2qnr

Structural highlights

Function

[SEPT2_HUMAN] Filament-forming cytoskeletal GTPase. Required for normal organization of the actin cytoskeleton. Plays a role in the biogenesis of polarized columnar-shaped epithelium by maintaining polyglutamylated microtubules, thus facilitating efficient vesicle transport, and by impeding MAP4 binding to tubulin. Required for the progression through mitosis. Forms a scaffold at the midplane of the mitotic splindle required to maintain CENPE localization at kinetochores and consequently chromosome congression. During anaphase, may be required for chromosome segregation and spindle elongation. Plays a role in ciliogenesis and collective cell movements. In cilia, required for the integrity of the diffusion barrier at the base of the primary cilium that prevents diffusion of transmembrane proteins between the cilia and plasma membranes: probably acts by regulating the assembly of the tectonic-like complex (also named B9 complex) by localizing TMEM231 protein. May play a role in the internalization of 2 intracellular microbial pathogens, Listeria monocytogenes and Shigella flexneri.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Evolutionary Conservation

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References

1. ↑ Spiliotis ET, Kinoshita M, Nelson WJ. A mitotic septin scaffold required for Mammalian chromosome congression and segregation. Science. 2005 Mar 18;307(5716):1781-5. PMID:15774761 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1106823
2. ↑ Kremer BE, Adang LA, Macara IG. Septins regulate actin organization and cell-cycle arrest through nuclear accumulation of NCK mediated by SOCS7. Cell. 2007 Sep 7;130(5):837-50. PMID:17803907 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2007.06.053
3. ↑ Spiliotis ET, Hunt SJ, Hu Q, Kinoshita M, Nelson WJ. Epithelial polarity requires septin coupling of vesicle transport to polyglutamylated microtubules. J Cell Biol. 2008 Jan 28;180(2):295-303. doi: 10.1083/jcb.200710039. Epub 2008, Jan 21. PMID:18209106 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200710039
4. ↑ Mostowy S, Nam Tham T, Danckaert A, Guadagnini S, Boisson-Dupuis S, Pizarro-Cerda J, Cossart P. Septins regulate bacterial entry into host cells. PLoS One. 2009;4(1):e4196. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004196. Epub 2009 Jan 15. PMID:19145258 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004196