Genome-wide analysis reveals a cell cycle–dependent mechanism controlling centromere propagation

Centromeres are the structural and functional foundation for kinetochore formation, spindle attachment, and chromosome segregation. In this study, we isolated factors required for centromere propagation using genome-wide RNA interference screening for defects in centromere protein A (CENP-A; centromere identifier [CID]) localization in Drosophila melanogaster. We identified the proteins CAL1 and CENP-C as essential factors for CID assembly at the centromere. CID, CAL1, and CENP-C coimmunoprecipitate and are mutually dependent for centromere localization and function. We also identified the mitotic cyclin A (CYCA) and the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) inhibitor RCA1/Emi1 as regulators of centromere propagation. We show that CYCA is centromere localized and that CYCA and RCA1/Emi1 couple centromere assembly to the cell cycle through regulation of the fizzy-related/CDH1 subunit of the APC. Our findings identify essential components of the epigenetic machinery that ensures proper specification and propagation of the centromere and suggest a mechanism for coordinating centromere inheritance with cell division.


Introduction
Faithful chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis is essential for the proper inheritance of the genome. During cell division, chromosomes attach to the spindle through a unique chromosomal structure termed the kinetochore. Kinetochores monitor proper chromosome attachment to the spindle through the mitotic checkpoint and couple spindle and motor protein forces to move chromosomes in prometaphase and anaphase ( Cleveland et al., 2003 ). Centromeres are specialized regions of the chromosome that serve as the structural and functional foundation for kinetochore formation. Centromeric DNA sequences are not evolutionarily conserved, and in most eukaryotes, specifi c DNA sequences are neither necessary nor suffi cient for centromere formation. Thus, centromere formation is thought to be epigenetically controlled through chromatin ( Carroll and Straight, 2006 ).
An excellent candidate for an epigenetic mark that specifi es centromere identity is the centromere protein A (CENP-A) family of centromere-specifi c histone H3 variants ( Cleveland et al., 2003 ). CENP-A is present at centromeres throughout the cell cycle and is essential for the recruitment of kinetochore proteins, establishment of spindle attachments, and normal chromosome segregation in all eukaryotes, which is consistent with it functioning as the foundation for the kinetochore ( Carroll and Straight, 2006 ). Furthermore, CENP-A mislocalization to noncentromeric regions produces functional ectopic kinetochores, suggesting that CENP-A chromatin is suffi cient for centromere formation ( Heun et al., 2006 ).
Despite the central role played by CENP-A in kinetochore assembly and function, little is known about the mechanisms that regulate its deposition specifi cally into centromeric chromatin. C entromeres are the structural and functional foundation for kinetochore formation, spindle attachment, and chromosome segregation. In this study, we isolated factors required for centromere propagation using genome-wide RNA interference screening for defects in centromere protein A (CENP-A; centromere identifi er [CID]) localization in Drosophila melanogaster . We identifi ed the proteins CAL1 and CENP-C as essential factors for CID assembly at the centromere. CID, CAL1, and CENP-C coimmunoprecipitate and are mutually dependent for centromere localization and function.
We also identifi ed the mitotic cyclin A (CYCA) and the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) inhibitor RCA1/ Emi1 as regulators of centromere propagation. We show that CYCA is centromere localized and that CYCA and RCA1/Emi1 couple centromere assembly to the cell cycle through regulation of the fi zzy-related/CDH1 subunit of the APC. Our fi ndings identify essential components of the epigenetic machinery that ensures proper specifi cation and propagation of the centromere and suggest a mechanism for coordinating centromere inheritance with cell division.
We have focused detailed experiments on the four CLD genes that when depleted displayed the strongest levels of CID loss from centromeres ( Fig. 1 A and Fig. S1 B). The CLD1 gene encodes the Drosophila homologue of the essential CENP-C ( Heeger et al., 2005 ). Centromere localization of CENP-C depends on CENP-A in many eukaryotes ( Carroll and Straight, 2006 ), but in this study, we observe that CENP-A and CENP-C are reciprocally dependent for centromere localization. CLD2 is encoded by the CG5148 gene and was recently identifi ed as CAL1 in a screen for mitotic defects in Drosophila tissue culture cells ( Goshima et al., 2007 ). CAL1 contains a putative ubiquitin interaction domain, and homology searching identifi ed clear homologues in drosophilids (Fig. S2, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200806038/DC1; Clark et al., 2007 ) but not in other eukaryotes. Interestingly, CLD3 encodes the Drosophila cyclin A (CYCA) protein, and CLD4 encodes the regulator of CYCA, RCA1 (Emi1 in vertebrates; Lehner and O ' Farrell, 1989 ;Dong et al., 1997 ;Machida and Dutta, 2007 ). Although mitotic cyclins have recently been localized to centromeres ( Bentley et al., 2007 ;Nickerson et al., 2007 ), neither CYCA nor RCA1 has been implicated in centromere assembly or maintenance. RCA1 protects CYCA from degradation by inhibiting the fi zzy (FZY)-related (FZR)/CDH1 anaphasepromoting complex (APC [APC FZR/CDH1 ]; Grosskortenhaus and Sprenger, 2002 ), suggesting that loss of CID after RCA1 depletion is the result of premature CYCA degradation.

Localization and dynamics of CLD proteins
To determine the localization of CLD proteins, we analyzed the distributions of GFP-CLD fusions in live and fi xed Drosophila S2 cells ( Fig. 1 B and Fig. S3 A, available at http://www.jcb.org/ cgi/content/full/jcb.200806038/DC1) and confi rmed localization of CYCA and CENP-C by antibody staining in untransfected cells (Fig. S3 A). We performed time-lapse analysis of living cells stably expressing GFP-tagged proteins to determine the dynamics of CLD proteins during the cell cycle ( Fig. 1 B and Videos 1 -5). As previously reported, CENP-C colocalized with CID throughout the cell cycle (Fig. S3 A and Video 2;Heeger et al., 2005 ). CYCA was recently shown to localize to centromeres in mouse spermatocytes during late diplotene and prometaphase of meiosis I ( Nickerson et al., 2007 ) but has not been previously reported to be centromeric in Drosophila embryos or somatic cells ( Lehner and O ' Farrell, 1989 ). We analyzed CYCA localization in Drosophila cells and found that, in addition to its broader cellular distribution, CYCA is enriched at centromeres in both interphase and mitosis ( Fig. 1 B and Fig. S3, A and B). Costaining with antibodies to CYCA and different cell cycle markers (not depicted) and time-lapse analysis of CYCA-GFP (Video 4) demonstrated that centromere enrichment increased signifi cantly after entry into mitosis and decreased after entry into anaphase, which is coincident with the general degradation of CYCA ( Lehner and O ' Farrell, 1989 ). GFP-RCA1 displayed no obvious concentration at centromeres or chromatin and instead was distributed throughout the nucleus in early M phase, disappeared as M phase continued, and reappeared early in G1 ( Fig. 1 B , Fig. S3 A, and Video 5) in a manner similar to that reported in cycle 16 Drosophila embryos ( Grosskortenhaus and Sprenger, 2002 ).
In Schizosaccharomyces pombe , mutations in Mis6 cause loss of Cnp1/CENP-A ( Takahashi et al., 2000 ) from centromeres. The vertebrate Mis6 homologue CENP-I promotes proper localization of newly synthesized CENP-A but is not essential for maintaining previously assembled CENP-A ( Okada et al., 2006 ). Mis16, the S. pombe homologue of the Drosophila melanogaster p55 subunit of CAF1 (chromatin assembly factor 1) and RbAp46/48 (human retinoblastoma-associated protein 46 and 48), is necessary for CENP-A localization in fi ssion yeast and human cells ( Hayashi et al., 2004 ). The Drosophila p55 protein facilitates CENP-A nucleosome assembly in vitro ( Furuyama et al., 2006 ), although the specifi city of this reaction for CENP-A is unknown. In fi ssion yeast, another histone chaperone, Sim3, is required for Cnp1/CENP-A deposition at centromeres; however, Sim3 also acts as a chaperone for histone H3, so it is unlikely to provide centromere specifi city ( Dunleavy et al., 2007 ).
Currently, the best candidate proteins for regulating the specifi city of CENP-A assembly in eukaryotes are S . pombe Mis18 and its homologues and binding partners in metazoans (Mis18-␣ , Mis18-␤ , and M18BP1/KNL2). Depletion of these proteins in S. pombe , Caenorhabditis elegans , or human cells results in a failure to incorporate CENP-A at centromeres ( Hayashi et al., 2004 ;Fujita et al., 2007 ;Maddox et al., 2007 ). In human cells, these proteins only localize to centromeres during late anaphase to telophase/G1 ( Fujita et al., 2007 ;Maddox et al., 2007 ). Recent data demonstrating that human CENP-A assembly occurs between telophase and the following G1 and that the Drosophila centromere identifi er (CID) assembles into the centromere during anaphase ( Jansen et al., 2007 ;Schuh et al., 2007 ) suggest that activity or removal of the Mis18 complex and mitotic exit may be necessary for centromere formation. However, it is unclear whether known centromere-localized factors regulate CENP-A transcription, translation, nuclear import, chromatin assembly, or maintenance. The identifi cation of factors required for CENP-A localization, without bias for a particular model or biological process, is a strategy that is likely to provide new insights. In this study, we report a genome-wide RNAi screen that identifi ed new factors required for Drosophila CID localization to centromeres. This screen revealed signifi cant interdependence between novel and known CENPs for centromere assembly and a novel link between centromere propagation and the cell cycle machinery.

Genome-wide screen for CID localizationdefi cient (CLD) genes
The generation of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) collections homologous to ‫ف‬ 24,000 genes and predicted genes in the Drosophila genome ( Kiger et al., 2003 ) allowed us to perform a genome-wide RNAi screen to identify factors required for normal centromere localization of CID (Fig. S1, available at http:// www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200806038/DC1; see Materials and methods). We directly screened for loss of CID by immunofl uorescence (IF) after dsRNA depletion, allowing rapid, unbiased identifi cation of genes that specifi cally affected centromere propagation rather than relying on an indirect phenotype such as chromosome missegregation or cell lethality. tive hits from the screen. Cells were stained for DNA, CID, and HP1. CID localization to the centromere (bottom) is highly reduced or absent after RNAi depletion of all four candidates or CID in comparison with the control (left), and HP1 staining is normal in all cases. Notice that in addition to CID depletion, RCA1 and CYCA RNAi result in endoreduplication and an increase in nuclear size. (B) CLD dynamics through mitosis. Still images from time-lapse analysis of stable S2 cell lines expressing mCherry-tubulin (red) and GFP-CID, -CENP-C, -CAL1, -CYCA, and -RCA1; relative times in minutes from the start of the video are indicated in each frame. See Videos 1 -5 (available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/ content/full/jcb.200806038/DC1). (C) Localization of GFP-CAL1, CID, and Rod. Metaphase chromosome spreads of S2 cells stably expressing GFP-CAL1 were stained with anti-CID (red), anti-GFP (green), and anti-Rod (blue) antibodies. The GFP-CAL1 signal overlapped signifi cantly with the outer kinetochore protein Rod, whereas only a little overlap was observed with CID, indicating that CAL1 is located close to the outer kinetochore in mitotic chromosomes, which is in contrast to localization to CID chromatin in interphase. Inset shows magnifi cation of image. Bars: (A) 15 μ m; (B and C) 5 μ m. GFP-CAL1 colocalized with CID at centromeres in interphase cells, which is consistent with previous localization data ( Goshima et al., 2007 ), and also displayed diffuse staining associated with the nucleolus, around which Drosophila centromeres typically cluster ( Fig. 1 B and Fig. S3, A and C). In metaphase cells, GFP-CAL1 associated with centromeres and also displayed weak staining throughout the nucleus. Colocalization with the outer kinetochore protein rough deal (Rod; Scaerou et al., 1999 ) suggested that GFP-CAL1 is associated with the outer kinetochore in mitotic chromosomes ( Fig. 1 C ). However, GFP-CAL1 colocalizes with CID in interphase when there is no outer kinetochore. In time-lapse experiments (Video 3), GFP-CAL1 was highly concentrated at centromeres during interphase and prophase, became less prominent at centromeres at metaphase, and then increased again starting in late anaphase. These results indicate that CAL1 is a constitutive CENP with unique centromere and kinetochore localization dynamics.

CLD protein depletion results in chromosome segregation defects
Defects in centromere and kinetochore assembly cause chromosome missegregation, mitotic delays, and defects in mitotic spindle assembly. FACS analysis showed little change in DNA content after CID and CAL1 RNAi as compared with control cells ( Fig. 2 A ), although CAL1 depletion caused a fourfold increase in the mitotic index (control = 0.9 ± 1.7% of mitotic cells and CAL1 RNAi = 3.7 ± 1.6% of mitotic cells; error = SD; P < 0.005). In contrast, depletion of CENP-C, CYCA, or RCA1 caused a signifi cant increase in cell ploidy. CYCA-and RCA1-depleted cells showed progressive accumulation of polyploid cells by FACS analysis resulting in a > 4N DNA content ( Fig. 2 A ) and a large increase in nuclear size in 85% of CYCA and 88% of RCA1 cells compared with 1% of control cells. These changes in DNA content and nuclear size are consistent with endoreduplication of DNA without intervening cell division previously reported for CYCA-and RCA1/Emi1-depleted Drosophila and human cells ( Mihaylov et al., 2002 ;Machida and Dutta, 2007 ).
Analysis of fi xed cells after depletion of CID, CAL1, or CENP-C demonstrated that > 80% of mitoses had defects in prometaphase and metaphase chromosome alignment, and > 60% of cells showed defective anaphases and telophases with missegregated or lagging anaphase chromosomes (P < 0.01 compared with controls; Fig. 2 B ). 2.7% of CYCA-and 1.8% of RCA1-depleted cells entered mitosis, of which 80% and 66%, respectively, had abnormal anaphases and telophases with missegregated and lagging chromosomes (P < 0.01 compared with controls). The defects in prometaphase and metaphase stages after CYCA and RCA1 depletion were not signifi cantly different from controls.
Time-lapse analysis of untreated S2 cells stably expressing mCherry-tubulin and histone H2B-GFP showed normal progression through mitosis ( Fig. 2 C , control; and Video 6, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200806038/DC1). Consistent with previous observations, CID-depleted cells were delayed in mitosis with defective spindles, abnormal chromosome condensation, and severe chromosome segregation defects ( Fig. 2 C and Video 7;Blower and Karpen, 2001 ;Blower et al., 2006 ;Heun et al., 2006 ). CENP-C and CAL1 were identifi ed recently in a mitotic defects screen in Drosophila S2 cells ( Goshima et al., 2007 ), and our time-lapse analysis showed that CENP-C or CAL1 depletion resulted in defective spindles and chromosome condensation, little or no chromosome movement, and unequal chromosome segregation ( Fig. 2 C and Videos 8 and 9). The CYCA- ( Fig. 2 C and Video 10) and RCA1-depleted ( Fig. 2 C ) cells that entered mitosis displayed defective spindles, defective chromosome segregation, a mitotic delay with condensed chromosomes, and failed cytokinesis resulting in multinucleate cells (control = 0.9%, CYCA = 4.5%, and RCA1 = 5% multinucleate cells; Fig. 2 C ). The mitotic defects we observe after CYCA and RCA1 depletion are likely to be the result of both the loss of centromere function and deregulation of the cell cycle caused by the loss of CYCA-dependent kinase activity.

Genetic and physical interactions among CLDs
We examined the interdependence between CLDs for centromere targeting by depleting each gene and localizing the other CLD proteins. Consistent with the results from our screen, epistasis analysis showed that CID is dependent on all the CLDs for its localization ( Figs. 1 A and 3 A ). The depletion of CID, CAL1, CYCA, or RCA1 all resulted in the loss of CENP-C from centromeres ( Fig. 3 A ). In addition, CAL1 depletion caused diffuse localization of CENP-C throughout the nucleus, suggesting a delocalization of CENP-C from the centromere rather than loss of CENP-C protein. CID, CENP-C, CYCA, or RCA1 depletion resulted in signifi cant loss of CAL1 from centromeres, although CENP-C depletion produced residual, diffuse CAL1 staining, suggesting delocalization and not the loss of CAL1 ( Fig. 3 B ). The impact of CYCA and RCA1 depletion was weaker than observed for CID and CENP-C depletion ( Fig. 3 B ). CYCA enrichment at interphase centromeres was lost after CID, CENP-C, or CAL1 RNAi, and depletion of RCA1 resulted in a general decrease in CYCA staining ( Fig. 3 C ). Similar relationships were observed when we examined centromere localization dependencies in mutant embryos (Fig. S4 A, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200806038/DC1), demonstrating the importance of these factors for centromere localization in animals. We conclude that the centromere localizations of CID, CAL1, CENP-C, and CYCA exhibit signifi cant interdependence ( Fig. 3 E ).
Previous studies in human cells demonstrated that CENP-A and CENP-C coimmunoprecipitate, although a direct interaction has not been demonstrated ( Ando et al., 2002 ;Foltz et al., 2006 ). sion proteins, and Western blotting with CID, CENP-C, CAL1, and CYCA antibodies ( Fig. 3 D ). We observed reciprocal coimmunoprecipitation of CID, CENP-C, and CAL1, suggesting that they are present in one or more complexes; however, we did We examined the physical interactions between CID and CLDs by digesting chromatin from cell lines expressing GFP-CID or GFP-CLDs to primarily mono-and dinucleosomes with micrococcal nuclease (Fig. S4 B), immunoprecipitating the GFP fu- Control cells showed strong centromeric localization of CID (red) and CENP-C (green; merged panel across top; DAPI shown in gray). Depletion of CID, CENP-C, CAL1, CYCA, and RCA1 all resulted in absent or reduced centromeric staining of CID and CENP-C. Note that CAL1 depletion resulted in diffuse mislocalization of CENP-C in the nucleus, which is in contrast to the elimination of CENP-C observed after CID depletion. In addition, residual centromeric CID staining was observed after CENP-C depletion. (B) CID or CLD depletion causes loss of centromeric CAL1. Control cells showed strong colocalization between CID (red) and GFP-CAL1 (green), whereas cells depleted for CID, CENP-C, CYCA, or RCA1 displayed severely reduced centromeric CAL1. (C) Centromeric enrichment of CYCA (green) was visible in control cells and was lost in cells depleted for CID (red) after CID, CENP-C, or CAL1 RNAi (DNA is shown in gray). RCA1 depletion resulted in a general decrease in CYCA staining. (D) Coimmunoprecipitation of CLDs. GFP-CLD fusions were immunoprecipitated from stable cell lines expressing GFP-CID, GFP -CENP-C, or GFP-CAL1 or from the parent Kc167 cell line (control). Immunoprecipitates were Western blotted with antibodies against CID (top), CENP-C (middle), and CAL1 (bottom). The position of the GFP fusion and the endogenous protein is labeled on the right. (E) Summary of epistatic and physical relationships. CID, CAL1, and CENP-C physically interact and are interdependent for centromere localization. CID, CAL1, and CENP-C require RCA1 and CYCA for centromere localization, and CYCA requires all three for centromere enrichment. Bars, 5 μ m. because mitotic Cdk activity and geminin fail to accumulate, resulting in aberrant relicensing and reinitiation of replication origins ( Arias and Walter, 2007 ;Machida and Dutta, 2007 ).
The recent observation that human CENP-A assembly occurs in late mitosis/G1 ( Jansen et al., 2007 ) raised the possibility that the loss of CID, CAL1, and CENP-C after CYCA or RCA1 depletion could result indirectly from their effects on cell cycle progression and replication. RNAi depletion of geminin causes endoreduplication without affecting CYCA levels ( Mihaylov et al., 2002 ). After depletion of geminin from cultured Drosophila cells, CID and CENP-C localization to centromeres was unperturbed ( Fig. 5 A ). Furthermore, in normally occurring endoreduplicated embryonic nuclei and highly polytenized salivary gland cells (not depicted), we observed CID localization to centromeres ( Fig. 5 B ). We conclude that mislocalization of CID, CENP-C, and CAL1 after CYCA or RCA1 depletion is not caused by the dilution of CID at centromeres after endoreplication. APC FZR/CDH1 activity regulates centromere assembly RCA1 and CYCA -Cdk1 both function to inhibit the activities of the APC. We investigated the roles of RCA1, CYCA, and the APC in centromere assembly in more detail by determining whether the APC activators FZR/CDH1 and FZY/CDC20 affected CID, CAL1, and CENP-C centromere localization or nuclear protein levels. RCA1 or CYCA depletion resulted in CID and CENP-C mislocalization ( Fig. 6, A and B ) as well as a signifi cant reduction in CID protein levels in nuclear extracts, although RCA1 depletion had a stronger effect than CYCA depletion on CID protein levels ( Fig. 6 C ). RNAi depletion of FZY or FZR alone did not reduce CID or CENP-C localization or levels (Fig. S5 A, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/ full/jcb.200806038/DC1). However, simultaneous depletion of CYCA and FZR or RCA1 and FZR rescued the CID and CENP-C centromere mislocalization phenotypes ( Fig. 6, A and B ) and restored CID protein levels ( Fig. 6 C ). In contrast, simultaneous depletion of FZY/CDC20 and RCA1 or CYCA had no significant effect on CID or CENP-C mislocalization ( Fig. 6 B ), which is consistent with previous observations that RCA1 primarily inhibits FZR/CDH1 and not FZY/CDC20 in Drosophila ( Grosskortenhaus and Sprenger, 2002 ). We conclude that the APC activator FZR plays a role in the CYCA-and RCA1-dependent regulation of centromere assembly.
CYCA could control centromere propagation either through CYCA -Cdk1 phosphorylation of centromere-specifi c substrates or through inhibitory phosphorylation of the APC. Cells depleted for both CYCA and FZR have low CYCA levels that are equivalent to the amounts observed after RCA1 depletion ( Fig. 6 C ). However, these cells still display normal centromere localization of CID and CENP-C ( Fig. 5 A ), demonstrating that normal levels of CYCA and its associated kinase activity are not required for centromere propagation. In Drosophila , the primary roles for CYCA -Cdk1 kinase and RCA1 are to inhibit premature APC activation so that A-and B-type cyclin can accumulate ( Dienemann and Sprenger, 2004 ). In the absence of either inhibitor, mitotic cyclins are prematurely destroyed ( Grosskortenhaus and Sprenger, 2002 ;Mihaylov et al., 2002 ). Deletion of the fi rst 55 amino acids not detect association of CYCA with any of the immunoprecipitated proteins (unpublished data). The stable cell lines express the GFP-CLD fusions at or below the level of the endogenous protein, indicating that detecting the interactions between these proteins is not the result of overexpression (Fig. S4 C). A previous study suggested that CID exists as half octamers or " hemisomes " consisting of one copy each of CID, H4, H2A, and H2B ( Dalal et al., 2007 ). However, our copurifi cation of equal amounts of tagged and untagged CID from cells expressing lower amounts of tagged CID than endogenous CID is consistent with a Drosophila centromeric nucleosome containing more than one molecule of CID. We conclude that the interdependency of CID, CENP-C, and CAL1 centromere localization refl ects the physical association of these proteins. At this time, it is unclear whether the interactions are direct and whether these proteins are present in one or more complexes.

CAL1 and CENP-C regulation of CID deposition
We analyzed the effects of CAL1 and CENP-C depletion on localization of newly synthesized CID to delineate roles for CAL1 and CENP-C in CID assembly versus maintenance. Newly synthesized CID was distinguished from preexisting CID by fusing CID to a modifi ed O 6 -alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase also known as the SNAP tag, which selectively reacts with O 6 -benzylguanine derivatives. This tagging method has previously been used to monitor new CENP-A assembly in human cells ( Jansen et al., 2007 ). We depleted CAL1 and CENP-C from Kc167 cells expressing SNAP-tagged CID and blocked preexisting SNAP-tagged CID in these cells with bromothenylpteridine (BTP). We then allowed time for the new synthesis of CID in the absence of CAL1 or CENP-C followed by labeling of SNAP-CID with a red fl uorescent O 6 -benzylguanine derivative (tetramethyl rhodamine* [TMR*]). We observed that CENP-C or CAL1 depletion prevented the centromere localization of newly synthesized CID ( Fig. 4 ). We conclude that CENP-C and CAL1 are required for centromeric deposition of newly synthesized CID. Currently, we cannot rule out an additional role for CENP-C and CAL1 in the maintenance of CID in centromeric chromatin.

Centromere defects after CYCA or RCA1 depletion do not result from overreplication
A surprising result of our analysis was the requirement for CYCA and RCA1 in centromeric localization of CID, CENP-C, and CAL1. In metazoan cells, mitotic Cdk activity prevents rereplication by inhibiting the assembly of prereplication complexes ( Arias and Walter, 2007 ). APC-dependent proteolysis of mitotic cyclins and geminin allow prereplication complex assembly in anaphase followed by a single round of replication in S phase. A central role for both CYCA and RCA1 in cell cycle control is to inhibit the activity of the APC. CYCA in complex with either Cdk1 or Cdk2 (CYCA -Cdk) directly phosphorylates and inactivates the APC activator FZR/CDH1, and RCA1 binds to FZR and prevents the interaction of APC FZR/CDH1 with APC substrates ( Zachariae et al., 1998 ;Jaspersen et al., 1999 ;Lukas et al., 1999 ;Grosskortenhaus and Sprenger, 2002 ). In the absence of CYCA or RCA1/Emi1, cells overreplicate their genomes dsRNA (CAL1 RNAi, bottom), respectively. Total SNAP-CID (SNAP Ab) and newly synthesized SNAP-CID (TMR*) overlap in a typical punctate centromere pattern in control cells that is not visible in CENP-C -or CAL1-depleted cells. Each image in the right panels shows an individual cell from the merge panels (dashed circle) at increased magnifi cation. (B) Quantifi cation of frequencies of cells with different intensities of TMR* labeling at centromeres in control cells or after CENP-C (CENP-C RNAi) or CAL1 depletion (CAL1 RNAi). Centromeric TMR* signal intensities were categorized into strong (green), medium (yellow), weak (red), or no signal (blue). The total numbers of cells used in the analysis are indicated above each graph. Most control cells display strong to medium TMR* signals at centromeres, representing normal centromere localization of newly synthesized CID. In contrast, the majority of cells contained weak or no TMR* signal after CENP-C and CAL1 RNAi, suggesting defective localization of newly synthesized CID and a role for these proteins in CID assembly. Bars, 15 μ m.

CENP-A in yeast and fl ies and that CENP-A at centromeres
is protected from proteolysis ( Collins et al., 2004 ;Moreno-Moreno et al., 2006 ). Our results suggest that APC FZR/CDH1 activity also controls centromere propagation by coupling centromeric chromatin assembly to the cell division cycle. In the absence of CYCA and RCA1, the premature activation of APC FZR/CDH1 may result in the premature degradation of an APC substrate required for centromere propagation. CID levels are significantly reduced when CAL1 or RCA1 is depleted from cells ( Fig. 6 C ), and FZR/CDH1 RNAi rescued the reduction in from the amino terminus of CYCA ( Δ 55-CYCA) removes the destruction box and stabilizes CYCA by preventing its APC-mediated ubiquitination and destruction by the proteasome ( Kaspar et al., 2001 ). We observed that expression of nondestructible CYCA in Drosophila cells depleted of RCA1 suppressed the loss of CID from centromeres (Fig. S5, C and D). Together, these observations demonstrate that proper regulation of APC FZR/CDH1 activity is essential for controlling centromere propagation.
Previous studies showed that proteolysis facilitates formation of a single centromere by degrading noncentromeric

Discussion
We have screened for genes that regulate the centromeric localization of CENP-A/CID. This is the fi rst example of a genomewide RNAi screen for mislocalization of an endogenous chromosomal protein and provides the distinct advantage that the primary screen output is a direct readout of the phenotype of interest. This approach identifi ed novel and known factors that control the assembly of centromeric chromatin and link centromere assembly and propagation to the cell cycle.
Although centromere assembly has been described as a hierarchical process directed by CENP-A, our data show that CID, CENP-C, and CAL1 are interdependent for centromere propagation, which is consistent with experiments in vertebrate CID protein levels that occurred after RCA1 depletion ( Fig. 6 C ). CID destabilization after CAL1 depletion could not be rescued by depletion of either FZR/CDH1 or the APC subunit CDC27 (Fig. S5 A), and CID localization to centromeres in CAL1depleted cells was not suppressed by the expression of Δ 55-CYCA (Fig. S5 B). These results suggest that CID loss in CAL1-depleted cells does not result from APC FZR/CDH1 degradation. The level of CAL1 at centromeres declines between metaphase and late anaphase, and CAL1 levels increase in the absence of FZR ( Fig. 6 C ). In contrast, CENP-C protein levels were not strongly affected by inhibition of CID, CAL1, CYCA, RCA1, and/or APC FZR/CDH1 ( Fig. 6 C ). Our data suggest that CYCA, CID, and CAL1 are possible APC FZR/CDH1 substrates that control the propagation of the centromere during cell division. , CENP-C (160 kD), CAL1 (120 kD), and CYCA (60 kD) after RNAi depletion in Kc167 cells. Nuclear extracts from Kc167 cells treated with no dsRNA (control) or dsRNA specifi c for CID, CENP-C, CAL1, CYCA, RCA1, FZR, CYCA + FZR, or RCA1 + FZR were Western blotted with antibodies against CLD genes or tubulin (50 kD) as a control. (D) Model for the role of CLD genes in cell cycle regulation of centromere assembly. The green background indicates proteins that localize to the centromere, orange indicates that the proteins are not competent for centromere assembly, and double arrowheads indicate that the protein or complex is required for the centromere localization of CYCA and CID-, CAL1-, and CENP-C -interdependent assembly. The APC substrate could be CYCA (red arrow) or CID, CAL1, or an unidentifi ed substrate, X (blue arrow). Bar, 15 μ m.
APC in G2 to allow mitotic cyclin accumulation. An APC FZR/CDH1 substrate could repress centromere assembly until anaphase/G1, when proteolysis would remove the repression in a manner analogous to replication licensing. If an APC FZR/CDH1 substrate acted solely as a negative regulator of centromere assembly, FZR/CDH1 depletion should prevent CID assembly at centromeres, and premature APC FZR/CDH1 activation by CYCA or RCA1 depletion might cause an increase of CID at centromeres as a result of premature assembly. We observed that neither CDH1 nor CDC20 depletion alone impacted CID, CAL1, or CENP-C assembly at centromeres or the overall levels of these proteins but that premature APC activation resulted in failed centromere assembly ( Fig. 6, A and B ; and Fig. S5 A).
A simple interpretation of our results is that CYCA -Cdk1 or another APC FZR/CDH1 substrate acts during G2/metaphase before APC FZR/CDH1 activation to make centromeres competent for assembly during anaphase and/or G1 ( Fig. 6 D ). Premature removal of the APC FZR/CDH1 substrate would cause failure to relicense the centromeres for assembly in the next G1 phase. When compared with the process of replication licensing, in which the positive regulator CDC6 and the negative regulators geminin and CYCA are all substrates of APC FZR/CDH1 , the model of a single APC FZR/CDH1 substrate that controls centromere licensing or propagation may be oversimplifi ed. We observed that defective centromere localization of CID and CENP-C after CYCA or RCA1 depletion was not rescued by CDC20 depletion, but we cannot rule out a role for APC FZY/CDC20 in centromere propagation because premature APC FZR/CDH1 activation could mask a subsequent role for FZY/CDC20, which is activated at the metaphase/ anaphase transition.
We do not yet know whether the localization of CYCA at centromeres is important for the regulation of centromere assembly. In Drosophila , it has been demonstrated that the subcellular localization of CYCA is not important for proper progression through the cell cycle; however, these experiments did not directly address whether mislocalization of CYCA prevented the association of CYCA with centromeres ( Dienemann and Sprenger, 2004 ). It will be interesting to determine whether CID, CENP-C, and CAL1 localization require centromere-localized CYCA -Cdk1 activity or whether any of these proteins are a direct target of CYCA -Cdk1.
Our results suggest that CID or CAL1 levels are indirectly controlled by APC activity. Interestingly, the human M18BP1 has recently been proposed to act as a " licensing factor " for centromere assembly. Although no clear homologues of M18BP1/ KNL2 have been identifi ed in Drosophila , both CAL1 in fl ies and M18BP1/KNL2 in other species are interdependent with CENP-A for centromere localization ( Fujita et al., 2007 ;Maddox et al., 2007 ). Strikingly, levels of CAL1 and M18BP1/KNL2 are reduced on metaphase centromeres and increase coincident with CENP-A loading in late anaphase/telophase ( Jansen et al., 2007 ;Schuh et al., 2007 ). Further analysis is required to determine whether CAL1 and M18BP1/KNL2 function analogously in centromere assembly. It will be important to determine whether fl y homologues of other Mis18 complex components are associated with CAL1 and important for centromere assembly. Identifying the APC substrates involved in centromere assembly will cells showing interdependence between the CENP-H -CENP-I complex and CENP-A ( Okada et al., 2006 ). However, studies in C . elegans and vertebrates have not detected a role for CENP-C in CENP-A chromatin assembly, suggesting that CENP-C plays a more prominent role in regulating centromere propagation in fl ies ( Oegema et al., 2001 ;Okada et al., 2006 ;Kwon et al., 2007 ). Collectively, these results suggest that CENPs that depend on CENP-A for their localization may " feed back " to control CENP-A assembly. Histone variants are assembled into chromatin both by histone chaperones (e.g., the histone H3.3 -specifi c chaperone HIRA [histone regulatory A] that provides specifi city to the CHD1 chromatin-remodeling ATPase) and by histone variant -specifi c ATPases (e.g., Swr1 that can use the general chaperone Nap1 or the specifi c chaperone Chz1 to assemble H2A.Z; Krogan et al., 2003 ;Kobor et al., 2004 ;Mizuguchi et al., 2004 ;Jin et al., 2005 ;Konev et al., 2007 ;Luk et al., 2007 ). CENP-C or CAL1 might facilitate centromere-specifi c CID localization by providing centromere specifi city to a chromatinremodeling ATPase in a manner analogous to HIRA or might direct the localization of chromatin assembly factors to the centromere. It will be interesting to determine what factors associate with CAL1 and CENP-C as a route to elucidating the mechanisms of centromere assembly and propagation.
The loading of CENP-A in human somatic cells and in Drosophila embryos occurs after anaphase initiation ( Jansen et al., 2007 ;Schuh et al., 2007 ) when APC FZR/CDH1 activity is high ( Morgan, 2007 ). Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis facilitates formation of a single centromere by degrading noncentromeric CENP-A ( Collins et al., 2004 ;Moreno-Moreno et al., 2006 ), and subunits of the APC are localized to kinetochores ( Jorgensen et al., 1998 ;Kurasawa and Todokoro, 1999 ;Topper et al., 2002 ;Acquaviva et al., 2004 ). Our results demonstrate that normal regulation of APC FZR/CDH1 activity is required for centromere propagation, providing a link between centromere assembly and cell cycle regulation.
We propose two alternative models for the role of APC FZR/CDH1 in centromere function. The fi rst model is that CYCA is the relevant substrate of APC FZR/CDH1 and that the kinase activity of the CYCA -Cdk1 complex is required for the localization of CID, CENP-C, and CAL1 to the centromere ( Fig. 6 D , red arrow). CYCA is normally degraded as cells proceed through mitosis, suggesting that CYCA -Cdk1 would likely act during G2 or early M to phosphorylate a substrate involved in centromere assembly. The CID and CENP-C localization defect caused by CYCA depletion was rescued by the simultaneous depletion of FZR/CDH1 even though the levels of CYCA protein remained low in the double depletion. The rescue of the CID and CENP-C localization defect in cells with low CYCA protein suggests that maintaining high levels of CYCA -Cdk1 activity is not required for centromere propagation, but we cannot rule out that the residual CYCA protein in these cells is suffi cient to rescue the centromeric phenotype when APC activity is compromised by FZR/CDH1 depletion.
The second model that is consistent with our observations is that one or more APC FZR/CDH1 substrates ( " X " ) regulate the interdependent localization of CID, CENP-C, and CAL1 to the centromere ( Fig. 6 D , blue arrow). RCA1 and CYCA inhibit the CENP-C antibodies were generated by cloning the fi rst 2,196 bp of the DmCENP-C gene into the pET100/D-TOPO vector (Invitrogen). Protein was expressed in BL21-star cells and purifi ed using the pETQIA expressionist kit (QIAGEN). Polyclonal antibodies were produced in guinea pigs by Covance, and crude serum was used for immunostaining. The fi rst 176 amino acids of CAL1 and the fi rst 124 amino acids of CID were fused to GST using a modifi ed pGEX-6P vector (EMD). Fusion proteins were expressed in BL21 (DE3) pLysS cells and purifi ed with glutathione agarose (Sigma-Aldrich). Polyclonal antibodies were produced in rabbits, and antisera were affi nity purifi ed against the antigen after removal of the GST tag with PreScission Protease (EMD).

Western blotting
Approximately 4 × 10 7 cells were harvested and washed once in PBS. The cells were lysed in 20 mM Hepes, pH 7.7, 500 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, 5 mM EGTA, 0.5% Igepal, 1 mM PMSF, 2 mM benzamidine-HCL, and 10 μ g/ml LPC. Protein concentrations were equalized by Bradford assays, and 30 μ g of total protein was loaded per sample. Proteins were transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane in 10 mM 3-(cyclohexylamino)-1-propane sulfonic acid, 0.1% SDS, and 20% methanol for 45 min for CID and CYCA or for 90 min for CENP-C and CAL1. Affi nity-purifi ed antibodies were used at a concentration of 1 μ g/ml.

FACS analysis
Kc167 cells were grown in 6-well dishes and harvested at 24, 48, 72, and 96 h after RNAi treatment. Cells were washed once in PBS and fi xed by dropwise addition into 70% ethanol while mixing. Cells were washed twice in PBS. The cells were stained by the addition of 100 μ l of 100 μ g/ml RNaseA and 400 μ l of 50 μ g/ml propidium iodide. DNA content was measured using a FACS analyzer (FACScan; BD). FACS data were analyzed with FlowJo software (Tree Star, Inc.).

Genome-wide RNAi screen
Logarithmically growing Kc167 cells were trypsinized, washed, and resuspended in serum-free medium at 1 × 10 6 cells/ml, and 10 μ l of cells was plated to each well of the 384-well plate containing dsRNA. Cells were incubated for 1 h at room temperature before 35 μ l of Schneider ' s medium (Invitrogen) with 1 × antibiotics (Invitrogen), and 10% FCS (Omega) was added to each well and incubated for an additional 4 d at 25 ° C. Cells were fi xed for 5 min at room temperature in 100% methanol and washed twice in 1 × TBS with 0.1% Triton X-100 (TBST). Cells were treated for 30 min with blocking solution (TBST containing 2% BSA), which was replaced by 10 μ l of blocking solution containing chicken anti-CID antibody (1:100 dilution) and mouse anti-HP1 (1:400 dilution) and incubated overnight at 4 ° C. Cells were washed twice for 5 min with blocking solution, and 10 μ l of secondary antibodies (Alexa 568 anti -chicken and Alexa 488 antimouse antibody at 1:400 dilutions) was added and incubated for 1 h at room temperature. Secondary antibodies were washed away three times with TBST. DNA was stained with 2 μ g/ml Hoechst 33342 in TBS for 10 min at room temperature and washed with TBS. Plates were imaged using a 40 × objective using an automated plate-imaging microscope (ImageXpress; MDS Analytical Technologies).
A MetaMorph (available at http://straightlab.stanford.edu/analysis) journal was written to segment nuclei based on DNA staining. Cell area was estimated by a 10-pixel dilation from the nuclei. Centromere staining was identifi ed within the cells through a morphological top hat fi lter with a 5-pixel diameter. The integrated intensity of the centromere and cell body staining was collected. Each well was assigned a score equal to the sum of the cell body intensity divided by the sum of the centromere intensity. Positives were verifi ed by manual image analysis and retesting (Fig. S1).
Embryos were collected either overnight or for 1 h, aged, and dechorionized with 50% bleach for 2 min. Embryos extensively washed in 100 mM NaCl + 0.5% Triton X-100 were fi xed with formaldehyde saturated with heptane for 20 min and hand devitillinized on double sticky tape with a 35-gauge needle in PBTA (1% BSA + 0.2% Triton X-100 and 0.05% NaN 3 in PBS). Antibodies were diluted in PBTA and incubated overnight. After three 10-min washes in PBTA, secondary antibodies were incubated for 2 h. After three washes in PBS, embryos were mounted in Vectashield containing DAPI and imaged on a Deltavision microscope as stated in the previous paragraph. The mutant embryos used for this study were y , ry (control), cycA C8LR1 , cenpC prl-41 (C. Lehner, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland), rca1 IX , and pBacCG5148 .
For the experiments to test nondegradable CYCA rescue of CAL1 depletion, cells were transfected with 5 μ g pCopia-GFP -⌬ 55-CYCA alone or in combination with 5 μ g dsRNAi against CAL1 using the DOTAP transfection reagent. 4 d after incubation, cells were fi xed and stained with anti-GFP and anti-CID antibodies. Fig. S1 depicts the workfl ow of the genome-wide siRNA screen for centromere propagation and the quantifi cation of CID levels after RNAi depletion of the CLD genes. Fig. S2 shows the alignment of CAL1 homologues in several drosophilid species. Fig. S3 shows the localization of CLDs in interphase and mitosis. Fig. S4 shows the effect of cenpC , cal1 , cycA , and rca1 mutants on centromeres in Drosophila embryos, the fragmentation of chromatin used in the LAP-CLD purifi cations, and the expression levels of LAP-CLD fusions in Kc167 cells. Fig. S5 shows the rescue of centromeric CID localization in RCA1-depleted cells by nondegradable CYCA. Videos 1 -5 show time-lapse videos of Drosophila S2 cells expressing mCherry-tubulin and GFP-CID, GFP -CENP-C, GFP-CAL1, GFP-CYCA, and GFP-RCA1, respectively. Videos 6 -10 show time-lapse videos of Drosophila S2 cells expressing GFP-H2B and mCherry-tubulin after dsRNA depletion with control, CID, CENP-C, CAL1, and CYCA RNA, res pectively. Online supplemental material is available at http://www.jcb.org/ cgi/content/full/jcb.200806038/DC1.

Online supplemental material
We thank Alison Farrell and Abby Dernburg for critical reading of the manuscript and Michael Rape for helpful discussions. We are grateful to Pat Brown, Yoav Soen, and Bob Marinelli for assistance with high throughput imaging. We are also grateful to Norbert Perrimon, Nadire Ramadan, and Bernard Mathey-Prevot ( Drosophila RNA Interference Screening Center, Harvard, Cambridge, MA) for assistance with dsRNA screening, Gohta Goshima for reagents, Christian Lehner for cenpC mutant fl ies, and the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank for CYCA antibodies developed by Christian Lehner. We also thank Aki Minoda and David Seo for general technical help and the Straight and Karpen laboratories for discussion and support. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants to G.H. Karpen and A.F. Straight (R01 GM066272 and R01 GM074728, respectively), grants from the Wellcome Trust to S. Erhardt, grants from Philip Morris USA, Inc. and Philip Morris International to B.G. Mellone, and grants from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to W. Zhang. A.F. Straight is a Gordon Family Scholar supported by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.