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Ikebe M. Regulation of the function of mammalian myosin and its conformational change. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2008; 369:157-64. [PMID: 18211803 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.01.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2007] [Accepted: 01/03/2008] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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It has been known that the phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain, residing at the head/rod junction of the molecule activates the motor activity of smooth muscle and non-muscle conventional myosin (myosin II), and triggers a large conformational change of the molecule from the inhibited folded conformation to the active extended conformation. Recent structural analysis has revealed the structural basis of the inhibition of the motor function of the two heads in the inhibited conformation. On the other hand, recent studies have revealed that a processive unconventional myosin, myosin V, also shows a large change in the conformation from the folded to an extended form and this explains the activation mechanism of myosin V motor activity. These findings suggest the presence of a common scenario for the regulation of motor protein functions.
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- Mitsuo Ikebe
- Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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Hickson GRX, O'Farrell PH. Rho-dependent control of anillin behavior during cytokinesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 180:285-94. [PMID: 18209105 PMCID: PMC2213597 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200709005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Anillin is a conserved protein required for cytokinesis but its molecular function is unclear. Anillin accumulation at the cleavage furrow is Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF)(Pbl)-dependent but may also be mediated by known anillin interactions with F-actin and myosin II, which are under RhoGEF(Pbl)-dependent control themselves. Microscopy of Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells reveal here that although myosin II and F-actin do contribute, equatorial anillin localization persists in their absence. Using latrunculin A, the inhibitor of F-actin assembly, we uncovered a separate RhoGEF(Pbl)-dependent pathway that, at the normal time of furrowing, allows stable filamentous structures containing anillin, Rho1, and septins to form directly at the equatorial plasma membrane. These structures associate with microtubule (MT) ends and can still form after MT depolymerization, although they are delocalized under such conditions. Thus, a novel RhoGEF(Pbl)-dependent input promotes the simultaneous association of anillin with the plasma membrane, septins, and MTs, independently of F-actin. We propose that such interactions occur dynamically and transiently to promote furrow stability.
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- Gilles R X Hickson
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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For many years, analyses of the role of the actomyosin cytoskeleton in many basic cellular processes have centered on actin. Increasingly, however, a number of investigators are examining proteins that are proximal to actin; in particular, nonmuscle myosin II (NMII). Recent experiments have increased our understanding of the role of NMII in three related cellular activities: generation of cell polarity, cell migration and cell-cell adhesion. Progress has been particularly promising thanks to the use of new microscopic, genetic and biochemical techniques. In mammalian systems, generation of transgenic mice and the introduction of specific siRNAs have been useful in deciphering the role of the three different isoforms of NMII: NMIIA, NMIIB and NMIIC. Studies in Drosophila and Aplysia, which are informative model systems for investigating the function of NMII, have also shed light on NMII. Recent work examines the contractile and structural roles that NMII plays at cell-cell boundaries, and both its contractile and actin-crosslinking roles in cell migration. In addition, NMII might also function as a scaffold molecule, anchoring signaling molecules, such as kinases and Rho GTPase guanine nucleotide exchange factors.
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- Mary Anne Conti
- Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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DePina AS, Wöllert T, Langford GM. Membrane associated nonmuscle myosin II functions as a motor for actin-based vesicle transport in clam oocyte extracts. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 64:739-55. [PMID: 17630664 DOI: 10.1002/cm.20219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Nonmuscle myosin II (Myo2) has been shown to associate with membranes of the trans-Golgi network and to be involved in Golgi to ER retrograde protein transport. Here, we provide evidence that Myo2 not only associates with membranes but functions to transport vesicles on actin filaments (AFs). We used extracts from unactivated clam oocytes for these studies. AFs assembled spontaneously in these extracts and myosin-dependent vesicle transport was observed upon activation. In addition, actin bundles formed and moved relative to each other at an average speed of 0.30 microm/s. Motion analysis revealed that vesicles moved on the spontaneously assembled AFs at speeds greater than 1 microm/s. The motor on these vesicles was identified as a member of the nonmuscle Myo2 family based on sequence determination by Edman chemistry. Vesicles in these extracts were purified by sucrose gradient centrifugation and movement was reconstituted in vitro using skeletal muscle actin coated coverslips. When peripheral membrane proteins of vesicles including Myo2 were removed by salt stripping or when extracts were treated with an antibody specific to clam oocyte nonmuscle Myo2, vesicle movement was inhibited. Blebbistatin, a Myo2 specific inhibitor, also blocked vesicle movement. Myo2 light chain kinase activity was found to be essential for vesicle movement and sliding of actin bundles. Together, our data provide direct evidence that nonmuscle Myo2 is involved in actin-dependent vesicle transport in clam oocytes.
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- Ana S DePina
- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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Kachur TM, Audhya A, Pilgrim DB. UNC-45 is required for NMY-2 contractile function in early embryonic polarity establishment and germline cellularization in C. elegans. Dev Biol 2007; 314:287-99. [PMID: 18190904 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.11.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2007] [Revised: 11/20/2007] [Accepted: 11/21/2007] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The Caenorhabditis elegans UNC-45 protein is required for proper body wall muscle assembly and acts as a molecular co-chaperone for type II myosins. In contrast to other body wall muscle components, UNC-45 is also abundant in the germline and embryo. We show that maternally provided UNC-45 acts with non-muscle myosin II (NMY-2) during embryonic polarity establishment, cytokinesis and germline cellularization. In embryos depleted for UNC-45, myosin contractility is eliminated resulting in embryonic defects in polar body extrusion, cytokinesis and establishment of polarity. Despite a lack of contractility in an unc-45(RNAi) embryo, NMY-2::GFP localizes to the cortex and accumulates at the presumptive cytokinetic furrow indicating that UNC-45 is not required for cortical localization. UNC-45 and NMY-2 are also required for fertility since the lack of either component results in complete sterility due to failed initiation of the cellularization furrows that separate syncytial nuclei into germ cells. In the absence of UNC-45, the actomyosin cytoskeleton does not contract despite non-functional myosin still directly binding actin. UNC-45 has been previously suggested to be required for the folding of the myosin head, and our results refine this hypothesis suggesting that UNC-45 is not required to fold or maintain the actin binding domain but is still required for myosin function.
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- Torah M Kachur
- Department of Biological Sciences, CW405 Biological Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9 Canada
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Eto M, Kitazawa T, Matsuzawa F, Aikawa SI, Kirkbride JA, Isozumi N, Nishimura Y, Brautigan DL, Ohki SY. Phosphorylation-induced conformational switching of CPI-17 produces a potent myosin phosphatase inhibitor. Structure 2007; 15:1591-602. [PMID: 18073109 PMCID: PMC2217667 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2007.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2007] [Revised: 10/02/2007] [Accepted: 10/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Phosphorylation of endogenous inhibitor proteins for type-1 Ser/Thr phosphatase (PP1) provides a mechanism for reciprocal coordination of kinase and phosphatase activities. A myosin phosphatase inhibitor protein CPI-17 is phosphorylated at Thr38 through G-protein-mediated signals, resulting in a >1000-fold increase in inhibitory potency. We show here the solution NMR structure of phospho-T38-CPI-17 with rmsd of 0.36 +/- 0.06 A for the backbone secondary structure, which reveals how phosphorylation triggers a conformational change and exposes an inhibitory surface. This active conformation is stabilized by the formation of a hydrophobic core of intercalated side chains, which is not formed in a phospho-mimetic D38 form of CPI-17. Thus, the profound increase in potency of CPI-17 arises from phosphorylation, conformational change, and hydrophobic stabilization of a rigid structure that poses the phosphorylated residue on the protein surface and restricts its hydrolysis by myosin phosphatase. Our results provide structural insights into transduction of kinase signals by PP1 inhibitor proteins.
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- Masumi Eto
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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- Boston Biomedical Research Institute, 64 Grove Street, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
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- Dept Clinical Genetics, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Honkomagome 3-18-22, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan
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- Dept Clinical Genetics, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Honkomagome 3-18-22, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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- Center for Nano Materials and Technology (CNMT), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), 1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan
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- Center for Nano Materials and Technology (CNMT), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), 1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan
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- Center for Cell Signaling, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1400 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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- Center for Nano Materials and Technology (CNMT), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), 1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan
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Cytokinesis is the process by which cells physically separate after the duplication and spatial segregation of the genetic material. A number of general principles apply to this process. First the microtubule cytoskeleton plays an important role in the choice and positioning of the division site. Once the site is chosen, the local assembly of the actomyosin contractile ring remodels the plasma membrane. Finally, membrane trafficking to and membrane fusion at the division site cause the physical separation of the daughter cells, a process termed abscission. Here we will discuss recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of cytokinesis in animals, yeast, and plants.
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- Francis A Barr
- University of Liverpool, Cancer Research Centre, 200 London Road, Liverpool L3 9TA, UK.
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Identification of a novel substrate for TNFalpha-induced kinase NUAK2. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 365:541-7. [PMID: 18023418 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2007] [Accepted: 11/05/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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TNFalpha has multiple important cellular functions both in normal cells and in tumor cells. To explore the role of TNFalpha, we identified NUAK family, SNF1-like kinase 2 (NUAK2), as a TNFalpha-induced kinase by gene chip analysis. NUAK2 is known to be induced by various cellular stresses and involved in cell mortality, however, its substrate has never been identified. We developed original protocol of de novo screening for kinase substrates using an in vitro kinase assay and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Using this procedure, we identified myosin phosphatase target subunit 1 (MYPT1) as a specific substrate for NUAK2. MYPT1 was phosphorylated at another site(s) by NUAK2, other than known Rho-kinase phosphorylation sites (Thr696 or Thr853) responsible for inhibition of myosin phosphatase activity. These data suggests different phosphorylation and regulation of MYPT1 activity by NUAK2.
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Koh H, Chung J. AMPK links energy status to cell structure and mitosis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 362:789-92. [PMID: 17709095 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2007] [Accepted: 08/03/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is known as an important cellular energy sensor, but its in vivo role has not been fully understood. Recent studies provided surprising results that AMPK regulates cell polarity and mitosis under the control of tumour suppressor LKB1. Moreover, these newly found in vivo functions of AMPK are regulated by energy status in a cell autonomous manner. These findings provide novel insights into the physiological function of AMPK and the treatment of AMPK-related diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
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- Hyongjong Koh
- National Creative Research Initiatives Center for Cell Growth Regulation and Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Kusong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon 305-701, Republic of Korea.
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Takizawa N, Ikebe R, Ikebe M, Luna EJ. Supervillin slows cell spreading by facilitating myosin II activation at the cell periphery. J Cell Sci 2007; 120:3792-803. [DOI: 10.1242/jcs.008219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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During cell migration, myosin II modulates adhesion, cell protrusion and actin organization at the leading edge. We show that an F-actin- and membrane-associated scaffolding protein, called supervillin (SV, p205), binds directly to the subfragment 2 domains of nonmuscle myosin IIA and myosin IIB and to the N-terminus of the long form of myosin light chain kinase (L-MLCK). SV inhibits cell spreading via an MLCK- and myosin II-dependent mechanism. Overexpression of SV reduces the rate of cell spreading, and RNAi-mediated knockdown of endogenous SV increases it. Endogenous and EGFP-tagged SV colocalize with, and enhance the formation of, cortical bundles of F-actin and activated myosin II during early cell spreading. The effects of SV are reversed by inhibition of myosin heavy chain (MHC) ATPase (blebbistatin), MLCK (ML-7) or MEK (U0126), but not by inhibiting Rho-kinase with Y-27632. Flag-tagged L-MLCK co-localizes in cortical bundles with EGFP-SV, and kinase-dead L-MLCK disorganizes these bundles. The L-MLCK- and myosin-binding site in SV, SV1-171, rearranges and co-localizes with mono- and di-phosphorylated myosin light chain and with L-MLCK, but not with the short form of MLCK (S-MLCK) or with myosin phosphatase. Thus, the membrane protein SV apparently contributes to myosin II assembly during cell spreading by modulating myosin II regulation by L-MLCK.
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- Norio Takizawa
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
- Cell Dynamics Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
- Cell Dynamics Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
- Cell Dynamics Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
- Cell Dynamics Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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Zhou M, Wang YL. Distinct pathways for the early recruitment of myosin II and actin to the cytokinetic furrow. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 19:318-26. [PMID: 17959823 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-08-0783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Equatorial organization of myosin II and actin has been recognized as a universal event in cytokinesis of animal cells. Current models for the formation of equatorial cortex favor either directional cortical transport toward the equator or localized de novo assembly. However, this process has never been analyzed directly in dividing mammalian cells at a high resolution. Here we applied total internal reflection fluorescence microscope (TIRF-M), coupled with spatial temporal image correlation spectroscopy (STICS) and a new analytical approach termed temporal differential microscopy (TDM), to image the dynamics of myosin II and actin during the assembly of equatorial cortex. Our results indicated distinct and at least partially independent mechanisms for the early equatorial recruitment of myosin and actin filaments. Cortical myosin showed no detectable directional flow during early cytokinesis. In addition to equatorial assembly, we showed that localized inhibition of disassembly contributed to the formation of the equatorial myosin band. In contrast to myosin, actin filaments underwent a striking flux toward the equator. Myosin motor activity was required for the actin flux, but not for actin concentration in the furrow, suggesting that there was a flux-independent, de novo mechanism for actin recruitment along the equator. Our results indicate that cytokinesis involves signals that regulate both assembly and disassembly activities and argue against mechanisms that are coupled to global cortical movements.
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- Mian Zhou
- University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Physiology, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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Kanada M, Nagasaki A, Uyeda TQP. Novel functions of Ect2 in polar lamellipodia formation and polarity maintenance during "contractile ring-independent" cytokinesis in adherent cells. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 19:8-16. [PMID: 17942602 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-04-0370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Some mammalian cells are able to divide via both the classic contractile ring-dependent method (cytokinesis A) and a contractile ring-independent, adhesion-dependent method (cytokinesis B). Cytokinesis A is triggered by RhoA, which, in HeLa cells, is activated by the guanine nucleotide-exchange factor Ect2 localized at the central spindle and equatorial cortex. Here, we show that in HT1080 cells undergoing cytokinesis A, Ect2 does not localize in the equatorial cortex, though RhoA accumulates there. Moreover, Ect2 depletion resulted in only modest multinucleation of HT1080 cells, enabling us to establish cell lines in which Ect2 was constitutively depleted. Thus, RhoA is activated via an Ect2-independent pathway during cytokinesis A in HT1080 cells. During cytokinesis B, Ect2-depleted cells showed narrower accumulation of RhoA at the equatorial cortex, accompanied by compromised pole-to-equator polarity, formation of ectopic lamellipodia in regions where RhoA normally would be distributed, and delayed formation of polar lamellipodia. Furthermore, C3 exoenzyme inhibited equatorial RhoA activation and polar lamellipodia formation. Conversely, expression of dominant active Ect2 in interphase HT1080 cells enhanced RhoA activity and suppressed lamellipodia formation. These results suggest that equatorial Ect2 locally suppresses lamellipodia formation via RhoA activation, which indirectly contributes to restricting lamellipodia formation to polar regions during cytokinesis B.
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- Masamitsu Kanada
- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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Fabian L, Forer A. Possible roles of actin and myosin during anaphase chromosome movements in locust spermatocytes. PROTOPLASMA 2007; 231:201-213. [PMID: 17922265 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-007-0262-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2006] [Accepted: 12/20/2006] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We tested whether the mechanisms of chromosome movement during anaphase in locust (Locusta migratoria L.) spermatocytes might be similar to those described for crane-fly spermatocytes. Actin and myosin have been implicated in anaphase chromosome movements in crane-fly spermatocytes, as indicated by the effects of inhibitors and by the localisations of actin and myosin in spindles. In this study, we tested whether locust spermatocyte spindles also utilise actin and myosin, and whether actin is involved in microtubule flux. Living locust spermatocytes were treated with inhibitors of actin (latrunculin B and cytochalasin D), myosin (BDM), or myosin phosphorylation (Y-27632 and ML-7). We added drugs (individually) during anaphase. Actin inhibitors alter anaphase: chromosomes either completely stop moving, slow, or sometimes accelerate. The myosin inhibitor, BDM, also alters anaphase: in most cases, the chromosomes drastically slow or stop. ML-7, an inhibitor of MLCK, causes chromosomes to stop, slow, or sometimes accelerate, similar to actin inhibitors. Y-27632, an inhibitor of Rho-kinase, drastically slows or stops anaphase chromosome movements. The effects of the drugs on anaphase movement are reversible: most of the half-bivalents resumed movement at normal speed after these drugs were washed out. Actin and myosin were present in the spindles in locations consistent with their possible involvement in force production. Microtubule flux along kinetochore fibres is an actin-dependent process, since LatB completely removes or drastically reduces the gap in microtubule acetylation at the kinetochore. These results suggest that actin and myosin are involved in anaphase chromosome movements in locust spermatocytes.
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Komatsu S, Ikebe M. The phosphorylation of myosin II at the Ser1 and Ser2 is critical for normal platelet-derived growth factor induced reorganization of myosin filaments. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:5081-90. [PMID: 17928407 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-12-1076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain of myosin II (MLC(20)) at the activation sites promotes both the motor activity and the filament formation of myosin II, thus playing an important role in various cell motile processes. In contrast, the physiological function of phosphorylation of MLC(20) at the inhibitory sites is unknown. Here we report for the first time the function of the inhibitory site phosphorylation in the cells. We successfully produced the antibodies specifically recognizing the phosphorylation sites of MLC(20) at Ser1, and the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-induced change in the phosphorylation at the Ser1 was monitored. The phosphorylation of MLC(20) at the Ser1 significantly increased during the PDGF-induced actin cytoskeletal reorganization. PDGF disassembled the stress fibers, and this was attenuated with the expression of unphosphorylatable MLC(20) at the Ser1/Ser2 phosphorylation sites. The present results suggest that the down-regulation of myosin II activity achieved by the phosphorylation at the Ser1/Ser2 sites plays an important role in the normal reorganization of actomyosin filaments triggered by PDGF receptor stimulation.
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- Satoshi Komatsu
- Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.
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Disruption of cell architecture and change of energy metabolism are two traits of malignant cells. Yet, there was scant evidence that these two cancer hallmarks involved perturbations of a common signaling pathway. Enter LKB1, a kinase that is a tumor suppressor and that is an upstream activator of the adenosine monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase (AMPK), a key sensor of cellular energy status. Four studies now reveal that LKB1 signals through AMPK to facilitate the formation of tight junctions and to maintain epithelial polarity. Thus, LKB1 appears to be a novel class of tumor suppressor that acts as an energy-sensing and polarity checkpoint.
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- Christelle Forcet
- CNRS Unité Mixte de Recherche 5201, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Signalisation et Cancer, F-69008 Lyon, France
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Morita E, Sandrin V, Chung HY, Morham SG, Gygi SP, Rodesch CK, Sundquist WI. Human ESCRT and ALIX proteins interact with proteins of the midbody and function in cytokinesis. EMBO J 2007; 26:4215-27. [PMID: 17853893 PMCID: PMC2230844 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 537] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2007] [Accepted: 08/15/2007] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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TSG101 and ALIX both function in HIV budding and in vesicle formation at the multivesicular body (MVB), where they interact with other Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT) pathway factors required for release of viruses and vesicles. Proteomic analyses revealed that ALIX and TSG101/ESCRT-I also bind a series of proteins involved in cytokinesis, including CEP55, CD2AP, ROCK1, and IQGAP1. ALIX and TSG101 concentrate at centrosomes and are then recruited to the midbodies of dividing cells through direct interactions between the central CEP55 'hinge' region and GPP-based motifs within TSG101 and ALIX. ESCRT-III and VPS4 proteins are also recruited, indicating that much of the ESCRT pathway localizes to the midbody. Depletion of ALIX and TSG101/ESCRT-I inhibits the abscission step of HeLa cell cytokinesis, as does VPS4 overexpression, confirming a requirement for these proteins in cell division. Furthermore, ALIX point mutants that block CEP55 and CHMP4/ESCRT-III binding also inhibit abscission, indicating that both interactions are essential. These experiments suggest that the ESCRT pathway may be recruited to facilitate analogous membrane fission events during HIV budding, MVB vesicle formation, and the abscission stage of cytokinesis.
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- Eiji Morita
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Medicine Fluorescence Microscopy Core Facility, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, room 4100, 15N Medical Dr East, Salt Lake City, UT 84132-3201, USA. Tel.: +1 801 585 5402; Fax: +1 801 581 7959; E-mail:
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Tilghman RW, Parsons JT. Focal adhesion kinase as a regulator of cell tension in the progression of cancer. Semin Cancer Biol 2007; 18:45-52. [PMID: 17928235 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2007.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2007] [Accepted: 08/28/2007] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Growing evidence indicates that critical steps in cancer progression such as cell adhesion, migration, and cell cycle progression are regulated by the composition and organization of the microenvironment. The adhesion of cancer cells to components of the microenvironment and the forces transmitted to the cells via the actinomyosin network and the signaling complexes organized within focal adhesions allow cancer cells to sense the local topography of the extracellular matrix and respond efficiently to proximal growth and migration promoting cues. Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase that is over expressed in a variety of cancers and plays an important role in cell adhesion, migration, and anchorage-dependent growth. In this review, we summarize evidence which implicate FAK in the ability of cells to sense and respond to local forces from the microenvironment through the regulation of adhesion dynamics and actinomyosin contractility, and we discuss the potential roles of FAK as a mechanosensor in the progression of cancer.
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- Robert W Tilghman
- Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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Yu HYE, Bement WM. Multiple myosins are required to coordinate actin assembly with coat compression during compensatory endocytosis. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:4096-105. [PMID: 17699600 PMCID: PMC1995739 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-11-0993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Actin is involved in endocytosis in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals. In activated Xenopus eggs, exocytosing cortical granules (CGs) are surrounded by actin "coats," which compress the exocytosing compartments, resulting in compensatory endocytosis. Here, we examined the roles of two myosins in actin coat compression. Myosin-2 is recruited to exocytosing CGs late in coat compression. Inhibition of myosin-2 slows coat compression without affecting actin assembly. This differs from phenotype induced by inhibition of actin assembly, where exocytosing CGs are trapped at the plasma membrane (PM) completely. Thus, coat compression is likely driven in part by actin assembly itself, but it requires myosin-2 for efficient completion. In contrast to myosin-2, the long-tailed myosin-1e is recruited to exocytosing CGs immediately after egg activation. Perturbation of myosin-1e results in partial actin coat assembly and induces CG collapse into the PM. Intriguingly, simultaneous inhibition of actin assembly and myosin-1e prevents CG collapse. Together, the results show that myosin-1e and myosin-2 are part of an intricate machinery that coordinates coat compression at exocytosing CGs.
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- Hoi-Ying E Yu
- Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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Batchelder EL, Thomas-Virnig CL, Hardin JD, White JG. Cytokinesis is not controlled by calmodulin or myosin light chain kinase in the Caenorhabditis elegans early embryo. FEBS Lett 2007; 581:4337-41. [PMID: 17716666 PMCID: PMC2144740 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2007] [Revised: 07/27/2007] [Accepted: 08/03/2007] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Furrow ingression in animal cell cytokinesis is controlled by phosphorylation of myosin II regulatory light chain (mRLC). In Caenorhabditis elegans embryos, Rho-dependent Kinase (RhoK) is involved in, but not absolutely required for, this phosphorylation. The calmodulin effector myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) can also phosphorylate mRLC and is widely regarded as a candidate for redundant function with RhoK. However, our results show that RNA mediated interference against C. elegans calmodulin and candidate MLCKs had no effect on cytokinesis in wild-type or RhoK mutant embryos, ruling out the calmodulin/MLCK pathway as the missing regulator of cytokinesis in the C. elegans early embryo.
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- Ellen L Batchelder
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1525 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Diogon M, Wissler F, Quintin S, Nagamatsu Y, Sookhareea S, Landmann F, Hutter H, Vitale N, Labouesse M. The RhoGAP RGA-2 and LET-502/ROCK achieve a balance of actomyosin-dependent forces inC. elegansepidermis to control morphogenesis. Development 2007; 134:2469-79. [PMID: 17537791 DOI: 10.1242/dev.005074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Embryonic morphogenesis involves the coordinate behaviour of multiple cells and requires the accurate balance of forces acting within different cells through the application of appropriate brakes and throttles. In C. elegans, embryonic elongation is driven by Rho-binding kinase (ROCK) and actomyosin contraction in the epidermis. We identify an evolutionary conserved, actin microfilament-associated RhoGAP (RGA-2) that behaves as a negative regulator of LET-502/ROCK. The small GTPase RHO-1 is the preferred target of RGA-2 in vitro, and acts between RGA-2 and LET-502 in vivo. Two observations show that RGA-2 acts in dorsal and ventral epidermal cells to moderate actomyosin tension during the first half of elongation. First,time-lapse microscopy shows that loss of RGA-2 induces localised circumferentially oriented pulling on junctional complexes in dorsal and ventral epidermal cells. Second, specific expression of RGA-2 in dorsal/ventral, but not lateral, cells rescues the embryonic lethality of rga-2 mutants. We propose that actomyosin-generated tension must be moderated in two out of the three sets of epidermal cells surrounding the C. elegans embryo to achieve morphogenesis.
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- Marie Diogon
- IGBMC, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, 1 rue Laurent Fries, BP.10142, 67400 Illkirch, France
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Samarin SN, Ivanov AI, Flatau G, Parkos CA, Nusrat A. Rho/Rho-associated kinase-II signaling mediates disassembly of epithelial apical junctions. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:3429-39. [PMID: 17596509 PMCID: PMC1951751 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-04-0315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Apical junctional complex (AJC) plays a vital role in regulation of epithelial barrier function. Disassembly of the AJC is observed in diverse physiological and pathological states; however, mechanisms governing this process are not well understood. We previously reported that the AJC disassembly is driven by the formation of apical contractile acto-myosin rings. In the present study, we analyzed the signaling pathways regulating acto-myosin-dependent disruption of AJC by using a model of extracellular calcium depletion. Pharmacological inhibition analysis revealed a critical role of Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) in AJC disassembly in calcium-depleted epithelial cells. Furthermore, small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated knockdown of ROCK-II, but not ROCK-I, attenuated the disruption of the AJC. Interestingly, AJC disassembly was not dependent on myosin light chain kinase and myosin phosphatase. Calcium depletion resulted in activation of Rho GTPase and transient colocalization of Rho with internalized AJC proteins. Pharmacological inhibition of Rho prevented AJC disassembly. Additionally, Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF)-H1 translocated to contractile F-actin rings after calcium depletion, and siRNA-mediated depletion of GEF-H1 inhibited AJC disassembly. Thus, our findings demonstrate a central role of the GEF-H1/Rho/ROCK-II signaling pathway in the disassembly of AJC in epithelial cells.
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- Stanislav N. Samarin
- *Epithelial Pathobiology Research Unit, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322; and
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- *Epithelial Pathobiology Research Unit, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322; and
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U627, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Faculté de Médecine, 06107 Nice, France
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- *Epithelial Pathobiology Research Unit, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322; and
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- *Epithelial Pathobiology Research Unit, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322; and
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Gieni RS, Hendzel MJ. Mechanotransduction from the ECM to the genome: Are the pieces now in place? J Cell Biochem 2007; 104:1964-87. [PMID: 17546585 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A multitude of biochemical signaling processes have been characterized that affect gene expression and cellular activity. However, living cells often need to integrate biochemical signals with mechanical information from their microenvironment as they respond. In fact, the signals received by shape alone can dictate cell fate. This mechanotrasduction of information is powerful, eliciting proliferation, differentiation, or apoptosis in a manner dependent upon the extent of physical deformation. The cells internal "prestressed" structure and its "hardwired" interaction with the extra-cellular matrix (ECM) appear to confer this ability to filter biochemical signals and decide between divergent cell functions influenced by the nature of signals from the mechanical environment. In some instances mechanical signaling through the tissue microenvironment has been shown to be dominant over genomic defects, imparting a normal phenotype on cells that otherwise have transforming genetic lesions. This mechanical control of phenotype is postulated to have a central role in embryogenesis, tissue physiology as well as the pathology of a wide variety of diseases, including cancer. We will briefly review studies showing physical continuity between the external cellular microenvironment and the interior of the cell nucleus. Newly characterized structures, termed nuclear envelope lamina spanning complexes (NELSC), and their interactions will be described as part of a model for mechanical transduction of extracellular cues from the ECM to the genome.
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- Randall S Gieni
- Cross Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Scheidtmann KH. Dlk/ZIP kinase, a novel Ser/Thr-specific protein kinase with multiple functions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/sita.200600112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Bao J, Ma X, Liu C, Adelstein RS. Replacement of nonmuscle myosin II-B with II-A rescues brain but not cardiac defects in mice. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:22102-11. [PMID: 17519229 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m702731200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The purpose of these studies was to learn whether one isoform of nonmuscle myosin II, specifically nonmuscle myosin II-A, could functionally replace a second one, nonmuscle myosin II-B, in mice. To accomplish this, we used homologous recombination to ablate nonmuscle myosin heavy chain (NMHC) II-B by inserting cDNA encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP)-NMHC II-A into the first coding exon of the Myh10 gene, thereby placing GFP-NMHC II-A under control of the endogenous II-B promoter. Similar to B(-)/B(-) mice, most B(a*)/B(a*) mice died late in embryonic development with structural cardiac defects and impaired cytokinesis of the cardiac myocytes. However, unlike B(-)/B(-) mice, 15 B(a*)/B(a*) mice of 172 F2 generation mice survived embryonic lethality but developed a dilated cardiomyopathy as adults. Surprisingly none of the B(a*)/B(a*) mice showed evidence for hydrocephalus that is always found in B(-)/B(-) mice. Rescue of this defect was due to proper localization and function of GFP-NMHC II-A in place of NMHC II-B in a cell-cell adhesion complex in the cells lining the spinal canal. Restoration of the integrity and adhesion of these cells prevents protrusion of the underlying cells into the spinal canal where they block circulation of the cerebral spinal fluid. However, abnormal migration of facial and pontine neurons found in NMHC II-B mutant and ablated mice persisted in B(a*)/B(a*) mice. Thus, although NMHC II-A can substitute for NMHC II-B to maintain integrity of the spinal canal, NMHC II-B plays an isoform-specific role during cytokinesis in cardiac myocytes and in migration of the facial and pontine neurons.
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- Jianjun Bao
- Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology and Transgenic Core, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Phospholipase C and myosin light chain kinase inhibition define a common step in actin regulation during cytokinesis. BMC Cell Biol 2007; 8:15. [PMID: 17509155 PMCID: PMC1888687 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-8-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2007] [Accepted: 05/17/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) is required for successful completion of cytokinesis. In addition, both PIP2 and phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC) have been localized to the cleavage furrow of dividing mammalian cells. PLC hydrolyzes PIP2 to yield diacylglycerol (DAG) and inositol trisphosphate (IP3), which in turn induces calcium (Ca2+) release from the ER. Several studies suggest PIP2 must be hydrolyzed continuously for continued cleavage furrow ingression. The majority of these studies employ the N-substituted maleimide U73122 as an inhibitor of PLC. However, the specificity of U73122 is unclear, as its active group closely resembles the non-specific alkylating agent N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). In addition, the pathway by which PIP2 regulates cytokinesis remains to be elucidated. Results Here we compared the effects of U73122 and the structurally unrelated PLC inhibitor ET-18-OCH3 (edelfosine) on cytokinesis in crane-fly and Drosophila spermatocytes. Our data show that the effects of U73122 are indeed via PLC because U73122 and ET-18-OCH3 produced similar effects on cell morphology and actin cytoskeleton organization that were distinct from those caused by NEM. Furthermore, treatment with the myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) inhibitor ML-7 caused cleavage furrow regression and loss of both F-actin and phosphorylated myosin regulatory light chain from the contractile ring in a manner similar to treatment with U73122 and ET-18-OCH3. Conclusion We have used multiple inhibitors to examine the roles of PLC and MLCK, a predicted downstream target of PLC regulation, in cytokinesis. Our results are consistent with a model in which PIP2 hydrolysis acts via Ca2+ to activate myosin via MLCK and thereby control actin dynamics during constriction of the contractile ring.
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Chuang YY, Valster A, Coniglio SJ, Backer JM, Symons M. The atypical Rho family GTPase Wrch-1 regulates focal adhesion formation and cell migration. J Cell Sci 2007; 120:1927-34. [PMID: 17504809 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Wrch-1 (Wnt-regulated Cdc42 homolog) is a new member of the Rho family that was identified as a gene transcriptionally upregulated by Wnt-1. Wrch-1 has no detectable GTPase activity and displays very high intrinsic guanine nucleotide exchange, implying that it is constitutively GTP-bound. The biological functions of Wrch-1 largely remain to be characterized. Here, we report that Wrch-1 prominently localizes to focal adhesions. Depletion of Wrch-1 by small interfering RNA increases focal adhesion formation, whereas Wrch-1 overexpression disassembles focal adhesions. Wrch-1 depletion inhibits myosin-light-chain phosphorylation, which in turn leads to an increase in the number of focal adhesions and inhibits cell migration in response to wound healing. Depletion of Wrch-1 also inhibits Akt and JNK activation. Although pharmacological inhibitors of Akt and JNK inhibit cell migration, they do not affect focal adhesions. Thus, our data suggest that Wrch-1 regulates cell migration by multiple mechanisms: on the one hand Wrch-1 controls focal adhesions by regulating myosin light chain and on the other hand Wrch-1 stimulates the activation of Akt and JNK.
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- Ya-yu Chuang
- Center for Oncology and Cell Biology, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research at North Shore-LIJ, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
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Lee JH, Koh H, Kim M, Kim Y, Lee SY, Karess RE, Lee SH, Shong M, Kim JM, Kim J, Chung J. Energy-dependent regulation of cell structure by AMP-activated protein kinase. Nature 2007; 447:1017-20. [PMID: 17486097 DOI: 10.1038/nature05828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 320] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2007] [Accepted: 04/10/2007] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK, also known as SNF1A) has been primarily studied as a metabolic regulator that is activated in response to energy deprivation. Although there is relatively ample information on the biochemical characteristics of AMPK, not enough data exist on the in vivo function of the kinase. Here, using the Drosophila model system, we generated the first animal model with no AMPK activity and discovered physiological functions of the kinase. Surprisingly, AMPK-null mutants were lethal with severe abnormalities in cell polarity and mitosis, similar to those of lkb1-null mutants. Constitutive activation of AMPK restored many of the phenotypes of lkb1-null mutants, suggesting that AMPK mediates the polarity- and mitosis-controlling functions of the LKB1 serine/threonine kinase. Interestingly, the regulatory site of non-muscle myosin regulatory light chain (MRLC; also known as MLC2) was directly phosphorylated by AMPK. Moreover, the phosphomimetic mutant of MRLC rescued the AMPK-null defects in cell polarity and mitosis, suggesting MRLC is a critical downstream target of AMPK. Furthermore, the activation of AMPK by energy deprivation was sufficient to cause dramatic changes in cell shape, inducing complete polarization and brush border formation in the human LS174T cell line, through the phosphorylation of MRLC. Taken together, our results demonstrate that AMPK has highly conserved roles across metazoan species not only in the control of metabolism, but also in the regulation of cellular structures.
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- Jun Hee Lee
- National Creative Research Initiatives Center for Cell Growth Regulation, Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Kusong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea
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Schober M, Raghavan S, Nikolova M, Polak L, Pasolli HA, Beggs HE, Reichardt LF, Fuchs E. Focal adhesion kinase modulates tension signaling to control actin and focal adhesion dynamics. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 176:667-80. [PMID: 17325207 PMCID: PMC2064024 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200608010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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In response to alphabeta1 integrin signaling, transducers such as focal adhesion kinase (FAK) become activated, relaying to specific machineries and triggering distinct cellular responses. By conditionally ablating Fak in skin epidermis and culturing Fak-null keratinocytes, we show that FAK is dispensable for epidermal adhesion and basement membrane assembly, both of which require alphabeta1 integrins. FAK is also dispensible for proliferation/survival in enriched medium. In contrast, FAK functions downstream of alphabeta1 integrin in regulating cytoskeletal dynamics and orchestrating polarized keratinocyte migration out of epidermal explants. Fak-null keratinocytes display an aberrant actin cytoskeleton, which is tightly associated with robust, peripheral focal adhesions and microtubules. We find that without FAK, Src, p190RhoGAP, and PKL-PIX-PAK, localization and/or activation at focal adhesions are impaired, leading to elevated Rho activity, phosphorylation of myosin light chain kinase, and enhanced tensile stress fibers. We show that, together, these FAK-dependent activities are critical to control the turnover of focal adhesions, which is perturbed in the absence of FAK.
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- Markus Schober
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Lowery DM, Clauser KR, Hjerrild M, Lim D, Alexander J, Kishi K, Ong SE, Gammeltoft S, Carr SA, Yaffe MB. Proteomic screen defines the Polo-box domain interactome and identifies Rock2 as a Plk1 substrate. EMBO J 2007; 26:2262-73. [PMID: 17446864 PMCID: PMC1864981 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2006] [Accepted: 03/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Polo-like kinase-1 (Plk1) phosphorylates a number of mitotic substrates, but the diversity of Plk1-dependent processes suggests the existence of additional targets. Plk1 contains a specialized phosphoserine-threonine binding domain, the Polo-box domain (PBD), postulated to target the kinase to its substrates. Using the specialized PBD of Plk1 as an affinity capture agent, we performed a screen to define the mitotic Plk1-PBD interactome by mass spectrometry. We identified 622 proteins that showed phosphorylation-dependent mitosis-specific interactions, including proteins involved in well-established Plk1-regulated processes, and in processes not previously linked to Plk1 such as translational control, RNA processing, and vesicle transport. Many proteins identified in our screen play important roles in cytokinesis, where, in mammalian cells, the detailed mechanistic role of Plk1 remains poorly defined. We go on to characterize the mitosis-specific interaction of the Plk1-PBD with the cytokinesis effector kinase Rho-associated coiled-coil domain-containing protein kinase 2 (Rock2), demonstrate that Rock2 is a Plk1 substrate, and show that Rock2 colocalizes with Plk1 during cytokinesis. Finally, we show that Plk1 and RhoA function together to maximally enhance Rock2 kinase activity in vitro and within cells, and implicate Plk1 as a central regulator of multiple pathways that synergistically converge to regulate actomyosin ring contraction during cleavage furrow ingression.
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- Drew M Lowery
- Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Maddox AS, Lewellyn L, Desai A, Oegema K. Anillin and the Septins Promote Asymmetric Ingression of the Cytokinetic Furrow. Dev Cell 2007; 12:827-35. [PMID: 17488632 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2007] [Revised: 02/22/2007] [Accepted: 02/26/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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During cytokinesis, constriction of a cortical contractile ring generates a furrow that partitions one cell into two. The contractile ring contains three filament systems: actin, bipolar myosin II filaments, and septins, GTP-binding hetero-oligomers that polymerize to form a membrane-associated lattice. The contractile ring also contains a potential filament crosslinker, Anillin, that binds all three filament types. Here, we show that the contractile ring possesses an intrinsic symmetry-breaking mechanism that promotes asymmetric furrowing. Asymmetric ingression requires Anillin and the septins, which promote the coalescence of components on one side of the contractile ring, but is insensitive to a 10-fold reduction in myosin II levels. When asymmetry is disrupted, cytokinesis becomes sensitive to partial inhibition of contractility. Thus, asymmetric furrow ingression, a prevalent but previously unexplored feature of cell division in metazoans, is generated by the action of two conserved furrow components and serves a mechanical function that makes cytokinesis robust.
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- Amy Shaub Maddox
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (UCSD), CMM-East Rm. 3053, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Parri M, Buricchi F, Giannoni E, Grimaldi G, Mello T, Raugei G, Ramponi G, Chiarugi P. EphrinA1 activates a Src/focal adhesion kinase-mediated motility response leading to rho-dependent actino/myosin contractility. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:19619-28. [PMID: 17449913 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m701319200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Eph receptors and ephrin ligands are widely expressed in epithelial cells and mediate cell repulsive motility through heterotypic cell-cell interactions. Several Ephs, including EphA2, are greatly overexpressed in certain tumors, in correlation with poor prognosis and high vascularity in cancer tissues. The ability of several Eph receptors to regulate cell migration and invasion likely contribute to tumor progression and metastasis. We report here that in prostatic carcinoma cells ephrinA1 elicits a repulsive response that is executed through a Rho-dependent actino/myosin contractility activation, ultimately leading to retraction of the cell body. This appears to occur through assembly of an EphA2-associated complex involving the two kinases Src and focal adhesion kinase (FAK). EphrinA1-mediated repulsion leads to the selective phosphorylation of Tyr-576/577 of FAK, enhancing FAK kinase activity. The repulsive response elicited by ephrinA1 in prostatic carcinoma cells is mainly driven by a Rho-mediated phosphorylation of myosin light chain II, in which Src and FAK activation are required steps. Consequently, Src and FAK are upstream regulators of the overall response induced by ephrinA1/EphA2, instructing cells to retract the cell body and to move away, probably facilitating dissemination and tissue invasion of ephrin-sensitive carcinomas.
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- Matteo Parri
- Department of Biochemical Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 50, 50134 Florence, Italy
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Qiu J, Gao HQ, Zhou RH, Liang Y, Zhang XH, Wang XP, You BA, Cheng M. Proteomics analysis of the proliferative effect of low-dose ouabain on human endothelial cells. Biol Pharm Bull 2007; 30:247-53. [PMID: 17268060 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.30.247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Digitalis has been used to treat congestive heart failure for more than 200 years, although the dual effects (proliferation and death) induced by digitalis on cell growth have been known for many years, the mechanisms by which digitalis causes the actions were not completely known. The aim of this work was to characterize the proliferative effect of ouabain on cell growth in endothelial cells, and, to do the differential proteomic analysis of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) in response to ouabain and examine changes in protein expression. HUVEC were exposed to different concentrations (0.1-100 nM) of ouabain at 12-48 h intervals. Cell growth and morphological changes of HUVEC treated with ouabain were compared with cells under nontreated conditions. Ouabain stimulated HUVEC cell proliferation at low concentrations and induced cell death at higher concentrations. Using proteomics study, we identified 32 proteins of HUVEC with various important cellular functions and revealed 8 proteins such as Annexin A1, Annexin A2, Malate dehydrogenase, Myosin regulatory light chain 2 (MRLC2), Profilin-1, S100 calcium-binding protein A13, Triosephosphate isomerase and Translationally controlled tumor protein, regulated by low-dose ouabain treatment and MRLC2 was subsequently confirmed by Western blot. Our results give new insights into the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the proliferation action of low-dose ouabain on HUVEC and provide new avenues for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
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- Jie Qiu
- Department of Geriatrics, Shandong University Qilu Hospital, Jinan, China
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Fabian L, Troscianczuk J, Forer A. Calyculin A, an enhancer of myosin, speeds up anaphase chromosome movement. CELL & CHROMOSOME 2007; 6:1. [PMID: 17381845 PMCID: PMC1847834 DOI: 10.1186/1475-9268-6-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2007] [Accepted: 03/24/2007] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Actin and myosin inhibitors often blocked anaphase movements in insect spermatocytes in previous experiments. Here we treat cells with an enhancer of myosin, Calyculin A, which inhibits myosin-light-chain phosphatase from dephosphorylating myosin; myosin thus is hyperactivated. Calyculin A causes anaphase crane-fly spermatocyte chromosomes to accelerate poleward; after they reach the poles they often move back toward the equator. When added during metaphase, chromosomes at anaphase move faster than normal. Calyculin A causes prometaphase chromosomes to move rapidly up and back along the spindle axis, and to rotate. Immunofluorescence staining with an antibody against phosphorylated myosin regulatory light chain (p-squash) indicated increased phosphorylation of cleavage furrow myosin compared to control cells, indicating that calyculin A indeed increased myosin phosphorylation. To test whether the Calyculin A effects are due to myosin phosphatase or to type 2 phosphatases, we treated cells with okadaic acid, which inhibits protein phosphatase 2A at concentrations similar to Calyculin A but requires much higher concentrations to inhibit myosin phosphatase. Okadaic acid had no effect on chromosome movement. Backward movements did not require myosin or actin since they were not affected by 2,3-butanedione monoxime or LatruculinB. Calyculin A affects the distribution and organization of spindle microtubules, spindle actin, cortical actin and putative spindle matrix proteins skeletor and titin, as visualized using immunofluorescence. We discuss how accelerated and backwards movements might arise.
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- Lacramioara Fabian
- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
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Clark K, Langeslag M, Figdor CG, van Leeuwen FN. Myosin II and mechanotransduction: a balancing act. Trends Cell Biol 2007; 17:178-86. [PMID: 17320396 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2007.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2006] [Accepted: 02/08/2007] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Adherent cells respond to mechanical properties of the surrounding extracellular matrix. Mechanical forces, sensed at specialized cell-matrix adhesion sites, promote actomyosin-based contraction within the cell. By manipulating matrix rigidity and adhesion strength, new roles for actomyosin contractility in the regulation of basic cellular functions, including cell proliferation, migration and stem cell differentiation, have recently been discovered. These investigations demonstrate that a balance of forces between cell adhesion on the outside and myosin II-based contractility on the inside of the cell controls many aspects of cell behavior. Disturbing this balance contributes to the pathogenesis of various human diseases. Therefore, elaborate signaling networks have evolved that modulate myosin II activity to maintain tensional homeostasis. These include signaling pathways that regulate myosin light chain phosphorylation as well as myosin II heavy chain interactions.
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- Kristopher Clark
- Department of Tumor Immunology, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Ahuja P, Perriard E, Pedrazzini T, Satoh S, Perriard JC, Ehler E. Re-expression of proteins involved in cytokinesis during cardiac hypertrophy. Exp Cell Res 2007; 313:1270-83. [PMID: 17316608 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2007.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2006] [Revised: 01/15/2007] [Accepted: 01/16/2007] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Cardiomyocytes stop dividing after birth and postnatal heart growth is only achieved by increase in cell volume. In some species, cardiomyocytes undergo an additional incomplete mitosis in the first postnatal week, where karyokinesis takes place in the absence of cytokinesis, leading to binucleation. Proteins that regulate the formation of the actomyosin ring are known to be important for cytokinesis. Here we demonstrate for the first time that small GTPases like RhoA along with their downstream effectors like ROCK I, ROCK II and Citron Kinase show a developmental stage specific expression in heart, with high levels being expressed in cardiomyocytes only at stages when cytokinesis still occurs (i.e. embryonic and perinatal). This suggests that downregulation of many regulatory and cytoskeletal components involved in the formation of the actomyosin ring may be responsible for the uncoupling of cytokinesis from karyokinesis in rodent cardiomyocytes after birth. Interestingly, when the myocardium tries to adapt to the increased workload during pathological hypertrophy a re-expression of proteins involved in DNA synthesis and cytokinesis can be detected. Nevertheless, the adult cardiomyocytes do not appear to divide despite this upregulation of the cytokinetic machinery. The inability to undergo complete division could be due to the presence of stable, highly ordered and functional sarcomeres in the adult myocardium or could be because of the inefficiency of degradation pathways, which facilitate the division of differentiated embryonic cardiomyocytes by disintegrating myofibrils.
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- Preeti Ahuja
- Institute of Cell Biology, ETH Zürich-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Urven LE, Yabe T, Pelegri F. A role for non-muscle myosin II function in furrow maturation in the early zebrafish embryo. J Cell Sci 2007; 119:4342-52. [PMID: 17038547 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Cytokinesis in early zebrafish embryos involves coordinated changes in the f-actin- and microtubule-based cytoskeleton, and the recruitment of adhesion junction components to the furrow. We show that exposure to inhibitors of non-muscle myosin II function does not affect furrow ingression during the early cleavage cycles but interferes with the recruitment of pericleavage f-actin and cortical beta-catenin aggregates to the furrow, as well as the remodeling of the furrow microtubule array. This remodeling is in turn required for the distal aggregation of the zebrafish germ plasm. Embryos with reduced myosin activity also exhibit at late stages of cytokinesis a stabilized contractile ring apparatus that appears as a ladder-like pattern of short f-actin cables, supporting a role for myosin function in the disassembly of the contractile ring after furrow formation. Our studies support a role for myosin function in furrow maturation that is independent of furrow ingression and which is essential for the recruitment of furrow components and the remodeling of the cytoskeleton during cytokinesis.
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- Lance E Urven
- Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Sato MK, Takahashi M, Yazawa M. Two regions of the tail are necessary for the isoform-specific functions of nonmuscle myosin IIB. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:1009-17. [PMID: 17202408 PMCID: PMC1805092 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-08-0706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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To function in the cell, nonmuscle myosin II molecules assemble into filaments through their C-terminal tails. Because myosin II isoforms most likely assemble into homo-filaments in vivo, it seems that some self-recognition mechanisms of individual myosin II isoforms should exist. Exogenous expression of myosin IIB rod fragment is thus expected to prevent the function of myosin IIB specifically. We expected to reveal some self-recognition sites of myosin IIB from the phenotype by expressing appropriate myosin IIB rod fragments. We expressed the C-terminal 305-residue rod fragment of the myosin IIB heavy chain (BRF305) in MRC-5 SV1 TG1 cells. As a result, unstable morphology was observed like MHC-IIB(-/-) fibroblasts. This phenotype was not observed in cells expressing BRF305 mutants: 1) with a defect in assembling, 2) lacking N-terminal 57 residues (N-57), or 3) lacking C-terminal 63 residues (C-63). A myosin IIA rod fragment ARF296 corresponding to BRF305 was not effective. However, the chimeric ARF296, in which the N-57 and C-63 of BRF305 were substituted for the corresponding regions of ARF296, acquired the ability to induce unstable morphology. We propose that the N-57 and C-63 of BRF305 are involved in self-recognition when myosin IIB molecules assemble into homo-filament.
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- Masaaki K. Sato
- Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810 Japan
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- Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810 Japan
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- Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810 Japan
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Dumont J, Million K, Sunderland K, Rassinier P, Lim H, Leader B, Verlhac MH. Formin-2 is required for spindle migration and for the late steps of cytokinesis in mouse oocytes. Dev Biol 2007; 301:254-65. [PMID: 16989804 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.08.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2006] [Revised: 08/17/2006] [Accepted: 08/18/2006] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Female meiotic divisions in higher organisms are asymmetric and lead to the formation of a large oocyte and small polar bodies. These asymmetric divisions are due to eccentric spindle positioning which, in the mouse, requires actin filaments. Recently Formin-2, a straight actin filaments nucleator, has been proposed to control spindle positioning, chromosome segregation as well as first polar body extrusion in mouse oocytes. We reexamine here the possible role of Formin-2 during mouse meiotic maturation by live videomicroscopy. We show that Formin-2 controls first meiotic spindle migration to the cortex but not chromosome congression or segregation. We also show that the lack of first polar body extrusion in fmn2(-/-) oocytes is not due to a lack of cortical differentiation or central spindle formation but to a defect in the late steps of cytokinesis. Indeed, Survivin, a component of the passenger protein complex, is correctly localized on the central spindle at anaphase in fmn2(-/-) oocytes. We show here that attempts of cytokinesis in these oocytes abort due to phospho-myosin II mislocalization.
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- Julien Dumont
- Equipe Divisions Méiotiques Chez la Souris, UMR7622, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Bat C, 5e, 9 Quai Saint Bernard 75005, Paris, France
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Bourzac KM, Botham CM, Guillemin K. Helicobacter pylori CagA induces AGS cell elongation through a cell retraction defect that is independent of Cdc42, Rac1, and Arp2/3. Infect Immun 2006; 75:1203-13. [PMID: 17194805 PMCID: PMC1828586 DOI: 10.1128/iai.01702-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Helicobacter pylori, which infects over one-half the world's population, is a significant risk factor in a spectrum of gastric diseases, including peptic ulcers and gastric cancer. Strains of H. pylori that deliver the effector molecule CagA into host cells via a type IV secretion system are associated with more severe disease outcomes. In a tissue culture model of infection, CagA delivery results in a dramatic cellular elongation referred to as the "hummingbird" phenotype, which is characterized by long, thin cellular extensions. These actin-based cytoskeletal rearrangements are reminiscent of structures that are regulated by Rho GTPases and the Arp2/3 complex. We tested whether these signaling pathways were important in the H. pylori-induced cell elongation phenotype. Contrary to our expectations, we found that these molecules are dispensable for cell elongation. Instead, time-lapse video microscopy revealed that cells infected by cagA(+) H. pylori become elongated because they fail to release their back ends during cell locomotion. Consistent with a model in which CagA causes cell elongation by inhibiting the disassembly of adhesive cell contacts at migrating cells' lagging ends, immunohistochemical analysis revealed that focal adhesion complexes persist at the distal tips of elongated cell projections. Thus, our data implicate a set of signaling molecules in the hummingbird phenotype that are different than the molecules previously suspected.
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- Kevin M Bourzac
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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Blaser H, Reichman-Fried M, Castanon I, Dumstrei K, Marlow FL, Kawakami K, Solnica-Krezel L, Heisenberg CP, Raz E. Migration of Zebrafish Primordial Germ Cells: A Role for Myosin Contraction and Cytoplasmic Flow. Dev Cell 2006; 11:613-27. [PMID: 17084355 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2006.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 285] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2006] [Revised: 09/25/2006] [Accepted: 09/29/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The molecular and cellular mechanisms governing cell motility and directed migration in response to the chemokine SDF-1 are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that zebrafish primordial germ cells whose migration is guided by SDF-1 generate bleb-like protrusions that are powered by cytoplasmic flow. Protrusions are formed at sites of higher levels of free calcium where activation of myosin contraction occurs. Separation of the acto-myosin cortex from the plasma membrane at these sites is followed by a flow of cytoplasm into the forming bleb. We propose that polarized activation of the receptor CXCR4 leads to a rise in free calcium that in turn activates myosin contraction in the part of the cell responding to higher levels of the ligand SDF-1. The biased formation of new protrusions in a particular region of the cell in response to SDF-1 defines the leading edge and the direction of cell migration.
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- Heiko Blaser
- Germ Cell Development, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Lucero A, Stack C, Bresnick AR, Shuster CB. A global, myosin light chain kinase-dependent increase in myosin II contractility accompanies the metaphase-anaphase transition in sea urchin eggs. Mol Biol Cell 2006; 17:4093-104. [PMID: 16837551 PMCID: PMC1593176 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-02-0119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2006] [Revised: 06/15/2006] [Accepted: 07/05/2006] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Myosin II is the force-generating motor for cytokinesis, and although it is accepted that myosin contractility is greatest at the cell equator, the temporal and spatial cues that direct equatorial contractility are not known. Dividing sea urchin eggs were placed under compression to study myosin II-based contractile dynamics, and cells manipulated in this manner underwent an abrupt, global increase in cortical contractility concomitant with the metaphase-anaphase transition, followed by a brief relaxation and the onset of furrowing. Prefurrow cortical contractility both preceded and was independent of astral microtubule elongation, suggesting that the initial activation of myosin II preceded cleavage plane specification. The initial rise in contractility required myosin light chain kinase but not Rho-kinase, but both signaling pathways were required for successful cytokinesis. Last, mobilization of intracellular calcium during metaphase induced a contractile response, suggesting that calcium transients may be partially responsible for the timing of this initial contractile event. Together, these findings suggest that myosin II-based contractility is initiated at the metaphase-anaphase transition by Ca2+-dependent myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) activity and is maintained through cytokinesis by both MLCK- and Rho-dependent signaling. Moreover, the signals that initiate myosin II contractility respond to specific cell cycle transitions independently of the microtubule-dependent cleavage stimulus.
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- Amy Lucero
- Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
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Nakamae-Akahori M, Kato T, Masuda S, Sakamoto E, Kutsuna H, Hato F, Nishizawa Y, Hino M, Kitagawa S. Enhanced neutrophil motility by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor: the role of extracellular signal-regulated kinase and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. Immunology 2006; 119:393-403. [PMID: 16903868 PMCID: PMC1819568 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2006.02448.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on human neutrophil motility was studied using videomicroscopy. Stimulation of neutrophils with G-CSF resulted in enhanced motility with morphological change and increased adherence. Enhanced neutrophil motility was detected within 3-5 min after G-CSF stimulation, reached a maximum at 10 min, and was sustained for approximately 35 min. The maximum migration rate was 84.4 +/- 2.9 microm/5 min. A study using the Boyden chamber method revealed that G-CSF-stimulated neutrophils exhibited random migration but not chemotaxis. Enhanced neutrophil motility and morphological change were inhibited by MEK [mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) kinase] inhibitors (PD98059 and U0126), and a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor (wortmannin), but not by a p38 MAPK inhibitor (SB203580). These findings are consistent with the fact that G-CSF selectively activates MEK/ERK and PI3K, but not p38, in neutrophils. MEK/ERK activation was associated with G-CSF-induced redistribution of F-actin and phosphorylated myosin light chain. Enhanced neutrophil motility was observed even in the presence of neutralizing anti-CD18 antibody, which prevented cell adherence. These findings indicate that G-CSF induces human neutrophil migration via activation of MEK/ERK and PI3K.
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- Mika Nakamae-Akahori
- Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Asahi-machiAbeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Asahi-machiAbeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Asahi-machiAbeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Asahi-machiAbeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Asahi-machiAbeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Asahi-machiAbeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Asahi-machiAbeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Haematology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Asahi-machiAbeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Asahi-machiAbeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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Jana SS, Kawamoto S, Adelstein RS. A Specific Isoform of Nonmuscle Myosin II-C Is Required for Cytokinesis in a Tumor Cell Line. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:24662-70. [PMID: 16790446 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m604606200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Nonmuscle myosin IIs play an essential role during cytokinesis. Here, we explore the function of an alternatively spliced isoform of nonmuscle myosin heavy chain (NMHC) II-C, called NMHC II-C1, in the A549 human lung tumor cell line during cytokinesis. NMHC II-C1 contains an insert of 8 amino acids in the head region of NMHC II-C. First, we show that there is a marked increase in both the mRNA encoding NMHC II-C1 and protein in tumor cell lines compared with nontumor cell lines derived from the same tissue. Quantification of the amount of myosin II isoforms in the A549 cells shows that the amounts of NMHC II-A and II-C1 protein are about equal and substantially greater than NMHC II-B. Using specific siRNAs to decrease NMHC II-C1 in cultured A549 cells resulted in a 5.5-fold decrease in the number of cells at 120 h, whereas decreasing NMHC II-A with siRNA does not affect cell proliferation. This decreased proliferation can be rescued by reintroducing NMHC II-C1 but not NMHC II-A or II-B into A549 cells, although noninserted NMHC II-C does rescue to a limited extent. Time lapse video microscopy revealed that loss of NMHC II-C1 leads to a delay in cytokinesis and prolongs it from 2 to 8-10 h. These findings are consistent with the localization of NMHC II-C1 to the intercellular bridge that attaches the two dividing cells during the late phases of cytokinesis. The results suggest a specific function for NMHC II-C1 in cytokinesis in the A549 tumor cell line.
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- Siddhartha S Jana
- Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1762, USA
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Szczepanowska J, Korn ED, Brzeska H. Activation of myosin in HeLa cells causes redistribution of focal adhesions and F-actin from cell center to cell periphery. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 63:356-74. [PMID: 16607629 DOI: 10.1002/cm.20125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Activation of actomyosin II by phosphorylation of its regulatory light chain is one of the main factors involved in the regulation of cytoskeletal dynamics. Phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chain may be mediated directly and indirectly by several kinases including myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) and kinases activated by small GTP-binding proteins. Most of the myosin kinases, including PAK, can also interact with other proteins through binding sites located outside of their catalytic domains. In an attempt to study the effects due only to phosphorylation of myosin light chain, we expressed the constitutively active catalytic domain of ameba PAK in HeLa cells. The catalytic domain phosphorylates myosin light chain in vitro with high specific activity but has none of the sequences that target mammalian PAK to other proteins and membranes. Expression of the catalytic domain caused disassembly of focal adhesions and stress fibers in the cell center and accumulation of focal adhesions and F-actin at the cell periphery. There was a twofold increase in the phosphorylation level of endogenous myosin light chain and changes in cell shape consistent with enhanced cell contractility. The phenotype was independent of MLCK, ROCK, MEK, Rac, and Rho activities but was abolished by blebbistatin, a specific inhibitor of myosin II activity. Our data are consistent with myosin being directly phosphorylated by the expressed catalytic domain of ameba PAK with the induced phenotype resulting from cell retraction driven by contraction of peripheral actomyosin. The phenotype induced by expression of the catalytic domain is reminiscent of that caused by expression of active mammalian PAK, suggesting that myosin phosphorylation may play an important role in PAK-induced cytoskeletal changes. The catalytic domain of ameba PAK may be a useful tool for studying the effects of myosin light chain phosphorylation in other cells.
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- Joanna Szczepanowska
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Moss DK, Lane JD. Microtubules: forgotten players in the apoptotic execution phase. Trends Cell Biol 2006; 16:330-8. [PMID: 16765597 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2006.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2006] [Revised: 04/26/2006] [Accepted: 05/24/2006] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A cell entering the execution phase of apoptosis (regulated cell death) undergoes characteristic rearrangements, in which the cytoskeleton has major roles. Historically, this reorganisation has been attributed entirely to actomyosin contractility, with microtubule and intermediate filament systems both reported to be lost at an early stage. However, recent results indicate that microtubule networks re-form during the later stages of apoptosis and assist in the dispersal of nuclear and cellular fragments--steps that are thought to be important for preventing inflammation. Here, we discuss the roles of the cytoskeleton during apoptosis and challenge current thinking that actin is the sole functional component driving all major execution phase events.
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- David K Moss
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, School of Medical and Veterinary Sciences, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
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Le Boeuf F, Houle F, Sussman M, Huot J. Phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) on Ser732 is induced by rho-dependent kinase and is essential for proline-rich tyrosine kinase-2-mediated phosphorylation of FAK on Tyr407 in response to vascular endothelial growth factor. Mol Biol Cell 2006; 17:3508-20. [PMID: 16760434 PMCID: PMC1525237 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e05-12-1158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is phosphorylated on tyrosine and serine residues after cell activation. In the present work, we investigated the relationship between tyrosine and serine phosphorylation of FAK in promoting endothelial cell migration in response to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). We found that VEGF induces the activation of the Rho-dependent kinase (ROCK) downstream from vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) 2. In turn, activated ROCK directly phosphorylates FAK on Ser732. Proline-rich tyrosine kinase-2 (Pyk2) is also activated in response to VEGF. Its activation requires the clustering of integrin alphavbeta3 and triggers directly the phosphorylation of Tyr407 within FAK, an event necessary for cell migration. Interestingly, ROCK-mediated phosphorylation of Ser732 is essential for Pyk2-dependent phosphorylation of Tyr407, because the latter is abrogated in cells expressing a FAK mutant that is nonphosphorylatable on Ser732. We suggest that VEGF elicits the activation of the VEGFR2-ROCK pathway, leading to phosphorylation of Ser732 within FAK. In turn, phosphorylation of Ser732 would change the conformation of FAK, making it accessible to Pyk2 activated in response to its association with integrin beta3. Then, activated Pyk2 triggers the phosphorylation of FAK on Tyr407, promoting cell migration.
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- Fabrice Le Boeuf
- *Le Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de l’Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1R-2J6, Canada; and
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- *Le Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de l’Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1R-2J6, Canada; and
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- Department of Biology, San Diego State University Heart Institute, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182
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- *Le Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de l’Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1R-2J6, Canada; and
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Wu D, Asiedu M, Adelstein RS, Wei Q. A novel guanine nucleotide exchange factor MyoGEF is required for cytokinesis. Cell Cycle 2006; 5:1234-9. [PMID: 16721066 PMCID: PMC2034313 DOI: 10.4161/cc.5.11.2815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The cleavage furrow is created by an actomyosin contractile ring that is regulated by small GTPase proteins such as Rac1 and RhoA. Guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) are positive regulators of the small GTPase proteins and have been implicated as important factors in regulating cytokinesis. However, it is still unclear how GEFs regulate the contractile ring during cytokinesis in mammalian cells. Here we report that a novel GEF, which is termed MyoGEF (myosin-interacting GEF), interacts with non-muscle myosin II and exhibits activity toward RhoA. MyoGEF and non-muscle myosin II colocalize to the cleavage furrow in early anaphase cells. Disruption of MyoGEF expression in U2OS cells by RNA interference (RNAi) results in the formation of multinucleated cells. These results suggest that MyoGEF, RhoA, and non-muscle myosin II act as a functional unit at the cleavage furrow to advance furrow ingression during cytokinesis.
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- Di Wu
- Department of Biochemistry; Kansas State University; Manhattan, Kansas USA
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- Department of Biochemistry; Kansas State University; Manhattan, Kansas USA
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- Department of Biochemistry; Kansas State University; Manhattan, Kansas USA
- *Correspondence to: Qize Wei, Ph.D.; Department of Biochemistry; Kansas State University; 104 Willard Hall; Manhattan, Kansas 66506 USA; Tel.: 785.532.6736; Fax: 785.532.7278,
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Labruyère E, Guillén N. Host tissue invasion by Entamoeba histolytica is powered by motility and phagocytosis. Arch Med Res 2006; 37:253-8. [PMID: 16380326 DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2005.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2005] [Accepted: 10/10/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Abstract
During amebiasis, E. histolytica motility is a key factor to achieve its progression across tissues. The pathogenicity of E. histolytica includes its capacity to phagocyte human cells. Motility requires polarization of E. histolytica that involves protrusion of a pseudopod containing actin and associated proteins [myosin IB, ABP-120 and a p21-activated kinase (PAK)] and whole-cell propulsion after contraction of the rear of the cell, where myosin II and F-actin are concentrated. An interesting characteristic of this parasite is the presence of two unique myosins (myosin II and unconventional myosin IB), in contrast to several actin genes. Little is known about the regulation of the actin-myosin cytoskeleton dynamics of E. histolytica, and a better understanding of signaling pathways that stimulate and coordinate regulators protein and cytoskeleton elements will provide new insight into the cell biology of the parasite and in amebiasis. Here we summarize the pleiotropic functions described for myosin II and PAK in E. histolytica. We propose that survival and pathogenicity of E. histolytica require an active actin-myosin cytoskeleton to cap surface receptors, to adhere to host components, to migrate through tissues, to phagocyte human cells and to form liver abscesses.
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- Elisabeth Labruyère
- Unité de Biologie Cellulaire du Parasitisme, INSERM U389, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Hickson GRX, Echard A, O'Farrell PH. Rho-kinase controls cell shape changes during cytokinesis. Curr Biol 2006; 16:359-70. [PMID: 16488869 PMCID: PMC1525334 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.12.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2005] [Revised: 12/23/2005] [Accepted: 12/29/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Animal cell cytokinesis is characterized by a sequence of dramatic cortical rearrangements. How these are coordinated and coupled with mitosis is largely unknown. To explore the initiation of cytokinesis, we focused on the earliest cell shape change, cell elongation, which occurs during anaphase B and prior to cytokinetic furrowing. RESULTS Using RNAi and live video microscopy in Drosophila S2 cells, we implicate Rho-kinase (Rok) and myosin II in anaphase cell elongation. rok RNAi decreased equatorial myosin II recruitment, prevented cell elongation, and caused a remarkable spindle defect where the spindle poles collided with an unyielding cell cortex and the interpolar microtubules buckled outward as they continued to extend. Disruption of the actin cytoskeleton with Latrunculin A, which abolishes cortical rigidity, suppressed the spindle defect. rok RNAi also affected furrowing, which was delayed and slowed, sometimes distorted, and in severe cases blocked altogether. Codepletion of the myosin binding subunit (Mbs) of myosin phosphatase, an antagonist of myosin II activation, only partially suppressed the cell-elongation defect and the furrowing delay, but prevented cytokinesis failures induced by prolonged rok RNAi. The marked sensitivity of cell elongation to Rok depletion was highlighted by RNAi to other genes in the Rho pathway, such as pebble, racGAP50C, and diaphanous, which had profound effects on furrowing but lesser effects on elongation. CONCLUSIONS We show that cortical changes underlying cell elongation are more sensitive to depletion of Rok and myosin II, in comparison to other regulators of cytokinesis, and suggest that a distinct regulatory pathway promotes cell elongation.
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- Gilles R X Hickson
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-2200, USA
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Russ M, Croft D, Ali O, Martinez R, Steimle P. Myosin heavy-chain kinase A from Dictyostelium possesses a novel actin-binding domain that cross-links actin filaments. Biochem J 2006; 395:373-83. [PMID: 16372899 PMCID: PMC1422765 DOI: 10.1042/bj20051376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Myosin heavy-chain kinase A (MHCK A) catalyses the disassembly of myosin II filaments in Dictyostelium cells via myosin II heavy-chain phosphorylation. MHCK A possesses a 'coiled-coil'-enriched domain that mediates the oligomerization, cellular localization and actin-binding activities of the kinase. F-actin (filamentous actin) binding by the coiled-coil domain leads to a 40-fold increase in MHCK A activity. In the present study we examined the actin-binding characteristics of the coiled-coil domain as a means of identifying mechanisms by which MHCK A-mediated disassembly of myosin II filaments can be regulated in the cell. Co-sedimentation assays revealed that the coiled-coil domain of MHCK A binds co-operatively to F-actin with an apparent K(D) of approx. 0.5 muM and a stoichiometry of approx. 5:1 [actin/C(1-498)]. Further analyses indicate that the coiled-coil domain binds along the length of the actin filament and possesses at least two actin-binding regions. Quite surprisingly, we found that the coiled-coil domain cross-links actin filaments into bundles, indicating that MHCK A can affect the cytoskeleton in two important ways: (1) by driving myosin II-filament disassembly via myosin II heavy-chain phosphorylation, and (2) by cross-linking/bundling actin filaments. This discovery, along with other supporting data, suggests a model in which MHCK A-mediated bundling of actin filaments plays a central role in the recruitment and activation of the kinase at specific sites in the cell. Ultimately this provides a means for achieving the robust and highly localized disruption of myosin II filaments that facilitates polarized changes in cell shape during processes such as chemotaxis, cytokinesis and multicellular development.
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- Misty Russ
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, U.S.A
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