably with respect to wild-type cells. After 24 hours in sporulation medium, no asci with spores in the mfr1
/mfr1
mutant were observed, while in the wild-type isogenic strain a high percentage of the asci contained four spores. After 48 hours, 80% of the mfr1
/mfr1
mutant cells contained spores, of which only 3% were four-spore asci (Fig. 3B). In order to test whether the spores formed were viable or not, 200 randomly chosen spores from the wild type and 200 spores from the mfr1
/mfr1
strain were micromanipulated in rich medium (YES) and spore viability was examined after 4 days at 32°C. Spore viability was similar in the wild type and the mfr1 mutant (68% versus 71%, respectively). All spores from the mfr1
/mfr1
strain gave raise to haploid colonies, confirming that chromosome segregation during meiosis is normal.
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mfr1 colocalizes and interacts with APC in meiosis
We next studied the localization of mfr1 in cells undergoing meiosis. We used the diploid strain Sp967 (see Table 1) where both copies of mfr1+ have been deleted and two copies of mfr1-3xHA were integrated in the leu1 loci. In this strain, mfr1-3xHA/mfr1-3xHA fully complements the sporulation defect of the mfr1/mfr1
mutant and essentially behaved like the wild type (Fig. 2). mfr1 was not detected in cells during meiosis I (Fig. 5A, cells 1 and 2) but became detectable in anaphase II, accumulating in the area around the nucleus where the forespore membrane was being formed (Fig. 5A). In most cells, mfr1 was located around one, two, three and, very seldom, around the four nuclei simultaneously (Fig. 5A). Since mfr1 could be a regulator of APC, we tested whether mfr1 colocalizes with this complex. The strain Sp967 contains both chromosomal copies of the lid1+ gene, encoding subunit 4 of APC (APC4), modified by addition of 9 copies of the myc epitope (Berry et al., 1999). Staining of APC4 with anti-myc antibodies showed a pattern similar to that of mfr1 (Fig. 5A). APC4 colocalized with mfr1 in 90% of the nuclei (Fig. 5A), suggesting that the majority of mfr1 is associated with APC.
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mfr1 is necessary for the rapid and timely degradation of cdc13 cyclin
During mitosis in fission yeast, active cdc2/cyclin kinase prevents cytokinesis before anaphase by inhibiting actomyosin ring constriction and septation. This control mechanism prevents the constricting ring and the septum from cutting the nuclei in half before sister chromatid segregation (Balasubramanian et al., 2000; Le Goff et al., 1999). At the end of anaphase, after sister chromatid segregation and spindle disassembly, the actomyosin ring constricts, the division septum is formed, and two daughter cells are generated. Therefore, downregulation of cdc2/cyclin in anaphase is essential for cytokinesis (Cerutti and Simanis, 1999; He et al., 1997; Kim et al., 1998).
By analogy with this control mechanism that prevents cytokinesis until cdc2/cyclin complexes have been inactivated, we reasoned that in meiosis the cdc2/cyclin kinase might prevent sporulation before the completion of meiosis II. If mfr1 functions as a meiosis-specific activator of APC required for the degradation of cyclins, failure to destroy cyclins after meiosis II will keep the cdc2/cyclin complexes active and could inhibit sporulation. In order to test this hypothesis, we analyzed the protein levels of cig1 and cdc13 M-phase cyclins in wild-type and mfr1/mfr1
cells (Fig. 6A). cig1 and cdc13 are B-type cyclins known to be destroyed during mitosis (Blanco et al., 2000; Moreno et al., 1989). In both wild-type and mfr1
/mfr1
cells, cig1 protein levels rose during premeiotic DNA replication and dissapeared as cells were undergoing meiosis I (Fig. 6A). Cdc13 was rapidly destroyed in wild-type cells during meiosis II (Fig. 6A, see also Fig. 2A). In contrast, cdc13 was significantly stabilized in the mfr1
/mfr1
mutant as compared to the wild type (Fig. 6A), suggesting that this cyclin may be one target of APCmfr1. Consistent with this, cdc2 protein kinase activity and the mitotic spindle persisted for longer in the mfr1
/mfr1
mutant cells than in the wild type (Fig. 6B; data not shown). Thus, high levels of cdc13 at the end of anaphase II maintain cdc2/cyclin kinase active, presumably by inhibiting sporulation in the mfr1
/mfr1
mutant.
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DISCUSSION |
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APCmfr1 functions specifically at the end of meiosis
ste9 and mfr1 are closely related APC activators. ste9 functions in G1 to promote the degradation of the mitotic cyclins cdc13 and cig1 (Blanco et al., 2000; Yamaguchi et al., 2000). ste9 mutants are unable to arrest the cell cycle in G1 and are therefore sterile. We observed that the mfr1
mutant has no defect in the mitotic cell cycle. Haploid cells lacking mfr1 arrest normally in G1 upon nitrogen starvation and mate like the wild type. On the other hand, we found that ste9 is not required for sporulation since a diploid h-/h- pat1-114/pat1-114 ste9
/ste9
mutant underwent meiosis and sporulation at 34°C with similar kinetics to a control h-/h- pat1-114/pat1-114 ste9+/ste9+ (data not shown). Thus, APCste9 and APCmfr1 must act at different stages of the fission yeast life cycle: APCste9 in the G1 phase of the mitotic cell cycle and APCmfr1 in the G1 phase that follows the end of meiosis. They are both necessary to inactivate cdc2/cyclin complexes in order to permit the onset of differentiation programs: mating in the case of APCste9, and sporulation in the case of APCmfr1.
In the fission yeast mitotic cell cycle, at the end of anaphase, the actomyosin ring constricts and the division septum is synthesized. There is evidence that cdc13 proteolysis and inactivation of cdc2 kinase are necessary for actomyosin ring constriction (He et al., 1997). Here we show that in the mfr1/mfr1
mutant the cdc13 cyclin is stabilized and cdc2 kinase activity remains high. Expression of a stable allele of cdc13 inhibits sporulation, suggesting that inactivation of cdc2/cdc13 marks the successful completion of chromosome segregation in both mitosis and meiosis and permits the formation of a septum or a spore wall, respectively. Currently we are unable to rule out the possibility that other as yet unidentified targets of mfr1 might need to be degraded for sporulation.
Mfr1 orthologues in other organisms
In budding yeast, a protein named Spo70 related to Cdc20 and Hct1, which is expressed only in meiosis, has been described in the genomic analysis of genes expressed during meiosis (Chu et al., 1998). While our manuscript was in a late stage of preparation, a regulator of APC in S. cerevisiae, Ama1, that is identical to Spo70 was reported (Cooper et al., 2000). Like mfr1, Ama1 is a meiosis-specific activator of APC that triggers the degradation of Clb1 cyclin. There are, however, some differences between Ama1 and mfr1. Ama1 is more similar to the Fizzy family of APC activators while mfr1 is closer to the Fizzy-related family (Fig. 1A). This is consistent with the fact that Ama1 is required earlier in meiosis than mfr1. ama1 mutant cells arrest with a single nucleus, suggesting a role for Ama1 in meiosis I, while mfr1 is needed once cells complete the two meiotic nuclear divisions. It is therefore possible that there could be several APC complexes acting in meiosis: APCAma1 with a role in meiosis I and APCmfr1 acting at the end of meiosis.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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