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The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 149, Number 4, , 2000 761-766

Eb1 Proteins Regulate Microtubule Dynamics, Cell Polarity, and Chromosome Stability

^a Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
^b Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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The EB1 family represents a highly conserved group of proteins, present in yeast through humans, that localize to spindle and cytoplasmic microtubules, especially at their distal tips. The budding yeast homologue of EB1, Bim1p, regulates microtubule stability and is important for positioning the mitotic spindle, anchoring it to the bud through astral microtubule attachment to the cortical protein Kar9p. Bim1p interacts functionally with dynactin in a late mitotic cell cycle checkpoint. EB1 proteins in human cells interact physically with the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor suppressor protein, targeting APC to microtubule plus ends, and with members of the dynactin complex. Here, we review recent studies in yeast and human cells that suggest the involvement of EB1 in promoting microtubule search and capture and in maintaining chromosome stability.

	The EB1 Family

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Human EB1 is a 35-kD, mildly acidic, leucine zipper protein cloned as an interacting partner with the APC COOH terminus in a yeast two-hybrid screen (see Fig. 1 A; Su et al. 1995). Because loss of heterozygosity at the APC tumor suppressor locus is an early event in most colon cancers, and germline APC mutation leads to the familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) colon cancer syndrome (Kinzler and Vogelstein 1996), this interaction raises questions about the role of EB1 in facilitating APC functions. However, EB1 proteins are also found in unicellular organisms that lack APC, suggesting a more primitive role that predates the evolution of APC. In this review, we first focus on the functions of EB1 proteins in yeasts, and then we speculate on how these functions may have been adapted in multicellular eukaryotes.

View larger version (28K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 1 (A) Domain structure of the 2,843 amino acid APC protein. Only the β catenin, glycogen synthase kinase 3 β (GSK3β), microtubule, discs large, and EB1 binding regions are shown. The sites of most truncation mutations in human colon cancers are marked with arrows (adapted from Polakis 1997). (B) Sequence homology relationships among selected EB1 family members. Percentage identity at the protein level is indicated.

	EB1 Proteins Localize to Microtubule Tips

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In living yeast cells, overexpressed GFP-Bim1p localizes to the entire microtubule cytoskeleton, including the mitotic spindle, the spindle pole body (the budding yeast centrosome), and cytoplasmic microtubules (Schwartz et al. 1997). However, when native levels of expression are driven from the BIM1 promoter, fluorescence on cytoplasmic microtubules is limited to the microtubule distal tips (presumed to be plus ends) and the spindle pole body (Tirnauer et al. 1999). Together, these studies suggest that Bim1p is capable of binding along the length of microtubules, but that at endogenous levels, it binds preferentially to microtubule ends. Fluorescence at the spindle pole body may represent the physical association of Bim1p with centrosomal proteins, Bim1p binding to the microtubule proximal (minus) ends, or Bim1p binding to the distal (plus) ends of extremely short microtubules. Bim1p may bind to more than one of these structures, as it was present in a partially purified yeast spindle pole body preparation (Wigge et al. 1998).

In the cells of higher organisms, EB1 is found in a similar distribution, albeit on a more spatially extensive microtubule array. By indirect immunofluorescence in tissue culture cells, EB1 has been localized to the centrosome, the mitotic spindle, and the distal tips of cytoplasmic microtubules (Berrueta et al. 1998; Morrison et al. 1998). EB1 and RP1 staining also have been visualized at what appear to be microtubule ends within the mitotic spindle, possibly at or near kinetochores (Juwana et al. 1999). Thus, EB1 proteins are found on microtubule plus ends throughout the cell cycle in diverse cell types, a location ideally suited for linking the microtubule cytoskeleton to other structures within the cell. Although EB1 was named before its end-binding properties were known, end binding 1 aptly labels the protein.

While numerous proteins localize along the lengths of microtubules, specific localization to microtubule plus ends is limited to relatively few. These include the KIN I kinesins, which bind to both plus and minus ends of microtubules in vitro and induce catastrophes (see ; Desai et al. 1999); members of the dynactin complex, a 20S multiprotein complex important for activating cytoplasmic dynein (Pfarr et al. 1990; Steuer et al. 1990; Vaisberg et al. 1993; Echeverri et al. 1996; Busson et al. 1998; Skop and White 1998; Vaughan et al. 1999); and the cytoplasmic microtubule–vesicle linker protein CLIP170. GFP-CLIP170 has been imaged in living tissue culture cells and shown to treadmill specifically along the plus ends of growing (but not shrinking) microtubules (Perez et al. 1999). While the mechanism remains unknown, proteins that bind to microtubule ends rather than along their lengths could do so by using dynamic or structural cues; for example, as diagrammed in Fig. 2, proteins that specifically recognize growing plus ends could copolymerize with tubulin (as proposed for CLIP170; Diamantopoulos et al. 1999), or they could recognize a specific conformation (such as the GTP cap or the unrolled sheet) at the growing microtubule end. It will be interesting to see whether EB1 binds microtubule plus ends directly or via another protein, and whether the microtubule tip localization shared by these proteins translates into physical and functional interactions among them.

View larger version (31K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 2 Models for microtubule tip localization. A protein specifically localized to the ends of growing microtubules could bind to tubulin heterodimers and copolymerize into the microtubule (A), or recognize a specific conformation at the growing microtubule end, such as the GTP cap or the unrolled sheet (B). Dissociation from the microtubule could result from exclusion as the protofilament seam closes or from the tension caused by seam closure.

	Role(s) of Budding Yeast EB1 in Spindle Positioning

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In this issue, Adames and Cooper use time-lapse sequences from living yeast cells to dissect the spindle positioning process into two sequential steps (Adames and Cooper 2000). The first step consists of spindle movement to the bud neck, resulting from cytoplasmic microtubule capture and end-on depolymerization at the bud tip (or at the presumptive bud site, earlier in the cell cycle). Consistent with its localization to the microtubule tip, Bim1p is a central component of this first step. Recent studies by Lee et al. 2000 and Korinek et al. 2000 have revealed that Bim1p acts at this stage not just by increasing microtubule dynamicity, but in the capture event itself. By interacting with Kar9p, which is a cortical protein that appears as a dot at the bud tip (Miller and Rose 1998), Bim1p forms a physical link between the microtubule end and the bud, as depicted in Fig. 3. Bim1p and Kar9p coimmunoprecipitate from yeast cells and cofractionate by sucrose gradient sedimentation; in cells lacking Bim1p, microtubules fail to contact the Kar9p dot (Lee et al. 2000), demonstrating the functional importance of this interaction. Proteins with homology to KAR9 have not been found in multicellular eukaryotes, but mechanistically similar interactions are likely to occur.

View larger version (16K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 3 The first step of the spindle orientation process in budding yeast. Microtubule binding proteins and cortical proteins are required. In the example shown, at the microtubule tip, Bim1p both increases microtubule dynamicity (arrows) and binds Kar9p at the cortex, followed by depolymerization (Lee et al. 2000; Korinek et al. 2000). In the subsequent step, the spindle is pulled (and pushed) into the bud neck through dynein-dependent forces.

	Role of Fission Yeast EB1 in Chromosome Segregation

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Proteins involved in aligning the spindle to the cortex are expected to overlap with those used within the spindle, during the comparable process of kinetochore capture. Both processes make use of connections between microtubules and a specialized capture site, and in both cases, successful capture is likely to be enhanced by increased microtubule dynamicity as well as by stabilized interactions between the microtubule end and the capture site. The critical events in chromosome segregation are monitored by the highly regulated spindle assembly checkpoint machinery. In fission yeast, the EB1 homologue mal3⁺ was cloned in a screen for novel mutants that failed to accurately segregate a nonessential minichromosome (Beinhauer et al. 1997). In addition to chromosome loss, mal3 cells also showed similar changes to bim1 cells in microtubule length and nuclear position, as well as abnormalities in cell shape and septum placement (Beinhauer et al. 1997). Whether chromosome loss in the mal3 mutant is due to defective kinetochore capture or to these other abnormalities is currently unknown, but the localization of EB1 proteins to spindle microtubules in diverse organisms suggests that they may act to regulate dynamic instability or microtubule end-on attachments in the spindle. Interestingly, human EB1 substituted functionally for Schizosaccharomyces pombe mal3⁺ in this study, highlighting the remarkable degree of conservation within the EB1 family.

	Interaction of EB1 with APC

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Chromosomal instability is a major defect in the cancer of the colon. Could the EB1–APC interaction play a role in regulating chromosome segregation? A large body of work has shown that by regulating β-catenin levels, APC affects the transcription of several oncogenic proteins including c-myc, cyclin D1, and PPAR (He et al. 1998, He et al. 1999; Tetsu and McCormick 1999; for reviews see Polakis 1997; Barker et al. 2000; Nathke 2000). These transcriptional effects alone may account for the role of APC in preventing cancer development, but the question remains whether the interaction of APC with the cytoskeleton contributes to its tumor suppressor role. Transgenic mice, bearing an APC truncation distal to the β-catenin binding region (designed to address the function of the COOH-terminal, EB1-binding portion of APC; Fig. 1 A), showed no evidence of colon cancer (Smits et al. 1999), and a study of human colon tumors failed to detect somatic mutations in the EB1 coding sequence by reverse transcriptase single strand conformational polymorphism (Jais et al. 1998). However, the possibility remains that disruption of EB1–APC binding may play a role in later, accelerating events once tumorigenesis has been initiated, or it may be permissive for tumorigenesis only in the presence of other abnormalities. Understanding the role of EB1 in colon cancer, cell cycle progression, and chromosome stability is a significant objective for future studies.

One important aspect of the EB1–APC interaction may be its role in directing protein localization. Like EB1, APC localizes to the microtubule cytoskeleton, as well as to the leading edges of migrating epithelial cells (Nathke et al. 1996), and EB1 and RP1 colocalize with APC in the membrane protrusions of fibrosarcoma cells (Juwana et al. 1999). Recently, GFP–APC protein has been imaged in living cells and shown, like CLIP170, to associate specifically with the plus ends of growing microtubules, but, unlike CLIP170, to drop off the ends of shrinking microtubules as a preserved granular structure (Mimori-Kiyosue et al. 2000). In colon cancer cell lines that exclusively contain truncated APC (unable to bind EB1), endogenous EB1 localization is unchanged, suggesting that EB1 binds to microtubule tips independent of APC (Berrueta et al. 1998; Morrison et al. 1998). Transfection of these cells with GFP-APC constructs containing or lacking the EB1 binding region demonstrated that the EB1 binding region directed APC localization to microtubule tips; GFP-APC constructs lacking the EB1 binding region (but still able to bind microtubules) localized nonspecifically to microtubules, whereas APC constructs containing the EB1 binding region localized to the tips (Askham et al. 2000). This result is consistent with the earlier observation that APC possesses a microtubule binding domain and is capable of bundling microtubules in vitro (Munemitsu et al. 1994). Taken together, these findings suggest that while EB1 is not required for the binding of APC to microtubules, it may target APC to the ends, facilitating delivery or interaction of APC with specific sites at the cell membrane. In colon polyps, abnormalities in APC targeting could synergize with rapid cell proliferation to disrupt cell migration and/or accelerate aneuploidy.

Could the EB1–APC interaction have a role outside of the colon? FAP patients exhibit a variety of extracolonic manifestations, including skin and central nervous system tumors, suggesting a role for APC in other polarized tissues. Moreover, the finding of additional APC isoforms in Drosophila and the neuronal specific interaction between EB3 and APCL leaves open the possibility that other members of the EB1 or APC families may play an as-yet-undiscovered role in normal development and possibly in other disorders (Hayashi et al. 1997; Hamada et al. 1999; McCartney et al. 1999; Yu et al. 1999; Nakagawa et al. 2000). Binding between EB1 and APC is downregulated during mitosis, possibly because of mitotic phosphorylation of APC (Trzepacz et al. 1997; Askham et al. 2000). How cell cycle changes affect EB1, and how EB1 interacts with APC in other cell types are also open questions.

	Interaction of EB1 with Dynactin Components

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In higher eukaryotes, EB1 interacts with components of the dynactin complex, the activator for cytoplasmic dynein. Cytoplasmic dynein is a minus end–directed microtubule-based motor that, with the dynactin complex, participates in Golgi dynamics, vesicle transport, and focusing the poles of the mitotic spindle (for review see Karki and Holzbaur 1999). EB1 has been shown to coimmunoprecipitate the dynactin components p150^glued, p50/dynamitin, and the intermediate chain of dynein, from lymphocytes and epithelial cells (Berrueta et al. 1999). This interaction occurred independently of microtubules, because it was preserved in cells treated with the microtubule-depolymerizing agent nocodazole, and independently of APC, as it occurred in cell lines lacking the COOH terminus of APC. Like EB1, dynactin has been localized to the plus ends of cytoplasmic microtubules at cortical sites in epithelial cells (Busson et al. 1998). As with APC, EB1 might regulate dynactin localization, or, reciprocally, dynactin may help to load EB1 onto the microtubules. A role for dynactin analogous to that in yeast is suggested by a study of the early spindle rotations of the developing C. elegans embryo (Skop and White 1998). Dynactin was shown to localize to the cortical sites and to be required for these spindle rotations. It will be interesting to see whether the C. elegans and D. melanogaster EB1 family members interact with dynactin and whether EB1 proteins play a role in spindle rotations in these organisms.

	Effect of Paclitaxel on EB1 Localization

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EB1 is a microtubule end–binding protein with several potential roles in normal cellular processes. Is it possible that anticancer therapies might affect EB1 function? Paclitaxel is a chemotherapeutic agent that reduces microtubule dynamicity without depolymerizing the microtubule cytoskeleton, and it is thought to cause malignant cells to arrest in mitosis because of spindle damage and, subsequently, to undergo apoptotic cell death. In tissue culture cells, paclitaxel treatment disrupted the localization of EB1 to the microtubules (Morrison et al. 1998). The mechanisms of this effect could include a change in the structure of the microtubule polymer (along its length or at its tip), or a requirement of dynamic microtubules to confer EB1 binding. The idea that the antitumor effects of paclitaxel could be mediated through EB1 must remain speculative, as this drug has shown little activity against colon cancer in clinical trials. Alternatively, the lack of clinical efficacy of paclitaxel in colon cancer may result from the absence of the EB1–APC interaction specifically in this setting. Both situations highlight the important possibility that natural products that affect the microtubule cytoskeleton might interact with or perturb endogenous microtubule end–binding proteins.

	Summary

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Functional studies of yeasts deficient in the microtubule end–binding EB1 proteins demonstrate their roles in several aspects of microtubule search and capture, cell polarization, and chromosome stability. In cells that require a cell cycle delay to correct spindle position abnormalities, Bim1p may participate in the checkpoint machinery as well. The EB1–APC interaction in higher eukaryotes could have arisen evolutionarily to take advantage of specific targeting to the microtubule tip. In multicellular organisms, the interaction between EB1 and dynactin components may have been adapted to exert force on microtubule structures in complex cellular behaviors important for development and cell migration. Many questions about EB1 function remain: how does EB1 influence chromosome segregation? Are EB1 proteins in multicellular organisms important for both spindle and cytoplasmic microtubule behaviors? What role does the loss of the EB1–APC interaction play in the pathogenesis of colon cancer? Are EB1 proteins important for dynactin or dynein function? And might drugs that specifically target EB1 play a role in cancer therapy? Future studies to address these questions are eagerly awaited.

Dynamic instability, usually measured at the microtubule plus (distal) end, is defined by four parameters: the rates of growth, corresponding to polymerization; and shrinkage, corresponding to depolymerization; and the frequencies of transitions between growth and shrinkage (catastrophes) and between shrinkage and growth (rescues) (reviewed in Desai and Mitchison 1997). Two other terms used in reference to microtubule dynamics are pauses, periods during which length appears constant, reflecting either a non dynamic state or a state such as treadmilling in which polymerization at the plus end and depolymerization at the minus end are coupled; and dynamicity (Toso et al. 1993), a composite measurement of the total tubulin dimers gained or lost per unit time. Dynamicity is increased by faster growth or shrinkage or more frequent transitions. Microtubule length is likewise affected by all four parameters. Classically, greater dynamicity correlates with shorter length, and EB1 is unusual but not unique in increasing both dynamicity and microtubule length.

Measurements of dynamic instability in living cells can be affected by multiple factors; in addition to biological differences, methodological variables include cell temperature, choice of fluorescent protein marker, and imaging and software configurations. As an example, two studies of microtubule dynamics in the bim1 mutant (Tirnauer et al. 1999; Adames and Cooper 2000) both showed as the major effect reduced dynamicity and increased pausing, but changes in individual parameters differed somewhat between the studies.

	Acknowledgments

 
The authors thank Ewan Morrison for the communication of results before publication, and Tim Mitchison and David Pellman for critical and helpful review of the manuscript.

J.S. Tirnauer is supported by a grant (K08 DK 02578) from the National Institutes of Health.

Submitted: 8 February 2000

Accepted: 17 April 2000

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