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Fujiwara T, Shingyoji C, Higuchi H. Versatile properties of dynein molecules underlying regulation in flagellar oscillation. Sci Rep 2023; 13:10514. [PMID: 37386019 PMCID: PMC10310797 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37242-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023] Open
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Dynein is a minus-end-directed motor that generates oscillatory motion in eukaryotic flagella. Cyclic beating, which is the most significant feature of a flagellum, occurs by sliding spatiotemporal regulation by dynein along microtubules. To elucidate oscillation generated by dynein in flagellar beating, we examined its mechanochemical properties under three different axonemal dissection stages. By starting from the intact 9 + 2 structure, we reduced the number of interacting doublets and determined three parameters, namely, the duty ratio, dwell time and step size, of the generated oscillatory forces at each stage. Intact dynein molecules in the axoneme, doublet bundle and single doublet were used to measure the force with optical tweezers. The mean forces per dynein determined under three axonemal conditions were smaller than the previously reported stall forces of axonemal dynein; this phenomenon suggests that the duty ratio is lower than previously thought. This possibility was further confirmed by an in vitro motility assay with purified dynein. The dwell time and step size estimated from the measured force were similar. The similarity in these parameters suggests that the essential properties of dynein oscillation are inherent to the molecule and independent of the axonemal architecture, composing the functional basis of flagellar beating.
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- Takashi Fujiwara
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- Universal Biology Institute, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Wijeratne S, Subramanian R. Geometry of antiparallel microtubule bundles regulates relative sliding and stalling by PRC1 and Kif4A. eLife 2018; 7:32595. [PMID: 30353849 PMCID: PMC6200392 DOI: 10.7554/elife.32595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2017] [Accepted: 09/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Motor and non-motor crosslinking proteins play critical roles in determining the size and stability of microtubule-based architectures. Currently, we have a limited understanding of how geometrical properties of microtubule arrays, in turn, regulate the output of crosslinking proteins. Here we investigate this problem in the context of microtubule sliding by two interacting proteins: the non-motor crosslinker PRC1 and the kinesin Kif4A. The collective activity of PRC1 and Kif4A also results in their accumulation at microtubule plus-ends (‘end-tag’). Sliding stalls when the end-tags on antiparallel microtubules collide, forming a stable overlap. Interestingly, we find that structural properties of the initial array regulate microtubule organization by PRC1-Kif4A. First, sliding velocity scales with initial microtubule-overlap length. Second, the width of the final overlap scales with microtubule lengths. Our analyses reveal how micron-scale geometrical features of antiparallel microtubules can regulate the activity of nanometer-sized proteins to define the structure and mechanics of microtubule-based architectures.
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- Sithara Wijeratne
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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Yoke H, Shingyoji C. Effects of external strain on the regulation of microtubule sliding induced by outer arm dynein of sea urchin sperm flagella. J Exp Biol 2017; 220:1122-1134. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.147942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2016] [Accepted: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Oscillatory bending movement of eukaryotic flagella is powered by orchestrated activity of dynein motor proteins that hydrolyze ATP and produce microtubule sliding. Although the ATP concentration within a flagellum is kept uniform at a few mmol l−1 level, sliding activities of dyneins are dynamically coordinated along the flagellum in accordance with the phase of bending waves. Thus, at the organellar level the dynein not only generates force for bending but also modulates its motile activity by responding to bending of the flagellum. Single molecule analyses have suggested that dynein at the molecular level, even if isolated from the axoneme, could alter the modes of motility in response to mechanical strain. However, it still remains unknown whether the coordinated activities of multiple dyneins can be modulated directly by mechanical signals. Here, we studied the effects of externally applied strain on the sliding movement of microtubules interacted with ensemble of dynein molecules adsorbed on a glass surface. We found that by bending the microtubules with a glass microneedle, three modes of motility that have not been previously characterized without bending can be induced: those were, stoppage, backward sliding and dissociation. Modification in sliding velocities was also induced by imposed bending. These results suggest that the activities of dyneins interacted with a microtubule can be modified and coordinated through external strain in a quite flexible manner and that such regulatory mechanism may be the basis of flagellar oscillation.
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- Hiroshi Yoke
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Namdeo S, Onck PR. Emergence of flagellar beating from the collective behavior of individual ATP-powered dyneins. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:042406. [PMID: 27841490 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.042406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Flagella are hair-like projections from the surface of eukaryotic cells, and they play an important role in many cellular functions, such as cell-motility. The beating of flagella is enabled by their internal architecture, the axoneme, and is powered by a dense distribution of motor proteins, dyneins. The dyneins deliver the required mechanical work through the hydrolysis of ATP. Although the dynein-ATP cycle, the axoneme microstructure, and the flagellar-beating kinematics are well studied, their integration into a coherent picture of ATP-powered flagellar beating is still lacking. Here we show that a time-delayed negative-work-based switching mechanism is able to convert the individual sliding action of hundreds of dyneins into a regular overall beating pattern leading to propulsion. We developed a computational model based on a minimal representation of the axoneme consisting of two representative doublet microtubules connected by nexin links. The relative sliding of the microtubules is incorporated by modeling two groups of ATP-powered dyneins, each responsible for sliding in opposite directions. A time-delayed switching mechanism is postulated, which is key in converting the local individual sliding action of multiple dyneins into global beating. Our results demonstrate that an overall nonreciprocal beating pattern can emerge with time due to the spatial and temporal coordination of the individual dyneins. These findings provide insights in the fundamental working mechanism of axonemal dyneins and could possibly open new research directions in the field of flagellar motility.
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- S Namdeo
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Alper JD, Decker F, Agana B, Howard J. The motility of axonemal dynein is regulated by the tubulin code. Biophys J 2016; 107:2872-2880. [PMID: 25658008 PMCID: PMC4808650 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.10.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Microtubule diversity, arising from the utilization of different tubulin genes and from posttranslational modifications, regulates many cellular processes including cell division, neuronal differentiation and growth, and centriole assembly. In the case of cilia and flagella, multiple cell biological studies show that microtubule diversity is important for axonemal assembly and motility. However, it is not known whether microtubule diversity directly influences the activity of the axonemal dyneins, the motors that drive the beating of the axoneme, nor whether the effects on motility are indirect, perhaps through regulatory pathways upstream of the motors, such as the central pair, radial spokes, or dynein regulatory complex. To test whether microtubule diversity can directly regulate the activity of axonemal dyneins, we asked whether in vitro acetylation or deacetylation of lysine 40 (K40), a major posttranslational modification of α-tubulin, or whether proteolytic cleavage of the C-terminal tail (CTT) of α- and β-tubulin, the location of detyrosination, polyglutamylation, and polyglycylation modifications as well as most of the genetic diversity, can influence the activity of outer arm axonemal dynein in motility assays using purified proteins. By quantifying the motility with displacement-weighted velocity analysis and mathematically modeling the results, we found that K40 acetylation increases and CTTs decrease axonemal dynein motility. These results show that axonemal dynein directly deciphers the tubulin code, which has important implications for eukaryotic ciliary beat regulation.
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- Joshua D Alper
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
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Alper JD, Tovar M, Howard J. Displacement-weighted velocity analysis of gliding assays reveals that Chlamydomonas axonemal dynein preferentially moves conspecific microtubules. Biophys J 2013; 104:1989-98. [PMID: 23663842 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.03.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2013] [Revised: 03/12/2013] [Accepted: 03/20/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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In vitro gliding assays, in which microtubules are observed to glide over surfaces coated with motor proteins, are important tools for studying the biophysics of motility. Gliding assays with axonemal dyneins have the unusual feature that the microtubules exhibit large variations in gliding speed despite measures taken to eliminate unsteadiness. Because axonemal dynein gliding assays are usually done using heterologous proteins, i.e., dynein and tubulin from different organisms, we asked whether the source of tubulin could underlie the unsteadiness. By comparing gliding assays with microtubules polymerized from Chlamydomonas axonemal tubulin with those from porcine brain tubulin, we found that the unsteadiness is present despite matching the source of tubulin to the source of dynein. We developed a novel, to our knowledge, displacement-weighted velocity analysis to quantify both the velocity and the unsteadiness of gliding assays systematically and without introducing bias toward low motility. We found that the quantified unsteadiness is independent of tubulin source. In addition, we found that the short Chlamydomonas microtubules translocate significantly faster than their porcine counterparts. By modeling the effect of length on velocity, we propose that the observed effect may be due to a higher rate of binding of Chlamydomonas axonemal dynein to Chlamydomonas microtubules than to porcine microtubules.
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- Joshua D Alper
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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Daneshmand F, Ghavanloo E, Amabili M. Wave propagation in protein microtubules modeled as orthotropic elastic shells including transverse shear deformations. J Biomech 2011; 44:1960-6. [PMID: 21632054 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2011] [Revised: 04/30/2011] [Accepted: 05/01/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Wave propagation along the microtubules is one of the issues of major concern in various microtubule cellular functions. In this study, the general wave propagation behavior in protein microtubules is investigated based on a first-order shear deformation shell theory for orthotropic materials, with particular emphasis on the role of strongly anisotropic elastic properties of microtubules. According to experimental observation, the first-order shear deformation theory is used for the modeling of microtubule walls. A general displacement representation is introduced and a type of coupled polynomial eigenvalue problem is developed. Numerical examples describe the effects of shear deformation and rotary inertia on wave velocities in orthotropic microtubules. Finally, the influences of the microtubule shear modulus, axial external force, effective thickness and material temperature dependency on wave velocities along the microtubule protofilaments, helical pathway and radial directions are elucidated. Most results presented in the present investigation have been absent from the literature for the wave propagation in microtubules.
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- Farhang Daneshmand
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71348-51154, Iran.
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Bending of the "9+2" axoneme analyzed by the finite element method. J Theor Biol 2010; 264:1089-101. [PMID: 20380841 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.03.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2009] [Revised: 03/26/2010] [Accepted: 03/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Many data demonstrate that the regulation of the bending polarity of the "9+2" axoneme is supported by the curvature itself, making the internal constraints central in this process, adjusting either the physical characteristics of the machinery or the activity of the enzymes involved in different pathways. Among them, the very integrated Geometric Clutch model founds this regulation on the convenient adjustments of the probability of interaction between the dynein arms and the beta-tubulin monomers of the outer doublet pairs on which they walk. Taking into consideration (i) the deviated bending of the outer doublets pairs (Cibert, C., Heck, J.-V., 2004. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 59, 153-168), (ii) the internal tensions of the radial spokes and the tangential links (nexin links, dynein arms), (iii) a theoretical 5 microm long proximal segment of the axoneme and (iv) the short proximal segment of the axoneme, we have reevaluated the adjustments of these intervals using a finite element approach. The movements we have calculated within the axonemal cylinder are consistent with the basic hypothesis that found the Geometric Clutch model, except that the axonemal side where the dynein arms are active increases the intervals between the two neighbor outer doublet pairs. This result allows us to propose a mechanism of bending reversion of the axoneme, involving the concerted ignition of the molecular engines along the two opposite sides of the axoneme delineated by the bending plane.
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Allen MJ, Rudd RE, McElfresh MW, Balhorn R. Time-dependent measure of a nanoscale force-pulse driven by the axonemal dynein motors in individual live sperm cells. NANOMEDICINE-NANOTECHNOLOGY BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2010; 6:510-5. [PMID: 20060073 DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2009.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2009] [Revised: 11/06/2009] [Accepted: 12/16/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Nanoscale mechanical forces generated by motor proteins are crucial to normal cellular and organismal functioning. The ability to measure and exploit such forces is important to developing motile biomimetic nanodevices powered by biological motors for nanomedicine. Axonemal dynein motors positioned inside the sperm flagellum drive microtubule sliding and give rise to rhythmic beating. This force-generating action pushes the sperm cell through viscous media. Here we report new nanoscale information on how the propulsive force is generated by the sperm flagellum and how this force varies over time. Using a modified atomic force microscope, single-cell recordings reveal discrete approximately 50-ms pulses oscillating with amplitude 9.8 +/- 2.6 nN independent of pulse frequency (3.5-19.5 Hz). The average work carried out by each cell is 4.6 x 10(-16) J per pulse, equivalent to the hydrolysis of approximately 5500 molecules of adenosine triphosphate. The mechanochemical coupling at each active dynein head is approximately 2.2 pN per adenosine triphosphate molecule and approximately 3.9 pN per dynein arm. From the clinical editor: In this paper, nanoscale mechanical forces generated by axonemal dynein motors derived from sperm flagellum are examined and reported. These motor proteins are crucial to normal cellular and organismal functioning. The ability to measure and exploit such forces is important to developing motile biomimetic nanodevices powered by biological motors for nanomedicine.
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Are the local adjustments of the relative spatial frequencies of the dynein arms and the β-tubulin monomers involved in the regulation of the “9+2” axoneme? J Theor Biol 2008; 253:74-89. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2006] [Revised: 12/17/2007] [Accepted: 01/24/2008] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Neumann AK, Thompson NL, Jacobson K. Distribution and lateral mobility of DC-SIGN on immature dendritic cells--implications for pathogen uptake. J Cell Sci 2008; 121:634-43. [PMID: 18270264 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.022418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The receptor C-type lectin DC-SIGN (CD209) is expressed by immature dendritic cells, functioning as an antigen capture receptor and cell adhesion molecule. Various microbes, including HIV-1, can exploit binding to DC-SIGN to gain entry to dendritic cells. DC-SIGN forms discrete nanoscale clusters on immature dendritic cells that are thought to be important for viral binding. We confirmed that these DC-SIGN clusters also exist both in live dendritic cells and in cell lines that ectopically express DC-SIGN. Moreover, DC-SIGN has an unusual polarized lateral distribution in the plasma membrane of dendritic cells and other cells: the receptor is preferentially localized to the leading edge of the dendritic cell lamellipod and largely excluded from the ventral plasma membrane. Colocalization of DC-SIGN clusters with endocytic activity demonstrated that surface DC-SIGN clusters are enriched near the leading edge, whereas endocytosis of these clusters occurred preferentially at lamellar sites posterior to the leading edge. Therefore, we predicted that DC-SIGN clusters move from the leading edge to zones of internalization. Two modes of lateral mobility were evident from the trajectories of DC-SIGN clusters at the leading edge, directed and non-directed mobility. Clusters with directed mobility moved in a highly linear fashion from the leading edge to rearward locations in the lamella at remarkably high velocity (1420+/-260 nm/second). Based on these data, we propose that DC-SIGN clusters move from the leading edge--where the dendritic cell is likely to encounter pathogens in tissue--to a medial lamellar site where clusters enter the cell via endocytosis. Immature dendritic cells may acquire and internalize HIV and other pathogens by this process.
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- Aaron K Neumann
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Lorch DP, Lindemann CB, Hunt AJ. The motor activity of mammalian axonemal dynein studied in situ on doublet microtubules. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 65:487-94. [DOI: 10.1002/cm.20277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Chen Q, Li DY, Oiwa K. The coordination of protein motors and the kinetic behavior of microtubule — A computational study. Biophys Chem 2007; 129:60-9. [PMID: 17566632 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2007.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2007] [Revised: 05/09/2007] [Accepted: 05/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Utilizing the mechanical energy converted from chemical energy through hydrolysis of ATP, motor proteins drive cytoskeleton filaments to move in various biological systems. Recent technological advance has shown the potential of the motor proteins for powering future nano-bio-mechanical systems. In order to effectively use motor proteins as a biological motor, the interaction between the protein motors and bio-filaments needs to be well clarified, since such interaction is largely influenced by many factors, such as the coordination among the motors, their dynamic behavior, physical properties of microtubules, and the viscosity of solution involved, etc. In this study, a two-dimensional model was proposed to simulate the motion of a microtubule driven by protein motors based on a dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) method with attempt to correlate the microtubule's kinetic behavior to the coordination among protein motors.
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- Q Chen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2V2.
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Seetharam RN, Satir P. High speed sliding of axonemal microtubules produced by outer arm dynein. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 60:96-103. [PMID: 15605357 DOI: 10.1002/cm.20048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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To study dynein arm activity at high temporal resolution, axonemal sliding was measured field by field for wild type and dynein arm mutants of Tetrahymena thermophila. For wt SB255 cells, when the rate of data acquisition was 60 fps, about 5x greater than previously published observations, sliding was observed to be discontinuous with very high velocity sliding (average 196 microm/sec) for a few msec (1 or 2 fields) followed by a pause of several fields. The sliding velocities measured were an order of magnitude greater than rates previously measured by video analysis. However, when the data were analyzed at 12 fps for the same axonemes, consistent with previous observations, sliding was linear as the axonemes extended several times their original length with an average velocity of approximately 10 microm/sec. The pauses or stops occurred at approximately 200 and 300% of the initial length, suggesting that dynein arms on one axonemal doublet were initially active to the limit of extension, and then the arms on the next doublet became activated. In contrast, in a mutant where OADs are missing, sliding observed at 60 fps was continuous and slow (5 microm/sec), as opposed to the discontinuous high-velocity sliding of SB255 and of the mutant at the permissive temperature where OADs are present. High-velocity step-wise sliding was also present in axonemes from an inner arm dynein mutant (KO6). These results indicate that the high-speed discontinuous pattern of sliding is produced by the mechanochemical activity of outer arm dynein. The rate of sliding is consistent with a low duty ratio of the outer arm dynein and with the operation of each arm along a doublet once per beat.
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- Raviraja N Seetharam
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Guerra C, Wada Y, Leick V, Bell A, Satir P. Cloning, localization, and axonemal function of Tetrahymena centrin. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:251-61. [PMID: 12529441 PMCID: PMC140242 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-05-0298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Centrin, an EF hand Ca(2+) binding protein, has been cloned in Tetrahymena thermophila. It is a 167 amino acid protein of 19.4 kDa with a unique N-terminal region, coded by a single gene containing an 85-base pair intron. It has > 80% homology to other centrins and high homology to Tetrahymena EF hand proteins calmodulin, TCBP23, and TCBP25. Specific cellular localizations of the closely related Tetrahymena EF hand proteins are different from centrin. Centrin is localized to basal bodies, cortical fibers in oral apparatus and ciliary rootlets, the apical filament ring and to inner arm (14S) dynein (IAD) along the ciliary axoneme. The function of centrin in Ca(2+) control of IAD activity was explored using in vitro microtubule (MT) motility assays. Ca(2+) or the Ca(2+)-mimicking peptide CALP1, which binds EF hand proteins in the absence of Ca(2+), increased MT sliding velocity. Antibodies to centrin abrogated this increase. This is the first demonstration of a specific centrin function associated with axonemal dynein. It suggests that centrin is a key regulatory protein for Tetrahymena axonemal Ca(2+) responses, including ciliary reversal or chemotaxis.
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- Charles Guerra
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Lindemann CB. Geometric Clutch model version 3: the role of the inner and outer arm dyneins in the ciliary beat. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 2002; 52:242-54. [PMID: 12112138 DOI: 10.1002/cm.10049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The Geometric Clutch model of ciliary and flagellar beating uses the transverse force (t-force) that develops between the outer doublets of the axoneme as the regulator for activating and deactivating the dynein motors and organizing the flagellar beat. The version of the model described here adds detail to the formulations used in the two previous versions as follows: (1) In place of two opposing sets of dyneins, the new model has four sets of dyneins, corresponding to two sets on each side of the axoneme acting in series. (2) The four sets of dyneins are each subdivided into two ranks representing inner and outer arm dyneins. (3) The force produced by each dynein is governed by a force-velocity relationship that is independently specified for the inner and outer arms. Consistent with the original model, the new version of the Geometric Clutch model can simulate both the effective and recovery stroke phases of the ciliary beat using a single uniform algorithm. In addition, the new version can operate with the outer arms disabled. Under this condition, the simulation exhibits a beat pattern similar to the original but the beat frequency is reduced to approximately one third. These results are contingent on using force-velocity relationships for the inner and outer arms similar to those described by Brokaw [1999: Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 42:134-148], where the inner arms contribute most of the driving force at low shear velocities. This constitutes the first examination of the effects of the force-velocity characteristics of dynein on a cilia-like beat in a theoretical framework.
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- Charles B Lindemann
- Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309, USA.
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Christensen ST, Guerra C, Wada Y, Valentin T, Angeletti RH, Satir P, Hamasaki T. A regulatory light chain of ciliary outer arm dynein in Tetrahymena thermophila. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:20048-54. [PMID: 11274140 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m008412200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Ciliary beat frequency is primarily regulated by outer arm dyneins (22 S dynein). Chilcote and Johnson (Chilcote, T. J., and Johnson, K. A. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 256, 17257-17266) previously studied isolated Tetrahymena 22 S dynein, identifying a protein p34, which showed cAMP-dependent phosphorylation. Here, we characterize the molecular biochemistry of p34 further, demonstrating that it is the functional ortholog of the 22 S dynein regulatory light chain, p29, in Paramecium. p34, thiophosphorylated in isolated axonemes in the presence of cAMP, co-purified with 22 S dynein and not with inner arm dynein (14 S dynein). Isolated 22 S dynein containing phosphorylated p34 showed approximately 70% increase in in vitro microtubule translocation velocity compared with its unphosphorylated counterpart. Extracted p34 rebound to isolated 22 S dynein from either Tetrahymena or Paramecium but not to 14 S dynein from either ciliate. Binding of radiolabeled p34 to 22 S dynein was competitive with p29. Phosphorylated p34 was not present in axonemes isolated from a mutant lacking outer arms. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis followed by phosphorimaging revealed at least five phosphorylated p34-related spots, consistent with multiple phosphorylation sites in p34 or perhaps multiple isoforms of p34. These new features suggest that a class of outer arm dynein light chains including p34 regulates microtubule sliding velocity and consequently ciliary beat frequency through phosphorylation.
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- S T Christensen
- Departments of Anatomy and Structural Biology and Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Peter Satir has devoted his research career to elucidating the structural basis for ciliary motility. His ingenious use of structural analysis, combined with identification of powerful model systems, provided a model for the sliding microtubule hypothesis of ciliary bending and led to the discovery that dynein is a 'minus-end'-directed motor whose regulated activity underpins the bending motion of cilia. Here, we focus on ciliary motility to illustrate Satir's pioneering contributions to cell biology.
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- W S Sale
- Dept of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1648 Pierce Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Schmitz KA, Holcomb-Wygle DL, Oberski DJ, Lindemann CB. Measurement of the force produced by an intact bull sperm flagellum in isometric arrest and estimation of the dynein stall force. Biophys J 2000; 79:468-78. [PMID: 10866972 PMCID: PMC1300950 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(00)76308-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The force generated by a detergent-extracted reactivated bull sperm flagellum during an isometric stall was measured with a force-calibrated glass microprobe. The average isometric stall force from 48 individual measurements was 2.5 +/- 0.7 x 10(-5) dyne (2.5 +/- 0.7 x 10(-10) N). The force measurements were obtained by positioning a calibrated microprobe in the beat path of sperm cells that were stuck by their heads to a glass microscope slide. The average position of the contact point of the flagellum with the probe was 15 microm from the head-tail junction. This average lever arm length multiplied by the measured force yields an estimate of the active bending moment (torque) of 3.9 x 10(-8) dyne x cm (3.9 x 10(-15) N x m). The force was sustained and was for the most part uniform, despite the fact that the flagellum beyond the point of contact with the probe usually continued beating. It appears that the dynein motors in the basal portion of the flagellum continue to pull in an isometric stall for as long as the motion of the flagellum is blocked. If dynein motors in the flagellum distal to the contact point with the probe were contributing force to the displacement of the probe, then the flagellar segment immediately past the point of contact would have to show a net curvature in the direction of the probe displacement. No such curvature bias was observed in the R-bend arrests, and only a small positive curvature bias was measured in the P-bend arrests. Our analysis of the data suggests that more than 90% of the sustained force component is generated by the part of the flagellum between the probe and the flagellar base. Based on this premise, the isometric stall force per dynein head is estimated to be 5.0 x 10(-7) dyne (5 pN). This equals approximately 1.0 x 10(-6) dyne (10 pN) per intact dynein arm. These values are close to the isometric stall force of isolated dynein. This suggests that all of the dynein heads between the base and the probe, on the active side of the axoneme, are contributing to the force exerted against the probe.
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- K A Schmitz
- Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309-4476, USA
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Wang H, Satir P. The 29 kDa light chain that regulates axonemal dynein activity binds to cytoplasmic dyneins. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 2000; 39:1-8. [PMID: 9453709 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0169(1998)39:1<1::aid-cm1>3.0.co;2-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In earlier studies, Hamasaki et al. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 88:7918-7922, 1991) and Barkalow et al. (J. Cell Biol. 126:727-735, 1994) found that cAMP- and Ca2+-sensitive phosphorylation of a 29 kDa dynein light chain (p29) extracted from 22S axonemal dynein of Paramecium, regulates the velocity of in vitro microtubule translocation and ciliate swimming speed. In this study we report evidence of recombination of p29 to cytoplasmic dyneins from both rat liver and Paramecium, as well as to a 22S dynein precursor molecule, based on immunoprecipitation and force filtration data. Immunoprecipitation also provides additional evidence for the binding of p29 to 22S axonemal dynein. The results suggest that p29 might regulate cytoplasmic dynein, as well as axonemal dynein function in Paramecium, and that a homologue of p29 may exist in rat liver and other mammalian cells.
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- H Wang
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Wada Y, Hamasaki T, Satir P. Evidence for a novel affinity mechanism of motor-assisted transport along microtubules. Mol Biol Cell 2000; 11:161-9. [PMID: 10637299 PMCID: PMC14765 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.11.1.161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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In microtubule (MT) translocation assays, using colloidal gold particles coupled to monoclonal tubulin antibodies to mark positions along MTs, we found that relative motion is possible between the gold particle and an MT, gliding on dynein or kinesin. Such motion evidently occurred by an affinity release and rebinding mechanism that did not require motor activity on the particle. As the MTs moved, particles drifted to the trailing edge of the MT and then were released. Sometimes the particles transferred from one MT to another, moving orthogonally. Although motion of the particles was uniformly rearward, movement was toward the (-) or (+) end of the MT, depending on whether dynein or kinesin, respectively, was used in the assay. These results open possibilities for physiological mechanisms of organelle and other movement that, although dependent on motor-driven microtubule transport, do not require direct motor attachment between the organelle and the microtubule. Our observations on the direction of particle drift and time of release may also provide confirmation in a dynamic system for the conclusion that beta tubulin is exposed at the (+) end of the MT.
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- Y Wada
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Affiliation(s)
- P Satir
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
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Salathe M, Bookman RJ. Mode of Ca2+ action on ciliary beat frequency in single ovine airway epithelial cells. J Physiol 1999; 520 Pt 3:851-65. [PMID: 10545149 PMCID: PMC2269609 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.00851.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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1. We analysed the kinetics of coupling between cytoplasmic calcium ([Ca2+]i) and ciliary beat frequency (CBF) using simultaneous single cilium recording and single cell [Ca2+]i measurements from cultured ovine tracheal epithelial cells. 2. CBF and [Ca2+]i (indicated by fura-2) were measured at rest and in response to activation of the G-protein coupled M3 muscarinic receptor by 10 microM acetylcholine (ACh). 3. Fourier transform analysis of 3 s data segments of light intensity from phase-contrast microscopy showed no significant delay between changes in [Ca2+]i and CBF during a 2 min exposure to ACh and subsequent washout. 4. CBF time resolution was improved by computing instantaneous beat frequency. This revealed that CBF lagged the rapid increase in [Ca2+]i in response to ACh with a delay of less than 1 beat cycle (143 ms at 7 Hz). When CBF was estimated by an improved Fourier method, this delay was observed to be 70 +/- 30 ms (mean +/- s.e.m.; n = 20 cilia). During the slower return to baseline, a lag of 8 +/- 3.2 s was observed, indicative of hysteresis. 5. While calmodulin inhibitors (calmidazolium and W-7; each n = 5) decreased baseline CBF by an average of 1.1 +/- 0.1 Hz, they did not alter the kinetic relationship between [Ca2+]i and CBF. Similarly, phosphatase inhibitors (okadaic acid and cyclosporin A; each n = 5), changed neither baseline CBF nor the kinetic coupling between [Ca2+]i and CBF. 6. These data suggest that the timing of Ca2+ action on CBF in ovine airway epithelial cells, is unlikely to be determined by phosphorylation reactions involving calmodulin or kinase/phosphatase reactions. 7. A simple model for Ca2+ stimulation of CBF is presented. Fits of the model to the data suggest four or more Ca2+ ions bind cooperatively to speed up CBF.
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- M Salathe
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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Holwill ME, Taylor HC, Guevara E, Satir P. Computer modelling: a versatile tool for the study of structure and function in Cilia. Eur J Protistol 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0932-4739(98)80049-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Young EC, Mahtani HK, Gelles J. One-headed kinesin derivatives move by a nonprocessive, low-duty ratio mechanism unlike that of two-headed kinesin. Biochemistry 1998; 37:3467-79. [PMID: 9521668 DOI: 10.1021/bi972172n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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A single molecule of the "two-headed" motor enzyme kinesin can move along a microtubule continuously for many enzymatic turnovers (processive movement), and the velocity produced by one kinesin molecule is the same as that produced by many kinesin molecules (high duty ratio). We studied the microtubule movement driven at 1 mM ATP by biotinated N-terminal fragments of Drosophila kinesin heavy chain attached to streptavidin-coated coverslips at various surface densities. K448-BIO has velocity at a high density of vmax = 750 nm s-1 and is dimeric (hence two-headed); K365-BIO (vmax = 200 nm s-1) and K340-BIO (vmax = 90 nm s-1) are monomeric. Escape of microtubules from the surface was prevented by methylcellulose so that continuous trajectories of microtubules not continuously attached to motor molecules could be recorded by video microscopy. The component of instantaneous velocity parallel to the microtubule axis (v) was analyzed in trajectories with a mean velocity 0.4-0.7 times vmax. In K448-BIO trajectories, the distribution of v was bimodal with peaks near 0 and 750 nm s-1. Temporal autocorrelation analysis of v detected lengthy episodes of high-velocity movement consistent with isolated processive microtubule runs driven at vmax by single K448-BIO dimers. K365-BIO and K340-BIO trajectories had unimodal distributions of v and autocorrelation times much shorter than those for K448-BIO. Therefore the monomeric motors have duty ratio < 55% (i.e., no forward movement is generated for at least 45% of the enzymatic cycle time) or processivity below the detection limit of approximately 300 turnovers even in methylcellulose. Continuous movement at maximal velocity thus requires more than one kinesin head.
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- E C Young
- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254, USA
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Molecular motors are protein machines whose directed movement along cytoskeletal filaments is driven by ATP hydrolysis. Eukaryotic cells contain motors that help to transport organelles to their correct cellular locations and to establish and alter cellular morphology during cell locomotion and division. The best-studied motors, myosin from skeletal muscle and conventional kinesin from brain, are remarkably similar in structure, yet have very different functions. These differences can be understood in terms of the 'duty ratio', the fraction of the time that a motor is attached to its filament. Differences in duty ratio can explain the diversity of structures, speeds and oligomerization states of members of the large kinesin, myosin and dynein families of motors.
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- J Howard
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7290, USA
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Imafuku Y, Toyoshima YY, Tawada K. Length dependence of displacement fluctuations and velocity in microtubule sliding movement driven by sea urchin sperm outer arm β dynein in vitro. Biophys Chem 1997; 67:117-25. [PMID: 17029893 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(97)00028-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/1996] [Revised: 01/18/1997] [Accepted: 02/10/1997] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We have studied the dependence on microtubule length of sliding velocity and positional fluctuation from recorded trajectories of microtubules sliding over sea urchin sperm outer arm beta dynein in a motility assay in vitro. The positional fluctuation was quantified by calculating the mean-square displacement deviation from the average, the calculation of which yields an effective diffusion coefficient. We have found that (1) the sliding velocity depends hyperbolically on the microtubule length, and (2) the effective diffusion coefficients do not depend on the length for sufficiently long microtubules. The length dependence of the sliding velocity indicates that the duty ratio, defined as the force producing period over the total cycle time of beta dynein interaction with microtubule, is very small. The length independence of the effective diffusion coefficient indicates that there is a correlation in the sliding movement fluctuation of microtubules.
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- Y Imafuku
- Department of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812-81, Japan
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Habermacher G, Sale WS. Regulation of flagellar dynein by phosphorylation of a 138-kD inner arm dynein intermediate chain. J Cell Biol 1997; 136:167-76. [PMID: 9008711 PMCID: PMC2132463 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.136.1.167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/1996] [Revised: 10/29/1996] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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One of the challenges in understanding ciliary and flagellar motility is determining the mechanisms that locally regulate dynein-driven microtubule sliding. Our recent studies demonstrated that microtubule sliding, in Chlamydomonas flagella, is regulated by phosphorylation. However, the regulatory proteins remain unknown. Here we identify the 138-kD intermediate chain of inner arm dynein I1 as the critical phosphoprotein required for regulation of motility. This conclusion is founded on the results of three different experimental approaches. First, genetic analysis and functional assays revealed that regulation of microtubule sliding, by phosphorylation, requires inner arm dynein I1. Second, in vitro phosphorylation indicated the 138-kD intermediate chain of I1 is the only phosphorylated subunit. Third, in vitro reconstitution demonstrated that phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of the 138-kD intermediate chain inhibits and restores wild-type microtubule sliding, respectively. We conclude that change in phosphorylation of the 138-kD intermediate chain of I1 regulates dynein-driven microtubule sliding. Moreover, based on these and other data, we predict that regulation of I1 activity is involved in modulation of flagellar waveform.
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- G Habermacher
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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