An ancestral role of pericentrin in centriole formation through SAS-6 recruitment

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Abstract

The centrosome is composed of two centrioles surrounded by a microtubule-nucleating pericentriolar matrix (PCM). Centrioles regulate matrix assembly. Here we ask whether the matrix also regulates centriole assembly. To define the interaction between the matrix and individual centriole components, we take advantage of a heterologous expression system using fission yeast. Importantly, its centrosome, the spindle pole body (SPB), has matrix but no centrioles. Surprisingly, we observed that the SPB can recruit several animal centriole components. Pcp1/pericentrin, a conserved matrix component that is often upregulated in cancer, recruits a critical centriole constituent, SAS-6. We further show that this novel interaction is conserved and important for centriole biogenesis and elongation in animals. We speculate that the Pcp1/pericentrin-SAS-6 interaction surface was conserved for one billion years of evolution after centriole loss in yeasts, due to its conserved binding to calmodulin. This study reveals an ancestral relationship between pericentrin and the centriole, where both regulate each other assembly, ensuring mutual localisation.

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