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Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755

Address correspondence to Duane A. Compton, Dept. of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, 410 Remsen Bldg., Hanover, NH 03755. Tel.: (603) 650-1990. Fax: (603) 650-1128. email: duane.a.compton{at}dartmouth.edu

Abstract
Although the microtubule-depolymerizing KinI motor Kif2a is abundantly expressed in neuronal cells, we now show it localizes to centrosomes and spindle poles during mitosis in cultured cells. RNAi-induced knockdown of Kif2a expression inhibited cell cycle progression because cells assembled monopolar spindles. Bipolar spindle assembly was restored in cells lacking Kif2a by treatments that altered microtubule assembly (nocodazole), eliminated kinetochore–microtubule attachment (loss of Nuf2), or stabilized microtubule plus ends at kinetochores (loss of MCAK). Thus, two KinI motors, MCAK and Kif2a, play distinct roles in mitosis, and MCAK activity at kinetochores must be balanced by Kif2a activity at poles for spindle bipolarity. These treatments failed to restore bipolarity to cells lacking the activity of the kinesin Eg5. Thus, two independent pathways contribute to spindle bipolarity, with the Eg5-dependent pathway using motor force to drive spindle bipolarity and the Kif2a-dependent pathway relying on microtubule polymer dynamics to generate force for spindle bipolarity.

Key Words: mitotic spindle; kinetochore; microtubule; centrosome, poleward flux

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