Role of the kinesin-2 family protein, KIF3, during mitosis

J Biol Chem. 2006 Feb 17;281(7):4094-9. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M507028200. Epub 2005 Nov 18.

Abstract

During mitosis, kinesin and dynein motor proteins play critical roles in the equal segregation of chromosomes between two daughter cells. Kinesin-2 is composed of two microtubule-based motor subunits, KIF3A/3B, and a kinesin-associated protein known as KAP3, which links KIF3A/3B to cargo that is carried to cellular organelles along microtubules in interphase cells. We have shown here that the kinesin-2 complex is localized with components of the mitotic apparatus such as spindle microtubules and centrosomes. Furthermore, we found that expression of a mutant KIF3B, which is able to associate with KIF3A but not KAP3 in NIH3T3 cells, caused chromosomal aneuploidy and abnormal spindle formation. Our data suggested that the kinesin-2 complex plays an important role not only in interphase but also in mitosis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / chemistry
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / physiology*
  • Animals
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins / chemistry
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Interphase
  • Kinesins / chemistry
  • Kinesins / physiology*
  • Mice
  • Mitosis*
  • NIH 3T3 Cells
  • Phosphorylation*

Substances

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins
  • KIF3A protein, human
  • KIF3B protein, human
  • KIFAP3 protein, human
  • Kif3a protein, mouse
  • Kif3b protein, mouse
  • Kifap3 protein, mouse
  • Kinesins