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Panzarini E, Tenuzzo B, Palazzo F, Chionna A, Dini L. Apoptosis induction and mitochondria alteration in human HeLa tumour cells by photoproducts of Rose Bengal acetate. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2006; 83:39-47. [PMID: 16427301 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2005.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2005] [Accepted: 11/17/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The aim of this work was to investigate the apoptosis induction and mitochondria alteration after photodamage exerted by incubation of HeLa cells with Rose Bengal acetate-derivative (RBAc) followed by irradiation for a total dose of 1.6 J/cm2. This treatment was previously demonstrated to reduce cell viability under mild treatment conditions, suggesting the restoration of the photoactive molecule in particularly sensitive cell sites. Indeed, Rose Bengal (RB) is a very efficient photosensitizer, whose photophysical properties are inactivated by addition of the quencher group acetate. The RBAc behaves as a fluorogenic substrate by entering easily the cells where the original, photoactive molecule is restored by specific esterases. Different intracellular sites of photodamage of RB are present. In particular, fluorescence imaging of Rodamine 123 and JC-1 labelled cells showed altered morphology and loss of potential membrane of mitochondria. MTT and NR assays gave indications of alteration of mitochondrial and lysosomal enzyme activities. These damaged sites were likely responsible for triggering apoptosis. Significant amount of apoptotic cell death (about 40%) was induced after light irradiation followed RBAc incubation as revealed by morphological (modification of cell shape and blebs formation), cytochemical (FITC-Annexin-V positive cells) and nuclear fragmentation assays.
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- Elisa Panzarini
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Technology (Disteba), University of Lecce, Via per Monteroni, Lecce 73100, Italy
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Microtubule-mediated transport of macromolecules and organelles (also known as "cargo") is essential for cells to function. Deficiencies in cytoplasmic transport are frequently associated with severe diseases and syndromes. Cytoplasmic transport also provides viruses with the means to reach their site of replication and is the route for newly assembled progeny to leave the infected cell. This parasitic relationship of viruses with the host cytoskeleton provides an excellent basis for cell biologists to unlock the secrets of cytoplasmic transport and unravel mechanisms of disease. Recent advances in live cell imaging and computational tracking of fluorescently labeled viruses are now revealing how complex the movements of single viruses are in infected cells. This review focuses on microtubule-based motility of viruses and highlights the mechanisms regulating cytoplasmic transport.
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- Urs F Greber
- Zoologisches Institut der Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Detailed information about the replication cycle of viruses and their interactions with host organisms is required to develop strategies to stop them. Cell biology studies, live-cell imaging, and systems biology have started to illuminate the multiple and subtly different pathways that animal viruses use to enter host cells. These insights are revolutionizing our understanding of endocytosis and the movement of vesicles within cells. In addition, such insights reveal new targets for attacking viruses before they can usurp the host-cell machinery for replication.
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- Mark Marsh
- Cell Biology Unit, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
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Nonviral vectors continue to be attractive alternatives to viruses due to their low toxicity and immunogenicity, lack of pathogenicity, and ease of pharmacologic production. However, nonviral vectors also continue to suffer from relatively low levels of gene transfer compared to viruses, thus the drive to improve these vectors continues. Many studies on vector-cell interactions have reported that nonviral vectors bind and enter cells efficiently, but yield low gene expression, thus directing our attention to the intracellular trafficking of these vectors to understand where the obstacles occur. Here, we will review nonviral vector trafficking pathways, which will be considered here as the steps from cell binding to nuclear delivery. Studies on the intracellular trafficking of nonviral vectors has given us valuable insights into the barriers these vectors must overcome to mediate efficient gene transfer. Importantly, we will highlight the different approaches used by researchers to overcome certain trafficking barriers to gene transfer, many of which incorporate components from biological systems that have naturally evolved the capacity to overcome such obstacles. The tools used to study trafficking pathways will also be discussed.
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- L K Medina-Kauwe
- Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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Imai M, Mizuno T, Kawasaki K. Membrane fusion by single influenza hemagglutinin trimers. Kinetic evidence from image analysis of hemagglutinin-reconstituted vesicles. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:12729-35. [PMID: 16505474 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m600902200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Influenza hemagglutinin, the receptor-binding and membrane fusion protein of the virus, is a prototypic model for studies of biological membrane fusion in general. To elucidate the minimum number of hemagglutinin trimers needed for fusion, the kinetics of fusion induced by reconstituted vesicles of hemagglutinin was studied by using single-vesicle image analysis. The surface density of hemagglutinin fusion-activity sites on the vesicles was varied, while keeping the surface density of receptor-binding activity sites constant, by co-reconstitution of the fusogenic form of hemagglutinin, HA(1,2), and the non-fusogenic form, HA(0), at various HA(1,2):(HA(1,2) + HA(0)) ratios. The rate of fusion between the hemagglutinin vesicles containing a fluorescent lipid probe, octadecylrhodamine B, and red blood cell ghost membranes was estimated from the time distribution of fusion events of single vesicles observed by fluorescence microscopy. The best fit of a log-log plot of fusion rate versus the surface density of HA(1,2) exhibited a slope of 0.85, strongly supporting the hypothesis that single hemagglutinin trimers are sufficient for fusion. When only HA(1,2) (without HA(0)) was reconstituted on vesicles, the dependence of fusion rate on the surface density of HA(1,2) was distinct from that for the HA(1,2)-HA(0) co-reconstitution. The latter result suggested interference with fusion activity by hemagglutinin-receptor binding, without having to assume a fusion mechanism involving multiple hemagglutinin trimers.
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- Masaki Imai
- Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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Bausinger R, von Gersdorff K, Braeckmans K, Ogris M, Wagner E, Bräuchle C, Zumbusch A. The Transport of Nanosized Gene Carriers Unraveled by Live-Cell Imaging. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200503021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Bausinger R, von Gersdorff K, Braeckmans K, Ogris M, Wagner E, Bräuchle C, Zumbusch A. The Transport of Nanosized Gene Carriers Unraveled by Live-Cell Imaging. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006; 45:1568-72. [PMID: 16470762 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200503021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Ralf Bausinger
- Department Chemie und Biochemie and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandtstrasse 11, 81377 München, Germany
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Sakai T, Ohuchi M, Imai M, Mizuno T, Kawasaki K, Kuroda K, Yamashina S. Dual wavelength imaging allows analysis of membrane fusion of influenza virus inside cells. J Virol 2006; 80:2013-8. [PMID: 16439557 PMCID: PMC1367152 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.80.4.2013-2018.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) is a determinant of virus infectivity. Therefore, it is important to determine whether HA of a new influenza virus, which can potentially cause pandemics, is functional against human cells. The novel imaging technique reported here allows rapid analysis of HA function by visualizing viral fusion inside cells. This imaging was designed to detect fusion changing the spectrum of the fluorescence-labeled virus. Using this imaging, we detected the fusion between a virus and a very small endosome that could not be detected previously, indicating that the imaging allows highly sensitive detection of viral fusion.
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- Tatsuya Sakai
- Department of Microbiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama 701-0192, Japan.
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Cui Q. Theoretical and computational studies of vectorial processes in biomolecular systems. Theor Chem Acc 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-005-0022-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Sun X, Whittaker GR. Entry of influenza virus. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2006; 790:72-82. [PMID: 23884586 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7651-1_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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As a major pathogen of human and certain animal species, influenza virus causes wide spread and potentially devastating disease. To initiate infection, the virus first binds to cellular receptors comprising either -(2,3 ) or -(2,6) linked sialic acid. Recent advances in our understanding of the influenza virus receptor and viral host species involved have shed light on the molecular mechanism of how influenza virus transmits across species and adapts to a new host. Following receptor binding, influenza viruses are internalized through multiple endocytic pathways, including both clathrin- and non-clathrin-dependent routes, which have recently been visualized at single viral particle level. The viral envelope then fuses with the endosomal membrane in a low pH-dependent manner and the viral genome is released into the cytosol, followed by further transport to the nucleus where genome replication occurs.
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- Xiangjie Sun
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Döhner K, Nagel CH, Sodeik B. Viral stop-and-go along microtubules: taking a ride with dynein and kinesins. Trends Microbiol 2005; 13:320-7. [PMID: 15950476 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2005.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2004] [Revised: 04/20/2005] [Accepted: 05/20/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Incoming viral particles move from the cell surface to sites of viral transcription and replication. By contrast, during assembly and egress, subviral nucleoprotein complexes and virions travel back to the plasma membrane. Because diffusion of large molecules is severely restricted in the cytoplasm, viruses use ATP-hydrolyzing molecular motors of the host for propelling along the microtubules, which are the intracellular highways. Recent studies have revealed that, besides travelling inside endocytic or exocytic vesicles, viral proteins interact directly with dynein or kinesin motors. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of cytoplasmic viral transport will aid in the construction of viral vectors for human gene therapy and the search for new antiviral targets.
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- Katinka Döhner
- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, D-30623 Hannover, Germany
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Howe CL. Modeling the signaling endosome hypothesis: why a drive to the nucleus is better than a (random) walk. Theor Biol Med Model 2005; 2:43. [PMID: 16236165 PMCID: PMC1276819 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4682-2-43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2005] [Accepted: 10/19/2005] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Background Information transfer from the plasma membrane to the nucleus is a universal cell biological property. Such information is generally encoded in the form of post-translationally modified protein messengers. Textbook signaling models typically depend upon the diffusion of molecular signals from the site of initiation at the plasma membrane to the site of effector function within the nucleus. However, such models fail to consider several critical constraints placed upon diffusion by the cellular milieu, including the likelihood of signal termination by dephosphorylation. In contrast, signaling associated with retrogradely transported membrane-bounded organelles such as endosomes provides a dephosphorylation-resistant mechanism for the vectorial transmission of molecular signals. We explore the relative efficiencies of signal diffusion versus retrograde transport of signaling endosomes. Results Using large-scale Monte Carlo simulations of diffusing STAT-3 molecules coupled with probabilistic modeling of dephosphorylation kinetics we found that predicted theoretical measures of STAT-3 diffusion likely overestimate the effective range of this signal. Compared to the inherently nucleus-directed movement of retrogradely transported signaling endosomes, diffusion of STAT-3 becomes less efficient at information transfer in spatial domains greater than 200 nanometers from the plasma membrane. Conclusion Our model suggests that cells might utilize two distinct information transmission paradigms: 1) fast local signaling via diffusion over spatial domains on the order of less than 200 nanometers; 2) long-distance signaling via information packets associated with the cytoskeletal transport apparatus. Our model supports previous observations suggesting that the signaling endosome hypothesis is a subset of a more general hypothesis that the most efficient mechanism for intracellular signaling-at-a-distance involves the association of signaling molecules with molecular motors that move along the cytoskeleton. Importantly, however, cytoskeletal association of membrane-bounded complexes containing ligand-occupied transmembrane receptors and downstream effector molecules provides the ability to regenerate signals at any point along the transmission path. We conclude that signaling endosomes provide unique information transmission properties relevant to all cell architectures, and we propose that the majority of relevant information transmitted from the plasma membrane to the nucleus will be found in association with organelles of endocytic origin.
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- Charles L Howe
- Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Guggenheim 442-C, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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Markosyan RM, Cohen FS, Melikyan GB. Time-resolved imaging of HIV-1 Env-mediated lipid and content mixing between a single virion and cell membrane. Mol Biol Cell 2005; 16:5502-13. [PMID: 16195349 PMCID: PMC1289397 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e05-06-0496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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A method has been developed to follow fusion of individual pseudotyped virus expressing HIV-1 Env to cells by time-resolved fluorescence microscopy. Viral envelopes were labeled with a fluorescent lipid dye (DiD) and virus content was rendered visible by incorporating a Gag-GFP chimera. The Gag-GFP is naturally cleaved to the much smaller NC-GFP fragment in the mature virions. NC-GFP was readily released upon permeabilization of the viral envelope, whereas the capsid was retained. The NC-GFP thus provides a relatively small and mobile aqueous marker to follow viral content transfer. In fusion experiments, virions were bound to cells at low temperature, and fusion was synchronously triggered by a temperature jump. DiD transferred from virions to cells without a significant lag after the temperature jump. Some virions released DiD but retained NC-GFP. Surprisingly, the fraction of lipid mixing events yielding NC-GFP transfer was dependent on the type of target cell: of three infectable cell lines, only one permitted NC-GFP transfer within minutes of raising temperature. NC-GFP release did not correlate with the level of CD4 or coreceptor expression in the target cells. The data indicate that fusion pores formed by HIV-1 Env can remain small for a relatively long time before they enlarge.
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- Ruben M Markosyan
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612
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Pelkmans L. Viruses as probes for systems analysis of cellular signalling, cytoskeleton reorganization and endocytosis. Curr Opin Microbiol 2005; 8:331-7. [PMID: 15939358 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2005.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2005] [Accepted: 02/21/2005] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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It is well known that mammalian viruses hijack the cellular signalling and internalization machineries to enter and to infect their host cells; however, only in the past six years have researchers started to follow individual virus particles and to investigate the events that they induce in living cells. The relative ease of imaging individual virus particles with time-lapse microscopy, despite being limited by light-diffraction, allows for specific and local kinetic analysis of individual events in signalling, cytoskeleton reorganization and endocytosis. Furthermore, virus infection is an easy-to-use endpoint readout, which is ideally suited for functional genomics approaches. The combined information from these studies will be crucial for the development of models that describe the underlying systems of cellular signalling, cytoskeleton reorganization and membrane trafficking during virus entry.
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- Lucas Pelkmans
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, D-01307 Dresden, Germany.
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Here we develop an integrative computational framework to model biophysical processes involved in viral gene delivery. The model combines reaction-diffusion-advection equations that describe intracellular trafficking with kinetic equations that describe transcription and translation of the exogenous DNA. It relates molecular-level trafficking events to whole-cell distribution of viruses. The approach makes use of the current understanding of cellular processes and data from single-particle single-cell imaging experiments. The model reveals two important parameters that characterize viral transport at the population level, namely, the effective velocity, V(eff), and the effective diffusion coefficient, D(eff). V(eff) measures virus's net movement rate and D(eff) represents the total dispersion rate. We employ the model to study the influence of microtubule-mediated movements on nuclear targeting and gene expression of adenoviruses of type 2 and type 5 in HeLa and A549 cells. Effects of microtubule organization and the presence of microtubule-destabilizing drugs on viral transport were analyzed and quantified. Model predictions agree well with experimental data available in literature. The paper serves as a guide for future theoretical and experimental efforts to understand viral gene delivery.
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- Anh-Tuan Dinh
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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Le Blanc I, Luyet PP, Pons V, Ferguson C, Emans N, Petiot A, Mayran N, Demaurex N, Fauré J, Sadoul R, Parton RG, Gruenberg J. Endosome-to-cytosol transport of viral nucleocapsids. Nat Cell Biol 2005; 7:653-64. [PMID: 15951806 PMCID: PMC3360589 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2005] [Accepted: 05/10/2005] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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During viral infection, fusion of the viral envelope with endosomal membranes and nucleocapsid release were thought to be concomitant events. We show here that for the vesicular stomatitis virus they occur sequentially, at two successive steps of the endocytic pathway. Fusion already occurs in transport intermediates between early and late endosomes, presumably releasing the nucleocapsid within the lumen of intra-endosomal vesicles, where it remains hidden. Transport to late endosomes is then required for the nucleocapsid to be delivered to the cytoplasm. This last step, which initiates infection, depends on the late endosomal lipid lysobisphosphatidic acid (LBPA) and its putative effector Alix/AIP1, and is regulated by phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate (PtdIns3P) signalling via the PtdIns3P-binding protein Snx16. We conclude that the nucleocapsid is exported into the cytoplasm after the back-fusion of internal vesicles with the limiting membrane of late endosomes, and that this process is controlled by the phospholipids LBPA and PtdIns3P and their effectors.
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- Isabelle Le Blanc
- Biochemistry Department
University of Geneva30 quai E. Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4,CH
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California16 Barker Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3202,US
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- Biochemistry Department
University of Geneva30 quai E. Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4,CH
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience
University of QueenslandCenter for Microscopy and Microanalysis, and School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland 4072,AU
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- Institut Pasteur de Corée
Institut Pasteur de CoréeRéseau International des Instituts Pasteur39-1, Hawolgok-dong, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-791,KR
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- Biochemistry Department
University of Geneva30 quai E. Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4,CH
- Glycobiologie et signalisation cellulaire
INSERM : U504Université Paris Sud - Paris XICentre de recherche Inserm 16, avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier 94807 Villejuif,FR
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- Biochemistry Department
University of Geneva30 quai E. Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4,CH
- Institute of Experimental Pathology
Institute of Experimental Pathology25 Rue du Bugnon, 1011 Lausanne,CH
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- Department of Physiology
Centre médical universitairerue Michel-Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4,CH
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- Neurodegenerescence et Plasticite
INSERM : E108Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble ICentre Hospitalier Universitaire 38043 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9,FR
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- Neurodegenerescence et Plasticite
INSERM : E108Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble ICentre Hospitalier Universitaire 38043 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9,FR
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience
University of QueenslandCenter for Microscopy and Microanalysis, and School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland 4072,AU
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- Biochemistry Department
University of Geneva30 quai E. Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4,CH
- Correspondence should be adressed to: Jean Gruenberg
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Kural C, Kim H, Syed S, Goshima G, Gelfand VI, Selvin PR. Kinesin and Dynein Move a Peroxisome in Vivo: A Tug-of-War or Coordinated Movement? Science 2005; 308:1469-72. [PMID: 15817813 DOI: 10.1126/science.1108408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 422] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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We used fluorescence imaging with one nanometer accuracy (FIONA) to analyze organelle movement by conventional kinesin and cytoplasmic dynein in a cell. We located a green fluorescence protein (GFP)-tagged peroxisome in cultured Drosophila S2 cells to within 1.5 nanometers in 1.1 milliseconds, a 400-fold improvement in temporal resolution, sufficient to determine the average step size to be approximately 8 nanometers for both dynein and kinesin. Furthermore, we found that dynein and kinesin do not work against each other in vivo during peroxisome transport. Rather, multiple kinesins or multiple dyneins work together, producing up to 10 times the in vitro speed.
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- Comert Kural
- Biophysics Center, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Melikyan GB, Barnard RJO, Abrahamyan LG, Mothes W, Young JAT. Imaging individual retroviral fusion events: from hemifusion to pore formation and growth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:8728-33. [PMID: 15937118 PMCID: PMC1150829 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0501864102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Viral fusion proteins catalyze merger of viral and cell membranes through a series of steps that have not yet been well defined. To elucidate the mechanism of virus entry, we have imaged fusion between single virions bearing avian sarcoma and leukosis virus (ASLV) envelope glycoprotein (Env) and the cell membrane. Viral particles were labeled with a lipophilic dye and with palmitylated enhanced YFP that was incorporated into the inner leaflet of the viral membrane. When individual virions were bound to target cells expressing cognate receptors, they transferred their lipids and contents only when exposed to low, but not neutral, pH. These data are consistent with the proposed two-step mechanism of ASLV entry that involves receptor-priming followed by low pH activation. Most importantly, lipid mixing commonly occurred before formation of a small fusion pore that was quickly and sensitively detected by pH-dependent changes in palmitylated enhanced YFP fluorescence. Nascent fusion pores were metastable and irreversibly closed, remained small, or fully enlarged, permitting nucleocapsid delivery into the cytosol. These findings strongly imply that hemifusion and a small pore are the key intermediates of ASLV fusion. When added before low pH treatment, a peptide designed to prevent Env from folding into a final helical-bundle conformation abolished virus-cell fusion and infection. Therefore, we conclude that, after receptor-activation, Env undergoes low pH-dependent refolding into a six-helix bundle and, in doing so, sequentially catalyzes hemifusion, fusion pore opening, and enlargement.
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- Gregory B Melikyan
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
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Strunze S, Trotman LC, Boucke K, Greber UF. Nuclear targeting of adenovirus type 2 requires CRM1-mediated nuclear export. Mol Biol Cell 2005; 16:2999-3009. [PMID: 15814838 PMCID: PMC1142442 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e05-02-0121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2005] [Revised: 03/24/2005] [Accepted: 03/29/2005] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Incoming adenovirus type 2 (Ad2) and Ad5 shuttle bidirectionally along microtubules, biased to the microtubule-organizing center by the dynein/dynactin motor complex. It is unknown how the particles reach the nuclear pore complex, where capsids disassemble and viral DNA enters the nucleus. Here, we identified a novel link between nuclear export and microtubule-mediated transport. Two distinct inhibitors of the nuclear export factor CRM1, leptomycin B (LMB) and ratjadone A (RJA) or CRM1-siRNAs blocked adenovirus infection, arrested cytoplasmic transport of viral particles at the microtubule-organizing center or in the cytoplasm and prevented capsid disassembly and nuclear import of the viral genome. In mitotic cells where CRM1 is in the cytoplasm, adenovirus particles were not associated with microtubules but upon LMB treatment, they enriched at the spindle poles implying that CRM1 inhibited microtubule association of adenovirus. We propose that CRM1, a nuclear factor exported by CRM1 or a protein complex containing CRM1 is part of a sensor mechanism triggering the unloading of the incoming adenovirus particles from microtubules proximal to the nucleus of interphase cells.
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- Sten Strunze
- University of Zürich, Institute of Zoology, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Kulkarni RP, Wu DD, Davis ME, Fraser SE. Quantitating intracellular transport of polyplexes by spatio-temporal image correlation spectroscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:7523-8. [PMID: 15897455 PMCID: PMC1140437 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0501950102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Quantitatively understanding how nonviral gene delivery vectors (polyplexes) are transported inside cells is essential before they can be optimized for gene therapy and medical applications. In this study, we used spatio-temporal image correlation spectroscopy (ICS) to follow polymer-nucleic acid particles (polyplexes) of various sizes and analyze their diffusive-like and flow behaviors intracellularly to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for their transport. ICS is a quantitative imaging technique that allows the assessment of particle motion in complex systems, although it has not been widely used to date. We find that the internalized polyplexes are able to use microtubule motors for intracellular trafficking and exhibit different transport behaviors for short (<10 s) versus long (approximately 60 s) correlation times. This motion can be explained by a memory effect of the microtubule motors. These results reveal that, although microtubule motor biases may be present for short periods of time, resulting in a net directional velocity, the overall long-term motion of the polyplexes is best described as a random walk-like process. These studies suggest that spatio-temporal ICS is a powerful technique for assessing the nature of intracellular motion and provides a quantitative tool to compare the transport of different objects within a living cell.
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- Rajan P Kulkarni
- Option in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Matsuda K, Shibata T, Sakoda Y, Kida H, Kimura T, Ochiai K, Umemura T. In vitro demonstration of neural transmission of avian influenza A virus. J Gen Virol 2005; 86:1131-1139. [PMID: 15784907 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80704-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Neural involvement following infections of influenza viruses can be serious. The neural transport of influenza viruses from the periphery to the central nervous system has been indicated by using mouse models. However, no direct evidence for neuronal infection has been obtained in vitro and the mechanisms of neural transmission of influenza viruses have not been reported. In this study, the transneural transmission of a neurotropic influenza A virus was examined using compartmentalized cultures of neurons from mouse dorsal root ganglia, and the results were compared with those obtained using the pseudorabies virus, a virus with well-established neurotransmission. Both viruses reached the cell bodies of the neurons via the axons. This is the first report on axonal transport of influenza A virus in vitro. In addition, the role of the cytoskeleton (microtubules, microfilaments and intermediate filaments) in the neural transmission of influenza virus was investigated by conducting cytoskeletal perturbation experiments. The results indicated that the transport of avian influenza A virus in the neurons was independent of microtubule integrity but was dependent on the integrity of intermediate filaments, whereas pseudorabies virus needed both for neural spread.
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- Kazuya Matsuda
- Laboratory of Comparative Pathology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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- Laboratory of Comparative Pathology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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- Laboratory of Comparative Pathology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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- Laboratory of Comparative Pathology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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- Laboratory of Comparative Pathology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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Single-molecule imaging and manipulation techniques have evolved in the past decade from mere jaw-dropping attractions to essential laboratory tools. By applying single-molecule methods important insights otherwise unavailable have been obtained on various biomolecular systems. Constantly improving single-molecule imaging techniques keep expanding the scale of the explorable spatial detail, thereby providing possible solutions to getting around the debilitating diffraction limit present in physiological-condition structural investigations. In some areas, such as motor protein studies, single-molecule methods have become part of the routine and essential research toolkit. Entire research fields, such as single-molecule force spectroscopy, have been born. In the present review single-molecule visualization and manipulation methods are reviewed with a focus on proteins. Relevant signals and prominent applications are discussed along with experimental examples and recent important results. Finally, the perspectives of the single-molecule field are explored.
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- Miklós S Z Kellermayer
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Szigeti út 12. Pécs H-7624, Hungary.
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Babcock HP, Chen C, Zhuang X. Using single-particle tracking to study nuclear trafficking of viral genes. Biophys J 2005; 87:2749-58. [PMID: 15454466 PMCID: PMC1304693 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.042234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The question of how genetic materials are trafficked in and out of the cell nucleus is a problem of great importance not only for understanding viral infections but also for advancing gene-delivery technology. Here we demonstrate a physical technique that allows gene trafficking to be studied at the single-gene level by combining sensitive fluorescence microscopy with microinjection. As a model system, we investigate the nuclear import of influenza genes, in the form of ribonucleoproteins (vRNPs), by imaging single vRNPs in living cells in real time. Our single-particle trajectories show that vRNPs are transported to the nuclear envelope by diffusion. We have observed heterogeneous interactions between the vRNPs and nuclear pore complexes with dissociation rate constants spanning two orders of magnitude. Our single-particle tracking experiments also provided new insights into the regulation mechanisms for the nuclear import of vRNPs: the influenza M1 protein, a regulatory protein for the import process, downregulates the nuclear import of vRNPs by inhibiting the interactions between vRNPs and nuclear pore complexes but has no significant effect on the transport properties of vRNPs. We expect this single-particle tracking approach to find broad application in investigations of genetic trafficking.
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- Hazen P Babcock
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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Yonezawa A, Cavrois M, Greene WC. Studies of ebola virus glycoprotein-mediated entry and fusion by using pseudotyped human immunodeficiency virus type 1 virions: involvement of cytoskeletal proteins and enhancement by tumor necrosis factor alpha. J Virol 2005; 79:918-26. [PMID: 15613320 PMCID: PMC538559 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.2.918-926.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The Ebola filoviruses are aggressive pathogens that cause severe and often lethal hemorrhagic fever syndromes in humans and nonhuman primates. To date, no effective therapies have been identified. To analyze the entry and fusion properties of Ebola virus, we adapted a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) virion-based fusion assay by substituting Ebola virus glycoprotein (GP) for the HIV-1 envelope. Fusion was detected by cleavage of the fluorogenic substrate CCF2 by beta-lactamase-Vpr incorporated into virions and released as a result of virion fusion. Entry and fusion induced by the Ebola virus GP occurred with much slower kinetics than with vesicular stomatitis virus G protein (VSV-G) and were blocked by depletion of membrane cholesterol and by inhibition of vesicular acidification with bafilomycin A1. These properties confirmed earlier studies and validated the assay for exploring other properties of Ebola virus GP-mediated entry and fusion. Entry and fusion of Ebola virus GP pseudotypes, but not VSV-G or HIV-1 Env pseudotypes, were impaired in the presence of the microtubule-disrupting agent nocodazole but were enhanced in the presence of the microtubule-stabilizing agent paclitaxel (Taxol). Agents that impaired microfilament function, including cytochalasin B, cytochalasin D, latrunculin A, and jasplakinolide, also inhibited Ebola virus GP-mediated entry and fusion. Together, these findings suggest that both microtubules and microfilaments may play a role in the effective trafficking of vesicles containing Ebola virions from the cell surface to the appropriate acidified vesicular compartment where fusion occurs. In terms of Ebola virus GP-mediated entry and fusion to various target cells, primary macrophages proved highly sensitive, while monocytes from the same donors displayed greatly reduced levels of entry and fusion. We further observed that tumor necrosis factor alpha, which is released by Ebola virus-infected monocytes/macrophages, enhanced Ebola virus GP-mediated entry and fusion to human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Thus, Ebola virus infection of one target cell may induce biological changes that facilitate infection of secondary target cells that play a key role in filovirus pathogenesis. Finally, these studies indicate that pseudotyping in the HIV-1 virion-based fusion assay may be a valuable approach to the study of entry and fusion properties mediated through the envelopes of other viral pathogens.
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- Akihito Yonezawa
- Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, 1650 Owens St., San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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Chu VC, Whittaker GR. Influenza virus entry and infection require host cell N-linked glycoprotein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:18153-8. [PMID: 15601777 PMCID: PMC535801 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0405172102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A widely held view of influenza virus infection is that the viral receptor consists of cell surface carbohydrate sialic acid, which can be present as glycoprotein or glycolipid. Here, we examined influenza virus entry and infection in Lec1 cells, a mutant CHO cell line deficient in terminal N-linked glycosylation caused by a mutation in the N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GnT1) gene. We show that influenza virus cannot infect Lec1 cells, despite having full capacity to undergo virus binding and fusion. Lec1 cells also show no virus replication defect, and infection was restored in Lec1 cells expressing wild-type GnT1. Viruses were apparently arrested at the level of internalization from the plasma membrane and were not endocytosed. Lec1 cells were refractory to infection by several strains of influenza virus, including H1 and H3 strains of influenza A, as well as influenza B virus. Finally, cleavage of N-glycans from wild-type CHO cells markedly reduced infection by influenza virus. We suggest that influenza virus specifically requires N-linked glycoprotein for entry into cells, and that sialic acid, although acting as an efficient attachment factor, is not sufficient as an influenza virus receptor in vivo.
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- Victor C Chu
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Video views and reviews: creating a thread with respect to the invasion of animal viruses. CELL BIOLOGY EDUCATION 2004; 3:218-22. [PMID: 15592594 DOI: 10.1187/cbe.04-07-0048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Finke S, Brzózka K, Conzelmann KK. Tracking fluorescence-labeled rabies virus: enhanced green fluorescent protein-tagged phosphoprotein P supports virus gene expression and formation of infectious particles. J Virol 2004; 78:12333-43. [PMID: 15507620 PMCID: PMC525074 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.22.12333-12343.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Rhabdoviruses such as rabies virus (RV) encode only five multifunctional proteins accomplishing viral gene expression and virus formation. The viral phosphoprotein, P, is a structural component of the viral ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex and an essential cofactor for the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. We show here that RV P fused to enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) can substitute for P throughout the viral life cycle, allowing fluorescence labeling and tracking of RV RNPs under live cell conditions. To first assess the functions of P fusion constructs, a recombinant RV lacking the P gene, SAD DeltaP, was complemented in cell lines constitutively expressing eGFP-P or P-eGFP fusion proteins. P-eGFP supported the rapid accumulation of viral mRNAs but led to low infectious-virus titers, suggesting impairment of virus formation. In contrast, complementation with eGFP-P resulted in slower accumulation of mRNAs but similar infectious titers, suggesting interference with polymerase activity rather than with virus formation. Fluorescence microscopy allowed the detection of eGFP-P-labeled extracellular virus particles and tracking of cell binding and temperature-dependent internalization into intracellular vesicles. Recombinant RVs expressing eGFP-P or an eGFP-P mutant lacking the binding site for dynein light chain 1 (DLC1) instead of P were used to track interaction with cellular proteins. In cells expressing a DsRed-labeled DLC1, colocalization of DLC1 with eGFP-P but not with the mutant P was observed. Fluorescent labeling of RV RNPs will allow further dissection of virus entry, replication, and egress under live-cell conditions as well as cell interactions.
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- Stefan Finke
- Max-von-Pettenkofer Institute & Gene Center, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, D-81377 Münich, Germany
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The majority of active transport in the cell is driven by three classes of molecular motors: the kinesin and dynein families that move toward the plus-end and minus-end of microtubules, respectively, and the unconventional myosin motors that move along actin filaments. Each class of motor has different properties, but in the cell they often function together. In this review we summarize what is known about their single-molecule properties and the possibilities for regulation of such properties. In view of new results on cytoplasmic dynein, we attempt to rationalize how these different classes of motors might work together as part of the intracellular transport machinery. We propose that kinesin and myosin are robust and highly efficient transporters, but with somewhat limited room for regulation of function. Because cytoplasmic dynein is less efficient and robust, to achieve function comparable to the other motors it requires a number of accessory proteins as well as multiple dyneins functioning together. This necessity for additional factors, as well as dynein's inherent complexity, in principle allows for greatly increased control of function by taking the factors away either singly or in combination. Thus, dynein's contribution relative to the other motors can be dynamically tuned, allowing the motors to function together differently in a variety of situations.
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- Roop Mallik
- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, California 92697, USA
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Kole TP, Tseng Y, Jiang I, Katz JL, Wirtz D. Intracellular mechanics of migrating fibroblasts. Mol Biol Cell 2004; 16:328-38. [PMID: 15483053 PMCID: PMC539176 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e04-06-0485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Cell migration is a highly coordinated process that occurs through the translation of biochemical signals into specific biomechanical events. The biochemical and structural properties of the proteins involved in cell motility, as well as their subcellular localization, have been studied extensively. However, how these proteins work in concert to generate the mechanical properties required to produce global motility is not well understood. Using intracellular microrheology and a fibroblast scratch-wound assay, we show that cytoskeleton reorganization produced by motility results in mechanical stiffening of both the leading lamella and the perinuclear region of motile cells. This effect is significantly more pronounced in the leading edge, suggesting that the mechanical properties of migrating fibroblasts are spatially coordinated. Disruption of the microtubule network by nocodazole treatment results in the arrest of cell migration and a loss of subcellular mechanical polarization; however, the overall mechanical properties of the cell remain mostly unchanged. Furthermore, we find that activation of Rac and Cdc42 in quiescent fibroblasts elicits mechanical behavior similar to that of migrating cells. We conclude that a polarized mechanics of the cytoskeleton is essential for directed cell migration and is coordinated through microtubules.
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- Thomas P Kole
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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Receptor-mediated endocytosis is known to play an important role in the entry of many viruses into host cells. However, the exact internalization mechanism has, until recently, remained poorly understood for many medically important viruses, including influenza. Developments in real-time imaging of single viruses as well as the use of dominant-negative mutants to selectively block specific endocytic pathways have improved our understanding of the influenza infection process.
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- Melike Lakadamyali
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street Naito Building, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Active transport by microtubule motors has a plethora of crucial roles in eukaryotic cells. Organelles often move bidirectionally, employing both plus-end and minus-end directed motors. Bidirectional motion is widespread and may allow dynamic regulation, error correction and the establishment of polarized organelle distributions. Emerging evidence suggests that motors for both directions are simultaneously present on cellular 'cargo', but that their activity is coordinated so that when plus-end motors are active, minus-end motors are not, and vice versa. Both the dynein cofactor dynactin and the Klarsicht (Klar) protein appear to be important for such coordination. The direction of net transport depends on the balance between plus-end directed and minus-end directed motion. In several model systems, factors crucial for setting this balance have now been identified, setting the stage for a molecular dissection of the underlying regulatory mechanisms. These analyses will likely provide insight into motor cooperation in general.
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- Michael A Welte
- Rosenstiel Biomedical Research Center and Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA.
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Patolsky F, Zheng G, Hayden O, Lakadamyali M, Zhuang X, Lieber CM. Electrical detection of single viruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:14017-22. [PMID: 15365183 PMCID: PMC521090 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0406159101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 630] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We report direct, real-time electrical detection of single virus particles with high selectivity by using nanowire field effect transistors. Measurements made with nanowire arrays modified with antibodies for influenza A showed discrete conductance changes characteristic of binding and unbinding in the presence of influenza A but not paramyxovirus or adenovirus. Simultaneous electrical and optical measurements using fluorescently labeled influenza A were used to demonstrate conclusively that the conductance changes correspond to binding/unbinding of single viruses at the surface of nanowire devices. pH-dependent studies further show that the detection mechanism is caused by a field effect, and that the nanowire devices can be used to determine rapidly isoelectric points and variations in receptor-virus binding kinetics for different conditions. Lastly, studies of nanowire devices modified with antibodies specific for either influenza or adenovirus show that multiple viruses can be selectively detected in parallel. The possibility of large-scale integration of these nanowire devices suggests potential for simultaneous detection of a large number of distinct viral threats at the single virus level.
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- Fernando Patolsky
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Snider J, Lin F, Zahedi N, Rodionov V, Yu CC, Gross SP. Intracellular actin-based transport: how far you go depends on how often you switch. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:13204-9. [PMID: 15331778 PMCID: PMC516548 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0403092101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Intracellular molecular motor-driven transport is essential for such diverse processes as mitosis, neuronal function, and mitochondrial transport. Whereas there have been in vitro studies of how motors function at the single-molecule level, and in vivo studies of the structure of filamentary networks, studies of how the motors effectively use the networks for transportation have been lacking. We investigate how the combined system of myosin-V motors plus actin filaments is used to transport pigment granules in Xenopus melanophores. Experimentally, we characterize both the actin filament network, and how this transport is altered in response to external signals. We then develop a theoretical formalism to explain these changes. We show that cells regulate transport by controlling how often granules switch from one filament to another, rather than by altering individual motor activity at the single-molecule level, or by relying on structural changes in the network.
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- Joseph Snider
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Matsuyama S, Delos SE, White JM. Sequential roles of receptor binding and low pH in forming prehairpin and hairpin conformations of a retroviral envelope glycoprotein. J Virol 2004; 78:8201-9. [PMID: 15254191 PMCID: PMC446138 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.15.8201-8209.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2003] [Accepted: 03/23/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A general model has been proposed for the fusion mechanisms of class I viral fusion proteins. According to this model a metastable trimer, anchored in the viral membrane through its transmembrane domain, transits to a trimeric prehairpin intermediate, anchored at its opposite end in the target membrane through its fusion peptide. A subsequent refolding event creates a trimer of hairpins (often termed a six-helix bundle) in which the previously well-separated transmembrane domain and fusion peptide (and their attached membranes) are brought together, thereby driving membrane fusion. While there is ample biochemical and structural information on the trimer-of-hairpins conformation of class I viral fusion proteins, less is known about intermediate states between native metastable trimers and the final trimer of hairpins. In this study we analyzed conformational states of the transmembrane subunit (TM), the fusion subunit, of the Env glycoprotein of the subtype A avian sarcoma and leukosis virus (ASLV-A). By analyzing forms of EnvA TM on mildly denaturing sodium dodecyl sulfate gels we identified five conformational states of EnvA TM. Following interaction of virions with a soluble form of the ASLV-A receptor at 37 degrees C, the metastable form of EnvA TM (which migrates at 37 kDa) transits to a 70-kDa and then to a 150-kDa species. Following subsequent exposure to a low pH (or an elevated temperature or the fusion promoting agent chlorpromazine), an additional set of bands at >150 kDa, and then a final band at 100 kDa, forms. Both an EnvA C-helix peptide (which inhibits virus fusion and infectivity) and the fusion-inhibitory agent lysophosphatidylcholine inhibit the formation of the >150- and 100-kDa bands. Our data are consistent with the 70- and 150-kDa bands representing precursor and fully formed prehairpin conformations of EnvA TM. Our data are also consistent with the >150-kDa bands representing higher-order oligomers of EnvA TM and with the 100-kDa band representing the fully formed six-helix bundle. In addition to resolving fusion-relevant conformational intermediates of EnvA TM, our data are compatible with a model in which the EnvA protein is activated by its receptor (at neutral pH and a temperature greater than or equal to room temperature) to form prehairpin conformations of EnvA TM, and in which subsequent exposure to a low pH is required to stabilize the final six-helix bundle, which drives a later stage of fusion.
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- Shutoku Matsuyama
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0732, USA
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Viruses replicate within living cells and use the cellular machinery for the synthesis of their genome and other components. To gain access, they have evolved a variety of elegant mechanisms to deliver their genes and accessory proteins into the host cell. Many animal viruses take advantage of endocytic pathways and rely on the cell to guide them through a complex entry and uncoating program. In the dialogue between the cell and the intruder, the cell provides critical cues that allow the virus to undergo molecular transformations that lead to successful internalization, intra-cellular transport, and uncoating.
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- Alicia E Smith
- Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Rust MJ, Lakadamyali M, Zhang F, Zhuang X. Assembly of endocytic machinery around individual influenza viruses during viral entry. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2004; 11:567-73. [PMID: 15122347 PMCID: PMC2748740 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 321] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2003] [Accepted: 03/29/2004] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Most viruses enter cells via receptor-mediated endocytosis. However, the entry mechanisms used by many of them remain unclear. Also largely unknown is the way in which viruses are targeted to cellular endocytic machinery. We have studied the entry mechanisms of influenza viruses by tracking the interaction of single viruses with cellular endocytic structures in real time using fluorescence microscopy. Our results show that influenza can exploit clathrin-mediated and clathrin- and caveolin-independent endocytic pathways in parallel, both pathways leading to viral fusion with similar efficiency. Remarkably, viruses taking the clathrin-mediated pathway enter cells via the de novo formation of clathrin-coated pits (CCPs) at viral-binding sites. CCP formation at these sites is much faster than elsewhere on the cell surface, suggesting a virus-induced CCP formation mechanism that may be commonly exploited by many other types of viruses.
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Viruses have evolved to enter cells from all three domains of life--Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryotes. Of more than 3,600 known viruses, hundreds can infect human cells and most of those are associated with disease. To gain access to the cell interior, animal viruses attach to host-cell receptors. Advances in our understanding of how viral entry proteins interact with their host-cell receptors and undergo conformational changes that lead to entry offer unprecedented opportunities for the development of novel therapeutics and vaccines.
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- Dimiter S Dimitrov
- Human Immunovirology and Computational Biology Group, Laboratory of Experimental & Computational Biology, Centre for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, USA.
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Keyel PA, Watkins SC, Traub LM. Endocytic Adaptor Molecules Reveal an Endosomal Population of Clathrin by Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:13190-204. [PMID: 14722064 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m312717200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Most eukaryotes utilize a single pool of clathrin to assemble clathrin-coated transport vesicles at different intracellular locations. Coat assembly is a cyclical process. Soluble clathrin triskelia are recruited to the membrane surface by compartment-specific adaptor and/or accessory proteins. Adjacent triskelia then pack together to assemble a polyhedral lattice that progressively invaginates, budding off the membrane surface encasing a nascent transport vesicle that is quickly uncoated. Using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to follow clathrin dynamics close to the cell surface, we find that the majority of labeled clathrin structures are relatively static, moving vertically in and out of the evanescent field but with little lateral motion. A small minority shows rapid lateral and directed movement over micrometer distances. Adaptor proteins, including the alpha subunit of AP-2, ARH, and Dab2 are also relatively static and exhibit virtually no lateral movement. A fluorescently labeled AP-2 beta2 subunit, incorporated into both AP-2 and AP-1 adaptor complexes, exhibits both types of behavior. This suggests that the highly motile clathrin puncta may be distinct from plasma membrane-associated clathrin structures. When endocytosed cargo molecules, such as transferrin or low density lipoprotein, are followed into cells, they exhibit even more lateral motion than clathrin, and gradually concentrate in the perinuclear region, consistent with classical endosomal trafficking. Importantly, clathrin partially colocalizes with internalized transferrin, but diverges as the structures move longitudinally. Thus, highly motile clathrin structures are apparently distinct from the plasma membrane, accompany transferrin, and contain AP-1, revealing an endosomal population of clathrin structures.
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- Peter A Keyel
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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