Reference - PMID:24947517 - The putative exchange factor Gef3p interacts with Rho3p GTPase and the septin ring during cytokinesis in fission yeast.
Reference summary
- PubMed ID
- PMID:24947517
- Title
- The putative exchange factor Gef3p interacts with Rho3p GTPase and the septin ring during cytokinesis in fission yeast.
- Authors
- Muñoz S, Manjón E, Sánchez Y
- Citation
- J Biol Chem 2014 Aug 08;289(32):21995-2007
- Publication year
- 2014
- Abstract
- The small GTP-binding proteins of the Rho family and its regulatory proteins play a central role in cytokinetic actomyosin ring assembly and cytokinesis. Here we show that the fission yeast guanine nucleotide exchange factor Gef3p interacts with Rho3p at the division site. Gef3p contains a putative DH homology domain and a BAR/IMD-like domain. The protein localized to the division site late in mitosis, where it formed a ring that did not constrict with actomyosin ring (cytokinetic actomyosin ring) invagination; instead, it split into a double ring that resembled the septin ring. Gef3p co-localized with septins and Mid2p and required septins and Mid2p for its localization. Gef3p interacts physically with the GTP-bound form of Rho3p. Although Gef3p is not essential for cell separation, the simultaneous disruption of gef3(+) and Rho3p-interacting proteins, such as Sec8p, an exocyst component, Apm1p, a subunit of the clathrin adaptor complex or For3p, an actin-polymerizing protein, yielded cells with strong defects in septation and polarity respectively. Our results suggest that interactions between septins and Rho-GEFs provide a new targeting mechanism for GTPases in cytokinesis, in this case probably contributing to Rho3p function in vesicle tethering and vesicle trafficking in the later steps of cell separation.
