Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

SUMOylated NKAP is essential for chromosome alignment by anchoring CENP-E to kinetochores

  • Teng Li,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Juanxian Cheng,
  • Jiang Dai,
  • Yijiao Huang,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Zhaoshan Liu,
  • Ang Li,
  • Na Li,
  • Hongxia Wang,
  • Xiaomin Yin,
  • Kun He,
  • Ming Yu,
  • Tao Zhou,
  • Xuemin Zhang,
  • Qing Xia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12969
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The kinetochore-bound motor CENP-E plays a critical role in chromosome alignment. Here, the authors show that NF-κB activating protein (NKAP) dynamically localises to kinetochores, is SUMOylated during mitosis, and this modification is required for NKAP to bind CENP-E and localise CENP-E to the kinetochore.