PUBLICATION
Progressive loss of RacGAP1/ogre activity has sequential effects on cytokinesis and zebrafish development
- Authors
- Warga, R.M., Wicklund, A., Richards, S.E., Kane, D.A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-160625-7
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Developmental Biology 418(2): 307-22 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Kane, Donald A., Warga, Rachel M.
- Keywords
- Racgap1, cell cycle, cytokinesis, cytoskeleton, microtubules, motoneurons
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Apoptosis/genetics
- Apoptosis/physiology
- Cell Cycle/genetics
- Cell Cycle/physiology
- Cytokinesis/genetics
- Cytokinesis/physiology*
- GTPase-Activating Proteins/deficiency*
- GTPase-Activating Proteins/genetics
- GTPase-Activating Proteins/metabolism
- Microtubules/metabolism
- Motor Neurons/cytology
- Motor Neurons/metabolism
- Mutation
- Neurogenesis/genetics
- Neurogenesis/physiology
- RNA, Antisense/genetics
- Time-Lapse Imaging
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- Zebrafish Proteins/deficiency*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 27339293 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
Warga, R.M., Wicklund, A., Richards, S.E., Kane, D.A. (2016) Progressive loss of RacGAP1/ogre activity has sequential effects on cytokinesis and zebrafish development. Developmental Biology. 418(2):307-22.
Abstract
RacGAP1 is one of the two components of the centralspindlin complex essential for orchestrating cytokinesis in all animal cells. We report here that the early arrest mutant ogre is a maternal and zygotic loss of function mutation in the zebrafish homolog of racgap1. Like the other model organisms in which racgap1 is mutated, cells in the mutant stop dividing. In vivo cell recordings reveal that gradual loss of wild-type RacGAP1 leads progressively from a failure of abscission, then to cleavage furrow ingression, and finally complete absence of furrow formation. Despite the lack of cytokinesis, gross patterning occurs overtly normally in ogre mutants and cells continue to cycle slowly, some even attaining four or eight nuclei. Many multinucleate cells differentiate and survive, but the majority of cells enter apoptosis that we demonstrate is due to cumulative rounds of defective cytokinesis. Investigation of the cells that differentiate in the mutant indicate that RacGAP1 is also needed for long-term survival of motoneurons and the cytoskeletal organization of sensory axons. We conclude that while RacGAP1 function is crucial for cytokinesis and its activity at different levels controls different aspects of cytokinesis, these defects have occluded other critical roles of this interesting protein.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping