Abstract
Whether mitotic structures like the centrosome can self-organize from the regulated mobility of their dynamic protein components remains unclear. Here, we combine fluorescence spectroscopy and chemical genetics to study in living cells the diffusion of polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1), an enzyme critical for centrosome maturation at the onset of mitosis. The cytoplasmic diffusion of a functional EGFP-PLK1 fusion correlates inversely with known changes in its enzymatic activity during the cell cycle. Specific EGFP-PLK1 inhibition using chemical genetics enhances mobility, as do point mutations inactivating the polo-box or kinase domains responsible for substrate recognition and catalysis. Spatial mapping of EGFP-PLK1 diffusion across living cells, using raster image correlation spectroscopy and line scanning, detects regions of low mobility in centrosomes. These regions exhibit characteristics of increased transient recursive EGFP-PLK1 binding, distinct from the diffusion of stable EGFP-PLK1–containing complexes in the cytoplasm. Chemical genetic suppression of mitotic EGFP-PLK1 activity, even after centrosome maturation, causes defects in centrosome structure, which recover when activity is restored. Our findings imply that continuous PLK1 activity during mitosis maintains centrosome self-organization by a mechanism dependent on its reaction and diffusion, suggesting a model for the formation of stable mitotic structures using dynamic protein kinases.
Keywords: mitotic kinase, macromolecular assembly, reaction-diffusion mechanism
The centrosome, the major microtubule-organizing center in the cell, consists of two centrioles surrounded by a protein matrix termed the pericentriolar material (PCM). Unusually among cytoplasmic organelles the centrosome is not membrane bound. Instead, it assembles from protein components present in the cytoplasm, exemplifying a major unresolved question concerning whether mitotic structures can self-organize from diffusing components (1–3). Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) studies indicate that centrosomal proteins freely exchange in a dynamic manner with the surrounding cytoplasm (4–6) and, furthermore, that the rate of association may affect centrosome structure (7). Centrioles and the PCM can form de novo under certain conditions (8, 9). These observations suggest that centrosomes may self-organize as a steady-state assembly from the transient residence of diffusible proteins. A centrosomal enzyme, the mitotic serine/threonine kinase polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1), is essential for the enrichment of multiple components including γ-tubulin (10–12), pericentrin (PCNT), and NEDD1 (13) in the centrosome at the onset of mitosis (a process termed centrosome maturation; reviewed in ref. 14). It has been suggested that the dynamic exchange of centrosomal PLK1 with a freely diffusing cytoplasmic pool is important for normal mitotic progression (6). However, it is not clear how PLK1’s diffusional mobility is controlled inside cells or how this may contribute to the role of PLK1 in centrosome self-organization. Here, we have addressed these problems by combining in vivo fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy with chemical genetics.
Results
Cell Cycle-Dependent Changes in EGFP-PLK1 Mobility in the Centrosome and Cytoplasm.
We used a previously described (15) retinal pigment epithelium cell line immortalized using human telomerase (hTERT-RPE1), which expresses an EGFP-PLK1 fusion protein that functionally replaces endogenous PLK1 (EGFP-PLK1/PLK1−/−). We first measured the exchange between cytoplasmic and centrosomal EGFP-PLK1 during different cell-cycle stages using FRAP (16). Centrosomal EGFP-PLK1 exchanged almost completely within seconds after photobleaching during all cell-cycle stages, as shown by a FRAP recovery curve plateau at ∼85–95% after ∼40 s (Fig. 1A). Our findings imply that, on this timescale, centrosomal populations of EGFP-PLK1 freely exchange with molecules in the cytoplasm and that little (∼5–15%) of the protein is fixed within the structure, after image correction for photobleaching. Interestingly, the dynamic exchange between centrosomal and cytoplasmic EGFP-PLK1 is cell-cycle dependent. Fluorescence recovery was significantly slower during prophase and metaphase (time taken for half-maximal recovery, t1/2 = 5.6 ± 0.3 s and 6.4 ± 0.7 s) than during either interphase or cytokinesis (t1/2 = 4.2 ± 0.5 s and 2.4 ± 0.7 s, t test, P < 0.01) (Fig. 1A). Notably, the slowed exchange rate during prophase and metaphase coincides with the known peak in PLK1 kinase activity (17, 18) marked by phosphorylation (18, 19) of PLK1 on threonine 210 (Fig. S1).
The relatively low expression of EGFP-PLK1 in our experimental system, and rapid fluorescence recovery in the cytoplasm, precluded analysis of cytoplasmic diffusion using FRAP. We therefore measured cytoplasmic EGFP-PLK1 mobility using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), which is well suited to the analysis of fast-diffusing species present in low concentrations (20). FCS records fluorescence intensity fluctuations in a small confocal volume (∼0.25 fL in our instrument) as a function of time, enabling inferences concerning physical properties including the rate of effective diffusion within the crowded and heterogeneous cellular environment (21) (Fig. 1B).
Using a previously described experimental setup (22), we find that EGFP-PLK1 fluorescence fluctuations exhibit a clear FCS autocorrelation function (ACF), whereas autofluorescence in wild-type RPE cells does not. As expected, the ACF for EGFP-PLK1 was significantly shifted to longer times compared with that for free EGFP alone, indicative of slower diffusion (Fig. 1C). The ACF for free EGFP could be fitted to a one-component model of 3D diffusion (23, 24) to give an effective diffusion coefficient, D, of 31.1 μm2/s, consistent with values previously reported using FCS and other methods (16, 25, 26). In contrast, fitting of the EGFP-PLK1 ACF with acceptable residuals required the addition of an anomaly parameter (Eq. S3 in SI Methods; see SI Discussion for discussion of FCS fitting and Fig. S2), yielding a D value for EGFP-PLK1 of 6.6 ± 0.6 μm2/s. Interestingly, FCS measurements of cytoplasmic EGFP-PLK1 diffusion at different cell-cycle stages closely paralleled our FRAP results interrogating its dynamic exchange at the centrosome (compare Fig. 1A and 1D—colors are consistent). Thus, cytoplasmic EGFP-PLK1 mobility was slower during prophase and metaphase (D = 4.8 ± 0.4, 3.4 ± 0.2 μm2/s) than in interphase or cytokinesis (D = 6.6 ± 0.6, 5.5 ± 0.3 μm2/s). The data in Fig. 1 show with two independent techniques that cell-cycle progression regulates both the dynamic exchange between cytoplasmic and centrosomal EGFP-PLK1 and its diffusional mobility in the cytoplasm.
Inhibition of EGFP-PLK1 Catalytic Activity Increases Mobility.
The inverse correlation between EGFP-PLK1 diffusion and variations in PLK1 activity at different cell-cycle stages prompted us to predict that a reduction in PLK1 enzymatic activity should increase its mobility. To test this hypothesis, we exploited a previously established chemical genetic strategy (15), wherein endogenous PLK1 has been replaced with EGFP-PLK1(as), a form of the enzyme in which the catalytic pocket has been engineered to accommodate a nonnatural ATP analog, 3-MB-PP1, which serves as a rapid and specific inhibitor without detectable effects on normal protein function (27). Indeed, we confirmed that the introduction of EGFP-PLK1(as) itself had no effect on dynamics in the absence of inhibitor, nor did the addition of 3-MB-PP1 have any effect on EGFP-PLK1 WT in PLK1−/− cells (Fig. S3 A and B).
We treated cells expressing EGFP-PLK1(as) with 20 μM 3-MB-PP1 for 2.5 h. As expected from previous studies using this system (15), this treatment caused a modest increase in the percentage of cells with 4N DNA content in the G2/M phases of the cell cycle compared with DMSO mock-treated cells, as well as the appearance of cells arrested in prometaphase (Fig. S3 C and D). Notably, the rapid and specific inhibition of EGFP-PLK1(as) activity by this chemical genetic strategy was accompanied by an increase in its cytoplasmic diffusion measured by FCS (Fig. 2A). Thus, during prophase, the diffusion coefficient of EGFP-PLK1(as) increases to 9.9 ± 1 μm2/s after 3-MB-PP1 treatment compared with 5.4 ± 0.5 μm2/s in DMSO mock-treated cells (t test, P < 0.01).
For further confirmation that PLK1 kinase activity can affect its mobility, we studied the diffusion of a catalytically inactive mutant form of EGFP-PLK1, K82M, in which a lysine residue involved in ATP binding has been substituted with methionine (28). In interphase cells transiently expressing the mutant enzyme, analysis of cytoplasmic diffusion using FCS reveals that the D value for the cytoplasmic ATP-binding mutant is significantly increased in comparison with the wild-type enzyme (D = 8.6 ± 0.5, 5.7 ± 0.3 μm2/s, t test, P < 0.01). Therefore, results from two independent systems support the notion that cytoplasmic EGFP-PLK1 diffusion is inversely correlated with catalytic activity (Fig. 2B).
In addition to its kinase catalytic domain, PLK1 contains a phosphopeptide-binding domain [the Polo box domain (PBD)] that mediates substrate recognition (29). We used a well-characterized mutant form of PLK1 PBD mutant in which two amino acids (histidine/lysine 538/540) in the PBD are mutated to alanine and methionine, respectively, reducing the strength and duration of phosphopeptide–substrate binding (29). It has previously been reported using FRAP that an EGFP-PLK1 HK538/540 AM mutant exhibits increased dynamic exchange in the centrosome of transiently transfected interphase cells (30). Therefore, we first extended these studies to compare the FRAP curves of EGFP-PLK1 and the EGFP-PLK1 HK538/540 AM mutant at the centrosomes of stably expressing EGFP-PLK1 RPE cells at different cell-cycle stages. The difference in the dynamic exchange of the wild-type and mutant proteins peaked during prophase, when t1/2 values were 3.27 ± 0.3 s and 0.9 ± 0.1 s, respectively (Fig. S4). Notably, the cytoplasmic diffusion of mutant EGFP-PLK1 HK538/540 AM measured by FCS was also increased during late G2/prophase compared with the wild-type enzyme (Fig. 2C), with effective diffusion enhanced to 7.44 ± 0.44 μm2/s. Taken together, our results demonstrate that disruption of the substrate-binding PBD domain of EGFP-PLK1 increases diffusional mobility both at the centrosome and in the cytoplasm, as does the specific inhibition of EGFP-PLK1 catalytic activity.
Raster Image Correlation Spectroscopy (RICS) Reveals a Region of Low EGFP-PLK1 Mobility at the Centrosome with Characteristics of Transient Binding.
We explored the role of PLK1 mobility in the maintenance of centrosomal structure by simultaneously mapping EGFP-PLK1 diffusion in the cytoplasm and centrosomes of living cells, using RICS. RICS is a confocal laser scanning image analysis technique (31) that detects fluctuations between many focal points in the sample to determine the diffusion coefficient in different cellular locales (Fig. 3 A and B). We validated this technique in our experimental system using numerous control measurements in vitro and in vivo to minimize possible artifacts before taking EGFP-PLK1 measurements (summarized in SI Discussion and Fig. S5).
We found that the shapes of the RICS ACF curves (rACFs) were markedly different in the centrosome versus the cytoplasm. A representative analysis in a single cell (Fig. 3C) shows that the rACF at the centrosome was more extended in the vertical scanning direction at short pixel shifts, engendering a rounder overall shape, suggestive of slower diffusion. Indeed, fitting of the rACFs generated from multiple cells with a one-component model of anomalous diffusion (Eq. S3 in SI Methods) showed that the centrosomal EGFP-PLK1 pool consistently had a slower diffusion coefficient compared with the cytoplasmic pool (0.9 ± 0.3 μm2/s versus 5.9 ± 0.4 μm2/s, mean ± SEM, five independent experiments). Mapping back the diffusion coefficients onto a confocal slice area of the cell strikingly highlights how EGFP-PLK1 mobility is corralled at the centrosome, but relatively unimpeded in the cytoplasm (Fig. 3D). This difference does not simply reflect differences in the physical properties of the two environments or a general property of other proteins, because an inert tracer, free mCherry, expressed in the same cells exhibited no centrosomal corralling (Fig. S6).
We therefore surmised that the diffusion of EGFP-PLK1 might be slowed in the centrosome through its interaction with other molecules in this environment. As reported in previous studies of protein diffusion within cells (32, 33), two modes of intermolecular interaction can be envisioned. Centrosomal EGFP-PLK1 could be slowed either through transient binding interactions that induce a “stop–start” motion or, instead, through stable assembly into massive multiprotein complexes that exhibit a continuous random walk (Fig. 3E, i). We used a previously described analysis of the shape of the rACFs to distinguish between these two possibilities (32). Whereas the slow diffusion of massive stable complexes broadens the rACF at long pixel shifts because particle movements between pixels are detected, rapid particle binding and unbinding in the microsecond–millisecond timescale conversely causes the rACF to narrow at long pixel shifts. We quantified the frequency of these characteristics in the RICS readings taken in the centrosome and cytoplasm (SI Methods and Fig. S7). Centrosomal rACFs frequently showed characteristics of transient binding (in 74% of 31 cells from two independent experiments) compared with cytoplasmic measurements (only 26%) (Fig. 3E, ii). Our data are therefore consistent with the interpretation that transient recursive binding contributes to the slowing of EGFP-PLK1 mobility in the centrosome.
Line Scanning Reveals a Region of Restricted EGFP-PLK1 Mobility at the Centrosome.
RICS has limited spatial resolution (31, 34), which in our system we found to be an area of size ∼3.5 × 3.5 μm in control measurements (these areas are depicted in Fig. 3C, i). Therefore, to investigate PLK1 centrosomal corralling further at higher spatial resolution, we used line-scanning FCS as described previously (31, 35, 36). A single line of 64 pixels encompassing the centrosome and surrounding cytoplasm was scanned rapidly (5-μs dwell time on each pixel) and repeatedly (100,000 lines) to sample many locations simultaneously (Fig. 4A). The scanned line is represented as a “carpet diagram” of fluorescence intensity, with time plotted on the y axis and pixel position along the scan line on the x axis (Fig. 4 B and C). The temporal ACF calculated down each column as in FCS (Eq. S1 in SI Methods) represents the fluorescence fluctuations in a diffraction-limited spot that has a volume of ∼0.8 fL in our experimental system.
Line-scanning FCS analysis of EGFP-PLK1 diffusion supported the conclusions drawn from RICS. The timescale of ACF decay at the centrosome was much longer than in the adjacent cytoplasm (Fig. 4E, compare approximately column 30 with approximately column 50), indicative of the slower mobility of EGFP-PLK1 in this location, consistent with RICS analysis (Fig. 3). Notably, a plot of the diffusion coefficient in square micrometers per second versus pixel position along the scanning line shows a relatively sharp decay in diffusion coefficient at the position corresponding to the centrosome (Fig. 4F, compare the line graph with the intensity carpet). Thus, collectively, our observations using line-scanning FCS also suggest EGFP-PLK1 is corralled in the centrosome through transient recursive binding interactions.
Continuous PLK1 Activity Is Required During Mitosis to Maintain PCM Structure Even After Centrosome Maturation.
The data in Figs. 3 and 4 collectively identify two unrecognized features of EGFP-PLK1 mobility in living cells. First, EGFP-PLK1 exhibits considerable heterogeneity of effective diffusional motion within the cellular environment, evident in the marked slowing of its mobility in the centrosome compared with the cytosol. Second, the slowing of EGFP-PLK1 diffusion in the centrosome is accompanied by characteristics of continuous, but transient, recursive binding within this organelle. Together with our data demonstrating an inverse correlation between EGFP-PLK1 activity and mobility (Figs. 1 and 2), these features suggest that EGFP-PLK1 is organized into centrosomes by a mechanism that depends on its reaction and diffusion. We therefore reasoned that continuous EGFP-PLK1 activity during mitosis would be required to maintain centrosome structure by such a mechanism. To test this idea, we exploited chemical genetics to rapidly and specifically inactivate or restore PLK1 activity, using 3MB-PP1 in EGFP-PLK1(as) cells synchronized in prometaphase with nocodazole (Nz). Nz-induced mitotic arrest occurs after centrosome maturation in early mitosis, and therefore, as expected, Nz-arrested cells contained two centrosomes that were enriched in PCM relative to interphase. Strikingly, exposure to 10 μM 3MB-PP1 induced a marked dissolution in centrosome structure compared with the control, with a significant decrease in multiple PCM components, including γ-tubulin, NEDD1, and PCNT (Fig. 5 A and B; t test, P < 0.01). PCM dissolution occurred rapidly after 3MB-PP1 treatment; changes were visible in 30 min, which became significant at 2 h (Fig. S8). This effect could be reversed when 3MB-PP1 was removed from Nz-arrested cell cultures (Fig. 5 A and B). Four hours after 3MB-PP1 withdrawal, the levels of γ-tubulin, PCNT, and NEDD1 in the centrosome had recovered to control levels. Thus, continuous PLK1 activity is required during mitosis even after centrosome maturation to sustain centrosome self-organization.
Discussion
We surmise that the behavior of PLK1 is an example of stigmergy, the principle whereby system components influence each other through dynamic interactions that leave traces or marks in their environment (1, 37). Thus, substrate modification by PLK1 may, in turn, stimulate the transient recursive binding interactions that slow its diffusion, and this stigmergic feedback loop may enable self-organization in structures like the centrosome. Interestingly and in support of our proposal, the rate of exchange of a centrosomally localized PLK1 substrate, Cnn, between the PCM and cytosol has recently been shown to affect centrosome structure (7). Thus, our proposal may more generally help to explain why PLK1 phosphorylates several centrosomal proteins whose modification is necessary for centrosomal structure (38, 39) and why artificial tethering of a PLK1 fusion protein within centrosomes triggers abnormalities in structure (6). From this perspective, two fundamental determinants of PLK1 behavior—diffusion and reaction—may be considered interdependent rather than separable. These considerations provide insight into how dynamic enzymes can self-organize in a manner dependent on their catalytic activity into stable cytoplasmic organelles (1–3).
Consistent with this model, a simple in silico simulation incorporating the diffusion and binding parameters we have measured for EGFP-PLK1 suggests that recursive binding interactions may allow the steady-state localization of PLK1 into a region of high substrate concentration (Fig. S9 and SI Discussion). Which of the >300 predicted PLK1 substrates is responsible for this behavior remains to be determined, although several are reported to concentrate in the centrosome (e.g., ref. 7), raising the possibility that multiple enzyme–substrate reactions may contribute.
In conclusion, we present in this work three key observations that together suggest a model wherein centrosome PCM self-organization is sustained by the continuous activity of the PLK1 kinase through a reaction–diffusion mechanism. We first show using FRAP and FCS that EGFP-PLK1 substrate binding and catalytic activity regulate its cytoplasmic mobility, with decreased activity increasing the mobility of the enzyme. Second, RICS and line-scanning FCS reveal that a region of restricted EGFP-PLK1 diffusion in the centrosome correlates with characteristics of transient recursive interactions of the enzyme in this structure. Finally, a specific chemical genetic strategy confirms that ablation of EGFP-PLK1 activity even after centrosome maturation triggers defects in centrosome structure that can be reversed by the restoration of enzyme activity. Thus, our observations exemplify a reaction–diffusion mechanism (1) whereby the activity of a mitotic kinase contributes to the self-organization of diffusing mitotic proteins into a key mitotic organelle.
Methods
FCS.
One focus FCS was performed with the Zeiss Confocor2 system and a C-Apochromat 40× numerical aperture 1.2 water immersion objective as previously described (22). Samples were excited using a 488-nm laser operating at 0.8% and imaging over the 505- to 550-nm spectral band. The size of the lateral radius (w0) and the structural parameter (S) were determined using a 10-nM rhodamine 6G (Rh6G) solution in water at 25 °C 100 μm above the coverslip, assuming a diffusion coefficient of 400 μm2/s. We thus obtained values of 0.2 μm and 5 for w0 and S, respectively, which were kept constant during fitting. The normalized ACF G(τ) of fluorescence fluctuations was calculated using Zeiss ConfoCor2 software,
where I(t) is the fluorescence intensity, τ is the lag time, and 〈 〉 represents a temporal average. Models used to fit the autocorrelation function are given in SI Methods. Diffusion coefficients (D) were calculated with
For cellular readings each measurement consisted of repeating 10 readings, each 5 s in length. The first reading was always discarded to exclude any contributions from immobile molecules being bleached at the start of the reading (22). Readings showing obvious large deviations in count rate characteristic of cell movement were discarded.
RICS Data Collection and Analysis.
RICS has been described previously (31), and the theoretical basis is given in SI Methods. A Zeiss LSM 710 laser scanning microscope with an incubation chamber and a 40× 1.2 NA water immersion lens was used. Data acquisition parameters were optimized using control measurements in vitro of Rhodamine R110 and EGFP and in vivo of EGFP (Fig. S5 and SI Discussion). The 488-nm laser was used with 1% of transmission power and the signal was detected using a long-pass emission filter (505 nm). The pinhole was set to 1 airy unit, detector gain was set to 800 V, and offset was optimized to 0. Images were taken at 256 × 256 and 12 bits, using an optimized pixel dwell time of 12.61 μs for EGFP-PLK1, collecting 125 frames in total. The excitation volume was measured by taking a z-stack of a subresolution 175-nm diameter fluorescent bead and fitting with a Gaussian in Origin software. Pixel size was 55 nm to ensure sufficient oversampling within the size of the excitation volume. The diffusion and binding analysis is detailed in SI Methods.
FCS Line Scanning.
FCS line scanning was as described previously (31, 35). Line-scanning data were obtained on a Zeiss LSM 710 commercial laser scanning microscope as described for RICS, except for the following differences. Excitation was with 0.2% of the 488-nm laser power to minimize bleaching. A line of length 64 pixels was scanned 100,000 times, with a pixel size of 83 nm and a pixel dwell time of 5.09 μs. These values were determined on the basis of pilot measurements of 175-nm diameter fluorescent beads, known to have a similar D value to that of EGFP-PLK1 on the basis of our FCS and RICS results. Data analysis was in simFCS software (Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine, CA). The autocorrelation function was calculated down each column (Eq. S1 in SI Methods) and then fitted using a one-component anomalous diffusion model (Eq. S3 in SI Methods) to obtain a diffusion coefficient value. Before fitting the ACFs, rows were binned into sets of five, and the smooth surface button was used twice in simFCS software. Readings were analyzed to ensure that only particle fluctuations rather than gross organelle movements were measured; occasional gross movements of the centrosome visible as intensity changes across >20 pixels along the scan line were discarded. Intensity drifts in Z due to movement or bleaching were corrected for using a previously described correction (35), which divides the time trace from one column in segments of 20 s each and adds random uncorrelated counts in each segment to match the intensity of the segment with the most counts.
Supplementary Material
Acknowledgments
We thank Dr. Prasad Jallepalli for providing the EGFP-PLK1(wt) and EGFP-PLK1(as) cells, Dr. Enrico Gratton for advice on RICS data analysis and training at the “Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, Irvine workshop on advanced fluorescence dynamics,” Dr. Melina Schuh for instrument access, and Dr. Miyoung Lee for careful reading of the manuscript. R.M. and A.D.J. were, respectively, supported in A.R.V.’s laboratory by a Wellcome Trust PhD studentship and a Medical Research Council career development fellowship. The Medical Research Council supports work in A.R.V.’s laboratory.
Footnotes
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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