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Chen X, Allan DSJ, Krzewski K, Ge B, Kopcow H, Strominger JL. CD28-stimulated ERK2 phosphorylation is required for polarization of the microtubule organizing center and granules in YTS NK cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:10346-10351. [PMID: 16801532 PMCID: PMC1502460 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604236103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Activation of natural killer (NK) cell cytotoxicity requires adhesion and formation of a conjugate with a susceptible target cell, followed by actin polymerization, and polarization of the microtubule organizing center (MTOC) and cytolytic granules to the NK cell immune synapse. Here, by using the YTS NK cell line as a model, CD28 is shown to be an activating receptor. It signals cytotoxicity in a process dependent on phosphoinositide-3 kinase activation, leading to sustained extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2 (ERK2) phosphorylation. ERK and phospho-ERK localize to microtubule filaments. Neither conjugation with targets nor actin polymerization is affected by blocking ERK2 activation. However, both polarization of the MTOC and cytolytic granules to the synaptic region and NK cell cytotoxicity are strongly reduced by blocking ERK2 activation. A role for the CD28/CD80 interaction in cytotoxicity of human peripheral NK cells also was established. By contrast, lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1) ligation transduces only a transient ERK2 activation and fails to induce killing in YTS cells. Thus, in YTS cells, a CD28 signal is used to polarize the MTOC and cytolytic granules to the NK cell immune synapse by stimulating sustained ERK2 activation.
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- Xi Chen
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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de Wit J, Toonen RF, Verhaagen J, Verhage M. Vesicular trafficking of semaphorin 3A is activity-dependent and differs between axons and dendrites. Traffic 2006; 7:1060-77. [PMID: 16734664 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2006.00442.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Secreted semaphorins act as guidance cues in the developing nervous system and may have additional functions in mature neurons. How semaphorins are transported and secreted by neurons is poorly understood. We find that endogenous semaphorin 3A (Sema3A) displays a punctate distribution in axons and dendrites of cultured cortical neurons. GFP-Sema3A shows a similar distribution and co-localizes with secretory vesicle cargo proteins. Live-cell imaging reveals highly dynamic trafficking of GFP-Sema3A vesicles with distinct properties in axons and dendrites regarding directionality, velocity, mobility and pausing time. In axons, most GFP-Sema3A vesicles move fast without interruption, almost exclusively in the anterograde direction, while in dendrites many GFP-Sema3A vesicles are stationary and move equally frequent in both directions. Disruption of microtubules, but not of actin filaments, significantly impairs GFP-Sema3A transport. Interestingly, depolarization induces a reversible arrest of axonal transport of GFP-Sema3A vesicles but has little effect on dendritic transport. Conversely, action potential blockade using tetrodotoxin (TTX) accelerates axonal transport, but not dendritic transport. These data indicate that axons and dendrites regulate trafficking of Sema3A and probably other secretory vesicles in distinct ways, with axons specializing in fast, uninterrupted, anterograde transport. Furthermore, neuronal activity regulates secretory vesicle trafficking in axons by a depolarization-evoked trafficking arrest.
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- Joris de Wit
- Department of Functional Genomics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Vrije Universiteit (VU) and VU Medical Center (VUmc), De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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The majority of active transport in the cell is driven by three classes of molecular motors: the kinesin and dynein families that move toward the plus-end and minus-end of microtubules, respectively, and the unconventional myosin motors that move along actin filaments. Each class of motor has different properties, but in the cell they often function together. In this review we summarize what is known about their single-molecule properties and the possibilities for regulation of such properties. In view of new results on cytoplasmic dynein, we attempt to rationalize how these different classes of motors might work together as part of the intracellular transport machinery. We propose that kinesin and myosin are robust and highly efficient transporters, but with somewhat limited room for regulation of function. Because cytoplasmic dynein is less efficient and robust, to achieve function comparable to the other motors it requires a number of accessory proteins as well as multiple dyneins functioning together. This necessity for additional factors, as well as dynein's inherent complexity, in principle allows for greatly increased control of function by taking the factors away either singly or in combination. Thus, dynein's contribution relative to the other motors can be dynamically tuned, allowing the motors to function together differently in a variety of situations.
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- Roop Mallik
- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, California 92697, USA
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Molecular motors that hydrolyze ATP and use the derived energy to generate force are involved in a variety of diverse cellular functions. Genetic, biochemical, and cellular localization data have implicated motors in a variety of functions such as vesicle and organelle transport, cytoskeleton dynamics, morphogenesis, polarized growth, cell movements, spindle formation, chromosome movement, nuclear fusion, and signal transduction. In non-plant systems three families of molecular motors (kinesins, dyneins, and myosins) have been well characterized. These motors use microtubules (in the case of kinesines and dyneins) or actin filaments (in the case of myosins) as tracks to transport cargo materials intracellularly. During the last decade tremendous progress has been made in understanding the structure and function of various motors in animals. These studies are yielding interesting insights into the functions of molecular motors and the origin of different families of motors. Furthermore, the paradigm that motors bind cargo and move along cytoskeletal tracks does not explain the functions of some of the motors. Relatively little is known about the molecular motors and their roles in plants. In recent years, by using biochemical, cell biological, molecular, and genetic approaches a few molecular motors have been isolated and characterized from plants. These studies indicate that some of the motors in plants have novel features and regulatory mechanisms. The role of molecular motors in plant cell division, cell expansion, cytoplasmic streaming, cell-to-cell communication, membrane trafficking, and morphogenesis is beginning to be understood. Analyses of the Arabidopsis genome sequence database (51% of genome) with conserved motor domains of kinesin and myosin families indicates the presence of a large number (about 40) of molecular motors and the functions of many of these motors remain to be discovered. It is likely that many more motors with novel regulatory mechanisms that perform plant-specific functions are yet to be discovered. Although the identification of motors in plants, especially in Arabidopsis, is progressing at a rapid pace because of the ongoing plant genome sequencing projects, only a few plant motors have been characterized in any detail. Elucidation of function and regulation of this multitude of motors in a given species is going to be a challenging and exciting area of research in plant cell biology. Structural features of some plant motors suggest calcium, through calmodulin, is likely to play a key role in regulating the function of both microtubule- and actin-based motors in plants.
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- A S Reddy
- Department of Biology and Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523, USA
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Ueda N, Ohnishi H, Kanamaru C, Suzuki J, Tsuchida T, Mashima H, Yasuda H, Fujita T. Kinesin is involved in regulation of rat pancreatic amylase secretion. Gastroenterology 2000; 119:1123-31. [PMID: 11040199 DOI: 10.1053/gast.2000.18145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Kinesin has recently been localized to zymogen granules of pancreatic acini and is suggested to participate in exocytosis of exocrine pancreas. We examined the function of kinesin in regulated exocytosis of pancreatic acini in this study. METHODS Kinesin function in exocytosis was examined by introducing hexahistidine-tagged recombinant kinesin protein and antikinesin monoclonal antibody into streptolysin-O-permeabilized acini. Intracellular localization of introduced recombinant kinesin was investigated by immunohistochemistry. Interaction between recombinant kinesin and the microtubule network was confirmed by nocodazole pretreatment of acini. Kinesin regulation by secretagogues was investigated by examining their effect on adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity of endogenous kinesin. RESULTS Recombinant kinesin enhanced calcium-stimulated amylase release from streptolysin-O-permeabilized acini. Introduced recombinant kinesin was localized to both the microtubule network and zymogen granule. Nocodazole pretreatment of acini abolished the enhancing effect of recombinant kinesin on calcium-stimulated amylase release. Antikinesin antibody inhibited amylase release stimulated by the combination of calcium and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) but not that stimulated by calcium alone. Secretin and 8-bromo-cAMP increased ATPase activity of endogenous kinesin. CONCLUSIONS Kinesin plays a stimulatory role in regulated exocytosis of pancreatic acini and is involved in stimulus-secretion coupling through a cAMP-dependent pathway.
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- N Ueda
- Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Day IS, Miller C, Golovkin M, Reddy AS. Interaction of a kinesin-like calmodulin-binding protein with a protein kinase. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:13737-45. [PMID: 10788494 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.18.13737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Kinesin-like calmodulin-binding protein (KCBP) is a novel member of the kinesin superfamily that is involved in cell division and trichome morphogenesis. KCBP is unique among all known kinesins in having a myosin tail homology-4 region in the N-terminal tail and a calmodulin-binding region following the motor domain. Calcium, through calmodulin, has been shown to negatively regulate the interaction of KCBP with microtubules. Here we have used the yeast two-hybrid system to identify the proteins that interact with the tail region of KCBP. A protein kinase (KCBP-interacting protein kinase (KIPK)) was found to interact specifically with the tail region of KCBP. KIPK is related to a group of protein kinases specific to plants that has an additional sequence between subdomains VII and VIII of the conserved C-terminal catalytic domain and an extensive N-terminal region. The catalytic domain alone of KIPK interacted weakly with the N-terminal KCBP protein but strongly with full-length KCBP, whereas the noncatalytic region did not interact with either protein. The interaction of KCBP with KIPK was confirmed using coprecipitation assays. Using bacterially expressed full-length and truncated proteins, we have shown that the catalytic domain is capable of phosphorylating itself. The association of KIPK with KCBP suggests regulation of KCBP or KCBP-associated proteins by phosphorylation and/or that KCBP is involved in targeting KIPK to its proper cellular location.
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- I S Day
- Department of Biology and Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- J Lane
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, 2.205 Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
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Robertson AM, Allan VJ. Cell cycle regulation of organelle transport. PROGRESS IN CELL CYCLE RESEARCH 1998; 3:59-75. [PMID: 9552407 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5371-7_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Microtubule- and actin-based motors play a wide range of vital roles in the organisation and function of cells during both interphase and mitosis, all of which are likely to be under strict control. Here, we describe how one of these roles--the movement of membranes--is regulated through the cell cycle. Organelle movement in many species is greatly reduced in mitosis as compared to interphase, and this change occurs concomitantly with an inhibition of most membrane traffic functions. Data from in vitro studies is shedding light on how microtubule motor regulation may be achieved.
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- A M Robertson
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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Marlowe KJ, Farshori P, Torgerson RR, Anderson KL, Miller LJ, McNiven MA. Changes in kinesin distribution and phosphorylation occur during regulated secretion in pancreatic acinar cells. Eur J Cell Biol 1998; 75:140-52. [PMID: 9548371 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-9335(98)80056-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In secretory cells, microtubule- (Mt-) based motor enzymes are thought to support transport of secretory vesicles to the cell surface for subsequent release. At present, the role of Mts and kinesin in secretory vesicle transport in exocrine epithelial cells has not been defined. Furthermore, it is unclear whether an agonist-induced secretory event modifies kinesin function and distribution, thus altering vesicle transport. To this end, we utilized isolated rat pancreatic acini and cultured rat pancreatic acinar cells to examine the role of Mts and kinesin in regulated secretion. Exposure of cells to cytoskeletal antagonistic drugs demonstrated that the observed movements of apically clustered zymogen granules (ZGs) are supported by Mts, but not actin. Morphological studies of Mt organization in polarized acini show that Mt plus ends extend outward from the apical membrane toward the cell center. Immunofluorescence microscopy in both cell models revealed a clear association of kinesin with apical ZGs, while quantitative immunoblot analysis of pancreatic subcellular fractions confirmed kinesin enrichment on ZG membranes. In addition, microinjection of kinesin antibodies into cultured acinar cells inhibited ZG movements. Indirect immunofluorescence staining of isolated cells and quantitative Western blotting of isolated ZGs revealed that kinesin association with granule membranes increased up to 3-fold in response to a secretory stimulus. Autoradiographic studies of 32P-labeled acini showed up to a 6-fold increase in kinesin heavy chain (KHC) phosphorylation during stimulated secretion. These studies provide the first direct evidence that Mts and kinesin support ZG movements and that physiological agonists induce a marked phosphorylation of KHC while increasing the association of kinesin with ZG membranes. These changes during agonist stimulation suggest that the participation of kinesin in zymogen secretion is regulated.
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- K J Marlowe
- Center for Basic Research in Digestive Diseases, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Sironi JJ, Barra HS, Arce CA. The association of tubulin carboxypeptidase activity with microtubules in brain extracts is modulated by phosphorylation/dephosphorylation processes. Mol Cell Biochem 1997; 170:9-16. [PMID: 9144313 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006846828547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Tubulin carboxypeptidase, the enzyme which releases the COOH terminal tyrosine from the alpha-chain of tubulin, remains associated with microtubules through several cycles of assembly/disassembly (Arce CA, Barra HS: FEBS Lett 157: 75-78, 1983). Here, we present evidence indicating that in rat brain extract the carboxypeptidase/microtubules association is regulated by the relative activities of endogenous protein kinase(s) and phosphatase(s) which seem to determine the phosphorylation state of the enzyme (or another entity) and in some way the affinity of the enzyme for microtubules. The presence of 2.5 mM ATP during the in vitro microtubule formation resulted in a low recovery of carboxypeptidase activity in the microtubule fraction. This ATP-induced effect was not due to alteration of the enzyme activity or to inhibition of microtubule assembly but to a decrease of the association of the enzyme with microtubules. We found that the ATP-induced effect was not mediated by modifications on the microtubules but, presumably, on the enzyme molecule. The non-hydrolyzable ATP analogue, AMP-PCP, did not reproduce the effect of ATP. The inclusion of phosphatase inhibitors in the homogenization buffer also led to a decrease in the amount of tubulin carboxypeptidase associated with microtubules. Finally, we found that, in concordance with the mechanism hypothesized, the magnitude of the carboxypeptidase/microtubule association correlated well with the different incubation conditions created to favor maximal, minimal or intermediate protein phosphorylation states.
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- J J Sironi
- Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
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Muresan V, Godek CP, Reese TS, Schnapp BJ. Plus-end motors override minus-end motors during transport of squid axon vesicles on microtubules. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1996; 135:383-97. [PMID: 8896596 PMCID: PMC2121042 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.135.2.383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Plus- and minus-end vesicle populations from squid axoplasm were isolated from each other by selective extraction of the minus-end vesicle motor followed by 5'-adenylyl imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP)-induced microtubule affinity purification of the plus-end vesicles. In the presence of cytosol containing both plus- and minus-end motors, the isolated populations moved strictly in opposite directions along microtubules in vitro. Remarkably, when treated with trypsin before incubation with cytosol, purified plus-end vesicles moved exclusively to microtubule minus ends instead of moving in the normal plus-end direction. This reversal in the direction of movement of trypsinized plus-end vesicles, in light of further observation that cytosol promotes primarily minus-end movement of liposomes, suggests that the machinery for cytoplasmic dynein-driven, minus-end vesicle movement can establish a functional interaction with the lipid bilayers of both vesicle populations. The additional finding that kinesin overrides cytoplasmic dynein when both are bound to bead surfaces indicates that the direction of vesicle movement could be regulated simply by the presence or absence of a tightly bound, plus-end kinesin motor; being processive and tightly bound, the kinesin motor would override the activity of cytoplasmic dynein because the latter is weakly bound to vesicles and less processive. In support of this model, it was found that (a) only plus-end vesicles copurified with tightly bound kinesin motors; and (b) both plus- and minus-end vesicles bound cytoplasmic dynein from cytosol.
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- V Muresan
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Interactions of intracellular membranes with microtubules play a fundamental role in the dynamic organization of cytoplasmic organelles. The microtubule-based motors kinesin and cytoplasmic dynein are responsible for directed movement of vesicles and organelles, but in vitro assays indicate the existence of another class of proteins linking membranes to microtubules. CLIP-170, a cytoplasmic linker protein that mediates binding of endosomes to microtubules, provides a paradigm for understanding how these proteins may complement the role of motors in regulating microtubule-dependent membrane trafficking.
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- J E Rickard
- Dept of Cell Biology, Sciences III, University of Geneva, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland
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The fact that multiple microtubule-based motors exist in brain inevitably raises questions about their function. Transcripts for at least seven kinesin superfamily genes and even more dynein heavy chain genes have been detected in brain cDNA libraries. The challenge now is to match their gene products to specific functions in cells of the nervous system. Recent studies have attempted to establish a function for each microtubule motor by using recombinant protein and immunochemical approaches.
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- S T Brady
- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9111, USA.
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There is a wealth of data suggesting that microtubules and associated motor proteins play important roles in orchestrating membrane traffic within higher eukaryotes, with myosins and actin filaments fulfilling similar functions in organisms such as fungi, algae and plants. In addition, evidence is accumulating that both cytoskeletal systems can co-operate within one cell. Recent studies have highlighted how individual motor proteins can act at multiple steps in the membrane-traffic pathways, and in contrast, how more than one motor type may be involved in each transport step and in generating organelle morphology.
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- V Allan
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
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