Abstract
Septins are a family of conserved cytoskeletal proteins playing an essential role in cytokinesis and in many other cellular processes in fungi and animals. In budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, septins form filaments and higher-order structures at the mother-bud neck depending on the particular stage of the cell cycle. Septin structures at the division plane serve as a scaffold to recruit the proteins required for particular cellular processes. The formation and localization of septin structures at particular stages of the cell cycle also determine functionality of these proteins. Many different proteins participate in regulating septin assembly. Despite recent developments, we are only beginning to understand how specific protein-protein interactions lead to changes in the polymerization of septin filaments or assembly of higher-order structures. Here, using fluorescence and electron microscopy, we found that Bni5 crosslinks septin filaments into networks by bridging pairs or multiple filaments, forming structures that resemble railways. Furthermore, Bni5 appears to be a substrate of the Elm1 protein kinase in vitro. Moreover, Elm1 induces in the presence of Bni5 disassembly of long septin filaments, suggesting that these proteins may participate in the hourglass to double ring transition. This work gives new insight into the regulatory role of Bni5 in the structural changes of septins.
Acknowledgments
We thank Sven A. H. Müller and Johann Jarzombek from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology for kind advice on fluorescence microscopy and Yashar Sadian from EMBL for valuable help with electron microscopy. We thank Roger Y. Tsien for mCherry plasmid. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the VEGA (Vedecká Grantová Agentúra, Ministerstvo Školstva Slovenskej Republiky) Grant 2/0002/15. The authors declare no competing financial interests.
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