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Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 2007, p. 4905-4916, Vol. 27, No. 13
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.02396-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

RINT-1 Serves as a Tumor Suppressor and Maintains Golgi Dynamics and Centrosome Integrity for Cell Survival{triangledown}

Xiaoqin Lin,{dagger} Chang-Ching Liu,{dagger} Qing Gao,{ddagger} Xiaohai Zhang,§ GuiKai Wu, and Wen-Hwa Lee*

Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697

Received 21 December 2006/ Returned for modification 15 February 2007/ Accepted 10 April 2007

Faithful mitotic partitioning of the Golgi apparatus and the centrosome is critical for proper cell division. Although these two cytoplasmic organelles are probably coordinated during cell division, supporting evidence of this coordination is still largely lacking. Here, we show that the RAD50-interacting protein, RINT-1, is localized at the Golgi apparatus and the centrosome in addition to the endoplasmic reticulum. To examine the biological roles of RINT-1, we found that the homozygous deletion of Rint-1 caused early embryonic lethality at embryonic day 5 (E5) to E6 and the failure of blastocyst outgrowth ex vivo. About 81% of the Rint-1 heterozygotes succumbed to multiple tumor formation with haploinsufficiency during their average life span of 24 months. To pinpoint the cellular function of RINT-1, we found that RINT-1 depletion by RNA interference led to the loss of the pericentriolar positioning and dispersal of the Golgi apparatus and concurrent centrosome amplification during the interphase. Upon mitotic entry, RINT-1-deficient cells exhibited multiple abnormalities, including aberrant Golgi dynamics during early mitosis and defective reassembly at telophase, increased formation of multiple spindle poles, and frequent chromosome missegregation. Mitotic cells often underwent cell death in part due to the overwhelming cellular defects. Taken together, these findings suggest that RINT-1 serves as a novel tumor suppressor essential for maintaining the dynamic integrity of the Golgi apparatus and the centrosome, a prerequisite to their proper coordination during cell division.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biological Chemistry, 124 Sprague Hall, 839 Medical Science Ct., University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697. Phone: (949) 824-4492. Fax: (949) 824-9767. E-mail: whlee{at}uci.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 30 April 2007.

{dagger} These authors contributed equally to this work.

{ddagger} Present address: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.

§ Present address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 2007, p. 4905-4916, Vol. 27, No. 13
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.02396-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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