Publication Date:
2002-08-10
Description:
Mutations in anc-1 (nuclear anchorage defective) disrupt the positioning of nuclei and mitochondria in Caenorhabditis elegans. ANC-1 is shown to consist of mostly coiled regions with a nuclear envelope localization domain (called the KASH domain) and an actin-binding domain; this structure was conserved with the Drosophila protein Msp-300 and the mammalian Syne proteins. Antibodies against ANC-1 localized cytoplasmically and were enriched at the nuclear periphery in an UNC-84-dependent manner. Overexpression of the KASH domain or the actin-binding domain caused a dominant negative anchorage defect. Thus, ANC-1 may connect nuclei to the cytoskeleton by interacting with UNC-84 at the nuclear envelope and with actin in the cytoplasm.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Starr, Daniel A -- Han, Min -- F32 GM020127/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Oct 11;298(5592):406-9. Epub 2002 Aug 8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12169658" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Actins/*metabolism
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Alleles
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Animals
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Animals, Genetically Modified
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Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/analysis/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Cell Nucleus/*metabolism
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Cytoplasm/chemistry
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Cytoskeleton/*metabolism
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Genes, Helminth
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Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
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Microfilament Proteins/analysis/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Mitochondria/ultrastructure
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Mutation
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Nuclear Envelope/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Nuclear Proteins/metabolism
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Phenotype
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Protein Binding
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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