DYRK kinase Pom1 drives F-BAR protein Cdc15 from the membrane to promote medial division

In many organisms, positive and negative signals cooperate to position the division site for cytokinesis. In the rod-shaped fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, symmetric division is achieved through anillin/Mid1-dependent positive cues released from the central nucleus and negative signals from the DYRK-family polarity kinase Pom1 at cell tips. Here we establish that Pom1’s kinase activity prevents septation at cell tips even if Mid1 is absent or mislocalized. We also find that Pom1 phosphorylation of F-BAR protein Cdc15, a major scaffold of the division apparatus, disrupts Cdc15’s ability to bind membranes and paxillin, Pxl1, thereby inhibiting Cdc15’s function in cytokinesis. A Cdc15 mutant carrying phosphomimetic versions of Pom1 sites or deletion of Cdc15 binding partners suppresses division at cell tips in cells lacking both Mid1 and Pom1 signals. Thus, inhibition of Cdc15-scaffolded septum formation at cell poles is a key Pom1 mechanism that ensures medial division.


INTRODUCTION
Accurate positioning of cell division is crucial for both cellular function and integrity. Studies in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells revealed two major positioning systems: local positive signals and distal inhibitory signals (Oliferenko et al., 2009). In the rod-shaped fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, anillin-like Mid1 released from the centrally positioned nucleus is the positive cue for assembly of the contractile ring (CR) for cytokinesis (Rincon and Paoletti, 2016). Mid1 recruits CR proteins such as myosin II Myo2, formin Cdc12, and F-BAR protein Cdc15 into equatorial cortical nodes (Wu et al., 2006;Laporte et al., 2011). These nodes coalesce into a CR, which constricts and serves as the landmark for septum formation (Willet et al., 2015b;Rincon and Paoletti, 2016). In the absence of mid1, CR placement is aberrant, leading to oblique, frequently off-center septa (Chang et al., 1996;Sohrmann et al., 1996). However, in mid1∆ cells, aberrant division remains restricted to the central region of the cell due to inhibitory signals generated by cell tip-localized DYRK-family kinase Pom1 (Huang et al., 2007). In the absence of both Mid1 and tip-localized Pom1, CRs form and persist at cell tips leading to tip septation and subsequent cell death; compromising Cdc15 function but not the function of several other CR proteins suppresses tip septation (Huang et al., 2007).
Cdc15 is an essential component of the CR, necessary for cytokinesis and septation (Fankhauser et al., 1995). It acts as a key anchor for the CR and is a platform for the assembly of additional CR components (Wachtler et al., 2006;Vjestica et al., 2008;Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2009, 2010Laporte et al., 2011;Arasada and Pollard, 2014;McDonald et al., 2015). Cdc15 is also one of the first components detected at the incipient CR (Wu et al., 2006) and one of the most abundant CR proteins (Wu and Pollard, 2005).
Here we establish that Pom1 prevents septation at cell tips even if the positive cue, Mid1, is moved proximal to cell ends. We find that Pom1 phosphorylation of Cdc15 antagonizes Cdc15's ability to bind membranes and paxillin, Pxl1, thereby inhibiting Cdc15's scaffolding function. A Cdc15 mutant carrying phosphomimetic versions of Pom1 sites or deletion of Cdc15 binding partners suppresses division at cell tips in cells lacking both Mid1 and Pom1 signals. Thus, inhibition of Cdc15-scaffolded septum formation at cell poles is a key Pom1 mechanism that contributes to medial division.

Pom1 kinase activity prevents division at cell tips
Pom1 is localized to cell tips by the microtubule-deposited Tea1/ Tea4 complex (Hachet et al., 2011). Deletion of pom1, tea1, or tea4 is synthetically lethal with mid1∆, and double mutants form septa at cell tips before dying (Huang et al., 2007). To validate that the signals blocking septum formation at the cell tip, known as "septum tip occlusion," are generated by Pom1 kinase activity, we used pom1(T778G) (pom1 as1 ) (Padte et al., 2006) to specifically inhibit kinase activity with the ATP analogue 3MB-PP1 in mid1∆ cells. After 2 h of 3MB-PP1 treatment, we observed tip septation in almost all septated mid1∆ pom1 as1 cells (Figure 1, A-C). Septa were scored as tip septa if they met one of three criteria ( Figure 1C): 1) one or two septa within the hemispheric end(s) of the cell; 2) septa anchored at both cell ends and spanning the long cell axis; 3) oblique septa anchored at one cell end. The incidence of tip septa in mid1∆ pom1 as1 increased over time ( Figure 1D), with >95% of septated cells showing tip septa after a 2 h incubation with 1 μM 3MB-PP1. These phenotypes were not observed in either single mutant or in the double mutant treated with vehicle ( Figure 1, A-D). These results suggest that the specific signal FIGURE 1: Pom1 kinase activity is required to inhibit tip septa. (A) Representative single z-section images of the indicated strains treated for 2 h with vehicle (DMSO) or ATP analog (3MB-PP1). Cells were fixed and stained with calcofluor. (B) Quantification of tip septa from images acquired as in A from three biological replicates, n > 300 septated cells. Graph shows mean and SEM. (C) Schematics and example images of the three types of tip septa scored. (D) Time course of tip septa appearance. 3MB-PP1 was added at time 0. Samples were prepared as in A. Measurements are from three biological replicates, n > 300 septated cells. (E) Model of the effects of Pom1 kinase activity and Mid1 in division site placement in the context of previous work (Huang et al., 2007;Rincon and Paoletti, 2016).
preventing formation of division septa at cell tips arises from Pom1 kinase activity (see Figure 1E).
Mid1-dependent signaling can also be disrupted by displacing the nucleus (Daga and Chang, 2005;Almonacid et al., 2009). We expressed a chimeric protein of myosin-V Myo52 motor domain fused to a nuclear pore complex protein Nup146 (Myo52N-RFP-Nup146), which displaces the nucleus toward cell ends by transporting it along actin cables (Lo Presti et al., 2012). A penetrant nuclear displacement phenotype also requires microtubule depolymerization with methyl benzimidazole-2-gamma-carbamate (MBC) (Lo Presti et al., 2012). Simultaneous nuclear displacement and Pom1 inhibition increased tip septation (Figure 2, A and B). Nuclear displacement in pom1∆ led to tip septation even without the addition of MBC (Figure 2, C and D), likely due to an imbalance of actin forces in monopolar pom1∆ causing off-center nuclei . Thus, even in the presence of Mid1, Pom1 is required for tip occlusion.
To test if Pom1-mediated Cdc15 phosphorylation is important to prevent septum formation at cell tips, we first identified all of the sites in Cdc15 that can be phosphorylated by Pom1. Phosphoamino acid analysis revealed that Pom1 phosphorylates Cdc15C predominantly on serines and phosphorylates Cdc15N on both serines and threonines (Supplemental Figure S1A). Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis of Cdc15C phosphorylated by Pom1 identified 12 of 17 sites closely matching the consensus sequence for DYRK kinases (RPX(S/T)P) (Himpel et al., 2000) (Supplemental Figure S2). All 12 sites were previously identified as phosphorylated in vivo (Wilson-Grady et al., 2008;Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2010;Kettenbach et al., 2015;Swaffer et al., 2018). The remaining four sites matching the DYRK consensus sequence (S813, S821, S831, S836) were not identified in our MS/MS analysis, but S813 and S836 were identified in other phosphoproteomic datasets (Kettenbach et al., 2015;Swaffer et al., 2018). A Cdc15C mutant with these 16 consensus sites mutated to alanine was still phosphorylated by Pom1 (data not shown). Thus, we mutated a remaining RXXS site (S785) and two additional residues that we identified through MS/MS as highly phosphorylated by Pom1 in vitro (T492, S732). The resulting Cdc15C-19A mutant abolished phosphorylation by Pom1 in vitro (Supplemental Figure S1B). We identified three sites (S43, S405, T419) in Cdc15N that both match the DYRK consensus sequence and are phosphorylated in vivo (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2010;Kettenbach et al., 2015). Mutating these sites to alanine abolished phosphorylation of Cdc15N by Pom1 (Supplemental Figure S1C). Thus, Cdc15 can be phosphorylated by Pom1 on 22 sites ( Figure 3D; Supplemental Figure S1, C-E). To evaluate the role of Pom1-mediated Cdc15 phosphorylation, we mutated these 22 residues to Ala (to abolish phosphorylation) or Asp (to partially mimic phosphorylation) and integrated the cdc15-22A and cdc15-22D alleles at the endogenous cdc15 locus. SDS-PAGE of Cdc15-22A showed that most of the phosphorylation-induced gel retardation of Cdc15 had been eliminated ( Figure 3E), validating the successful identification of in vivo phosphosites. Cdc15-22A was still phosphorylated, consistent with the ≥35 phosphorylation sites previously identified on Cdc15 (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2010) and with Kin1 kinase phosphorylating Cdc15 on nonoverlapping sites (Lee et al., 2018). Both the cdc15-22A and cdc15-22D phosphomutants were viable with normal mitotic and septation indices; no off-center or tip septa were observed in these mutants, but abnormal cell wall deposits were observed in the medial regions of cdc15-22A cells (Figure 3, F and G).
When combined with mid1∆, mid1∆ cdc15-22A did not form tip septa ( Figure 4A), which might have been expected if Cdc15 was the sole Pom1 substrate involved in Pom1-mediated tip occlusion. However, we found that the Pom1 phosphosites are important for Cdc15 function. First, by visualizing Cdc15-22A tagged at the N-terminus with mNeonGreen (mNG), we found that mNG-Cdc15-22A localized FIGURE 4: A Cdc15 phosphomimetic suppresses tip septa formation. (A) Quantification of tip septa as described in Figure 1, A-C. (B) Representative live-cell images of the indicated strains. Fluorescent images were deconvolved and maximum projected. (C) Average arrival of Cdc15 at the division site relative to SPB separation (time 0). Measurements are from three biological replicates, n ≥ 12 cells. (D) Quantification of the fluorescence intensity of Cdc15 in the CR (left) or whole cell (right) of the indicated strains from three biological replicates, n ≥ 33 cells. All images used for quantification were not deconvolved and were sum projected. (E) Representative montages from live-cell, time-lapse imaging of indicated strains. Images were acquired every 2 min and every 4 min are shown. Numbers indicate minutes from SPB separation. (F) Length of cytokinesis stage based on imaging as in E. Measurements are from three biological replicates, n ≥ 18 cells. (G) Quantification of tip septa phenotype as described in Figure 1, A-C, except n > 250 cells. Graphs show mean and SEM; wt, wildtype. *p < 0.05, one-way ANOVA with Tukey's post-hoc analysis. ****p < 0.0001, Brown-Forsythe and Welch ANOVA tests with Dunnett T3 correction for multiple comparisons to wt. Scale bar, 5 μm.
Given Pom1's inhibitory effect on Cdc15 function, we predicted that Pom1-mediated Cdc15 phosphorylation prevents tip septation in mid1∆ pom1 as1 cells. Indeed, the percentage of tip septa was significantly reduced in mid1∆ pom1 as1 cdc15-22D cells ( Figure 4G). We conclude that Cdc15 is a key substrate in the Pom1-mediated tip occlusion pathway.

Pom1 phosphorylation differentially inhibits Cdc15 binding interactions
Cdc15 has an N-terminal F-BAR domain that oligomerizes and binds to both membranes and the formin Cdc12 (Carnahan and Gould, 2003;McDonald et al., 2015;Willet et al., 2015a), followed by a predicted intrinsically disordered region (IDR) . The C-terminal SH3 domain of Cdc15 binds several CR components (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2009;Ren et al., 2015) including paxillin Pxl1, which promotes CR integrity (Ge and Balasubramanian, 2008;Pinar et al., 2008;Martin-Garcia et al., 2018), and Fic1, which promotes CR disassembly (Bohnert and Gould, 2012) and septum formation based on its orthologue in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Nishihama et al., 2009;Devrekanli et al., 2012). Cdc15 dephosphorylation on mitotic onset correlates with its redistribution from the cytosol to the CR and its binding to at least some protein partners (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2010). Consistent with Cdc15 phosphostate driving these changes, multiple Cdc15 mutants containing different subsets of phosphorylation sites mutated to Ala accumulate on the cell cortex and precociously interact with protein partners (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2010). In vitro, complete Cdc15 dephosphorylation also leads to its oligomerization, which increases its avidity for membranes . These results have led to a model in which phosphorylation induces a closed, dimeric (rather than oligomeric), and inactive Cdc15 conformation. However, whether Cdc15 phosphorylation directly alters its membrane binding and/or SH3-mediated protein binding is unknown; therefore, we tested if these properties were inhibited by Pom1 phosphorylation.
To test membrane binding, full-length Cdc15 that cannot oligomerize (Cdc15-E30K E152K)  was coexpressed in bacteria with Pom1. Coexpression with Pom1 resulted in Cdc15 hyperphosphorylation and allowed full-length Cdc15-E30K E152K to be purified ( Figure 5A). Oligomerization-competent Cdc15 could also be coproduced with Pom1, but could not be purified without the use of high salt and detergent (data not shown). After purification, Pom1-phosphorylated Cdc15-E30K E152K was treated with lambda phosphatase or vehicle control and then incubated with liposomes rich in phosphoinositides (Folch fraction). While hyperphosphorylated Cdc15-E30K E152K did not copellet with liposomes, dephosphorylated Cdc15-E30K E152K was found exclusively in the liposome pellet ( Figure 5B). Therefore, Pom1-mediated phosphorylation blocks Cdc15's ability to bind membranes.
We next tested if Pom1-mediated phosphorylation of Cdc15C (aa441-end) affects binding to SH3 interactors Fic1 and Pxl1. We found that Fic1 still bound phosphorylated Cdc15C (Supplemental Figure S3A) and full-length Cdc15-E30K E152K phosphorylated in bacteria by Pom1 (Supplemental Figure S3B). Cdc15 immunoprecipitates contained Fic1 at all cell cycle stages (Supplemental Figure  S3, C and D), further indicating that this interaction is not governed by Cdc15 phosphostate.
In contrast to Fic1, Pom1-mediated phosphorylation of Cdc15C blocked its binding to Pxl1 ( Figure 5C). Similarly, mutating the Pom1 phosphorylation sites in Cdc15C to Asp prevented Pxl1 binding ( Figure 5D). That Pxl1 and Fic1 binding to Cdc15 was differentially regulated by phosphorylation was unexpected because both were previously found to require the Cdc15 SH3 domain for binding (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2009) and because Pom1 phosphorylation of the Cdc15 C-terminus occurs in the IDR and not in the SH3 domain ( Figure 3D). We reasoned that Pxl1 might bind a more extensive region of Cdc15, comprising both the SH3 domain and a part of the IDR. To test this, we performed binding experiments with Pxl1 and various Cdc15 segments. While Cdc15 residues 680-end bound to Pxl1 comparably to Cdc15C (441-end) ( Figure 5E), the Cdc15 SH3 domain alone did not bind Pxl1 ( Figure 5F), explaining the failure to identify Pxl1 in Cdc15 SH3 pull downs that successfully identified Fic1 (Ren et al., 2015). Mutating the SH3 domain (W903S) within Cdc15C to abolish binding to PXXP motifs (Saksela and Permi, 2012) substantially decreased Pxl1 binding ( Figure 6, A and B) and eliminated Fic1 binding ( Figure 6C). Thus, Pxl1 binds Cdc15 through both the SH3 domain and IDR, and Pom1 phosphorylation of the IDR disrupts this interaction. This novel function of the Cdc15 IDR may contribute to its requirement for viability and successful cytokinesis .
We hypothesized that a key mechanism of Pom1-mediated septa tip occlusion is inhibition of Cdc15 scaffolding. Indeed, deleting components of the CR scaffolded by Cdc15 (e.g., pxl1 or fic1) suppressed tip septation in mid1∆ pom1 as1 cells to a similar degree as cdc15-22D ( Figure 6, D and E). Additionally, combining cdc15-22D with pxl1∆ or fic1∆ suppressed tip septation to the same extent as each mutant individually ( Figure 6, D and E), indicating that Fic1 and Pxl1 promote cell division via their interaction with Cdc15.

DISCUSSION
The DYRK-family kinase Pom1 is critical for division site placement in S. pombe, providing both Mid1-dependent and Mid1-independent signals that prevent division site establishment at cell tips (Huang et al., 2007). By demonstrating that Pom1 phosphorylation of the F-BAR protein Cdc15 is a major part of the Mid1-independent mechanism, our findings expand Pom1's known roles of phosphorylating tropomyosin Cdc8 to partly destabilize actin cables (Palani et al., 2019) and phosphorylating the SAD-like kinase Cdr2 to control division timing and fine-tune the Mid1-dependent signal (Celton-Morizur et al., 2006;Padte et al., 2006;Martin and Berthelot-Grosjean, 2009;Moseley et al., 2009;Bhatia et al., 2014;Rincon et al., 2014;Kettenbach et al., 2015). By phosphorylating Cdc15, Pom1 inhibits a major membrane-binding scaffold of the CR, thereby destabilizing the CR at cell tips. In either wild-type or mid1∆ cells, we propose that Cdc15 can bind membrane and stabilize the CR only where Pom1 is not active ( Figure 7A). In Schizosaccharomyces japonicus, division site placement is Mid1 independent, relying predominantly on Pom1 that is also proposed to inhibit S. japonicus Cdc15 function at cell tips (Gu et al., 2015). Thus, the molecular mechanisms we report here by which Pom1 phosphorylation inhibits F-BAR Cdc15 at cell tips to ensure medial division are likely conserved.
We previously proposed a molecular model in which an electrostatic threshold triggers a conformational switch in Cdc15 that inhibits all of its functions (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2010). However, our analysis of Pom1 phosphorylation shows that it affects two Cdc15 protein interactions differently and surprisingly, that one protein binds not only the SH3 domain but also the IDR ( Figure 7B). Furthermore, the effects of cdc15-22A and cdc15-22D on cytokinesis dynamics are not identical to those of cdc15-27A and cdc15-27D, respectively, which share only 14 phosphosites (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2010). Therefore, it remains possible that phosphorylation events affect Cdc15 function or conformation differently and could fine-tune Cdc15 to allow it to participate in distinct processes. Though we have focused on Cdc15's cytokinesis function, Cdc15 also functions in endocytosis (Arasada and Pollard, 2011;MacQuarrie et al., 2019). It remains to be determined whether phosphorylation affects Cdc15 interaction with other SH3 domain-binding partners (Ren et al., 2015). This is an intriguing question given that Cdc15 is never completely dephosphorylated (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2010) and thus a complex hierarchy of phosphorylation events could be regulating its various scaffolding activities throughout the cell cycle.
The localization of Pom1 at poles suggests that Cdc15 phosphorylation is spatially regulated, with membrane binding specifically inhibited at cell poles. However, several mutations that globally reduce Cdc15 function but do not carry positional information, such as hypomorphic cdc15-GFP, phosphomimetic cdc15-22D, or dele-tion of Cdc15 binding partners, partly alleviate the tip septation phenotype of cells lacking Pom1 and Mid1. Similarly, previous work showed that Pom1's function in division site placement is less sensitive to Pom1 distribution than its function in controlling division timing Gerganova et al., 2019). In addition, in S. japonicus hyphae, Pom1 does not form marked concentration gradients from cell poles, though it still controls division site placement (Kinnaer et al., 2019), suggesting that spatial control of Pom1 function is not absolutely essential to its function in controlling division placement. These observations suggest that Pom1 signal combines with other anisotropies to make the cell center more favorable for Cdc15 function and subsequent CR and septa formation. A shared feature of all cdc15 phosphoablating mutants characterized thus far is enhanced cortical localization throughout the cell cycle. This is consistent with our findings that Pom1 phosphorylation of Cdc15 blocks its membrane binding in vitro, although it remains to be determined whether lipid binding is prevented by a conformational change that obscures the binding interface and/or if the net negative charge repels negatively charged lipids. Interestingly, in no case has enhanced Cdc15 membrane association been sufficient to drive CR formation, and tip septation does not occur in mid1∆ cdc15-22A cells. While a second Pom1 substrate in tip occlusion has been identified as Cdc8 tropomyosin, still additional Pom1 substrates must require dephosphorylation for septation in S. pombe because the penetrance of tip septa formation in the cdc8-S125A phosphomutant is low (Palani et al., 2019). The transglutaminase-like protein Cyk3, which promotes septum synthesis (Pollard et al., 2012), is a confirmed Pom1 substrate (Kettenbach et al., 2015;Lee et al., 2018) and the phosphorylation of two other CR proteins, Rga7 and Imp2, is also modulated by Pom1 (Kettenbach et al., 2015). The consequences of these phosphorylation events have not yet been determined, and it will be interesting to explore whether Pom1 phosphorylates this entire CR network to prevent septation at cell tips.

Experimental model and subject details
Supplemental Table S1 lists S. pombe strains used in this study. Cells were cultured in rich medium YES (5 g/l yeast extract, 30 g/l glucose, 225 mg/l adenine) with supplements or Edinburgh Minimal Media media (EMM; 3 g/l potassium hydrogen phthalate, 20 g/l glucose, 2.2 g/l disodium phosphate) plus selective supplements.
Fusion proteins were produced in Escherichia coli Rosetta2(DE3) pLysS cells. Bacteria were grown in Terrific Broth media (12 g/l tryptone, 24 g/l yeast extract, and 4 ml/l glycerol) with antibiotics. For MBP-Pxl1, 150 μM ZnCl 2 was added to the culture media.

Strain construction
Transformation of yeast with plasmid or linear DNA was accomplished using electroporation or lithium acetate methods, respectively. cdc15 was tagged at the 3′ end of its ORF with GFP:kan R using a pFA6 cassette as previously described . Integration of tag was verified using whole cell PCR and/or microscopy.
For integration of cdc15 alleles at the endogenous locus, cdc15 + / cdc15::ura4 + was transformed with pIRT2 vector with cdc15 5′ and 3′ noncoding regions, the desired cdc15 allele, and where indicated, sequences encoding mNG (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2009;Willet et al., 2015a). Spores were germinated on selective medium to select for cdc15::ura4 + haploids that have the vector. Haploid integrants were recovered based on resistance to 5-fluoroorotic acid, and integration plus loss of vector was verified by growth on selective media, PCR and/or microscopy, and finally sequencing.
Introduction of tagged loci or cdc15 mutants into other genetic backgrounds was accomplished using standard S. pombe mating, sporulation, and tetrad dissection techniques.

Molecular biology methods
GST-Pom1 was described previously (Hachet et al., 2011). All other expression and integration vectors were constructed using standard molecular biology techniques. Mutations were made with a Qui-kChange Multi-lightning mutagenesis kit (Agilent Technologies). All constructs were sequenced for verification.
Vehicle-treated cells were grown in equal volume of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) (Sigma; D2650). Cells were fixed and stained with calcofluor and imaged (see Microscopy and image analysis).

Nuclear displacement assays and their microscopy analysis
To displace nuclei, strains containing integrated Myo52-Nup146 fusion construct (Lo Presti et al., 2012) under control of the nmt81 promoter were grown in EMM-AL medium without thiamine for 24 h to induce expression of the fusion protein. pom1 as1 strains were subsequently treated with 1 μM 3MB-PP1 in methanol and/or 25 μl MBC in DMSO (or vehicle) for 4 h at 30°C to inactivate Pom1 as1 and depolymerize microtubules, respectively. Cells were stained with calcofluor white and imaged on a DeltaVision platform (Applied Precision) composed of a customized inverted microscope (IX-71; Olympus), a 60× /1.42 NA oil objective, a camera (PrimeBSI CMOS; Photometrics), and a color-combined unit illuminator (Insight SSI 7; Social Science Insights). Images were acquired using softWoRx v4.1.2 software (Applied Precision).

Block and release
For the block-and-release experiment using the cdc25-22 background shown in Supplemental Figure S3D, cells were arrested in G2 by shifting to the restrictive temperature (36°C) for 3.5 h and then released back into the cell cycle by shifting to the permissive temperature (25°C). Cell pellets were collected at the time of release (0 min) and at subsequent time points as indicated. Additionally, cells were fixed in ice-cold 70% ethanol for staining with 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and methyl blue to visualize nuclei and septa, respectively (see Microscopy and image analysis section).
For Supplemental Figure S2, cold kinase assays for the identification of phosphorylation sites were performed the same way except without hot ATP, with 40 mM ATP, and in 10 μl final volume. A second dose of GST-Pom1 was added after 45 min and the reaction was stopped after 90 min.
For Figure 5C and Supplemental Figure S3A, before the addition to binding assays, cold kinase assays were performed in 30 mM Tris, pH 8, 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM MgCl 2 , 1 mM EGTA, 10% glycerol, 1 mM DTT with 2 mM ATP, 0.5 μg GST-Pom1, and 1 μg GST-Cdc15 (aa 441-end) as substrate in a 25 μl reaction. After 30 min at 30°C, reaction was stopped by boiling in sample buffer and analyzed by SDS-PAGE or added directly to beads for binding assay.

Phosphoaminoacid analysis
For Supplemental Figure S1A, radioactive in vitro kinase assays were performed as described above, except that after SDS-PAGE proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes (Immobilon P; EMD Millipore). Proteins were visualized by staining membrane with RE-VERT Total Protein stain (LI-COR Biosciences). Then, bands corresponding to the substrate were cut from the membrane. Membranebound proteins were subjected to partial acid hydrolysis using boiling 6 M HCl for 1 h. Hydrolyzed amino acids were separated by two-dimensional thin-layer electrophoresis (Boyle et al., 1991).

Phosphorylation site identification by mass spectrometry
Trichloroacetic acid-precipitated proteins were digested and analyzed by two-dimensional LC-MS/MS as described previously (Chen et al., 2013), except that the following modifications were made. Proteins were digested by trypsin, chymotrypsin, and elastase. The number of salt elution steps was reduced to 6 (i.e., 0, 25, 50, 100, 600, 1000, and 5000 mM ammonium acetate). Peptide identifications were filtered and assembled using Scaffold (version 4.8.4; Proteome Software) and phosphorylation sites were analyzed using Scaffold PTM (version 3.1.0) using the following filters: minimum of 99% protein identification probability; minimum of five unique peptides; minimum of 95% peptide identification probability.

Microscopy and image analysis
Microscope. All images except for Figure 2, A-D, were acquired using a Personal DeltaVision microscope system (GE Healthcare, Issaquah, WA), which includes an Olympus IX71 microscope, 60×/NA 1.42 PlanApo and 100×/NA 1.40 UPlanSApo objectives, fixed-and live-cell filter wheels, a Photometrics CoolSnap HQ2 camera, and softWoRx imaging software.
Sample preparation. For live-cell fluorescence imaging (Figure 4, B-F), strains were grown overnight to log phase in YES media at 25°C in a shaking water bath. Cells were imaged in YES media at 23-29°C.
Yeast cells were fixed by adding ice-cold 70% ethanol while vortexing and then incubating at 4°C for at least 15 min. Cells were fixed at a ratio of 0.5 OD cells per 1 ml 70% ethanol.
For visualizing tip septa, approximately 0.5 OD of fixed cells were washed once with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.5, and then resuspended in 20 μl of 50 μg/ml Calcofluor White (Sigma; 18909) and incubated at room temperature for 5 min. Then, cells were washed once with PBS and imaged immediately.
For visualizing nuclei and cell wall, approximately 0.5 OD of fixed cells were washed once with PBS, pH 7.5, and then resuspended in 50 μl of 1 mg/ml methyl blue (Sigma; M6900) and incubated at room temperature for 30 min. Then, cells were pelleted and mixed 1:1 with 5 μg/ml DAPI (Sigma; D9542) before imaging immediately.
Time-lapse imaging. For Figure 4, C, E, and F, time-lapse imaging was performed using an ONIX microfluidics perfusion system (CellASIC ONIX, EMD Millipore). Fifty microliters of a 40 × 10 6 cells/ml YES suspension were loaded into Y04C plates for 5 s at 8 psi. YES medium flowed into the chamber at 5 psi throughout imaging. Time-lapse images were obtained at 2 min intervals. Ten Z-series optical sections were taken at 0.5 μm spacing. Stage temperature was maintained at 29°C. Images were deconvolved with 10 iterations using softWoRx and maximum intensity Z-projections were generated using ImageJ (Schindelin et al., 2012). Cytokinesis stages were defined as follows: formation is the time from Rlc1 appearance in nodes to coalescence into a ring; maturation is the period between formation and constriction; constriction is the time from first decrease in Rlc1 ring diameter to a single point.
Quantifying fluorescence intensity. For all intensity measurements, the background was subtracted by creating a region of interest (ROI) in the same image where there were no cells. The raw intensity of the background was divided by the area of the background, which was multiplied by the area of the ROI. This number was subtracted from the raw integrated intensity of that ROI. For CR intensity quantification, an ROI was drawn around the CR and measured for raw integrated density. Three biological replicates were performed. All images for intensity analyses of the CR and whole cell were not deconvolved and the z-slices were sum projected.

Recombinant protein purification
Bacteria were grown in Terrific Broth media with antibiotics to logphase (OD 595 1-1.5) at 36°C. For MBP-Pxl1, 150 μM ZnCl 2 was added during the growth of the culture to log-phase. Then, induction was initiated by incubating for 15 min on ice before adding 0.4 mM IPTG (Fisher Scientific; BP1755). Protein was produced for 16-18 h at 18°C.
For MBP and GST fusion proteins, frozen cell pellets were lysed in either MBP buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM DTT) or GST buffer (4.3 mM NaHPO 4 , 137 mM NaCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 1 mM DTT) with the addition of 200 μg/ml lysozyme (Sigma-Aldrich; L6876), cOmplete EDTA-free protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche), and 0.1% NP-40 (US Biologicals; N3500). Buffers were modified for MBP-Pxl1 to exclude EDTA. Continuous agitation on ice for 20 min was used to suspend the cell pellet. Then, lysates were sonicated three times for 30 s, with at least a 30 s pause between sonications (Sonic Dismembrator Model F60, Fisher Scientific; power 15 W). Lysates were cleared for 15-30 min at 10-13K rpm. Cleared lysate was then used in a batch purification protocol by adding either amylose (New England Biolabs; E8021L) or GSTbind (EMD Millipore; 70541) resin for 2 h at 4°C. Then, resin was washed three times for 5 min at 4°C with the appropriate buffer. To elute proteins from beads, dry beads were resuspended in an equal volume of appropriate elution buffer and nutated for 30 min at 4°C. MBP fusion proteins were eluted in MBP buffer supplemented with 10 mM maltose (Fisher Scientific; M75-100) and GST proteins were eluted in GST elution buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8, 10 mM glutathione; Sigma-Aldrich; G4251). The supernatant was separated from the resin to a fresh tube; 100 mM NaCl was added to GST fusion proteins. Eluted fusion proteins were then aliquoted, snap frozen, and stored at -80°C.
Protein concentration was calculated from Coomassie Brilliant Blue G (Sigma-Aldrich; B0770) staining of SDS-PAGE-separated purified proteins and bovine serum albumin standards (Sigma-Aldrich).

Lipid binding assay
For Figure 5A, lipids were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (B1502, Brain extract from bovine brain, Type I, Folch Fraction). In vitro liposome preparation was performed as previously described (McDonald and Gould, 2016). For liposome co-pelleting assay, 10 μg of Flag-Cdc15(E30KE152K) was incubated for 30 min at 30°C with lambda phosphatase (New England Biolabs, P0753) and 1 mM MnCl 2 . Then the volume was made up to 100 μl by liposome buffer (50 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl) and a clearing spin was done at 13k rpm 4°C for 15 min. Protein (100 μl) was added to 100 μl of 1 mg/ml liposome samples without disturbing any pellets that may form and incubated in room temperature for 15 min. Reactions were spun at 150,000 × g for 15 min at 25°C. Supernatants (unbound fraction) were collected from the reaction. The pellets (bound fraction) were resuspended in 200 μl liposome buffer (50 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl). Sample buffer was added to both bound and unbound fractions and 20 μl samples from all experimental conditions were run on SDS-PAGE for Coomassie staining analysis.

In vitro binding assays
For Figure 5, C, D, and F, and Supplemental Figure S3, A and B, 1 μM of recombinant fusion proteins immobilized with the indicated resin was incubated with 1 μM binding partners or 25 μl kinase assay samples in a 50 μl binding reaction. Binding buffer was 20 mM Tris, pH 7.0, 150 mM NaCl, 0.1% NP-40 for MBP-Pxl1. This buffer plus 2 mM EDTA was used for MBP-Fic1. After nutating for 2 h at 4°C, beads were washed with binding buffer three times for 5 min and then boiled with 30 μl sample buffer. Proteins were resolved in SDS-PAGE for Coomassie staining analysis.
For Figures 5E and 6B, 50 μg of recombinant MBP-Pxl1 was immobilized with 100 μl MBP-Trap agarose beads (Chromotek, in binding buffer (20 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl) overnight. The beads were then washed three times with 500 μl of binding buffer. Finally, a 1:1 slurry of the MBP Trap-bound proteins was used for the assay. Recombinant GST-Cdc15C(441-end), GST-Cdc15C(441end, W903S), or GST-Cdc15(680-end) (1 μM) was added to different concentrations of MBPTrap-bound Pxl1 (0.1 to 5 μM) in a total reaction volume of 50 μl. Binding reaction was incubated for 2 h at 4°C. After 2 h, supernatants were collected and boiled with sample buffer. Proteins were resolved in SDS-PAGE and then transferred to PVDF membrane (Immobilon P; EMD Millipore). Anti-GST (Rabbit polyclonal) antibody was used to quantitate the percentage of unbound GST-Cdc15 fragments in the supernatants.
For Supplemental Figure S3B, 1 μM of recombinant Flag-Cdc15(E30K E152K) that had been coproduced with Pom1 was incubated for 30 min at 30°C with vehicle or 0.5 μl lambda phosphatase (New England Biolabs, P0753) and 1 mM MnCl 2 in a final volume of 30 μl with binding buffer (50 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl). This reaction was then immobilized with 1 μM of MBP-Fic1 in a total of 50 μl binding reaction for 1 h at 4°C. The beads were washed with the binding buffer (50 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl) three times for 5 min and were boiled with 30 μl sample buffer. Proteins were resolved in SDS-PAGE for Coomassie staining analysis.

Quantification and statistical analysis
Calculations of mean, SEM, and statistical significances were performed with Prism 6.0 or Prism 8.0 (GraphPad Software). Sample size (n), replicates (N), and statistical tests are included in the figure graph or legends. For all image analyses, no raw data were excluded with the exception of cells that were not in focus or if a cell moved during imaging.