Volume 13, No 6, Dec 2003

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 13 Issue 6, December 2003: 443-449

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Dynamic distribution of TTK in HeLa cells: insights from an ultrastructural study

Zhen DOU^1*, Akira SAWAGECHI^2*, Jie ZHANG¹, Hong LUO¹, Lawrence BRAKO³, Xue Biao YAO^1,2,**

¹Laboratory of Cell Dynamics, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China,
Hefei, 230027, China
²Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
³Electron Microscopy Facility, Morhouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA *These two authors contributed equally to this work Correspondence: Xue Biao YAO(yaoxb@ustc.edu.cn )

Entry into mitosis is driven by signaling cascades of mitotic kinases. Our recent studies show that TTK, a kinetochore-associated protein kinase, interacts with CENP-E, a mitotic kinesin located to corona fiber of kinetochore. Using immunoelectron microscopy, here we show that TTK is present at the nuclear pore adjacent complex of interphase HeLa cells. Upon nuclear envelope fragmentation, TTK targets to the outermost region of the developing kinetochores of monoorient chromosome as well as to spindle poles. After stable attachment, throughout chromosome congression, TTK is a constituent of the corona fibers, extending up to 90 nm away from the kinetochore outer plate. Upon metaphase alignment, TTK departs from the kinetochore and migrates toward the centrosomes. Taken together, this evidence strongly supports a model in which TTK functions in spindle checkpoint signaling cascades at both kinetochore and centrosome

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