1 Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-kamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
2 Department of Integrated Bioscience, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: niwa{at}kazusa.or.jp)
Accepted 29 August 2002
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Key words: Ran, Lipin, Nuclear membrane
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Introduction |
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The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is implicated in chromosome stability. In addition to an essential role in nuclear transport that is of obvious importance for the general chromosome function, NPC appears to have more direct roles in chromosome transmission. A component of NPC, Nup170, is required for kinetochore function in yeast (Kerscher et al., 2001). In mammalian cells, an NPC subcomplex redistributes to mitotic centromeres (Belgareh et al., 2001
). Nuclear pores are involved in chromosome arrangement within the nucleus, which might be important for chromosome stability. In yeast, telomeres are tethered to nuclear pores through specific interactions of a telomere component, Ku70, with nuclear pore-associated filamentous proteins Mlp1/2, which appear to interact with a GLFG repeat-containing nucleoporin, Nup145 (Strambio-de-Castillia et al., 1999
; Galy et al., 2000
).
In the present study, we demonstrated that the affected gene in the mutant belongs to a gene family that is conserved among a wide range of species. A gene named Lpin1 in mouse is reportedly among this gene family, and its deficiency is responsible for impaired adipose tissue development and other associated phenotypes, including fatty liver, hyperglyceridemia, and insulin resistance. The molecular function of Lipin (the product of Lpin1), however, is not known (Peterfy et al., 2001). Loss-of-function mutations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae SMP2, also a member of this gene family, results in stabilization of an unstable plasmid and respiration deficiency (Irie et al., 1993
). It is not known why these apparently unrelated defective phenotypes are displayed by mutations in the conserved genes in different organisms. We investigated the molecular function of the fission yeast gene in an attempt to determine the molecular basis for the chromosome instability phenotype as well as other associated defective phenotypes, which might contribute to an understanding of the divergence in phenotypes among species. We demonstrated that the gene product interacts with a conserved nuclear pore component as well as with Dis3 and Pim1/RCC1 in a two-hybrid system. Together with other genetic and cytologic results, the findings of the present study suggest that the gene represents a new class of genes that are intimately related to the Ran GTPase system.
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Materials and Methods |
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Cloning of ned1+ and nup189+ genes
The ned1 mutant was hypersensitive to thiabendazole (TBZ), so colonies did not form on YEA plates containing 20 µg/ml of TBZ at 30°C. A clone derived from the ned1+ locus (verified by linkage analysis of a cloned fragment integrated in the chromosome) that complemented the drug sensitivity was isolated from a cosmid library. A 3.1-kb fragment containing the ned1+ gene was subcloned into the pKD10 vector to create a pYT205 plasmid. This plasmid complemented the nuclear morphology defect as well as the drug sensitivity. Colony hybridization was used to clone the nup189+ gene into the pKD10 vector.
Gene disruption and site-directed mutagenesis
To disrupt the ned1+ gene, parts of the gene corresponding to amino acids 21 through 121 or 121 through 580 were replaced by the ura4+ gene. The QuikChange site-directed mutagenesis kit (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA) was used to make new ned1 mutants. The 3.1-kb DNA fragment was transformed into the ned1-disrupted mutant in which the Ned1 segment 21 through 121 was replaced with the ura4+ gene. Ura- transformants were selected and correct replacement was verified by sequencing genomic DNA. The ura4- mutation was removed by genetic crossing before use. For disruption of the nup189+ gene, almost the entire open reading frame was replaced by the ura4+ gene. Tetrad analysis of diploid cells that were heterozygous for the nup189 alleles indicated that only two spores with the ura4- marker were viable, suggesting that the nup189+ gene is essential for viability. To examine the phenotype of the nup189 cells, spores were germinated in the absence of supplemented uracil and subsequently examined cytologically. The S. cerevisiae SMP2 gene was disrupted with the HIS3 gene from Candida grablata (Kitada et al., 1995
).
Preparation and analysis of proteins
Protein samples for sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis were prepared by the alkaline method (Tange et al., 1998). Calf intestine alkaline phosphatase (Roche Diagnostics, Germany) was used for phosphatase digestion of the cell extract. Phosphatase inhibitor cocktail II (Sigma) was used at the concentration recommended by the manufacturer. Proteins resolved in 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM MgCl2, 0.1 mM ZnCl2, and 0.4% SDS were digested with 20 U of alkaline phosphatase at 30°C for 45 minutes. Western immunoblotting was performed as described (Tange et al., 1998
). Cell cultures were synchronized using the cdc25 arrest-release method (Alfa et al., 1993
).
Two-hybrid interaction
A yeast two-hybrid system (Matchmaker two-hybrid system 3, Clontech, Palo Alto, CA) was used according to the manufacturer's protocol. Two Ned1 segments, amino acids 1 through 121 or 314 through 581, were used as bait to screen a cDNA library (Clontech). Segments of Nup189 (460-890 and 511 to 900; 900 is a rough estimate from the DNA segment length), Dis3 (927-970), and Pim1 (332-489) were obtained using the Ned1(1-121) bait. A fragment of Ppa1 (1-214) was also obtained, but because the activity was weak it was not further studied. The Nup189 fragment itself weakly activated the indicator gene, therefore we exchanged the cloning vectors and verified the interaction. There were no positive clones obtained with the other Ned1 segment.
Nuclear transport assay
Wild-type or ned1-1 mutant cells were transformed with pR1FPap1 and incubated at 30°C for 13 hours in the absence of thiamine to induce the expression of the GFP-Pap1. Diethyl maleate (2 mM) was added and incubated at the same temperature. The localization of GFP signal was observed at 0, 0.5, and 1 hour after the addition of the drug (Kudo et al., 1999).
Cytologic observations
Procedures for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and indirect immunostaining were described previously (Tange et al., 1998). The method described in Demeter et al. was used to stain the nuclear pores (Demeter et al., 1995
). For FISH, rDNA was used as a probe for chromosome III and cos713 as a probe for chromosome II (Funabiki et al., 1993
; Mizukami et al., 1993
). Mouse anti-rat nucleoporin monoclonal antibody (MAb414, Eurogentec, Belgium) or rabbit anti-Nup189 polyclonal antibody was used to stain the nuclear pores. The latter antibody was raised using the GST-fused Nup189 segment (9-140) as an antigen. Rabbit anti-Ned1 antibody was raised using a Ned1 segment (124-258). To visualize nuclear membranes (Tange et al., 1998
), the pD817 plasmid was transformed into appropriate cells. For electron microscopic observation, diploid ned1 cells were incubated in YPD at 36°C for 4 hours. Thin sections were prepared either by the freeze-substituted fixation method (Sun et al., 1992
) or by the permanganate fixation method (Kawai et al., 2001
) and observed with a H-7600 electron microscope (Hitachi High-Technologies, Tokyo). Three-dimensional reconstitution of the cellular structure from serial thin sections was performed as described previously (Sun et al., 1992
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Another remarkable feature of the mutant was that it contained a highly deformed nucleus as revealed both by DAPI staining and immunostaining with anti-nucleoporin antibodies (Fig. 2A,B). With anti-nucleoporin antibodies, stained interphase nuclei in wild-type cells were usually round, but mutant nuclei were elongated and occasionally constricted. In extreme cases, mutant nuclei were stained in a figure-eight shape. Double staining with DAPI and ethidium bromide indicated that one of the spheres was rich in RNA (Fig. 2A), probably representing the nucleolus (Toda et al., 1981). Consistently, electron microscopic observation indicated that the mutant contained a deformed nucleus (Fig. 2D). In addition, it revealed the presence of enormously overdeveloped endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-like membranes (Fig. 2D). The overdeveloped ER-like membranes often produced mesh-like or multi-layered structures (arrows in Fig. 2D). We also examined the localization of an ER marker, Sec61 (Broughton et al., 1997
). The results, shown in Fig. 2E, demonstrate that the distribution of GFP-tagged Sec61 was abnormal in the mutant. The affected gene in the mutant was named ned1+ (nuclear elongation and deformation).
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Cloning of the ned1+ gene
In addition to the phenotype described above, the ned1 mutant was hypersensitive to TBZ, a microtubule destabilizer. The mutant was unable to form colonies on a YE plate containing 20 µg/ml TBZ at 30°C. We cloned the ned1+ gene, which complemented the drug hypersensitivity. The nucleotide sequence of the gene was deposited in public databases (SPAC1952.13) and predicted to encode a protein with 656 amino acid sequences (estimated molecular weight, 73.4 kDa). We sequenced a cDNA clone to verify the predicted introns. In the genomic nucleotide sequence, there were two in-frame ATG codons upstream of the predicted start codon. We therefore verified the prediction by creating termination codons at appropriate positions in the cloned gene (data not shown). The predicted amino acid sequence of the Ned1 protein contains two distinct segments [LNS1 and LNS2 (Lipin/Ned1/Smp2) homology, corresponding to NLIP and CLIP in mouse/human Lipin (Peterfy et al., 2001)], which are highly conserved in a wide range of species, including human, mouse, nematode, Arabidopsis, S. cerevisiae (SMP2), and fission yeast. The mutation in the original ned1 mutant (ned1-1) was mapped to a completely conserved glycine residue (G402 in wild-type Ned1 is changed to D in the mutant) in the LNS2 segment, consistent with the functional homology.
Using the cloned ned1+ sequence, we disrupted the gene (Materials and Methods). Resultant gene disruptants (ned1) were viable, indicating that the gene is not essential for cell viability, although ned1
spores failed to form colonies on rich media, the reason for which is not known.
Aberrant nuclear morphology in the smp2 mutant of budding yeast
The S. cerevisiae smp2 mutant was originally isolated from mutants that stabilized an unstable plasmid, and the gene disruption conferred a respiration-negative and a weak temperature-sensitive phenotype (Irie et al., 1993). To compare the function of the SMP2 gene with that of the ned1+ gene, we examined the nuclear morphology and the sensitivity to a microtubule agent as well as diploid stability of an smp2
mutant. Diploid cells of the mutant were more sensitive to benomyl (a microtubule destabilizer) and the nucleus was deformed similarly as in fission yeast (Fig. 2C). Both of these defects were rescued by a plasmid carrying the SMP2 gene. The stability of chromosomes in the mutant diploid, however, was not appreciably reduced, as judged by the stability of the heterozygosity at the ADE2 locus (data not shown). The stability of a minichromosome, YCp50, (Rose et al., 1987
) was also not impaired by the smp2 mutation in either haploid or diploid cells. The minichromosome was stabilized in the mutant (data not shown), indicating that the plasmid-stabilization effect of the smp2 mutation is not confined to the non-centromere plasmid. These results suggest that the function of the ned1+/SMP2 genes in nuclear morphology is conserved, but the function in chromosome stability might be different between these yeasts.
Identification of Ned1 protein
We raised an anti-Ned1 antibody using an N-terminal portion of the Ned1 protein (see Materials and Methods). Western immunoblotting with this antibody stained several bands; the intensity of each band varied depending on the culture conditions under which the protein extracts were prepared (Fig. 3B). Slower migrating forms were less abundant in stationary phase cell extracts. All of these bands disappeared when we used an extract from ned1 cells (Fig. 3A), indicating that the bands represented some forms of the ned1+ gene product. Digestion of cell extracts with bacterial alkaline phosphatase resulted in the bands shifting to faster migrating forms and these band shifts were inhibited by phosphatase inhibitors, suggesting that Ned1 is phosphorylated at multiple sites (Fig. 3B). Because logarithmic phase cell extracts were rich with slower migrating forms, we examined whether the phosphorylation of Ned1 changed during the cell cycle. In a synchronous culture, the slowest migrating form of Ned1 protein peaked at approximately the M-phase (Fig. 3C).
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Two-hybrid interaction of Ned1 with an essential nucleoporin as well as with Dis3 and Pim1/RCC1
To elucidate the molecular function of Ned1, we performed a two-hybrid search for interacting proteins. As a result, five types of gene segments were isolated using a LNS1-containing part of Ned1 (amino acid sequence 1-121) as bait (see Materials and Methods), while there were no positive clones obtained with the LNS2-containing Ned1 segment (332-563). One of the isolated proteins was a segment of a previously unidentified nucleoporin protein (segment 460-890 of the 1778 amino acid sequence) and others were from two known proteins, Dis3 (927-970) and Pim1 (332-489). Subsequent subcloning indicated that a longer C-terminal segment of Dis3 (440-970) as well as a C-terminal truncated version of this fragment (440-927), were inactive for two-hybrid interaction with Ned1. Why only the shortest fragment was active is not understood. As for Pim1, a segment (412-477) that contained the last RCC1 repeat was more active for two-hybrid interaction than the original longer isolate, but the second to last repeat (346-428) was inactive. A combination of these two repeats as well as longer fragments that contained them gave an intermediate level of the two-hybrid interaction. Subcloning of the nucleoporin gene sequence indicated that a segment ranging from 771 through 863 was responsible for the interaction (Fig. 4A). Further studies are needed, however, to examine whether these proteins are interacting directly as predicted by the two-hybrid analyses.
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We cloned the nucleoporin gene (SPAC1486.05), designated nup189+ after the calculated molecular weight of its product. An anti-Nup189 antibody was raised using a segment of Nup189 (9-140) as an antigen. Western blot analysis with the antibody indicated one major band migrating at 98 kDa along with a less intense band at 88 kDa and other very faint bands. In cells carrying the nup189+ plasmid, the major band became more intense, but other bands were not affected, indicating that the major band represented the nup189+ gene product (Fig. 4B, and see Discussion). Indirect immunostaining with the Nup189 antibody was punctate along the nuclear envelope and largely overlapped at sites that were stained by another anti-nucleoporin antibody, MAb414 (Fig. 4C), consistent with Nup189 being a component of the nuclear pore complex. Fission yeast Nup189 was essential for cell viability (see Materials and Methods). Spores with a disrupted nup189 gene germinated but nuclear division did not follow. The nucleus was prominently enlarged with a vast region devoid of chromatin and often appeared clumpy with DAPI staining (Fig. 4D).
Localization of Ned1 protein and the mutant effect on nuclear transport
Because Ned1 appeared to interact with a nucleoporin as well as with Dis3 and Pim1, both of which are nuclear or at least enriched in the nucleus (Kinoshita et al., 1991; Matynia et al., 1996
), we examined its localization. We failed to determine any particular localization of the protein, although it appeared less abundant in the nucleus. Some accumulation of Ned1 protein was occasionally observed, however, along the periphery of the nucleus in cells with mildly overproduced Ned1 (data not shown). We also examined whether the ned1 mutation affects nuclear transport. To this end, we used a transcription factor, Pap1, that is largely localized in the cytoplasm dependently on the Crm1/exportin activity, but accumulates in the nucleus following oxidative stress (Kudo et al., 1999
). The Pap1 protein fused with the GFP (Kudo et al., 1999
) was used to examine the nuclear transport activity in the ned1 mutant. In both the wild-type and mutant cells, the GFP signals were localized in the cytoplasm before treatment with diethyl maleate and accumulated in the nucleus after treatment. There were only very slight differences, if any, in the accumulation rate, indicating that the effect of the ned1 mutation on nuclear transport is only marginal, at least as determined by this method.
Genetic interactions with crm1, pim1 and dis genes
We then examined whether the ned1-1 mutation interacts genetically with factors involved in nuclear transport. A fission yeast mutant with defective Crm1 (exportin) is more resistant to several drugs, including caffeine and staurosporin, probably due to accumulation of the Pap1 transcription factor (Kumada et al., 1996). The resistant phenotype of the crm1 mutant was suppressed by the ned1 mutation (Fig. 5A). Consistently, the accumulation of p25apt1 in the crm1 mutant (Toda et al., 1992
) was virtually abolished in the ned1 crm1 double mutant (Fig. 5B). The cold-sensitive growth phenotype of the crm1 mutant was not rescued by the ned1 mutation, but rather it was enhanced (Fig. 5A). The ned1+ gene also interacts genetically with Pim1 [guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Ran-GTPase (Matsumoto and Beach, 1991
; Sazer and Nurse, 1994
)]. The temperature sensitivity of the pim1-46 mutation was enhanced by the ned1 mutation (Fig. 5C). The TBZ hypersensitivity of the ned1 mutant was suppressed by introducing multiple copies of pim1+ or spi1+ genes (Fig. 5D). In addition, the pim1 mutation suppressed the effect of Ned1 overproduction on nuclear shape (see below). We also tested whether the ned1+ gene interacts with dis genes. The coldsensitive growth phenotype of all of the dis mutants tested [dis1-null, dis2-11 and dis3-54 (Ohkura et al., 1988
; Nabeshima et al., 1995
)] was enhanced when combined with the ned1-1 mutation. The effect appeared to be most prominent for the dis1 mutation (Fig. 6A).
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Effect of a mutation that affected Dis3-interaction
An N-terminal segment of Ned1 interacts with Dis3 in a two-hybrid system. We substituted a highly conserved glycine residue at position 80 in this segment with arginine (G80R) or with alanine (G80A). G80R is the same point mutation found in a defective lpin1 locus reported in mouse (Peterfy et al., 2001). Two-hybrid analysis indicated that the G80R mutation affected the interaction with Dis3 (Fig. 6B). This mutation eliminated the residual expression of the indicator genes observed in a control experiment with a blank vector plasmid. The G80A mutant, however, did not affect the interaction. Neither of the mutants, however, altered the activity for the two-hybrid interaction with Pim1 and Nup189 (data not shown).
We then introduced the mutant ned1 genes using a substitutive transformation (Materials and Methods). The ned1-G80R, but not the G80A, mutant was hypersensitive to TBZ (data not shown). A minichromosome assay was performed to examine the effect of ned1 mutations on chromosome stability. As summarized in Fig. 6C, the rate of minichromosome loss per cell division increased approximately tenfold in the G80R mutant as well as in the original ned1-1 (G402D) mutant. In both mutants, the loss rate increased another twofold at a high temperature. In contrast, the ned1-G80A allele did not affect minichromosome stability. The amount of all of these mutant Ned1 proteins in the cell was not different from that in wild-type cells (data not shown), indicating that the observed phenotypic effect was not likely due to the amount and/or stability of protein. These results suggest that the interaction between Ned1 and Dis3 is important for chromosome stability. Moreover, the ned1-G80R mutant produced a severely deformed nucleus in zygotes as in the ned1-1 mutant (data not shown). The ned1-G80A mutant contained a mildly deformed nucleus in zygotes, suggesting that the G80A mutation affects some cellular processes related to nuclear shape.
Abnormal nuclear events induced by Ned1 overproduction
A full length cDNA sequence of the ned1+ gene was placed under the control of a potent inducible promoter in the pREP1 vector (Maundrell, 1993). After the gene was fully induced, cells ceased dividing and became less viable (data not shown). Concomitantly, the nucleus was displaced from the center of the cell and then underwent the characteristic morphologic change, i.e., the nucleus was elongated along the long axis of the cell. Electron microscopic observation revealed a microtubule bundle in the deformed nucleus (Fig. 7A,B). This bundle was not a normal spindle, because, first, there were no spindle pole bodies (SPB) at the ends of the bundle (Fig. 7Bb,c, arrows); rather a single SPB was situated on the nuclear membrane, usually facing the cell wall. The structure of the SPB (Fig. 7Ba, arrowhead) was very similar to that reported in the interphase cell (Ding et al., 1997
). Similar to the interphase cell, it was situated in the cytoplasm and associated with an electron-dense region lining along the inner nuclear membrane near the SPB. Second, cytoplasmic microtubules were present in the affected cell, indicative of an interphase cell (Fig. 7Cd). In addition, the characteristic nuclear elongation was observed in the cdc25 mutant (data not shown), which blocks the G2/M transition (Millar and Russell., 1992
). Fluorescence microscopic observation using a GFP-tagged
-tubulin and an anti-nucleoporin antibody unambiguously showed the coexistence of cytoplasmic microtubules and the intranuclear microtubule bundle (Fig. 7C). The nuclear elongation appeared to be due to the presence of the microtubule bundle, because when cells were placed on ice (to induce microtubule disassembly) the nucleus did not remain elongated. Consistently, nuclear elongation was largely suppressed by the cold-sensitive ß-tubulin mutation, nda3-KM311 [(Hiraoka et al., 1984
) and data not shown]. Furthermore, the pim1-46 mutation significantly reduced the effect of Ned1 overproduction on nuclear elongation (Fig. 7D), raising the possibility that Ran is involved in the formation of the intranuclear microtubule bundle. An attempt to introduce the GFP-tagged
-tubulin into the pim1 mutant was unsuccessful probably because the mutant was unable to tolerate transformation with the plasmid carrying the GFP-tubulin gene.
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Indirect immunostaining with an anti-Sad1 antibody revealed another peculiar nuclear response to the overproduced Ned1. As described above, electron microscopic observation revealed that the elongated nucleus carried only one SPB. Consistently, an SPB component protein, Cut12 (Bridge et al., 1998), was localized to a single site (Fig. 7E). Another SPB component protein, Sad1 (Hagan and Yanagida, 1995
), was located at multiple sites along the nuclear periphery (Fig. 7E,F). Chromosomal centromeres, which would form a single cluster beneath the SPB in a wild-type interphase nucleus, also tended to be located at multiple positions that were often close to the scattered Sad1 proteins, as demonstrated using the GFP-tagged Mis6, a centromere protein (Saitoh et al., 1997
) (Fig. 7F). Thus, Ned1 overproduction appeared to affect the chromosome arrangement within the nucleus, possibly by affecting the nuclear envelope structure.
The cells with an elongated nucleus were more resistant to cell wall digestion, which made the cell preparation for cytologic staining difficult. Although there was no observed difference in the cell wall structure in electron micrographs, Ned1-overproduction might also affect cell wall structure.
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Overproduction of Ned1 lead to cell death that was accompanied by two peculiar nuclear events. One was the formation of an intranuclear microtubule bundle and the other was the localization of Sad1 protein at multiple sites along the nuclear periphery. The former is similar to the Ran-dependent microtubule assembly reported in other organisms (see Introduction), because the bundle formation is apparently independent of the microtubule organizing center and dependent on active Pim1/RCC1 and therefore on GTP-bound form of Ran. The ectopic formation of the microtubule bundle requires extremely high levels of Ned1 protein and thus it is unlikely to occur under normal physiologic conditions. Nevertheless, investigation of this event might provide useful information regarding the regulation of microtubule dynamics in this yeast. Sad1 protein is usually tightly associated with the SPB (Hagan and Yanagida, 1995). Sad1 protein is a membrane-bound protein (Hagan and Yanagida, 1995
) and its mammalian homologue is enriched in an inner nuclear membrane fraction (Dreger et al., 2001
). How Sad1 proteins are tethered at the SPB is not known. Ned1-overproduction might impair this tethering mechanism.
Besides Dis3 and Pim1, Ned1 appears to interact with a nucleoporin named Nup189. Nup189 belongs to the family of GLFG repeat-containing nucleoporins and is similar to Nup145 in S. cerevisiae and Nup98/96 in mammals (Ryan and Wente, 2000), both of which are required for nuclear transport (Fabre et al., 1994
; Wu et al., 2001
) and are thought to be involved in nucleoplasmic structure and chromosome positioning (Fontoura et al., 2001
; Galy et al., 2000
). Nup189 contains an HFS sequence at position 933 through 935, which is conserved among this type of nucleoporin and is the site of autoproteolysis (Fontoura et al., 1999
; Rosenblum and Blobel, 1999
). The calculated molecular weight of the expected proteolytic product from the N-terminal side is 95 kDa, which is very similar to that estimated from gel mobility. The biologic significance of the presumed in vivo interaction between Ned1 and Nup189 is not clear. Ned1 is exceptional in the homologous proteins, however, as it contains no authentic nuclear localization signal (Peterfy et al., 2001
). It is, therefore, possible that Ned1 is translocated into the nucleus, where it might contact Dis3 and Pim1 through interaction with the component of the nuclear pore complex.
The Ned1 homologue in mouse, Lipin, is defective in animals that suffer from a type of lipodystrophy. It was recently reported that lamin A/C deficiency can cause another type of lipodystrophy (Cao and Hegele, 2000; Flier, 2000
; Shackleton et al., 2000
). Together with our finding that mutations in the ned1 gene affect nuclear structure and that the overproduction of Ned1 impairs the localization of nuclear membrane-bound protein, we suggest that the primary effect of a Lipin-deficiency might be on the nuclear envelope structure. Finally, although to our knowledge it is not known whether any lpin mutations are associated with chromosome instability, this is an important possibility because of the intimate relation between chromosome instability and tumorigenesis (Sen, 2000
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