Src signaling regulates completion of abscission in cytokinesis through ERK/MAPK activation at the midbody

J Biol Chem. 2007 Feb 23;282(8):5327-39. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M608396200. Epub 2006 Dec 21.

Abstract

Src family non-receptor-type tyrosine kinases regulate a wide variety of cellular events including cell cycle progression in G(2)/M phase. Here, we show that Src signaling regulates the terminal step in cytokinesis called abscission in HeLa cells. Abscission failure with an unusually elongated intercellular bridge containing the midbody is induced by treatment with the chemical Src inhibitors PP2 and SU6656 or expression of membrane-anchored Csk chimeras. By anti-phosphotyrosine immunofluorescence and live cell imaging, completion of abscission requires Src-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation during early stages of mitosis (before cleavage furrow formation), which is subsequently delivered to the midbody through Rab11-driven vesicle transport. Treatment with U0126, a MEK inhibitor, decreases tyrosine phosphorylation levels at the midbody, leading to abscission failure. Activated ERK by MEK-catalyzed dual phosphorylation on threonine and tyrosine residues in the TEY sequence, which is strongly detected by anti-phosphotyrosine antibody, is transported to the midbody in a Rab11-dependent manner. Src kinase activity during the early mitosis mediates ERK activation in late cytokinesis, indicating that Src-mediated signaling for abscission is spatially and temporally transmitted. Thus, these results suggest that recruitment of activated ERK, which is phosphorylated by MEK downstream of Src kinases, to the midbody plays an important role in completion of abscission.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cell Division / drug effects
  • Cell Division / physiology
  • Cytokinesis / physiology*
  • Enzyme Activation / drug effects
  • Enzyme Activation / physiology
  • Enzyme Inhibitors / pharmacology
  • Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases / metabolism*
  • G2 Phase / drug effects
  • G2 Phase / physiology
  • HeLa Cells
  • Humans
  • MAP Kinase Signaling System / drug effects
  • MAP Kinase Signaling System / physiology*
  • Phosphorylation / drug effects
  • Protein Transport / drug effects
  • Protein Transport / physiology
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins pp60(c-src) / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins pp60(c-src) / metabolism*
  • rab GTP-Binding Proteins / metabolism

Substances

  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins pp60(c-src)
  • Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases
  • rab11 protein
  • rab GTP-Binding Proteins