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Heidings JB, Demosthene B, Merlino TR, Castaneda N, Kang EH. Gelsolin-mediated actin filament severing in crowded environments. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 532:548-554. [PMID: 32900483 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.08.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/15/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
Abstract
Gelsolin is a calcium-regulated actin binding protein that severs and caps actin filaments. Gelsolin's severing activity is important for regulating actin filament assembly dynamics that are required for cell motility as well as survival. The majority of in vitro studies of gelsolin have been performed in dilute buffer conditions which do not simulate the molecular interactions occurring in the crowded intracellular environment. We hypothesize that crowding results in greater gelsolin severing activity due to induced conformational changes in actin filaments and/or gelsolin. In this study, we evaluated the effects of crowding on gelsolin-mediated actin filament severing and gelsolin binding to actin filaments in crowded solutions, utilizing total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy and co-sedimentation assays. Our data indicates that the presence of crowders causes a decrease in the rate of gelsolin severing as well as a decrease in the amount of gelsolin bound to actin filaments, with greater effects caused by the polymeric crowder. Despite the severing rate decrease, gelsolin-mediated filament severing is increased in the presence of crowders. Understanding the crowding effect on gelsolin-mediated actin filament severing offers insight into the interactions between gelsolin and actin that occur inside the crowded cytoplasm.
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- James B Heidings
- Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA; NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32826, USA
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32826, USA
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32826, USA
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- Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA; NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32826, USA
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32826, USA; Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA.
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Qian D, Xiang Y. Actin Cytoskeleton as Actor in Upstream and Downstream of Calcium Signaling in Plant Cells. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20061403. [PMID: 30897737 PMCID: PMC6471457 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20061403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Revised: 03/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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In plant cells, calcium (Ca2+) serves as a versatile intracellular messenger, participating in several fundamental and important biological processes. Recent studies have shown that the actin cytoskeleton is not only an upstream regulator of Ca2+ signaling, but also a downstream regulator. Ca2+ has been shown to regulates actin dynamics and rearrangements via different mechanisms in plants, and on this basis, the upstream signaling encoded within the Ca2+ transient can be decoded. Moreover, actin dynamics have also been proposed to act as an upstream of Ca2+, adjust Ca2+ oscillations, and establish cytosolic Ca2+ ([Ca2+]cyt) gradients in plant cells. In the current review, we focus on the advances in uncovering the relationship between the actin cytoskeleton and calcium in plant cells and summarize our current understanding of this relationship.
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- Dong Qian
- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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Sreenivasamurthy SK, Madugundu AK, Patil AH, Dey G, Mohanty AK, Kumar M, Patel K, Wang C, Kumar A, Pandey A, Prasad TSK. Mosquito-Borne Diseases and Omics: Tissue-Restricted Expression and Alternative Splicing Revealed by Transcriptome Profiling of Anopheles stephensi. OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY 2017; 21:488-497. [PMID: 28708456 DOI: 10.1089/omi.2017.0073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Malaria is one of the most debilitating mosquito-borne diseases with high global health burdens. While much of the research on malaria and mosquito-borne diseases is focused on Africa, Southeast Asia accounts for a sizable portion of the global burden of malaria. Moreover, about 50% of the Asian malaria incidence and deaths have been from India. A promising development in this context is that the completion of genome sequence of Anopheles stephensi, a major malaria vector in Asia, offers new opportunities for global health innovation, including the progress in deciphering the vectorial ability of this mosquito species at a molecular level. Moving forward, tissue-based expression profiling would be the next obvious step in understanding gene functions of An. stephensi. We report in this article, to the best of our knowledge, the first in-depth study on tissue-based transcriptomic profile of four important organs (midgut, Malpighian tubules, fat body, and ovary) of adult female An. stephensi mosquitoes. In all, we identified over 20,000 transcripts corresponding to more than 12,000 gene loci from these four tissues. We present and discuss the tissue-based expression profiles of majority of annotated transcripts in An. stephensi genome, and the dynamics of their alternative splicing in these tissues, in this study. The domain-based Gene Ontology analysis of the differentially expressed transcripts in each of the mosquito tissue indicated enrichment of transcripts with proteolytic activity in midgut; transporter activity in Malpighian tubules; cell cycle, DNA replication, and repair activities in ovaries; and oxidoreductase activities in fat body. Tissue-based study of transcript expression and gene functions markedly enhances our understanding of this important malaria vector, and in turn, offers rationales for further studies on vectorial ability and identification of novel molecular targets to intercept malaria transmission.
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- 1 Institute of Bioinformatics , Bangalore, India .,3 Centre for Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University , Kalapet, India
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- 1 Institute of Bioinformatics , Bangalore, India .,4 YU-IOB Center for Systems Biology and Molecular Medicine, Yenepoya University , Mangalore, India .,5 School of Biotechnology, KIIT University , Bhubaneswar, India
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- 1 Institute of Bioinformatics , Bangalore, India .,2 Manipal University , Manipal, India
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- 6 National Institute of Malaria Research , Field Station, Panjim, India .,7 Department of Zoology, Goa University , Taleigao Plateau, India
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- 1 Institute of Bioinformatics , Bangalore, India .,2 Manipal University , Manipal, India
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- 1 Institute of Bioinformatics , Bangalore, India .,8 Amrita School of Biotechnology , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, India
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- 9 Center for Genomics and Department of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University , Loma Linda, California
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- 6 National Institute of Malaria Research , Field Station, Panjim, India
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- 1 Institute of Bioinformatics , Bangalore, India .,10 McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland.,11 Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland.,12 Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland.,13 Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland
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