Microtubule-based mitotic spindles contain a micron-sized mixed-nucleotide zone
Castrogiovanni, C.; Inchingolo, A. V.; Harrison, J. U.; Dudka, D.; Sen, O.; Burroughs, N. J.; McAinsh, A. D.; Meraldi, P.
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Current models infer that the microtubule-based mitotic spindle is built from GDP-tubulin with small GTP caps at microtubule plus-ends, including those that attach to kinetochores (K-fibres). Here we reveal that K-fibres additionally contain a dynamic mixed-nucleotide zone that reaches several microns in length. This zone becomes visible in cells expressing fluorescently labelled EBs, a known marker for GTP-tubulin, and endogenously-labelled HURP - a protein which we show to preferentially bind the GDP microtubule lattice in vitro. In living cells HURP accumulates on the ends of depolymerising K-fibres, whilst avoiding recruitment to nascent polymerising K-fibres. This gives rise to a growing "HURP-gap" which we can recapitulate in a minimal computational simulation. We therefore postulate that the K-fibre lattice contains a dynamic, micron-sized mixed-nucleotide zone. One Sentence SummaryWe reveal that the microtubules of the mitotic spindle contain a third, uncharacterized domain, a mixed nucleotide zone that resides between the GTP-cap and the GDP-tubulin lattice.
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