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Fujiwara I, Takeda S, Oda T, Honda H, Narita A, Maéda Y. Polymerization and depolymerization of actin with nucleotide states at filament ends. Biophys Rev 2018; 10:1513-1519. [PMID: 30460458 PMCID: PMC6297080 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-018-0483-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Polymerization induces hydrolysis of ATP bound to actin, followed by γ-phosphate release, which helps advance the disassembly of actin filaments into ADP-G-actin. Mechanical understanding of this correlation between actin assembly and ATP hydrolysis has been an object of intensive studies in biochemistry and structural biology for many decades. Although actin polymerization and depolymerization occur only at either the barbed or pointed ends and the kinetic and equilibrium properties are substantially different from each other, characterizing their properties is difficult to do by bulk assays, as these assays report the average of all actin filaments in solution and are therefore not able to discern the properties of individual actin filaments. Biochemical studies of actin polymerization and hydrolysis were hampered by these inherent properties of actin filaments. Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy overcame this problem by observing single actin filaments. With TIRF, we now know not only that each end has distinct properties, but also that the rate of γ-phosphate release is much faster from the terminals than from the interior of actin filaments. The rate of γ-phosphate release from actin filament ends is even more accelerated when latrunculin A is bound. These findings highlight the importance of resolving structural differences between actin molecules in the interior of the filament and those at either filament end. This review provides a history of observing actin filaments under light microscopy, an overview of dynamic properties of ATP hydrolysis at the end of actin filament, and structural views of γ-phosphate release.
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- Ikuko Fujiwara
- Frontier Research Institute for Materials Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan.
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- Structural Biology Research Center, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan.
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- Faculty of Health and Welfare, Tokai Gakuin University, Nakakirino-cyo 5-68, Kakamigahara, Gifu, 504-8511, Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, 940-2188, Japan
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- Structural Biology Research Center, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
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- Structural Biology Research Center, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
- Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, 41-1, Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1192, Japan
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Hatori K, Iwasaki T, Wada R. Effect of urea and trimethylamine N-oxide on the binding between actin molecules. Biophys Chem 2014; 193-194:20-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2014.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2014] [Revised: 07/14/2014] [Accepted: 07/14/2014] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Feng JJ, Ushakov DS, Ferenczi MA, Laing NG, Nowak KJ, Marston SB. Direct visualisation and kinetic analysis of normal and nemaline myopathy actin polymerisation using total internal reflection microscopy. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2009; 30:85-92. [PMID: 19418233 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-009-9178-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2009] [Accepted: 04/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Actin filaments were formed by elongation of pre-formed nuclei (short crosslinked actin-HMM complexes) that were attached to a microscope cover glass. By using TIRF illumination we could see actin filaments at high contrast despite the presence of 150 nM TRITC-phalloidin in the solution. Actin filaments showed rapid bending and translational movements due to Brownian motion but the presence of the methylcellulose polymer network constrained lateral movement away from the surface. Both the length and the number of filaments increased with time. Some filaments did not change length at all and some filaments joined up end-to-end (annealing). We did not see any decrease in filament length or filament breakage. For quantitative analysis of polymerisation time course we measured the contour length of all the filaments in a frame at a series of time points and also tracked the length of individual filaments over time. Elongation rate was the same measured by both methods (0.23 microm/min at 0.1 microM actin) and was up to 10 times faster than previously published measurements. The annealed filament population reached 30% of the total after 40 min. Polymerisation rate increased linearly with actin concentration. K(on) was 2.07 microm min(-1) microM(-1) (equivalent to 34.5 monomers s(-1) microM(-1)) and critical concentration was less than 20 nM. This technique was used to study polymerisation of a mutant actin (D286G) from a transgenic mouse model. D286G actin elongated at a 40% lower rate than non-transgenic actin.
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- Juan-Juan Feng
- NHLI, Cardiovascular Science and Molecular Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Fujiwara I, Takahashi S, Tadakuma H, Funatsu T, Ishiwata S. Microscopic analysis of polymerization dynamics with individual actin filaments. Nat Cell Biol 2002; 4:666-73. [PMID: 12198494 DOI: 10.1038/ncb841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 296] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The polymerization-depolymerization dynamics of actin is a key process in a variety of cellular functions. Many spectroscopic studies have been performed in solution, but studies on single actin filaments have just begun. Here, we show that the time course of polymerization of individual filaments consists of a polymerization phase and a subsequent steady-state phase. During the steady-state phase, a treadmilling process of elongation at the barbed end and shortening at the pointed end occurs, in which both components of the process proceed at approximately the same rate. The time correlation of length fluctuation of the filaments in the steady-state phase showed that the polymerization-depolymerization dynamics follow a diffusion (stochastic) process, which cannot be explained by simple association and dissociation of monomers at both ends of the filaments.
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- Ikuko Fujiwara
- Department of Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
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