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Stotsky JA, Othmer HG. The effects of internal forces and membrane heterogeneity on three-dimensional cell shapes. J Math Biol 2022; 86:1. [PMID: 36427179 DOI: 10.1007/s00285-022-01836-x] [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: 03/02/2022] [Revised: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The shape of cells and the control thereof plays a central role in a variety of cellular processes, including endo- and exocytosis, cell division and cell movement. Intra- and extracellular forces control the shapes, and while the shape changes in some processes such as exocytosis are intracellularly-controlled and localized in the cell, movement requires force transmission to the environment, and the feedback from it can affect the cell shape and mode of movement used. The shape of a cell is determined by its cytoskeleton (CSK), and thus shape changes involved in various processes involve controlled remodeling of the CSK. While much is known about individual components involved in these processes, an integrated understanding of how intra- and extracellular signals are coupled to the control of the mechanical changes involved is not at hand for any of them. As a first step toward understanding the interaction between intracellular forces imposed on the membrane and cell shape, we investigate the role of distributed surrogates for cortical forces in producing the observed three-dimensional shapes. We show how different balances of applied forces lead to such shapes, that there are different routes to the same end state, and that state transitions between axisymmetric shapes need not all be axisymmetric. Examples of the force distributions that lead to protrusions are given, and the shape changes induced by adhesion of a cell to a surface are studied. The results provide a reference framework for developing detailed models of intracellular force distributions observed experimentally, and provide a basis for studying how movement of a cell in a tissue or fluid is influenced by its shape.
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- Jay A Stotsky
- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 100190, USA.
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- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 100190, USA
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Droplets in underlying chemical communication recreate cell interaction behaviors. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3047. [PMID: 35650217 PMCID: PMC9160030 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30834-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The sensory-motor interaction is a hallmark of living systems. However, developing inanimate systems with “recognize and attack” abilities remains challenging. On the other hand, controlling the inter-droplet dynamics on surfaces is key in microengineering and biomedical applications. We show here that a pair of droplets can become intelligently interactive (chemospecific stimulus-response inter-droplet autonomous operation) when placed on a nanoporous thin film surface. We find an attacker-victim-like non-reciprocal interaction between spatially separated droplets leading to an only-in-one shape instability that triggers a drop projection to selectively couple, resembling cellular phenomenologies such as pseudopod emission and phagocytic-like functions. The nanopore-driven underlying communication and associated chemical activity are the main physical ingredients behind the observed behavior. Our results reveal that basic features found in many living cell types can emerge from a simple two-droplet framework. This work is a promising step towards the design of microfluidic smart robotics and for origin-of-life protocell models. While a hallmark of living systems, developing sensory-motor interactions in inanimate systems remains challenging. Here, authors show that nanoporous surfaces can be used to create stimuli-responsive droplet interplay with shape transformation and complex behaviours reminiscent of living cell actions.
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Cellular inertia. Sci Rep 2021; 11:23799. [PMID: 34893617 PMCID: PMC8664931 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02384-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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It has been experimentally reported that chemotactic cells exhibit cellular memory, that is, a tendency to maintain the migration direction despite changes in the chemoattractant gradient. In this study, we analyzed a phenomenological model assuming the presence of cellular inertia, as well as a response time in motility, resulting in the reproduction of the cellular memory observed in the previous experiments. According to the analysis, the cellular motion is described by the superposition of multiple oscillative functions induced by the multiplication of the oscillative polarity and motility. The cellular intertia generates cellular memory by regulating phase differences between those oscillative functions. By applying the theory to the experimental data, the cellular inertia was estimated at \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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Hadjitheodorou A, Bell GRR, Ellett F, Shastry S, Irimia D, Collins SR, Theriot JA. Directional reorientation of migrating neutrophils is limited by suppression of receptor input signaling at the cell rear through myosin II activity. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6619. [PMID: 34785640 PMCID: PMC8595366 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26622-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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To migrate efficiently to target locations, cells must integrate receptor inputs while maintaining polarity: a distinct front that leads and a rear that follows. Here we investigate what is necessary to overwrite pre-existing front-rear polarity in neutrophil-like HL60 cells migrating inside straight microfluidic channels. Using subcellular optogenetic receptor activation, we show that receptor inputs can reorient weakly polarized cells, but the rear of strongly polarized cells is refractory to new inputs. Transient stimulation reveals a multi-step repolarization process, confirming that cell rear sensitivity to receptor input is the primary determinant of large-scale directional reversal. We demonstrate that the RhoA/ROCK/myosin II pathway limits the ability of receptor inputs to signal to Cdc42 and reorient migrating neutrophils. We discover that by tuning the phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chain we can modulate the activity and localization of myosin II and thus the amenability of the cell rear to 'listen' to receptor inputs and respond to directional reprogramming.
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- Amalia Hadjitheodorou
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, BioMEMS Resource Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, BioMEMS Resource Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
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- Department of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Imoto D, Saito N, Nakajima A, Honda G, Ishida M, Sugita T, Ishihara S, Katagiri K, Okimura C, Iwadate Y, Sawai S. Comparative mapping of crawling-cell morphodynamics in deep learning-based feature space. PLoS Comput Biol 2021; 17:e1009237. [PMID: 34383753 PMCID: PMC8360578 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Navigation of fast migrating cells such as amoeba Dictyostelium and immune cells are tightly associated with their morphologies that range from steady polarized forms that support high directionality to those more complex and variable when making frequent turns. Model simulations are essential for quantitative understanding of these features and their origins, however systematic comparisons with real data are underdeveloped. Here, by employing deep-learning-based feature extraction combined with phase-field modeling framework, we show that a low dimensional feature space for 2D migrating cell morphologies obtained from the shape stereotype of keratocytes, Dictyostelium and neutrophils can be fully mapped by an interlinked signaling network of cell-polarization and protrusion dynamics. Our analysis links the data-driven shape analysis to the underlying causalities by identifying key parameters critical for migratory morphologies both normal and aberrant under genetic and pharmacological perturbations. The results underscore the importance of deciphering self-organizing states and their interplay when characterizing morphological phenotypes. Migratory cells that move by crawling do so by extending and retracting their plasma membrane. When and where these events take place determine the cell shape, and this is directly linked to the movement patterns. Understanding how the highly plastic and interconvertible morphologies appear from their underlying dynamics remains a challenge partly because their inherent complexity makes quantitatively comparison against the outputs of mathematical models difficult. To this end, we employed machine-learning based classification to extract features that characterize the basic migrating morphologies. The obtained features were then used to compare real cell data with outputs of a conceptual model that we introduced which describes coupling via feedback between local protrusive dynamics and polarity. The feature mapping showed that the model successfully recapitulates the shape dynamics that were not covered by previous related models and also hints at the critical parameters underlying state transitions. The ability of the present approach to compare model outputs with real cell data systematically and objectively is important as it allows outputs of future mathematical models to be quantitatively tested in an accessible and common reference frame.
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- Daisuke Imoto
- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Universal Biological Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Research Center for Complex Systems Biology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences, School of Science, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences, School of Science, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Universal Biological Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Research Center for Complex Systems Biology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Ferguson EA, Matthiopoulos J, Insall RH, Husmeier D. Inference of the drivers of collective movement in two cell types: Dictyostelium and melanoma. J R Soc Interface 2016; 13:20160695. [PMID: 27798280 PMCID: PMC5095226 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 10/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Collective cell movement is a key component of many important biological processes, including wound healing, the immune response and the spread of cancers. To understand and influence these movements, we need to be able to identify and quantify the contribution of their different underlying mechanisms. Here, we define a set of six candidate models-formulated as advection-diffusion-reaction partial differential equations-that incorporate a range of cell movement drivers. We fitted these models to movement assay data from two different cell types: Dictyostelium discoideum and human melanoma. Model comparison using widely applicable information criterion suggested that movement in both of our study systems was driven primarily by a self-generated gradient in the concentration of a depletable chemical in the cells' environment. For melanoma, there was also evidence that overcrowding influenced movement. These applications of model inference to determine the most likely drivers of cell movement indicate that such statistical techniques have potential to support targeted experimental work in increasing our understanding of collective cell movement in a range of systems.
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- Elaine A Ferguson
- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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PLEKHG3 enhances polarized cell migration by activating actin filaments at the cell front. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:10091-6. [PMID: 27555588 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604720113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cells migrate by directing Ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1 (Rac1) and cell division control protein 42 (Cdc42) activities and by polymerizing actin toward the leading edge of the cell. Previous studies have proposed that this polarization process requires a local positive feedback in the leading edge involving Rac small GTPase and actin polymerization with PI3K likely playing a coordinating role. Here, we show that the pleckstrin homology and RhoGEF domain containing G3 (PLEKHG3) is a PI3K-regulated Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (RhoGEF) for Rac1 and Cdc42 that selectively binds to newly polymerized actin at the leading edge of migrating fibroblasts. Optogenetic inactivation of PLEKHG3 showed that PLEKHG3 is indispensable both for inducing and for maintaining cell polarity. By selectively binding to newly polymerized actin, PLEKHG3 promotes local Rac1/Cdc42 activation to induce more local actin polymerization, which in turn promotes the recruitment of more PLEKHG3 to induce and maintain cell front. Thus, autocatalytic reinforcement of PLEKHG3 localization to the leading edge of the cell provides a molecular basis for the proposed positive feedback loop that is required for cell polarization and directed migration.
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Moving towards a paradigm: common mechanisms of chemotactic signaling in Dictyostelium and mammalian leukocytes. Cell Mol Life Sci 2014; 71:3711-47. [PMID: 24846395 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-014-1638-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2014] [Revised: 04/24/2014] [Accepted: 04/29/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Chemotaxis, or directed migration of cells along a chemical gradient, is a highly coordinated process that involves gradient sensing, motility, and polarity. Most of our understanding of chemotaxis comes from studies of cells undergoing amoeboid-type migration, in particular the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and leukocytes. In these amoeboid cells the molecular events leading to directed migration can be conceptually divided into four interacting networks: receptor/G protein, signal transduction, cytoskeleton, and polarity. The signal transduction network occupies a central position in this scheme as it receives direct input from the receptor/G protein network, as well as feedback from the cytoskeletal and polarity networks. Multiple overlapping modules within the signal transduction network transmit the signals to the actin cytoskeleton network leading to biased pseudopod protrusion in the direction of the gradient. The overall architecture of the networks, as well as the individual signaling modules, is remarkably conserved between Dictyostelium and mammalian leukocytes, and the similarities and differences between the two systems are the subject of this review.
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Lusche DF, Wessels D, Soll DR. The effects of extracellular calcium on motility, pseudopod and uropod formation, chemotaxis, and the cortical localization of myosin II in Dictyostelium discoideum. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 66:567-87. [PMID: 19363786 DOI: 10.1002/cm.20367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Extracellular Ca(++), a ubiquitous cation in the soluble environment of cells both free living and within the human body, regulates most aspects of amoeboid cell motility, including shape, uropod formation, pseudopod formation, velocity, and turning in Dictyostelium discoideum. Hence it affects the efficiency of both basic motile behavior and chemotaxis. Extracellular Ca(++) is optimal at 10 mM. A gradient of the chemoattractant cAMP generated in the absence of added Ca(++) only affects turning, but in combination with extracellular Ca(++), enhances the effects of extracellular Ca(++). Potassium, at 40 mM, can partially substitute for Ca(++). Mg(++), Mn(++), Zn(++), and Na(+) cannot. Extracellular Ca(++), or K(+), also induce the cortical localization of myosin II in a polar fashion. The effects of Ca(++), K(+) or a cAMP gradient do not appear to be similarly mediated by an increase in the general pool of free cytosolic Ca(++). These results suggest a model, in which each agent functioning through different signaling systems, converge to affect the cortical localization of myosin II, which in turn effects the behavioral changes leading to efficient cell motility and chemotaxis. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 2009. (c) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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- Daniel F Lusche
- Department of Biology, The W.M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.
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Bearer EL. Overview of image analysis, image importing, and image processing using freeware. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; Chapter 14:Unit 14.15. [PMID: 18265322 DOI: 10.1002/0471142727.mb1415s63] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Quantitative image analysis turns microscopic data that might otherwise be merely descriptive into reliable mechanistic information. This unit provides an overview of the types of analysis that have been useful in the past, as well as descriptions of emerging applications. In addition, two protocols are included for importing data and for the first steps of data manipulation in the more common analytical applications of the freeware, NIH Image and ImageJ, as well as commercially available imaging software, Adobe Photoshop.
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- E L Bearer
- Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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Sidani M, Wessels D, Mouneimne G, Ghosh M, Goswami S, Sarmiento C, Wang W, Kuhl S, El-Sibai M, Backer JM, Eddy R, Soll D, Condeelis J. Cofilin determines the migration behavior and turning frequency of metastatic cancer cells. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 179:777-91. [PMID: 18025308 PMCID: PMC2080932 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200707009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have investigated the effects of inhibiting the expression of cofilin to understand its role in protrusion dynamics in metastatic tumor cells, in particular. We show that the suppression of cofilin expression in MTLn3 cells (an apolar randomly moving amoeboid metastatic tumor cell) caused them to extend protrusions from only one pole, elongate, and move rectilinearly. This remarkable transformation was correlated with slower extension of fewer, more stable lamellipodia leading to a reduced turning frequency. Hence, the loss of cofilin caused an amoeboid tumor cell to assume a mesenchymal-type mode of movement. These phenotypes were correlated with the loss of uniform chemotactic sensitivity of the cell surface to EGF stimulation, demonstrating that to chemotax efficiently, a cell must be able to respond to chemotactic stimulation at any region on its surface. The changes in cell shape, directional migration, and turning frequency were related to the re-localization of Arp2/3 complex to one pole of the cell upon suppression of cofilin expression.
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- Mazen Sidani
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
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Veltman DM, van Haastert PJM. The role of cGMP and the rear of the cell in Dictyostelium chemotaxis and cell streaming. J Cell Sci 2007; 121:120-7. [PMID: 18073238 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.015602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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During chemotaxis, pseudopod extensions lead the cell towards the source of attractant. The role of actin-filled pseudopodia at the front of the cell is well recognized, whereas the function of the rear of the cell in chemotaxis and cell-cell interactions is less well known. Dictyostelium cell aggregation is mediated by outwardly propagating waves of extracellular cAMP that induce chemotaxis and cell-cell contacts, resulting in streams of cells moving towards the aggregation centre. Wild-type cells efficiently retract pseudopodia in the rear of the cell during the rising flank of the cAMP wave and have a quiescent cell posterior. This polarization largely remains during the declining flank, which causes cells to continue their chemotactic movement towards the aggregation centre and to form stable streams of moving cells. The dominance of the leading-edge pseudopod rescues chemotaxis during the rising flank of the wave, but the cells move in random directions after the peak of the wave has passed. As a consequence, cell-cell contacts cannot be maintained, and the cell streams break up. The results show that a quiescent rear of the cell increases the efficiency of directional movement and is essential to maintain stable cell-cell contacts.
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- Douwe M Veltman
- Department of Biology, University of Groningen, Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands
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Wessels D, Lusche DF, Kuhl S, Heid P, Soll DR. PTEN plays a role in the suppression of lateral pseudopod formation during Dictyostelium motility and chemotaxis. J Cell Sci 2007; 120:2517-31. [PMID: 17623773 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.010876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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It has been suggested that the phosphatydylinositol (3,4,5)-trisphosphate [PtdIns(3,4,5)P(3)] phosphatase and tensin homolog PTEN plays a fundamental role in Dictyostelium discoideum chemotaxis. To identify that role, the behavior of a pten(-) mutant was quantitatively analyzed using two-dimensional and three-dimensional computer-assisted methods. pten(-) cells were capable of polarizing and translocating in the absence of attractant, and sensing and responding to spatial gradients, temporal gradients and natural waves of attractant. However, all of these responses were compromised (i.e. less efficient) because of the fundamental incapacity of pten(-) cells to suppress lateral pseudopod formation and turning. This defect was equally manifested in the absence, as well as presence, of attractant. PTEN, which is constitutively localized in the cortex of polarized cells, was found essential for the attractant-stimulated increase in cortical myosin II and F-actin that is responsible for the increased suppression of pseudopods during chemotaxis. PTEN, therefore, plays a fundamental role in the suppression of lateral pseudopod formation, a process essential for the efficiency of locomotion and chemotaxis, but not in directional sensing.
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- Deborah Wessels
- W. M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Dictyostelium conventional myosin (myosin II) is an abundant protein that plays a role in various cellular processes such as cytokinesis, cell protrusion and development. This review will focus on the signal transduction pathways that regulate myosin II during cell movement. Myosin II appears to have two modes of action in Dictyostelium: local stabilization of the cytoskeleton by myosin filament association to the actin meshwork (structural mode) and force generation by contraction of actin filaments (motor mode). Some processes, such as cell movement under restrictive environment, require only the structural mode of myosin. However, cytokinesis in suspension and uropod retraction depend on motor activity as well. Myosin II can self-assemble into bipolar filaments. The formation of these filaments is negatively regulated by heavy chain phosphorylation through the action of a set of novel alpha kinases and is relatively well understood. However, only recently it has become clear that the formation of bipolar filaments and their translocation to the cortex are separate events. Translocation depends on filamentous actin, and is regulated by a cGMP pathway and possibly also by the cAMP phosphodiesterase RegA and the p21-activated kinase PAKa. Myosin motor activity is regulated by phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain through myosin light chain kinase A. Unlike conventional light chain kinases, this enzyme is not regulated by calcium but is activated by cGMP-induced phosphorylation via an upstream kinase and subsequent autophosphorylation.
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- Leonard Bosgraaf
- Department of Biology, University of Groningen, Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands
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Goldberg JM, Wolpin ES, Bosgraaf L, Clarkson BK, Van Haastert PJM, Smith JL. Myosin light chain kinase A is activated by cGMP-dependent and cGMP-independent pathways. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:2059-64. [PMID: 16546177 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2005] [Revised: 02/13/2006] [Accepted: 03/01/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Stimulation of Dictyostelium cells with the chemoattractant cAMP results in transient phosphorylation of the myosin regulatory light chain (RLC). We show that myosin light chain kinase A (MLCK-A) is responsible for RLC phosphorylation during chemotaxis, and that MLCK-A itself is transiently phosphorylated on threonine-166, dramatically increasing its catalytic activity. MLCK-A activation during chemotaxis is highly responsive to cellular cGMP levels and the cGMP-binding protein GbpC. MLCK-A- cells have a partial cytokinesis defect, and do not phosphorylate RLC in response to concanavalin A (conA), but cells lacking cGMP or GbpC divide normally and phosphorylate in response to conA. Thus MLCK-A is activated by a cGMP/GbpC-independent mechanism activated during cytokinesis or by conA, and a cGMP/GbpC-dependent pathway during chemotaxis.
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- Jonathan M Goldberg
- Boston Biomedical Research Institute, 64 Grove Street, Watertown, MA 02472-2829, USA
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Wessels D, Srikantha T, Yi S, Kuhl S, Aravind L, Soll DR. The Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond syndrome gene encodes an RNA-binding protein that localizes to the pseudopod ofDictyosteliumamoebae during chemotaxis. J Cell Sci 2006; 119:370-9. [PMID: 16410554 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond syndrome (SBDS) is an autosomal disorder with multisystem defects. The Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond syndrome gene (SBDS), which contains mutations in a majority of SBDS patients, encodes a protein of unknown function, although it has been strongly implicated in RNA metabolism. There is also some evidence that it interacts with molecules that regulate cytoskeletal organization. Recently, it has been demonstrated by computer-assisted methods that the single behavioral defect of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) of SBDS patients is the incapacity to orient correctly in a spatial gradient of chemoattractant. We considered using the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, a model for PMN chemotaxis, an excellent system for elucidating the function of the SBDS protein. We first identified the homolog of SBDS in D. discoideum and found that the amino acids that are altered in human disease were conserved. Given that several proteins involved in chemotactic orientation localize to the pseudopods of cells undergoing chemotaxis, we tested whether the SBDS gene product did the same. We produced an SBDS-GFP chimeric in-frame fusion gene, and generated transformants either with multiple ectopic insertions of the fusion gene or multiple copies of a non-integrated plasmid carrying the fusion gene. In both cases, the SBDS-GFP protein was dispersed equally through the cytoplasm and pseudopods of cells migrating in buffer. However, we observed differential enrichment of SBDS in the pseudopods of cells treated with the chemoattractant cAMP, suggesting that the SBDS protein may play a role in chemotaxis. In light of these results, we discuss how SBDS might function during chemotaxis.
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- Deborah Wessels
- W.M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Wessels D, Brincks R, Kuhl S, Stepanovic V, Daniels KJ, Weeks G, Lim CJ, Spiegelman G, Fuller D, Iranfar N, Loomis WF, Soll DR. RasC plays a role in transduction of temporal gradient information in the cyclic-AMP wave of Dictyostelium discoideum. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2005; 3:646-62. [PMID: 15189986 PMCID: PMC420135 DOI: 10.1128/ec.3.3.646-662.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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To define the role that RasC plays in motility and chemotaxis, the behavior of a rasC null mutant, rasC-, in buffer and in response to the individual spatial, temporal, and concentration components of a natural cyclic AMP (cAMP) wave was analyzed by using computer-assisted two-dimensional and three-dimensional motion analysis systems. These quantitative studies revealed that rasC- cells translocate at the same velocity and exhibit chemotaxis up spatial gradients of cAMP with the same efficiency as control cells. However, rasC- cells exhibit defects in maintaining anterior-posterior polarity along the substratum and a single anterior pseudopod when translocating in buffer in the absence of an attractant. rasC- cells also exhibit defects in their responses to both the increasing and decreasing temporal gradients of cAMP in the front and the back of a wave. These defects result in the inability of rasC- cells to exhibit chemotaxis in a natural wave of cAMP. The inability to respond normally to temporal gradients of cAMP results in defects in the organization of the cytoskeleton, most notably in the failure of both F actin and myosin II to exit the cortex in response to the decreasing temporal gradient of cAMP in the back of the wave. While the behavioral defect in the front of the wave is similar to that of the myoA-/myoF- myosin I double mutant, the behavioral and cytoskeletal defects in the back of the wave are similar to those of the S13A myosin II regulatory light-chain phosphorylation mutant. Expression array data support the premise that the behavioral defects exhibited by the rasC- mutant are the immediate result of the absence of RasC function.
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- Deborah Wessels
- W. M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Stepanovic V, Wessels D, Daniels K, Loomis WF, Soll DR. Intracellular role of adenylyl cyclase in regulation of lateral pseudopod formation during Dictyostelium chemotaxis. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2005; 4:775-86. [PMID: 15821137 PMCID: PMC1087821 DOI: 10.1128/ec.4.4.775-786.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cyclic AMP (cAMP) functions as the extracellular chemoattractant in the aggregation phase of Dictyostelium development. There is some question, however, concerning what role, if any, it plays intracellularly in motility and chemotaxis. To test for such a role, the behavior of null mutants of acaA, the adenylyl cyclase gene that encodes the enzyme responsible for cAMP synthesis during aggregation, was analyzed in buffer and in response to experimentally generated spatial and temporal gradients of extracellular cAMP. acaA- cells were defective in suppressing lateral pseudopods in response to a spatial gradient of cAMP and to an increasing temporal gradient of cAMP. acaA- cells were incapable of chemotaxis in natural waves of cAMP generated by majority control cells in mixed cultures. These results indicate that intracellular cAMP and, hence, adenylyl cyclase play an intracellular role in the chemotactic response. The behavioral defects of acaA- cells were surprisingly similar to those of cells of null mutants of regA, which encodes the intracellular phosphodiesterase that hydrolyzes cAMP and, hence, functions opposite adenylyl cyclase A (ACA). This result is consistent with the hypothesis that ACA and RegA are components of a receptor-regulated intracellular circuit that controls protein kinase A activity. In this model, the suppression of lateral pseudopods in the front of a natural wave depends on a complete circuit. Hence, deletion of any component of the circuit (i.e., RegA or ACA) would result in the same chemotactic defect.
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- Vesna Stepanovic
- W. M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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Heid PJ, Geiger J, Wessels D, Voss E, Soll DR. Computer-assisted analysis of filopod formation and the role of myosin II heavy chain phosphorylation in Dictyostelium. J Cell Sci 2005; 118:2225-37. [PMID: 15855234 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To investigate the role played by filopodia in the motility and chemotaxis of amoeboid cells, a computer-assisted 3D reconstruction and motion analysis system, DIAS 4.0, has been developed. Reconstruction at short time intervals of Dictyostelium amoebae migrating in buffer or in response to chemotactic signals, revealed that the great majority of filopodia form on pseudopodia, not on the cell body; that filopodia on the cell body originate primarily on pseudopodia and relocate; and that filopodia on the uropod are longer and more stable than those located on other portions of the cell. When adjusting direction through lateral pseudopod formation in a spatial gradient of chemoattractant, the temporal and spatial dynamics of lateral pseudopodia suggest that filopodia may be involved in stabilizing pseudopodia on the substratum while the decision is being made by a cell either to turn into a pseudopodium formed in the correct direction (up the gradient) or to retract a pseudopodium formed in the wrong direction (down the gradient). Experiments in which amoebae were treated with high concentrations of chemoattractant further revealed that receptor occupancy plays a role both in filopod formation and retraction. As phosphorylation-dephosphorylation of myosin II heavy chain (MHC) plays a role in lateral pseudopod formation, turning and chemotaxis, the temporal and spatial dynamics of filopod formation were analyzed in MHC phosphorylation mutants. These studies revealed that MHC phosphorylation-dephosphorylation plays a role in the regulation of filopod formation during cell migration in buffer and during chemotaxis. The computer-assisted technology described here for reconstructing filopodia at short time intervals in living cells, therefore provides a new tool for investigating the role filopodia play in the motility and chemotaxis of amoeboid cells.
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- Paul J Heid
- W.M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Bosgraaf L, Waijer A, Engel R, Visser AJWG, Wessels D, Soll D, van Haastert PJM. RasGEF-containing proteins GbpC and GbpD have differential effects on cell polarity and chemotaxis in Dictyostelium. J Cell Sci 2005; 118:1899-910. [PMID: 15827084 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The regulation of cell polarity plays an important role in chemotaxis. Previously, two proteins termed GbpC and GbpD were identified in Dictyostelium, which contain RasGEF and cyclic nucleotide binding domains. Here we show that gbpC-null cells display strongly reduced chemotaxis, because they are unable to polarise effectively in a chemotactic gradient. However, gbpD-null mutants exhibit the opposite phenotype: cells display improved chemotaxis and appear hyperpolar, because cells make very few lateral pseudopodia, whereas the leading edge is continuously remodelled. Overexpression of GbpD protein results in severely reduced chemotaxis. Cells extend many bifurcated and lateral pseudopodia, resulting in the absence of a leading edge. Furthermore, cells are flat and adhesive owing to an increased number of substrate-attached pseudopodia. This GbpD phenotype is not dependent on intracellular cGMP or cAMP, like its mammalian homolog PDZ-GEF. Previously we showed that GbpC is a high-affinity cGMP-binding protein that acts via myosin II. We conclude that cGMP activates GbpC, mediating the chemoattractant-induced establishment of cell polarity through myosin. GbpD induces the formation of substrate-attached pseudopodia, resulting in increased attachment and suppression of polarity.
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- Leonard Bosgraaf
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Heid PJ, Wessels D, Daniels KJ, Gibson DP, Zhang H, Voss E, Soll DR. The role of myosin heavy chain phosphorylation in Dictyostelium motility, chemotaxis and F-actin localization. J Cell Sci 2004; 117:4819-35. [PMID: 15340009 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To assess the role of myosin II heavy chain (MHC) phosphorylation in basic motility and natural chemotaxis, the Dictyostelium mhcA null mutant mhcA(-), mhcA(-) cells rescued with a myosin II gene that mimics the constitutively unphosphorylated state (3XALA) and mhcA(-) cells rescued with a myosin II gene that mimics the constitutively phosphorylated state (3XASP), were analyzed in buffer and in response to the individual spatial, temporal and concentration components of a cAMP wave using computer-assisted methods. Each mutant strain exhibited unique defects in cell motility and chemotaxis. Although mhcA(-) cells could crawl with some polarity and showed chemotaxis with highly reduced efficiency in a spatial gradient of cAMP, they were very slow, far less polar and more three-dimensional than control cells. They were also incapable of responding to temporal gradients of cAMP, of chemotaxis in a natural wave of cAMP or streaming late in aggregation. 3XASP cells were faster and chemotactically more efficient than mhcA(-) cells, but still incapable of responding to temporal gradients of cAMP, chemotaxis in natural waves of cAMP or streaming late in aggregation. 3XALA cells were fast, were able to respond to temporal gradients of cAMP, and responded to natural waves of cAMP. However, they exhibited a 50% reduction in chemotactic efficiency, could not stream late in aggregation and could not enter the streams of control cells in mixed cultures. F-actin staining further revealed that while the presence of unphosphorylated MHC was essential for the increase in F-actin in the cytoplasm in response to the increasing temporal gradient of cAMP in the front of a natural wave, the actual dephosphorylation event was essential for the associated increase in cortical F-actin. The results of these studies indicate that MHC phosphorylation-dephosphorylation, like myosin II regulatory light chain phosphorylation-dephosphorylation, represents a potential downstream target of the regulatory cascades emanating from the different phases of the wave.
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- Paul J Heid
- W. M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Cell polarity is essential for unicellular and multicellular stages of Dictyostelium development. Chemotaxis during early development requires each cell to rapidly reorganize its cytoskeleton to point towards a source of cAMP. This involves a balance between local induction of F-actin polymerization and suppression of pseudopods that point in other directions. Both the lipid phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5) trisphosphate and the soluble signal cGMP have been implicated in these processes, in addition to conserved and novel proteins. During later development cells adopt newly discovered, alternative modes of movement and interact through adhesion molecules. Finally, cells polarize secretion to particular regions of their surface.
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- Hazel P Williams
- MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology & Dept of Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Geiger J, Wessels D, Lockhart SR, Soll DR. Release of a potent polymorphonuclear leukocyte chemoattractant is regulated by white-opaque switching in Candida albicans. Infect Immun 2004; 72:667-77. [PMID: 14742507 PMCID: PMC321635 DOI: 10.1128/iai.72.2.667-677.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Previous studies employing transmembrane assays suggested that Candida albicans and related species, as well as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, release chemoattractants for human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs). Because transmembrane assays do not definitively distinguish between chemokinesis and chemotaxis, single-cell chemotaxis assays were used to confirm these findings and test whether mating-type or white-opaque switching affects the release of attractant. Our results demonstrate that C. albicans, C. dubliniensis, C. tropicalis, C. parapsilosis, and C. glabrata release bona fide chemoattractants for PMNs. S. cerevisiae, however, releases a chemokinetic factor but not a chemoattractant. Characterization of the C. albicans chemoattractant revealed that it is a peptide of approximately 1 kDa. Whereas the mating type of C. albicans did not affect the release of chemoattractant, switching did. White-phase cells released chemoattractant, but opaque-phase cells did not. Since the opaque phase of C. albicans represents the mating-competent phenotype, it may be that opaque-phase cells selectively suppress the release of chemoattractant to facilitate mating.
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- Jeremy Geiger
- W. M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Kolega J. Asymmetric distribution of myosin IIB in migrating endothelial cells is regulated by a rho-dependent kinase and contributes to tail retraction. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:4745-57. [PMID: 12960430 PMCID: PMC284780 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-04-0205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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All vertebrates contain two nonmuscle myosin II heavy chains, A and B, which differ in tissue expression and subcellular distributions. To understand how these distinct distributions are controlled and what role they play in cell migration, myosin IIA and IIB were examined during wound healing by bovine aortic endothelial cells. Immunofluorescence showed that myosin IIA skewed toward the front of migrating cells, coincident with actin assembly at the leading edge, whereas myosin IIB accumulated in the rear 15-30 min later. Inhibition of myosin light-chain kinase, protein kinases A, C, and G, tyrosine kinase, MAP kinase, and PIP3 kinase did not affect this asymmetric redistribution of myosin isoforms. However, posterior accumulation of myosin IIB, but not anterior distribution of myosin IIA, was inhibited by dominant-negative rhoA and by the rho-kinase inhibitor, Y-27632, which also inhibited myosin light-chain phosphorylation. This inhibition was overcome by transfecting cells with constitutively active myosin light-chain kinase. These observations indicate that asymmetry of myosin IIB, but not IIA, is regulated by light-chain phosphorylation mediated by rho-dependent kinase. Blocking this pathway inhibited tail constriction and retraction, but did not affect protrusion, suggesting that myosin IIB functions in pulling the rear of the cell forward.
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- John Kolega
- Division of Anatomy and Cell Biology, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York 14214, USA.
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Falk DL, Wessels D, Jenkins L, Pham T, Kuhl S, Titus MA, Soll DR. Shared, unique and redundant functions of three members of the class I myosins (MyoA, MyoB and MyoF) in motility and chemotaxis in Dictyostelium. J Cell Sci 2003; 116:3985-99. [PMID: 12953059 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Most cell types express two distinct forms of myosin I, amoeboid and short, distinguished by differences in their tail domains. Both types of myosin I have been implicated in the regulation of pseudopod formation in Dictyostelium discoideum. We examined three members of the myosin I family, one amoeboid, MyoB, and two short, MyoA and MyoB, for shared, unique and redundant functions in motility and chemotaxis. We used computer-assisted methods for reconstructing and motion analyzing cells, and experimental protocols for assessing the basic motile behavior of mutant cells in buffer and the responses of these cells to the individual spatial, temporal and concentration components of the natural wave of the chemoattractant cAMP. Analysis of both single and double mutants revealed that all three myosins play independent roles in suppressing lateral pseudopod formation in buffer and during chemotaxis. One, MyoB, also plays a unique role in priming cells to respond to the increasing temporal cAMP gradient in the front of a wave, while MyoF plays a unique role in maintaining the elongate, polarized shape of a cell in buffer, during chemotaxis in a spatial gradient of cAMP and in the front of a cAMP wave. Finally, MyoA and MyoF play redundant roles in the velocity response to the increasing temporal cAMP gradient in the front of a wave. These results, therefore, reveal an unexpected variety of shared, unique and redundant functions of the three class I myosins in motility and chemotaxis. Interestingly, the combined defects of the myosin I mutants are similar to those of a single mutant with constitutive PKA activity, suggesting that PKA plays a role in the regulation of all three class I myosins.
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- David L Falk
- W. M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Zhang H, Heid PJ, Wessels D, Daniels KJ, Pham T, Loomis WF, Soll DR. Constitutively active protein kinase A disrupts motility and chemotaxis in Dictyostelium discoideum. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2003; 2:62-75. [PMID: 12582123 PMCID: PMC141174 DOI: 10.1128/ec.2.1.62-75.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The deletion of the gene for the regulatory subunit of protein kinase A (PKA) results in constitutively active PKA in the pkaR mutant. To investigate the role of PKA in the basic motile behavior and chemotaxis of Dictyostelium discoideum, pkaR mutant cells were subjected to computer-assisted two- and three-dimensional motion analysis. pkaR mutant cells crawled at only half the speed of wild-type cells in buffer, chemotaxed in spatial gradients of cyclic AMP (cAMP) but with reduced efficiency, were incapable of suppressing lateral pseudopods in the front of temporal waves of cAMP, a requirement for natural chemotaxis, did not exhibit the normal velocity surge in response to the front of a wave, and were incapable of chemotaxing toward an aggregation center in natural waves generated by wild-type cells that made up the majority of cells in mixed cultures. Many of the behavioral defects appeared to be the result of the constitutively ovoid shape of the pkaR mutant cells, which forced the dominant pseudopod off the substratum and to the top of the cell body. The behavioral abnormalities that pkaR mutant cells shared with regA mutant cells are discussed by considering the pathway ERK2 perpendicular RegA perpendicular [cAMP] --> PKA, which emanates from the front of a wave. The results demonstrate that cells must suppress PKA activity in order to elongate along a substratum, suppress lateral-pseudopod formation, and crawl and chemotax efficiently. The results also implicate PKA activation in dismantling cell polarity at the peak and in the back of a natural cAMP wave.
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- Hui Zhang
- W M Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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Furukawa R, Maselli A, Thomson SAM, Lim RWL, Stokes JV, Fechheimer M. Calcium regulation of actin crosslinking is important for function of the actin cytoskeleton in Dictyostelium. J Cell Sci 2003; 116:187-96. [PMID: 12456728 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The actin cytoskeleton is sensitive to changes in calcium, which affect contractility, actin-severing proteins, actin-crosslinking proteins and calmodulin-regulated enzymes. To dissect the role of calcium control on the activity of individual proteins from effects of calcium on other processes, calcium-insensitive forms of these proteins were prepared and introduced into living cells to replace a calcium-sensitive form of the same protein. Crosslinking and bundling of actin filaments by the Dictyostelium 34 kDa protein is inhibited in the presence of micromolar free calcium. A modified form of the 34 kDa protein with mutations in the calcium binding EF hand (34 kDa deltaEF2) was prepared using site-directed mutagenesis and expressed in E. coli. Equilibrium dialysis using [(45)Ca]CaCl(2) revealed that the wild-type protein is able to bind one calcium ion with a Kd of 2.4 microM. This calcium binding is absent in the 34 kDa deltaEF2 protein. The actin-binding activity of the 34 kDa deltaEF2 protein was equivalent to wildtype but calcium insensitive in vitro. The wild-type and 34 kDa deltaEF2 proteins were expressed in 34-kDa-null and 34 kDa/alpha-actinin double null mutant Dictyostelium strains to test the hypothesis that calcium regulation of actin crosslinking is important in vivo. The 34 kDa deltaEF2 failed to supply function of the 34 kDa protein important for control of cell size and for normal growth to either of these 34-kDa-null strains. Furthermore, the distribution of the 34 kDa protein and actin were abnormal in cells expressing 34 kDa deltaEF2. Thus, calcium regulation of the formation and/or dissolution of crosslinked actin structures is required for dynamic behavior of the actin cytoskeleton important for cell structure and growth.
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- Ruth Furukawa
- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Modulating the concentration of the actin-binding protein Ena/Vasp within the lamellipodium of a migrating fibroblast results in marked changes in lamellipodium behaviour and actin network organization at the cell's leading edge. This can explain a cell motility paradox.
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- Louise P Cramer
- MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, Gower Street, UK.
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