Meiotic Kinetochores Fragment into Multiple Lobes upon Cohesin Loss in Aging Eggs
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Meiotic Kinetochores Fragment into Multiple Lobes upon Cohesin Loss in Aging Eggs. / Zielinska, Agata P.; Bellou, Eirini; Sharma, Ninadini; Frombach, Ann Sophie; Seres, K. Bianka; Gruhn, Jennifer R.; Blayney, Martyn; Eckel, Heike; Moltrecht, Rüdiger; Elder, Kay; Hoffmann, Eva R.; Schuh, Melina.
I: Current Biology, Bind 29, Nr. 22, 2019, s. 3749-3765.e7.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Meiotic Kinetochores Fragment into Multiple Lobes upon Cohesin Loss in Aging Eggs
AU - Zielinska, Agata P.
AU - Bellou, Eirini
AU - Sharma, Ninadini
AU - Frombach, Ann Sophie
AU - Seres, K. Bianka
AU - Gruhn, Jennifer R.
AU - Blayney, Martyn
AU - Eckel, Heike
AU - Moltrecht, Rüdiger
AU - Elder, Kay
AU - Hoffmann, Eva R.
AU - Schuh, Melina
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Chromosome segregation errors during female meiosis are a leading cause of pregnancy loss and human infertility. The segregation of chromosomes is driven by interactions between spindle microtubules and kinetochores. Kinetochores in mammalian oocytes are subjected to special challenges: they need to withstand microtubule pulling forces over multiple hours and are built on centromeric chromatin that in humans is decades old. In meiosis I, sister kinetochores are paired and oriented toward the same spindle pole. It is well established that they progressively separate from each other with advancing female age. However, whether aging also affects the internal architecture of centromeres and kinetochores is currently unclear. Here, we used super-resolution microscopy to study meiotic centromere and kinetochore organization in metaphase-II-arrested eggs from three mammalian species, including humans. We found that centromeric chromatin decompacts with advancing maternal age. Kinetochores built on decompacted centromeres frequently lost their integrity and fragmented into multiple lobes. Fragmentation extended across inner and outer kinetochore regions and affected over 30% of metaphase-II-arrested (MII) kinetochores in aged women and mice, making the lobular architecture a prominent feature of the female meiotic kinetochore. We demonstrate that a partial cohesin loss, as is known to occur in oocytes with advancing maternal age, is sufficient to trigger centromere decompaction and kinetochore fragmentation. Microtubule pulling forces further enhanced the fragmentation and shaped the arrangement of kinetochore lobes. Fragmented kinetochores were frequently abnormally attached to spindle microtubules, suggesting that kinetochore fragmentation could contribute to the maternal age effect in mammalian eggs.
AB - Chromosome segregation errors during female meiosis are a leading cause of pregnancy loss and human infertility. The segregation of chromosomes is driven by interactions between spindle microtubules and kinetochores. Kinetochores in mammalian oocytes are subjected to special challenges: they need to withstand microtubule pulling forces over multiple hours and are built on centromeric chromatin that in humans is decades old. In meiosis I, sister kinetochores are paired and oriented toward the same spindle pole. It is well established that they progressively separate from each other with advancing female age. However, whether aging also affects the internal architecture of centromeres and kinetochores is currently unclear. Here, we used super-resolution microscopy to study meiotic centromere and kinetochore organization in metaphase-II-arrested eggs from three mammalian species, including humans. We found that centromeric chromatin decompacts with advancing maternal age. Kinetochores built on decompacted centromeres frequently lost their integrity and fragmented into multiple lobes. Fragmentation extended across inner and outer kinetochore regions and affected over 30% of metaphase-II-arrested (MII) kinetochores in aged women and mice, making the lobular architecture a prominent feature of the female meiotic kinetochore. We demonstrate that a partial cohesin loss, as is known to occur in oocytes with advancing maternal age, is sufficient to trigger centromere decompaction and kinetochore fragmentation. Microtubule pulling forces further enhanced the fragmentation and shaped the arrangement of kinetochore lobes. Fragmented kinetochores were frequently abnormally attached to spindle microtubules, suggesting that kinetochore fragmentation could contribute to the maternal age effect in mammalian eggs.
KW - aging
KW - aneuploidy
KW - centromere
KW - cohesion
KW - human
KW - kinetochore
KW - maternal age effect
KW - meiosis
KW - oocyte
KW - Trim-Away
U2 - 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.006
DO - 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.006
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31679939
AN - SCOPUS:85074775750
VL - 29
SP - 3749-3765.e7
JO - Current Biology
JF - Current Biology
SN - 0960-9822
IS - 22
ER -
ID: 230560942