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Magliozzi JO, Rands TJ, Shrestha S, Simke WC, Hase NE, Juanes MA, Kelley JB, Goode BL. The roles of yeast formins and their regulators Bud6 and Bil2 in the pheromone response. Mol Biol Cell 2024:mbcE23110459. [PMID: 38656798 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e23-11-0459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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In response to pheromone Saccharomyces cerevisiae extend a mating projection. This process depends on the formation of polarized actin cables which direct secretion to the mating tip and translocate the nucleus for karyogamy. Here, we demonstrate that proper mating projection formation requires the formin Bni1, as well as the actin nucleation promoting activities of Bud6, but not the formin Bnr1. Further, Bni1 is required for pheromone gradient tracking. Our work also reveals unexpected new functions for Bil2 in the pheromone response. Previously we identified Bil2 as a direct inhibitor of Bnr1 during vegetative cell growth. Here we show that Bil2 has Bnr1-independent functions in spatially focusing Bni1-GFP at mating projection tips, and in vitro Bil2 and its binding partner Bud6 organize Bni1 into clusters that nucleate actin assembly. bil2∆ cells also display entangled Bni1-generated actin cable arrays and defects in secretory vesicle transport and nuclear positioning. At low pheromone concentrations, bil2∆ cells are delayed in establishing a polarity axis, and at high concentrations they prematurely form a second and a third mating projection. Together, these results suggest that Bil2 promotes the proper formation and timing of mating projections by organizing Bni1 and maintaining a persistent axis of polarized growth.
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
- Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, 46012 Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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McGuirk ER, Koundinya N, Nagarajan P, Padrick SB, Goode BL. Direct observation of cortactin protecting Arp2/3-actin filament branch junctions from GMF-mediated destabilization. Eur J Cell Biol 2024; 103:151378. [PMID: 38071835 PMCID: PMC10843626 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2023.151378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Revised: 12/02/2023] [Accepted: 12/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/28/2024] Open
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How cells tightly control the formation and turnover of branched actin filament arrays to drive cell motility, endocytosis, and other cellular processes is still not well understood. Here, we investigated the mechanistic relationship between two binding partners of the Arp2/3 complex, glia maturation factor (GMF) and cortactin. Individually, GMF and cortactin have opposite effects on the stability of actin filament branches, but it is unknown how they work in concert with each other to govern branch turnover. Using TIRF microscopy, we observe that GMF's branch destabilizing activities are potently blocked by cortactin (IC50 = 1.3 nM) and that this inhibition requires direct interactions of cortactin with Arp2/3 complex. The simplest model that would explain these results is competition for binding Arp2/3 complex. However, we find that cortactin and GMF do not compete for free Arp2/3 complex in solution. Further, we use single molecule analysis to show that cortactin's on-rate (3 ×107 s-1 M-1) and off-rate (0.03 s-1) at branch junctions are minimally affected by excess GMF. Together, these results show that cortactin binds with high affinity to branch junctions, where it blocks the destabilizing effects of GMF, possibly by a mechanism that is allosteric in nature. In addition, the affinities we measure for cortactin at actin filament branch junctions (Kd = 0.9 nM) and filament sides (Kd = 206 nM) are approximately 20-fold stronger than previously reported. These observations contribute to an emerging view of molecular complexity in how Arp2/3 complex is regulated through the integration of multiple inputs.
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- Emma R McGuirk
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
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Goode BL, Eskin J, Shekhar S. Mechanisms of actin disassembly and turnover. J Cell Biol 2023; 222:e202309021. [PMID: 37948068 PMCID: PMC10638096 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202309021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Revised: 10/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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Cellular actin networks exhibit a wide range of sizes, shapes, and architectures tailored to their biological roles. Once assembled, these filamentous networks are either maintained in a state of polarized turnover or induced to undergo net disassembly. Further, the rates at which the networks are turned over and/or dismantled can vary greatly, from seconds to minutes to hours or even days. Here, we review the molecular machinery and mechanisms employed in cells to drive the disassembly and turnover of actin networks. In particular, we highlight recent discoveries showing that specific combinations of conserved actin disassembly-promoting proteins (cofilin, GMF, twinfilin, Srv2/CAP, coronin, AIP1, capping protein, and profilin) work in concert to debranch, sever, cap, and depolymerize actin filaments, and to recharge actin monomers for new rounds of assembly.
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- Bruce L. Goode
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Departments of Physics, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Gonzalez Rodriguez S, Wirshing AC, Goodman AL, Goode BL. Cytosolic concentrations of actin binding proteins and the implications for in vivo F-actin turnover. J Cell Biol 2023; 222:e202306036. [PMID: 37801069 PMCID: PMC10558290 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202306036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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Understanding how numerous actin-binding proteins (ABPs) work in concert to control the assembly, organization, and turnover of the actin cytoskeleton requires quantitative information about the levels of each component. Here, we measured the cellular concentrations of actin and the majority of the conserved ABPs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as well as the free (cytosolic) fractions of each ABP. The cellular concentration of actin is estimated to be 13.2 µM, with approximately two-thirds in the F-actin form and one-third in the G-actin form. Cellular concentrations of ABPs range from 12.4 to 0.85 µM (Tpm1> Pfy1> Cof1> Abp1> Srv2> Abp140> Tpm2> Aip1> Cap1/2> Crn1> Sac6> Twf1> Arp2/3> Scp1). The cytosolic fractions of all ABPs are unexpectedly high (0.6-0.9) and remain so throughout the cell cycle. Based on these numbers, we speculate that F-actin binding sites are limited in vivo, which leads to high cytosolic levels of ABPs, and in turn helps drive the rapid assembly and turnover of cellular F-actin structures.
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- Sofia Gonzalez Rodriguez
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Polytechnic State University SLO, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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Alimov N, Hoeprich GJ, Padrick SB, Goode BL. Cyclase-associated protein interacts with actin filament barbed ends to promote depolymerization and formin displacement. J Biol Chem 2023; 299:105367. [PMID: 37863260 PMCID: PMC10692737 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Revised: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Cyclase-associated protein (CAP) has emerged as a central player in cellular actin turnover, but its molecular mechanisms of action are not yet fully understood. Recent studies revealed that the N terminus of CAP interacts with the pointed ends of actin filaments to accelerate depolymerization in conjunction with cofilin. Here, we use in vitro microfluidics-assisted TIRF microscopy to show that the C terminus of CAP promotes depolymerization at the opposite (barbed) ends of actin filaments. In the absence of actin monomers, full-length mouse CAP1 and C-terminal halves of CAP1 (C-CAP1) and CAP2 (C-CAP2) accelerate barbed end depolymerization. Using mutagenesis and structural modeling, we show that these activities are mediated by the WH2 and CARP domains of CAP. In addition, we observe that CAP collaborates with profilin to accelerate barbed end depolymerization and that these effects depend on their direct interaction, providing the first known example of CAP-profilin collaborative effects in regulating actin. In the presence of actin monomers, CAP1 attenuates barbed end growth and promotes formin dissociation. Overall, these findings demonstrate that CAP uses distinct domains and mechanisms to interact with opposite ends of actin filaments and drive turnover. Further, they contribute to the emerging view of actin barbed ends as sites of dynamic molecular regulation, where numerous proteins compete and cooperate with each other to tune polymer dynamics, similar to the rich complexity seen at microtubule ends.
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- Nikita Alimov
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
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McInally SG, Reading AJ, Rosario A, Jelenkovic PR, Goode BL, Kondev J. Length control emerges from cytoskeletal network geometry. bioRxiv 2023:2023.11.28.569063. [PMID: 38076874 PMCID: PMC10705815 DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.28.569063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2023]
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Many cytoskeletal networks consist of individual filaments that are organized into elaborate higher order structures. While it is appreciated that the size and architecture of these networks are critical for their biological functions, much of the work investigating control over their assembly has focused on mechanisms that regulate the turnover of individual filaments through size-dependent feedback. Here, we propose a very different, feedback-independent mechanism to explain how yeast cells control the length of their actin cables. Our findings, supported by quantitative cell imaging and mathematical modeling, indicate that actin cable length control is an emergent property that arises from the cross-linked and bundled organization of the filaments within the cable. Using this model, we further dissect the mechanisms that allow cables to grow longer in larger cells, and propose that cell length-dependent tuning of formin activity allows cells to scale cable length with cell length. This mechanism is a significant departure from prior models of cytoskeletal filament length control and presents a new paradigm to consider how cells control the size, shape, and dynamics of higher order cytoskeletal structures.
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- Shane G. McInally
- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 01609, USA
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- Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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- Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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Guo S, Hoeprich GJ, Magliozzi JO, Gelles J, Goode BL. Dynamic remodeling of actin networks by cyclase-associated protein and CAP-Abp1 complexes. Curr Biol 2023; 33:4484-4495.e5. [PMID: 37797614 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
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How actin filaments are spatially organized and remodeled into diverse higher-order networks in vivo is still not well understood. Here, we report an unexpected F-actin "coalescence" activity driven by cyclase-associated protein (CAP) and enhanced by its interactions with actin-binding protein 1 (Abp1). We directly observe S. cerevisiae CAP and Abp1 rapidly transforming branched or linear actin networks by bundling and sliding filaments past each other, maximizing filament overlap, and promoting compaction into bundles. This activity does not require ATP and is conserved, as similar behaviors are observed for the mammalian homologs of CAP and Abp1. Coalescence depends on the CAP oligomerization domain but not the helical folded domain (HFD) that mediates its functions in F-actin severing and depolymerization. Coalescence by CAP-Abp1 further depends on interactions between CAP and Abp1 and interactions between Abp1 and F-actin. Our results are consistent with a mechanism in which the formation of energetically favorable sliding CAP and CAP-Abp1 crosslinks drives F-actin bundle compaction. Roles for CAP and CAP-Abp1 in actin remodeling in vivo are supported by strong phenotypes arising from deletion of the CAP oligomerization domain and by genetic interactions between sac6Δ and an srv2-301 mutant that does not bind Abp1. Together, these observations identify a new actin filament remodeling function for CAP, which is further enhanced by its direct interactions with Abp1.
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- Siyang Guo
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
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Yeh AR, Hoeprich GJ, Goode BL, Martin AC. Bitesize bundles F-actin and influences actin remodeling in syncytial Drosophila embryo development. bioRxiv 2023:2023.04.17.537198. [PMID: 37131807 PMCID: PMC10153138 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.17.537198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Actin networks undergo rearrangements that influence cell and tissue shape. Actin network assembly and organization is regulated in space and time by a host of actin binding proteins. The Drosophila Synaptotagmin-like protein, Bitesize (Btsz), is known to organize actin at epithelial cell apical junctions in a manner that depends on its interaction with the actin-binding protein, Moesin. Here, we showed that Btsz functions in actin reorganization at earlier, syncytial stages of Drosophila embryo development. Btsz was required for the formation of stable metaphase pseudocleavage furrows that prevented spindle collisions and nuclear fallout prior to cellularization. While previous studies focused on Btsz isoforms containing the Moesin Binding Domain (MBD), we found that isoforms lacking the MBD also function in actin remodeling. Consistent with this, we found that the C-terminal half of BtszB cooperatively binds to and bundles F-actin, suggesting a direct mechanism for Synaptotagmin-like proteins regulating actin organization during animal development.
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Ermanoska B, Asselbergh B, Morant L, Petrovic-Erfurth ML, Hosseinibarkooie S, Leitão-Gonçalves R, Almeida-Souza L, Bervoets S, Sun L, Lee L, Atkinson D, Khanghahi A, Tournev I, Callaerts P, Verstreken P, Yang XL, Wirth B, Rodal AA, Timmerman V, Goode BL, Godenschwege TA, Jordanova A. Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase has a noncanonical function in actin bundling. Nat Commun 2023; 14:999. [PMID: 36890170 PMCID: PMC9995517 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-35908-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Dominant mutations in tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (YARS1) and six other tRNA ligases cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth peripheral neuropathy (CMT). Loss of aminoacylation is not required for their pathogenicity, suggesting a gain-of-function disease mechanism. By an unbiased genetic screen in Drosophila, we link YARS1 dysfunction to actin cytoskeleton organization. Biochemical studies uncover yet unknown actin-bundling property of YARS1 to be enhanced by a CMT mutation, leading to actin disorganization in the Drosophila nervous system, human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells, and patient-derived fibroblasts. Genetic modulation of F-actin organization improves hallmark electrophysiological and morphological features in neurons of flies expressing CMT-causing YARS1 mutations. Similar beneficial effects are observed in flies expressing a neuropathy-causing glycyl-tRNA synthetase. Hence, in this work, we show that YARS1 is an evolutionary-conserved F-actin organizer which links the actin cytoskeleton to tRNA-synthetase-induced neurodegeneration.
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- Biljana Ermanoska
- Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA
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- Neuromics Support Facility, VIB Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, 2610, Antwerp, Belgium
- Neuromics Support Facility, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Institute of Human Genetics; Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne; Center for Rare Diseases Cologne, University Hospital of Cologne; University of Cologne, 50931, Cologne, Germany
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Frontiers Media SA, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Helsinki Institute of Life Science, Institute of Biotechnology & Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
- School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, 33458, USA
- Center for Social and Clinical Research, National Minority Quality Forum, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University-Sofia, 1431, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology, New Bulgarian University, 1618, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
- KU Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, Leuven Brain Institute, Mission Lucidity, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics; Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne; Center for Rare Diseases Cologne, University Hospital of Cologne; University of Cologne, 50931, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, 33458, USA
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- Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium.
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium.
- Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical University-Sofia, 1431, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Wirshing AC, Rodriguez SG, Goode BL. Evolutionary tuning of barbed end competition allows simultaneous construction of architecturally distinct actin structures. J Cell Biol 2023; 222:213854. [PMID: 36729023 PMCID: PMC9929936 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202209105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
Abstract
How cells simultaneously assemble actin structures of distinct sizes, shapes, and filamentous architectures is still not well understood. Here, we used budding yeast as a model to investigate how competition for the barbed ends of actin filaments might influence this process. We found that while vertebrate capping protein (CapZ) and formins can simultaneously associate with barbed ends and catalyze each other's displacement, yeast capping protein (Cap1/2) poorly displaces both yeast and vertebrate formins. Consistent with these biochemical differences, in vivo formin-mediated actin cable assembly was strongly attenuated by the overexpression of CapZ but not Cap1/2. Multiwavelength live cell imaging further revealed that actin patches in cap2∆ cells acquire cable-like features over time, including recruitment of formins and tropomyosin. Together, our results suggest that the activities of S. cerevisiae Cap1/2 have been tuned across evolution to allow robust cable assembly by formins in the presence of high cytosolic levels of Cap1/2, which conversely limit patch growth and shield patches from formins.
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- Alison C.E. Wirshing
- https://ror.org/05abbep66Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- https://ror.org/05abbep66Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- https://ror.org/05abbep66Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA,Correspondence to Bruce L. Goode:
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Polarized actin cables in S. cerevisiae are linear bundles of crosslinked actin filaments that are assembled by two formins, Bnr1 (localized to the bud neck), and Bni1 (localized to the bud tip). Actin is polymerized at these two sites, which results in cables extending along the cell cortex toward the back of the mother cell. These cables serve as polarized tracks for myosin-based transport of secretory vesicles and other cargo, from the mother cell to the growing daughter cell. Until recently, descriptions of actin cable morphology and architecture have largely been qualitative or descriptive in nature. Here, we introduce a new quantitative method that enables more precise characterization of actin cable length. This technological advance generates quantitative datasets that can be used to determine the contributions of different actin regulatory proteins to the maintenance of cable architecture, and to assess how different pharmacological agents affect cable arrays. Additionally, these datasets can be used to test theoretical models, and be compared to results from computational simulations of actin assembly. Graphical abstract: Illustration of actin cable length and morphology analysis. (A) Representative maximum intensity projection image of S. cerevisiae fixed and stained with fluorescently-conjugated phalloidin to label F-actin (displayed in color), and fluorescently-conjugated Concanavalin A to label the cell wall (displayed in grey scale). Lengths of actin cables traced from the bud neck to their ends are indicated (dashed lines). (B) Inverted grey scale image of F-actin labelled with fluorescently-conjugated phalloidin and the cell wall traced in black. The length (purple) and end-to-end distance (green) of a single actin cable is indicated. Scale bar, 2 µm. (C-E) Actin cable length (C), end-to-end distance (D), and tortuosity (E) from hypothetical datasets, where each data point represents an individual cable and larger symbols represent the mean from each hypothetical experiment. Error bars, 95% confidence intervals.
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- Shane G. McInally
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
,Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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- Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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IQGAP is a conserved family of actin-binding proteins with essential roles in cell motility, cytokinesis, and cell adhesion, yet there remains a limited understanding of how IQGAP proteins directly influence actin filament dynamics. To close this gap, we used single-molecule and single-filament total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to observe IQGAP regulating actin dynamics in real time. To our knowledge, this is the first study to do so. Our results demonstrate that full-length human IQGAP1 forms dimers that stably bind to actin filament sides and transiently cap barbed ends. These interactions organize filaments into thin bundles, suppress barbed end growth, and inhibit filament disassembly. Surprisingly, each activity depends on distinct combinations of IQGAP1 domains and/or dimerization, suggesting that different mechanisms underlie each functional effect on actin. These observations have important implications for how IQGAP functions as an actin regulator in vivo and how it may be regulated in different biological settings.
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- Gregory J Hoeprich
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.,Present address: Departments of Physics and Cell Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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McInally SG, Kondev J, Goode BL. Scaling of subcellular actin structures with cell length through decelerated growth. eLife 2021; 10:68424. [PMID: 34114567 PMCID: PMC8233038 DOI: 10.7554/elife.68424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
How cells tune the size of their subcellular parts to scale with cell size is a fundamental question in cell biology. Until now, most studies on the size control of organelles and other subcellular structures have focused on scaling relationships with cell volume, which can be explained by limiting pool mechanisms. Here, we uncover a distinct scaling relationship with cell length rather than volume, revealed by mathematical modeling and quantitative imaging of yeast actin cables. The extension rate of cables decelerates as they approach the rear of the cell, until cable length matches cell length. Further, the deceleration rate scales with cell length. These observations are quantitatively explained by a ‘balance-point’ model, which stands in contrast to limiting pool mechanisms, and describes a distinct mode of self-assembly that senses the linear dimensions of the cell.
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- Shane G McInally
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States.,Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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- Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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Balakrishnan M, Yu SF, Chin SM, Soffar DB, Windner SE, Goode BL, Baylies MK. Cofilin Loss in Drosophila Muscles Contributes to Muscle Weakness through Defective Sarcomerogenesis during Muscle Growth. Cell Rep 2021; 32:107893. [PMID: 32697999 PMCID: PMC7479987 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Revised: 02/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Sarcomeres, the fundamental contractile units of muscles, are conserved structures composed of actin thin filaments and myosin thick filaments. How sarcomeres are formed and maintained is not well understood. Here, we show that knockdown of Drosophila cofilin (DmCFL), an actin depolymerizing factor, disrupts both sarcomere structure and muscle function. The loss of DmCFL also results in the formation of sarcomeric protein aggregates and impairs sarcomere addition during growth. The activation of the proteasome delays muscle deterioration in our model. Furthermore, we investigate how a point mutation in CFL2 that causes nemaline myopathy (NM) in humans affects CFL function and leads to the muscle phenotypes observed in vivo. Our data provide significant insights to the role of CFLs during sarcomere formation, as well as mechanistic implications for disease progression in NM patients. How sarcomeres are added and maintained in a growing muscle cell is unclear. Balakrishnan et al. observed that DmCFL loss in growing muscles affects sarcomere size and addition through unregulated actin polymerization. This results in a collapse of sarcomere and muscle structure, formation of large protein aggregates, and muscle weakness.
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- Mridula Balakrishnan
- Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Cell & Developmental Biology, and Molecular Biology (BCMB) Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10065, USA; Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Cell & Developmental Biology, and Molecular Biology (BCMB) Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10065, USA; Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Rands TJ, Goode BL. Bil2 Is a Novel Inhibitor of the Yeast Formin Bnr1 Required for Proper Actin Cable Organization and Polarized Secretion. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:634587. [PMID: 33634134 PMCID: PMC7900418 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.634587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Cell growth in budding yeast depends on rapid and on-going assembly and turnover of polarized actin cables, which direct intracellular transport of post-Golgi vesicles to the bud tip. Saccharomyces cerevisiae actin cables are polymerized by two formins, Bni1 and Bnr1. Bni1 assembles cables in the bud, while Bnr1 is anchored to the bud neck and assembles cables that specifically extend filling the mother cell. Here, we report a formin regulatory role for YGL015c, a previously uncharacterized open reading frame, which we have named Bud6 Interacting Ligand 2 (BIL2). bil2Δ cells display defects in actin cable architecture and partially-impaired secretory vesicle transport. Bil2 inhibits Bnr1-mediated actin filament nucleation in vitro, yet has no effect on the rate of Bnr1-mediated filament elongation. This activity profile for Bil2 resembles that of another yeast formin regulator, the F-BAR protein Hof1, and we find that bil2Δ with hof1Δ are synthetic lethal. Unlike Hof1, which localizes exclusively to the bud neck, GFP-Bil2 localizes to the cytosol, secretory vesicles, and sites of polarized cell growth. Further, we provide evidence that Hof1 and Bil2 inhibitory effects on Bnr1 are overcome by distinct mechanisms. Together, our results suggest that Bil2 and Hof1 perform distinct yet genetically complementary roles in inhibiting the actin nucleation activity of Bnr1 to control actin cable assembly and polarized secretion.
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- Thomas J Rands
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, United States
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, United States
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Shekhar S, Hoeprich GJ, Gelles J, Goode BL. Twinfilin bypasses assembly conditions and actin filament aging to drive barbed end depolymerization. J Cell Biol 2021; 220:e202006022. [PMID: 33226418 PMCID: PMC7686915 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202006022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Revised: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
Abstract
Cellular actin networks grow by ATP-actin addition at filament barbed ends and have long been presumed to depolymerize at their pointed ends, primarily after filaments undergo "aging" (ATP hydrolysis and Pi release). The cytosol contains high levels of actin monomers, which favors assembly over disassembly, and barbed ends are enriched in ADP-Pi actin. For these reasons, the potential for a barbed end depolymerization mechanism in cells has received little attention. Here, using microfluidics-assisted TIRF microscopy, we show that mouse twinfilin, a member of the ADF-homology family, induces depolymerization of ADP-Pi barbed ends even under assembly-promoting conditions. Indeed, we observe in single reactions containing micromolar concentrations of actin monomers the simultaneous rapid elongation of formin-bound barbed ends and twinfilin-induced depolymerization of free barbed ends. The data show that twinfilin catalyzes dissociation of subunits from ADP-Pi barbed ends and thereby bypasses filament aging prerequisites to disassemble newly polymerized actin filaments.
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- Shashank Shekhar
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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Juanes MA, Fees C, Hoeprich GJ, Jaiswal R, Goode BL. EB1 Directly Regulates APC-Mediated Actin Nucleation. Curr Biol 2020; 30:4763-4772.e8. [PMID: 33007249 PMCID: PMC7726095 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
EB1 was discovered 25 years ago as a binding partner of the tumor suppressor adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) [1]; however, the significance of EB1-APC interactions has remained poorly understood. EB1 functions at the center of a network of microtubule end-tracking proteins (+TIPs) [2-5], and APC binding to EB1 promotes EB1 association with microtubule ends and microtubule stabilization [6, 7]. Whether EB1 interactions govern functions of APC beyond microtubule regulation has not been explored. The C-terminal basic domain of APC (APC-B) directly nucleates actin assembly, and this activity is required in vivo for directed cell migration and for maintaining normal levels of F-actin [8-10]. Here, we show that EB1 binds APC-B and inhibits its actin nucleation function by blocking actin monomer recruitment. Consistent with these biochemical observations, knocking down EB1 increases F-actin levels in cells, and this can be rescued by disrupting APC-mediated actin nucleation. Conversely, overexpressing EB1 decreases F-actin levels and impairs directed cell migration without altering microtubule organization and independent of its direct binding interactions with microtubules. Overall, our results define a new function for EB1 in negatively regulating APC-mediated actin assembly. Combining these findings with other recent studies showing that APC interactions regulate EB1-dependent effects on microtubule dynamics [7], we propose that EB1-APC interactions govern bidirectional cytoskeletal crosstalk by coordinating microtubule and actin dynamics.
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- Maria Angeles Juanes
- Biology Department, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham MA 02454, USA,School of Health and Life Science, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BX, United Kingdom,For correspondence: (Lead Contact),
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- Biology Department, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham MA 02454, USA
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- Biology Department, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham MA 02454, USA
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- Biology Department, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham MA 02454, USA
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- Biology Department, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham MA 02454, USA,For correspondence: (Lead Contact),
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Schneider R, Deutsch K, Hoeprich GJ, Marquez J, Hermle T, Braun DA, Seltzsam S, Kitzler TM, Mao Y, Buerger F, Majmundar AJ, Onuchic-Whitford AC, Kolvenbach CM, Schierbaum L, Schneider S, Halawi AA, Nakayama M, Mann N, Connaughton DM, Klämbt V, Wagner M, Riedhammer KM, Renders L, Katsura Y, Thumkeo D, Soliman NA, Mane S, Lifton RP, Shril S, Khokha MK, Hoefele J, Goode BL, Hildebrandt F. DAAM2 Variants Cause Nephrotic Syndrome via Actin Dysregulation. Am J Hum Genet 2020; 107:1113-1128. [PMID: 33232676 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
The discovery of >60 monogenic causes of nephrotic syndrome (NS) has revealed a central role for the actin regulators RhoA/Rac1/Cdc42 and their effectors, including the formin INF2. By whole-exome sequencing (WES), we here discovered bi-allelic variants in the formin DAAM2 in four unrelated families with steroid-resistant NS. We show that DAAM2 localizes to the cytoplasm in podocytes and in kidney sections. Further, the variants impair DAAM2-dependent actin remodeling processes: wild-type DAAM2 cDNA, but not cDNA representing missense variants found in individuals with NS, rescued reduced podocyte migration rate (PMR) and restored reduced filopodia formation in shRNA-induced DAAM2-knockdown podocytes. Filopodia restoration was also induced by the formin-activating molecule IMM-01. DAAM2 also co-localizes and co-immunoprecipitates with INF2, which is intriguing since variants in both formins cause NS. Using in vitro bulk and TIRF microscopy assays, we find that DAAM2 variants alter actin assembly activities of the formin. In a Xenopus daam2-CRISPR knockout model, we demonstrate actin dysregulation in vivo and glomerular maldevelopment that is rescued by WT-DAAM2 mRNA. We conclude that DAAM2 variants are a likely cause of monogenic human SRNS due to actin dysregulation in podocytes. Further, we provide evidence that DAAM2-associated SRNS may be amenable to treatment using actin regulating compounds.
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Tang Q, Schaks M, Koundinya N, Yang C, Pollard LW, Svitkina TM, Rottner K, Goode BL. WAVE1 and WAVE2 have distinct and overlapping roles in controlling actin assembly at the leading edge. Mol Biol Cell 2020; 31:2168-2178. [PMID: 32697617 PMCID: PMC7550694 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e19-12-0705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
SCAR/WAVE proteins and Arp2/3 complex assemble branched actin networks at the leading edge. Two isoforms of SCAR/WAVE, WAVE1 and WAVE2, reside at the leading edge, yet it has remained unclear whether they perform similar or distinct roles. Further, there have been conflicting reports about the Arp2/3-independent biochemical activities of WAVE1 on actin filament elongation. To investigate this in vivo, we knocked out WAVE1 and WAVE2 genes, individually and together, in B16-F1 melanoma cells. We demonstrate that WAVE1 and WAVE2 are redundant for lamellipodia formation and motility. However, there is a significant decrease in the rate of leading edge actin extension in WAVE2 KO cells, and an increase in WAVE1 KO cells. The faster rates of actin extension in WAVE1 KO cells are offset by faster retrograde flow, and therefore do not translate into faster lamellipodium protrusion. Thus, WAVE1 restricts the rate of actin extension at the leading edge, and appears to couple actin networks to the membrane to drive protrusion. Overall, these results suggest that WAVE1 and WAVE2 have redundant roles in promoting Arp2/3-dependent actin nucleation and lamellipodia formation, but distinct roles in controlling actin network extension and harnessing network growth to cell protrusion.
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- Qing Tang
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.,Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.,Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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Singh SP, Thomason PA, Lilla S, Schaks M, Tang Q, Goode BL, Machesky LM, Rottner K, Insall RH. Cell-substrate adhesion drives Scar/WAVE activation and phosphorylation by a Ste20-family kinase, which controls pseudopod lifetime. PLoS Biol 2020; 18:e3000774. [PMID: 32745097 PMCID: PMC7425996 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
The Scar/WAVE complex is the principal catalyst of pseudopod and lamellipod formation. Here we show that Scar/WAVE's proline-rich domain is polyphosphorylated after the complex is activated. Blocking Scar/WAVE activation stops phosphorylation in both Dictyostelium and mammalian cells, implying that phosphorylation modulates pseudopods after they have been formed, rather than controlling whether they are initiated. Unexpectedly, phosphorylation is not promoted by chemotactic signaling but is greatly stimulated by cell:substrate adhesion and diminished when cells deadhere. Phosphorylation-deficient or phosphomimetic Scar/WAVE mutants are both normally functional and rescue the phenotype of knockout cells, demonstrating that phosphorylation is dispensable for activation and actin regulation. However, pseudopods and patches of phosphorylation-deficient Scar/WAVE last substantially longer in mutants, altering the dynamics and size of pseudopods and lamellipods and thus changing migration speed. Scar/WAVE phosphorylation does not require ERK2 in Dictyostelium or mammalian cells. However, the MAPKKK homologue SepA contributes substantially-sepA mutants have less steady-state phosphorylation, which does not increase in response to adhesion. The mutants also behave similarly to cells expressing phosphorylation-deficient Scar, with longer-lived pseudopods and patches of Scar recruitment. We conclude that pseudopod engagement with substratum is more important than extracellular signals at regulating Scar/WAVE's activity and that phosphorylation acts as a pseudopod timer by promoting Scar/WAVE turnover.
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- Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany & Cell Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany & Cell Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Garabedian MV, Wirshing A, Vakhrusheva A, Turegun B, Sokolova OS, Goode BL. A septin-Hof1 scaffold at the yeast bud neck binds and organizes actin cables. Mol Biol Cell 2020; 31:1988-2001. [PMID: 32579428 PMCID: PMC7543067 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e19-12-0693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Cellular actin arrays are often highly organized, with characteristic patterns critical to their in vivo functions, yet the mechanisms for establishing these higher order geometries remain poorly understood. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, formin-polymerized actin cables are spatially organized and aligned along the mother–bud axis to facilitate polarized vesicle traffic. Here, we show that the bud neck–associated F-BAR protein Hof1, independent of its functions in regulating the formin Bnr1, binds to actin filaments and organizes actin cables in vivo. Hof1 bundles actin filaments and links them to septins in vitro. F-actin binding is mediated by the “linker” domain of Hof1, and its deletion leads to cable organization defects in vivo. Using superresolution imaging, we show that Hof1 and septins are patterned at the bud neck into evenly spaced axial pillars (∼200 nm apart), from which actin cables emerge and grow into the mother cell. These results suggest that Hof1, while bound to septins at the bud neck, not only regulates Bnr1 activity, but also binds to actin cables and aligns them along the mother–bud axis. More broadly, these findings provide a strong example of how an actin regulatory protein can be spatially patterned at the cell cortex to govern actin network geometry.
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- Mikael V Garabedian
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454
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- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454
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- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454
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Ierushalmi N, Malik-Garbi M, Manhart A, Abu Shah E, Goode BL, Mogilner A, Keren K. Centering and symmetry breaking in confined contracting actomyosin networks. eLife 2020; 9:55368. [PMID: 32314730 PMCID: PMC7173961 DOI: 10.7554/elife.55368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Centering and decentering of cellular components is essential for internal organization of cells and their ability to perform basic cellular functions such as division and motility. How cells achieve proper localization of their organelles is still not well-understood, especially in large cells such as oocytes. Here, we study actin-based positioning mechanisms in artificial cells with persistently contracting actomyosin networks, generated by encapsulating cytoplasmic Xenopus egg extracts into cell-sized ‘water-in-oil’ droplets. We observe size-dependent localization of the contraction center, with a symmetric configuration in larger cells and a polar one in smaller cells. Centering is achieved via a hydrodynamic mechanism based on Darcy friction between the contracting network and the surrounding cytoplasm. During symmetry breaking, transient attachments to the cell boundary drive the contraction center to a polar location. The centering mechanism is cell-cycle dependent and weakens considerably during interphase. Our findings demonstrate a robust, yet tunable, mechanism for subcellular localization. In order to survive, cells need to react to their environment and change their shape or the localization of their internal components. For example, the nucleus – the compartment that contains the genetic information – is often localized at the center of the cell, but it can also be positioned at the side, for instance when cells move or divide asymmetrically. Cells use multiple positioning mechanisms to move their internal components, including a process that relies on networks of filaments made of a protein known as actin. These networks are constantly remodeled as actin proteins are added and removed from the network. Embedded molecular motors can cause the network of actin filaments to contract and push or pull on the compartments. Yet, the exact way these networks localize components in the cell remains unclear, especially in eggs and other large cells. To investigate this question, Ierushalmi et al. studied the actin networks in artificial cells that they created by enclosing the contents of frog eggs in small droplets surrounded by oil. This showed that the networks contracted either to the center of the cell or to its side. Friction between the contracting actin network and the fluid in the cell generated a force that tends to push the contraction center towards the middle of the cell. In larger cells, this led to the centering of the actin network. In smaller cells however, the network transiently attached to the boundary of the cell, leading the contraction center to be pulled to one side. By developing simpler artificial cells that mimic the positioning processes seen in real-life cells, Ierushalmi et al. discovered new mechanisms for how cells may center or de-center their components. This knowledge may be useful to understand diseases that can emerge when the nucleus or other compartments fail to move to the right location, and which are associated with certain organs developing incorrectly.
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- Niv Ierushalmi
- Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Mathematics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.,Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Biology, New York University, New York, United States
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- Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.,Network Biology Research Laboratories and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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Pollard LW, Garabedian MV, Alioto SL, Shekhar S, Goode BL. Genetically inspired in vitro reconstitution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae actin cables from seven purified proteins. Mol Biol Cell 2020; 31:335-347. [PMID: 31913750 PMCID: PMC7183793 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e19-10-0576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
A major goal of synthetic biology is to define the minimal cellular machinery required to assemble a biological structure in its simplest form. Here, we focused on Saccharomyces cerevisiae actin cables, which provide polarized tracks for intracellular transport and maintain defined lengths while continuously undergoing rapid assembly and turnover. Guided by the genetic requirements for proper cable assembly and dynamics, we show that seven evolutionarily conserved S. cerevisiae proteins (actin, formin, profilin, tropomyosin, capping protein, cofilin, and AIP1) are sufficient to reconstitute the formation of cables that undergo polarized turnover and maintain steady-state lengths similar to actin cables in vivo. Further, the removal of individual proteins from this simple in vitro reconstitution system leads to cable defects that closely approximate in vivo cable phenotypes caused by disrupting the corresponding genes. Thus, a limited set of molecular components is capable of self-organizing into dynamic, micron-scale actin structures with features similar to cables in living cells.
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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Shekhar S, Chung J, Kondev J, Gelles J, Goode BL. Synergy between Cyclase-associated protein and Cofilin accelerates actin filament depolymerization by two orders of magnitude. Nat Commun 2019; 10:5319. [PMID: 31757952 PMCID: PMC6876572 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13268-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Cellular actin networks can be rapidly disassembled and remodeled in a few seconds, yet in vitro actin filaments depolymerize slowly over minutes. The cellular mechanisms enabling actin to depolymerize this fast have so far remained obscure. Using microfluidics-assisted TIRF, we show that Cyclase-associated protein (CAP) and Cofilin synergize to processively depolymerize actin filament pointed ends at a rate 330-fold faster than spontaneous depolymerization. Single molecule imaging further reveals that hexameric CAP molecules interact with the pointed ends of Cofilin-decorated filaments for several seconds at a time, removing approximately 100 actin subunits per binding event. These findings establish a paradigm, in which a filament end-binding protein and a side-binding protein work in concert to control actin dynamics, and help explain how rapid actin network depolymerization is achieved in cells.
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- Shashank Shekhar
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
- Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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- Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA.
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Juanes MA, Isnardon D, Badache A, Brasselet S, Mavrakis M, Goode BL. The role of APC-mediated actin assembly in microtubule capture and focal adhesion turnover. J Cell Biol 2019; 218:3415-3435. [PMID: 31471457 PMCID: PMC6781439 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201904165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2019] [Revised: 07/11/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Actin assembly by APC maintains proper organization and dynamics of F-actin at focal adhesions. This, in turn, impacts the organization of other molecular components and the responsiveness of focal adhesions to microtubule capture and autophagosome-induced disassembly. Focal adhesion (FA) turnover depends on microtubules and actin. Microtubule ends are captured at FAs, where they induce rapid FA disassembly. However, actin’s roles are less clear. Here, we use polarization-resolved microscopy, FRAP, live cell imaging, and a mutant of Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC-m4) defective in actin nucleation to investigate the role of actin assembly in FA turnover. We show that APC-mediated actin assembly is critical for maintaining normal F-actin levels, organization, and dynamics at FAs, along with organization of FA components. In WT cells, microtubules are captured repeatedly at FAs as they mature, but once a FA reaches peak maturity, the next microtubule capture event leads to delivery of an autophagosome, triggering FA disassembly. In APC-m4 cells, microtubule capture frequency and duration are altered, and there are long delays between autophagosome delivery and FA disassembly. Thus, APC-mediated actin assembly is required for normal feedback between microtubules and FAs, and maintaining FAs in a state “primed” for microtubule-induced turnover.
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- Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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Malik-Garbi M, Ierushalmi N, Jansen S, Abu-Shah E, Goode BL, Mogilner A, Keren K. Scaling behaviour in steady-state contracting actomyosin networks. Nat Phys 2019; 15:509-516. [PMID: 31754369 PMCID: PMC6871652 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0413-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Contractile actomyosin network flows are crucial for many cellular processes including cell division and motility, morphogenesis and transport. How local remodeling of actin architecture tunes stress production and dissipation and regulates large-scale network flows remains poorly understood. Here, we generate contracting actomyosin networks with rapid turnover in vitro, by encapsulating cytoplasmic Xenopus egg extracts into cell-sized 'water-in-oil' droplets. Within minutes, the networks reach a dynamic steady-state with continuous inward flow. The networks exhibit homogeneous, density-independent contraction for a wide range of physiological conditions, implying that the myosin-generated stress driving contraction and the effective network viscosity have similar density dependence. We further find that the contraction rate is roughly proportional to the network turnover rate, but this relation breaks down in the presence of excessive crosslinking or branching. Our findings suggest that cells use diverse biochemical mechanisms to generate robust, yet tunable, actin flows by regulating two parameters: turnover rate and network geometry.
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- Maya Malik-Garbi
- Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
- Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FY, UK
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
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- Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
- Network Biology Research Laboratories and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Pollard LW, Alioto SL, Garabedian MV, Goode BL. Reconstitution of Dynamic Actin Cables with Tunable Lengths. Biophys J 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.11.2465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Cellular actin networks exhibit diverse filamentous architectures and turnover dynamics, but how these differences are specified remains poorly understood. Here, we used multicolor total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to ask how decoration of actin filaments by five biologically prominent Tropomyosin (TPM) isoforms influences disassembly induced by Cofilin alone, or by the collaborative effects of Cofilin, Coronin, and AIP1 (CCA). TPM decoration restricted Cofilin binding to pointed ends, while not interfering with Coronin binding to filament sides. Different isoforms of TPM provided variable levels of protection against disassembly, with the strongest protection by Tpm3.1 and the weakest by Tpm1.6. In biomimetic assays in which filaments were simultaneously assembled by formins and disassembled by CCA, these TPM isoform-specific effects persisted, giving rise to filaments with different lengths and treadmilling behavior. Together, our data reveal that TPM isoforms have quantitatively distinct abilities to tune actin filament length and turnover.
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- Silvia Jansen
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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Johnston AB, Hilton DM, McConnell P, Johnson B, Harris MT, Simone A, Amarasinghe GK, Cooper JA, Goode BL. A novel mode of capping protein-regulation by twinfilin. eLife 2018; 7:41313. [PMID: 30351272 PMCID: PMC6249002 DOI: 10.7554/elife.41313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Cellular actin assembly is controlled at the barbed ends of actin filaments, where capping protein (CP) limits polymerization. Twinfilin is a conserved in vivo binding partner of CP, yet the significance of this interaction has remained a mystery. Here, we discover that the C-terminal tail of Twinfilin harbors a CP-interacting (CPI) motif, identifying it as a novel CPI-motif protein. Twinfilin and the CPI-motif protein CARMIL have overlapping binding sites on CP. Further, Twinfilin binds competitively with CARMIL to CP, protecting CP from barbed-end displacement by CARMIL. Twinfilin also accelerates dissociation of the CP inhibitor V-1, restoring CP to an active capping state. Knockdowns of Twinfilin and CP each cause similar defects in cell morphology, and elevated Twinfilin expression rescues defects caused by CARMIL hyperactivity. Together, these observations define Twinfilin as the first ‘pro-capping’ ligand of CP and lead us to propose important revisions to our understanding of the CP regulatory cycle. Plant and animal cells are supported by skeleton-like structures that can grow and shrink beneath the cell membrane, pushing and pulling on the edges of the cell. This scaffolding network – known as the cytoskeleton – contains long strands, or filaments, made from many identical copies of a protein called actin. The shape of the actin proteins allows them to slot together, end-to-end, and allows the strands to grow and shrink on-demand. When the strands are the correct length, the cell caps the growing ends with a protein known as Capping Protein. This helps to stabilize the cell’s skeleton, preventing the strands from getting any longer, or any shorter. Proteins that interfere with the activity of Capping Protein allow the actin strands to grow or shrink. Some, like a protein called V-1, attach to Capping Protein and get in the way so that it cannot sit on the ends of the actin strands. Others, like CARMIL, bind to Capping Protein and change its shape, making it more likely to fall off the strands. So far, no one had found a partner that helps Capping Protein limit the growth of the actin cytoskeleton. A protein called Twinfilin often appears alongside Capping Protein, but the two proteins seemed to have no influence on each other, and had what appeared to be different roles. Whilst Capping Protein blocks growth and stabilizes actin strands, Twinfilin speeds up their disassembly at their ends. But Johnston, Hilton et al. now reveal that the two proteins actually work together. Twinfilin helps Capping Protein resist the effects of CARMIL and V-1, and Capping Protein puts Twinfilin at the end of the strand. Thus, when Capping Protein is finally removed by CARMIL, Twinfilin carries on with disassembling the actin strands. The tail of the Twinfilin protein looks like part of the CARMIL protein, suggesting that they might interact with Capping Protein in the same way. Attaching a fluorescent tag to the Twinfilin tail revealed that the two proteins compete to attach to the same part of the Capping Protein. When mouse cells produced extra Twinfilin, it blocked the effects of CARMIL, helping to grow the actin strands. V-1 attaches to Capping Protein in a different place, but Twinfilin was also able to interfere with its activity. When Twinfilin attached to the CARMIL binding site, it did not directly block V-1 binding, but it made the protein more likely to fall off. Understanding how the actin cytoskeleton moves is a key question in cell biology, but it also has applications in medicine. Twinfilin plays a role in the spread of certain blood cancer cells, and in the formation of elaborate structures in the inner ear that help us hear. Understanding how Twinfilin and Capping Protein interact could open paths to new therapies for a range of medical conditions.
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- Adam B Johnston
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University, St Louis, United states
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St Louis, United States
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St Louis, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University, St Louis, United states
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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Garabedian MV, Stanishneva-Konovalova T, Lou C, Rands TJ, Pollard LW, Sokolova OS, Goode BL. Integrated control of formin-mediated actin assembly by a stationary inhibitor and a mobile activator. J Cell Biol 2018; 217:3512-3530. [PMID: 30076201 PMCID: PMC6168263 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201803164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Revised: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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This study shows that in vivo actin nucleation by the yeast formin Bnr1 is controlled through the coordinated effects of two distinct regulators, a stationary inhibitor (the F-BAR protein Hof1) and a mobile activator (Bud6), establishing a positive feedback loop for precise spatial and temporal control of actin assembly. Formins are essential actin assembly factors whose activities are controlled by a diverse array of binding partners. Until now, most formin ligands have been studied on an individual basis, leaving open the question of how multiple inputs are integrated to regulate formins in vivo. Here, we show that the F-BAR domain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hof1 interacts with the FH2 domain of the formin Bnr1 and blocks actin nucleation. Electron microscopy of the Hof1–Bnr1 complex reveals a novel dumbbell-shaped structure, with the tips of the F-BAR holding two FH2 dimers apart. Deletion of Hof1’s F-BAR domain in vivo results in disorganized actin cables and secretory defects. The formin-binding protein Bud6 strongly alleviates Hof1 inhibition in vitro, and bud6Δ suppresses hof1Δ defects in vivo. Whereas Hof1 stably resides at the bud neck, we show that Bud6 is delivered to the neck on secretory vesicles. We propose that Hof1 and Bud6 functions are intertwined as a stationary inhibitor and a mobile activator, respectively.
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- Mikael V Garabedian
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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- Bioengineering Department, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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Hilton DM, Aguilar RM, Johnston AB, Goode BL. Species-Specific Functions of Twinfilin in Actin Filament Depolymerization. J Mol Biol 2018; 430:3323-3336. [PMID: 29928893 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.06.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Revised: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Twinfilin is a highly conserved member of the actin depolymerization factor homology (ADF-H) protein superfamily, which also includes ADF/Cofilin, Abp1/Drebrin, GMF, and Coactosin. Twinfilin has a unique molecular architecture consisting of two ADF-H domains joined by a linker and followed by a C-terminal tail. Yeast Twinfilin, in conjunction with yeast cyclase-associated protein (Srv2/CAP), increases the rate of depolymerization at both the barbed and pointed ends of actin filaments. However, it has remained unclear whether these activities extend to Twinfilin homologs in other species. To address this, we purified the three mouse Twinfilin isoforms (mTwf1, mTwf2a, mTwf2b) and mouse CAP1, and used total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy assays to study their effects on filament disassembly. Our results show that all three mouse Twinfilin isoforms accelerate barbed end depolymerization similar to yeast Twinfilin, suggesting that this activity is evolutionarily conserved. In striking contrast, mouse Twinfilin isoforms and CAP1 failed to induce rapid pointed end depolymerization. Using chimeras, we show that the yeast-specific pointed end depolymerization activity is specified by the C-terminal ADF-H domain of yeast Twinfilin. In addition, Tropomyosin decoration of filaments failed to impede depolymerization by yeast and mouse Twinfilin and Srv2/CAP, but inhibited Cofilin severing. Together, our results indicate that Twinfilin has conserved functions in regulating barbed end dynamics, although its ability to drive rapid pointed end depolymerization appears to be species-specific. We discuss the implications of this work, including that pointed end depolymerization may be catalyzed by different ADF-H family members in different species.
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- Denise M Hilton
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
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Goode BL, Sweeney MO, Eskin JA. GMF as an Actin Network Remodeling Factor. Trends Cell Biol 2018; 28:749-760. [PMID: 29779865 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2018.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Revised: 04/22/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Glia maturation factor (GMF) has recently been established as a regulator of the actin cytoskeleton with a unique role in remodeling actin network architecture. Conserved from yeast to mammals, GMF is one of five members of the ADF-H family of actin regulatory proteins, which includes ADF/cofilin, Abp1/Drebrin, Twinfilin, and Coactosin. GMF does not bind actin, but instead binds the Arp2/3 complex with high affinity. Through this association, GMF catalyzes the debranching of actin filament networks and inhibits actin nucleation by Arp2/3 complex. Here, we discuss GMF's emerging role in controlling actin filament spatial organization and dynamics underlying cell motility, endocytosis, and other biological processes. Further, we attempt to reconcile these functions with its earlier characterization as a cell differentiation factor.
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- Bruce L Goode
- Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454 USA.
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- Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454 USA
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- Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454 USA
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Kotila T, Kogan K, Enkavi G, Guo S, Vattulainen I, Goode BL, Lappalainen P. Structural basis of actin monomer re-charging by cyclase-associated protein. Nat Commun 2018; 9:1892. [PMID: 29760438 PMCID: PMC5951797 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04231-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Actin polymerization powers key cellular processes, including motility, morphogenesis, and endocytosis. The actin turnover cycle depends critically on "re-charging" of ADP-actin monomers with ATP, but whether this reaction requires dedicated proteins in cells, and the underlying mechanism, have remained elusive. Here we report that nucleotide exchange catalyzed by the ubiquitous cytoskeletal regulator cyclase-associated protein (CAP) is critical for actin-based processes in vivo. We determine the structure of the CAP-actin complex, which reveals that nucleotide exchange occurs in a compact, sandwich-like complex formed between the dimeric actin-binding domain of CAP and two ADP-actin monomers. In the crystal structure, the C-terminal tail of CAP associates with the nucleotide-sensing region of actin, and this interaction is required for rapid re-charging of actin by both yeast and mammalian CAPs. These data uncover the conserved structural basis and biological role of protein-catalyzed re-charging of actin monomers.
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- Tommi Kotila
- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.,Laboratory of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, 33101, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.
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Hatano T, Alioto S, Roscioli E, Palani S, Clarke ST, Kamnev A, Hernandez-Fernaud JR, Sivashanmugam L, Chapa-Y-Lazo B, Jones AME, Robinson RC, Sampath K, Mishima M, McAinsh AD, Goode BL, Balasubramanian MK. Rapid production of pure recombinant actin isoforms in Pichia pastoris. J Cell Sci 2018. [PMID: 29535210 PMCID: PMC5976186 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.213827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Actins are major eukaryotic cytoskeletal proteins, and they are involved in many important cell functions, including cell division, cell polarity, wound healing and muscle contraction. Despite obvious drawbacks, muscle actin, which is easily purified, is used extensively for biochemical studies of the non-muscle actin cytoskeleton. Here, we report a rapid and cost-effective method to purify heterologous actins expressed in the yeast Pichia pastoris. Actin is expressed as a fusion with the actin-binding protein thymosin β4 and purified by means of an affinity tag introduced in the fusion. Following cleavage of thymosin β4 and the affinity tag, highly purified functional full-length actin is liberated. We purify actins from Saccharomycescerevisiae and Schizosaccharomycespombe, and the β- and γ-isoforms of human actin. We also report a modification of the method that facilitates expression and purification of arginylated actin, a form of actin thought to regulate dendritic actin networks in mammalian cells. The methods we describe can be performed in all laboratories equipped for molecular biology, and should greatly facilitate biochemical and cell biological studies of the actin cytoskeleton. Summary:Here, we describe a method to purify recombinant actin to homogeneity by expression in Pichia pastoris. The purified actin is polymerisation competent and should facilitate biochemical and cell biological studies of the actin cytoskeleton.
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- Tomoyuki Hatano
- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology, and Research), Singapore 138673, Singapore.,Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore.,Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Henty-Ridilla JL, Juanes MA, Goode BL. Profilin Directly Promotes Microtubule Growth through Residues Mutated in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Curr Biol 2017; 27:3535-3543.e4. [PMID: 29129529 PMCID: PMC5772683 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2017] [Revised: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Profilin is an abundant actin monomer-binding protein with critical actin regulatory roles in vivo [1, 2]. However, profilin also influences microtubule dynamics in cells, which may be mediated in part through its interactions with formins that in turn bind microtubules [3, 4]. Specific residues on human profilin-1 (PFN1) are mutated in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) [5, 6]. However, the observation that some ALS-linked PFN1 mutants fail to alter cellular actin organization or dynamics [5-8] or in vitro actin-monomer affinity [9] has been perplexing, given that profilin is best understood as an actin regulator. Here, we investigated direct effects of profilin on microtubule dynamics and whether ALS-linked mutations in PFN1 disrupt such functions. We found that human, fly, and yeast profilin homologs all directly enhance microtubule growth rate by several-fold in vitro. Microtubule stimulatory effects were unaffected by mutations in the canonical actin- or poly-proline-binding sites of profilin. Instead, microtubule activities depended on specific surface residues on profilin mutated in ALS patients. Furthermore, microtubule effects were attenuated by increasing concentrations of actin monomers, suggesting competition between actin and microtubules for binding profilin. Consistent with these biochemical observations, a 2-fold increase in the expression level of wild-type PFN1, but not the ALS-linked PFN1 mutants, increased microtubule growth rates in cells. Together, these results demonstrate that profilin directly enhances the growth rate of microtubules. They further suggest that ALS-linked mutations in PFN1 may perturb cellular microtubule dynamics and/or the coordination between the actin and microtubule cytoskeletons, leading to motor neuron degeneration.
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
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Juanes MA, Bouguenina H, Eskin JA, Jaiswal R, Badache A, Goode BL. Adenomatous polyposis coli nucleates actin assembly to drive cell migration and microtubule-induced focal adhesion turnover. J Cell Biol 2017; 216:2859-2875. [PMID: 28663347 PMCID: PMC5584174 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201702007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Revised: 04/14/2017] [Accepted: 05/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Cell motility depends on tight coordination between the microtubule (MT) and actin cytoskeletons, but the mechanisms underlying this MT-actin cross talk have remained poorly understood. Here, we show that the tumor suppressor protein adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), which is a known MT-associated protein, directly nucleates actin assembly to promote directed cell migration. By changing only two residues in APC, we generated a separation-of-function mutant, APC (m4), that abolishes actin nucleation activity without affecting MT interactions. Expression of full-length APC carrying the m4 mutation (APC (m4)) rescued cellular defects in MT organization, MT dynamics, and mitochondrial distribution caused by depletion of endogenous APC but failed to restore cell migration. Wild-type APC and APC (m4) localized to focal adhesions (FAs), and APC (m4) was defective in promoting actin assembly at FAs to facilitate MT-induced FA turnover. These results provide the first direct evidence for APC-mediated actin assembly in vivo and establish a role for APC in coordinating MTs and actin at FAs to direct cell migration.
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- Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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- Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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Sokolova OS, Chemeris A, Guo S, Alioto SL, Gandhi M, Padrick S, Pechnikova E, David V, Gautreau A, Goode BL. Structural Basis of Arp2/3 Complex Inhibition by GMF, Coronin, and Arpin. J Mol Biol 2016; 429:237-248. [PMID: 27939292 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.11.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Revised: 11/23/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The evolutionarily conserved Arp2/3 complex plays a central role in nucleating the branched actin filament arrays that drive cell migration, endocytosis, and other processes. To better understand Arp2/3 complex regulation, we used single-particle electron microscopy to compare the structures of Arp2/3 complex bound to three different inhibitory ligands: glia maturation factor (GMF), Coronin, and Arpin. Although the three inhibitors have distinct binding sites on Arp2/3 complex, they each induced an "open" nucleation-inactive conformation. Coronin promoted a standard (previously described) open conformation of Arp2/3 complex, with the N-terminal β-propeller domain of Coronin positioned near the p35/ARPC2 subunit of Arp2/3 complex. GMF induced two distinct open conformations of Arp2/3 complex, which correlated with the two suggested binding sites for GMF. Furthermore, GMF synergized with Coronin in inhibiting actin nucleation by Arp2/3 complex. Arpin, which uses VCA-related acidic (A) motifs to interact with the Arp2/3 complex, induced the standard open conformation, and two new masses appeared at positions near Arp2 and Arp3. Furthermore, Arpin showed additive inhibitory effects on Arp2/3 complex with Coronin and GMF. Together, these data suggest that Arp2/3 complex conformation is highly polymorphic and that its activities can be controlled combinatorially by different inhibitory ligands.
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- Olga S Sokolova
- Department of Biology, Moscow M.V. Lomonosov University, Moscow 119234, Russia
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- Department of Biology, Moscow M.V. Lomonosov University, Moscow 119234, Russia; Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS UMR7654, Palaiseau 91120, France
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
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- Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS UMR7654, Palaiseau 91120, France
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.
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Alioto SL, Garabedian MV, Bellavance DR, Goode BL. Tropomyosin and Profilin Cooperate to Promote Formin-Mediated Actin Nucleation and Drive Yeast Actin Cable Assembly. Curr Biol 2016; 26:3230-3237. [PMID: 27866892 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2016] [Revised: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Tropomyosins comprise a large family of actin-binding proteins with critical roles in diverse actin-based processes [1], but our understanding of how they mechanistically contribute to actin filament dynamics has been limited. We addressed this question in S. cerevisiae, where tropomyosins (Tpm1 and Tpm2), profilin (Pfy1), and formins (Bni1 and Bnr1) are required for the assembly of an array of actin cables that facilitate polarized vesicle delivery and daughter cell growth. Formins drive cable formation by promoting actin nucleation and by accelerating actin filament elongation together with profilin [2]. In contrast, how tropomyosins contribute mechanistically to cable formation has been unclear, but genetic studies demonstrate that Tpm1 plays a more important role than Tpm2 [3, 4]. Here, we found that loss of TPM1 in strains lacking BNR1, but not BNI1, leads to severe defects in cable formation, polarized secretion, and cell growth, suggesting that TPM1 function is required for proper Bni1-mediated cable assembly. Furthermore, in vitro total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy demonstrated that Tpm1 strongly enhances Bni1-mediated, but not Bnr1-mediated, actin nucleation without affecting filament elongation rate, whereas Tpm2 has no effects on Bni1 or Bnr1. Tpm1 stimulation of Bni1-mediated nucleation also requires profilin and its interactions with both G-actin and formins. Together, these results demonstrate that yeast Tpm1 works in concert with profilin to promote formin-dependent nucleation of actin cables, thus expanding our understanding of how specific tropomyosin isoforms influence actin dynamics.
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- Salvatore L Alioto
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
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Henty-Ridilla JL, Rankova A, Eskin JA, Kenny K, Goode BL. Accelerated actin filament polymerization from microtubule plus ends. Science 2016; 352:1004-9. [PMID: 27199431 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf1709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2015] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Microtubules (MTs) govern actin network remodeling in a wide range of biological processes, yet the mechanisms underlying this cytoskeletal cross-talk have remained obscure. We used single-molecule fluorescence microscopy to show that the MT plus-end-associated protein CLIP-170 binds tightly to formins to accelerate actin filament elongation. Furthermore, we observed mDia1 dimers and CLIP-170 dimers cotracking growing filament ends for several minutes. CLIP-170-mDia1 complexes promoted actin polymerization ~18 times faster than free-barbed-end growth while simultaneously enhancing protection from capping proteins. We used a MT-actin dynamics co-reconstitution system to observe CLIP-170-mDia1 complexes being recruited to growing MT ends by EB1. The complexes triggered rapid growth of actin filaments that remained attached to the MT surface. These activities of CLIP-170 were required in primary neurons for normal dendritic morphology. Thus, our results reveal a cellular mechanism whereby growing MT plus ends direct rapid actin assembly.
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
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Cells contain elaborate and interconnected networks of protein polymers, which make up the cytoskeleton. The cytoskeleton governs the internal positioning and movement of vesicles and organelles and controls dynamic changes in cell polarity, shape, and movement. Many of these processes require tight control of the size and shape of cytoskeletal structures, which is achieved despite rapid turnover of their molecular components. Here we review mechanisms by which cells control the size of filamentous cytoskeletal structures, from the point of view of simple quantitative models that take into account stochastic dynamics of their assembly and disassembly. Significantly, these models make experimentally testable predictions that distinguish different mechanisms of length control. Although the primary focus of this review is on cytoskeletal structures, we believe that the broader principles and mechanisms discussed herein will apply to a range of other subcellular structures whose sizes are tightly controlled and are linked to their functions.
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
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- Department of Applied Physics and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
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- Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454;
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Chin SM, Jansen S, Goode BL. TIRF microscopy analysis of human Cof1, Cof2, and ADF effects on actin filament severing and turnover. J Mol Biol 2016; 428:1604-16. [PMID: 26996939 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2015] [Revised: 02/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/09/2016] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Dynamic remodeling and turnover of cellular actin networks requires actin filament severing by actin-depolymerizing factor (ADF)/Cofilin proteins. Mammals express three different ADF/Cofilins (Cof1, Cof2, and ADF), and genetic studies suggest that in vivo they perform both overlapping and unique functions. To gain mechanistic insights into their different roles, we directly compared their G-actin and F-actin binding affinities, and quantified the actin filament severing activities of human Cof1, Cof2, and ADF using in vitro total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. All three ADF/Cofilins had similar affinities for G-actin and F-actin. However, Cof2 and ADF severed filaments much more efficiently than Cof1 at both lower and higher concentrations and using either muscle or platelet actin. Furthermore, Cof2 and ADF were more effective than Cof1 in promoting "enhanced disassembly" when combined with actin disassembly co-factors Coronin-1B and actin-interacting protein 1 (AIP1), and these differences were observed on both preformed and actively growing filaments. To probe the mechanism underlying these differences, we used multi-wavelength total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to directly observe Cy3-Cof1 and Cy3-Cof2 interacting with actin filaments in real time during severing. Cof1 and Cof2 each bound to filaments with similar kinetics, yet Cof2 induced severing much more rapidly than Cof1, decreasing the time interval between initial binding on a filament and severing at the same location. These differences in ADF/Cofilin activities and mechanisms may be used in cells to tune filament turnover rates, which can vary widely for different actin structures.
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- Samantha M Chin
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
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Eskin JA, Rankova A, Johnston AB, Alioto SL, Goode BL. Common formin-regulating sequences in Smy1 and Bud14 are required for the control of actin cable assembly in vivo. Mol Biol Cell 2016; 27:828-37. [PMID: 26764093 PMCID: PMC4803308 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e15-09-0639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Formins comprise a large family of proteins with diverse roles in remodeling the actin cytoskeleton. However, the spatiotemporal mechanisms used by cells to control formin activities are only beginning to be understood. Here we dissected Smy1, which has dual roles in regulating formins and myosin. Using mutagenesis, we identified specific sequences in Smy1 critical for its in vitro inhibitory effects on the FH2 domain of the formin Bnr1. By integrating smy1 alleles targeting those sequences, we genetically uncoupled Smy1's functions in regulating formins and myosin. Quantitative imaging analysis further demonstrated that the ability of Smy1 to directly control Bnr1 activity is crucial in vivo for proper actin cable length, shape, and velocity and, in turn, efficient secretory vesicle transport. A Smy1-like sequence motif was also identified in a different Bnr1 regulator, Bud14, and found to be essential for Bud14 functions in regulating actin cable architecture and function in vivo. Together these observations reveal unanticipated mechanistic ties between two distinct formin regulators. Further, they emphasize the importance of tightly controlling formin activities in vivo to generate specialized geometries and dynamics of actin structures tailored to their physiological roles.
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- Julian A Eskin
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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Ydenberg CA, Johnston A, Weinstein J, Bellavance D, Jansen S, Goode BL. Combinatorial genetic analysis of a network of actin disassembly-promoting factors. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2015; 72:349-61. [PMID: 26147656 PMCID: PMC5014199 DOI: 10.1002/cm.21231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Revised: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 07/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The patterning of actin cytoskeleton structures in vivo is a product of spatially and temporally regulated polymer assembly balanced by polymer disassembly. While in recent years our understanding of actin assembly mechanisms has grown immensely, our knowledge of actin disassembly machinery and mechanisms has remained comparatively sparse. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an ideal system to tackle this problem, both because of its amenabilities to genetic manipulation and live‐cell imaging and because only a single gene encodes each of the core disassembly factors: cofilin (COF1), Srv2/CAP (SRV2), Aip1 (AIP1), GMF (GMF1/AIM7), coronin (CRN1), and twinfilin (TWF1). Among these six factors, only the functions of cofilin are essential and have been well defined. Here, we investigated the functions of the nonessential actin disassembly factors by performing genetic and live‐cell imaging analyses on a combinatorial set of isogenic single, double, triple, and quadruple mutants in S. cerevisiae. Our results show that each disassembly factor makes an important contribution to cell viability, actin organization, and endocytosis. Further, our data reveal new relationships among these factors, providing insights into how they work together to orchestrate actin turnover. Finally, we observe specific combinations of mutations that are lethal, e.g., srv2Δ aip1Δ and srv2Δ crn1Δ twf1Δ, demonstrating that while cofilin is essential, it is not sufficient in vivo, and that combinations of the other disassembly factors perform vital functions. © 2015 The Authors. Cytoskeleton Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Casey A Ydenberg
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02454
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02454
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Park E, Graziano BR, Zheng W, Garabedian M, Goode BL, Eck MJ. Structure of a Bud6/Actin Complex Reveals a Novel WH2-like Actin Monomer Recruitment Motif. Structure 2015; 23:1492-1499. [PMID: 26118535 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2015.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Revised: 04/22/2015] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In budding yeast, the actin-binding protein Bud6 cooperates with formins Bni1 and Bnr1 to catalyze the assembly of actin filaments. The nucleation-enhancing activity of Bud6 requires both a "core" domain that binds to the formin and a "flank" domain that binds monomeric actin. Here, we describe the structure of the Bud6 flank domain in complex with actin. Two helices in Bud6(flank) interact with actin; one binds in a groove at the barbed end of the actin monomer in a manner closely resembling the helix of WH2 domains, a motif found in many actin nucleation factors. The second helix rises along the face of actin. Mutational analysis verifies the importance of these Bud6-actin contacts for nucleation-enhancing activity. The Bud6 binding site on actin overlaps with that of the formin FH2 domain and is also incompatible with inter-subunit contacts in F-actin, suggesting that Bud6 interacts only transiently with actin monomers during filament nucleation.
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- Eunyoung Park
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, SM1036, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, SM1036, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, SM1036, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Jansen S, Collins A, Chin SM, Ydenberg CA, Gelles J, Goode BL. Single-molecule imaging of a three-component ordered actin disassembly mechanism. Nat Commun 2015; 6:7202. [PMID: 25995115 PMCID: PMC4443854 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2014] [Accepted: 04/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The mechanisms by which cells destabilize and rapidly disassemble filamentous actin networks have remained elusive; however, Coronin, Cofilin and AIP1 have been implicated in this process. Here using multi-wavelength single-molecule fluorescence imaging, we show that mammalian Cor1B, Cof1 and AIP1 work in concert through a temporally ordered pathway to induce highly efficient severing and disassembly of actin filaments. Cor1B binds to filaments first, and dramatically accelerates the subsequent binding of Cof1, leading to heavily decorated, stabilized filaments. Cof1 in turn recruits AIP1, which rapidly triggers severing and remains bound to the newly generated barbed ends. New growth at barbed ends generated by severing was blocked specifically in the presence of all three proteins. This activity enabled us to reconstitute and directly visualize single actin filaments being rapidly polymerized by formins at their barbed ends while simultanteously being stochastically severed and capped along their lengths, and disassembled from their pointed ends. The roles of Coronin, Cofilin and AIP1 in promoting actin disassembly have not been well understood. Here using single-molecule fluorescence imaging, Jansen et al. show that the three proteins act together in a coordinated, temporal pathway to induce rapid severing and disassembly of actin filaments.
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- Silvia Jansen
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, 415 South street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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A novel functional role for WAVE1 is found that is lacking in N-WASP and WAVE2. Through its unique WH2 domain, WAVE1 dramatically reduces the rate of actin filament elongation independently of its interactions with the Arp2/3 complex. These findings help explain how cells build actin networks with distinct geometries and growth rates. Branched actin filament networks in cells are assembled through the combined activities of Arp2/3 complex and different WASP/WAVE proteins. Here we used TIRF and electron microscopy to directly compare for the first time the assembly kinetics and architectures of actin filament networks produced by Arp2/3 complex and dimerized VCA regions of WAVE1, WAVE2, or N-WASP. WAVE1 produced strikingly different networks from WAVE2 or N-WASP, which comprised unexpectedly short filaments. Further analysis showed that the WAVE1-specific activity stemmed from an inhibitory effect on filament elongation both in the presence and absence of Arp2/3 complex, which was observed even at low stoichiometries of WAVE1 to actin monomers, precluding an effect from monomer sequestration. Using a series of VCA chimeras, we mapped the elongation inhibitory effects of WAVE1 to its WH2 (“V”) domain. Further, mutating a single conserved lysine residue potently disrupted WAVE1's inhibitory effects. Taken together, our results show that WAVE1 has unique activities independent of Arp2/3 complex that can govern both the growth rates and architectures of actin filament networks. Such activities may underlie previously observed differences between the cellular functions of WAVE1 and WAVE2.
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- Meredith O Sweeney
- Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390
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- Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454;
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Poukkula M, Hakala M, Pentinmikko N, Sweeney MO, Jansen S, Mattila J, Hietakangas V, Goode BL, Lappalainen P. GMF promotes leading-edge dynamics and collective cell migration in vivo. Curr Biol 2014; 24:2533-40. [PMID: 25308079 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2013] [Revised: 08/01/2014] [Accepted: 08/29/2014] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Lamellipodia are dynamic actin-rich cellular extensions that drive advancement of the leading edge during cell migration. Lamellipodia undergo periodic extension and retraction cycles, but the molecular mechanisms underlying these dynamics and their role in cell migration have remained obscure. We show that glia-maturation factor (GMF), which is an Arp2/3 complex inhibitor and actin filament debranching factor, regulates lamellipodial protrusion dynamics in living cells. In cultured S2R(+) cells, GMF silencing resulted in an increase in the width of lamellipodial actin filament arrays. Importantly, live-cell imaging of mutant Drosophila egg chambers revealed that the dynamics of actin-rich protrusions in migrating border cells is diminished in the absence of GMF. Consequently, velocity of border cell clusters undergoing guided migration was reduced in GMF mutant flies. Furthermore, genetic studies demonstrated that GMF cooperates with the Drosophila homolog of Aip1 (flare) in promoting disassembly of Arp2/3-nucleated actin filament networks and driving border cell migration. These data suggest that GMF functions in vivo to promote the disassembly of Arp2/3-nucleated actin filament arrays, making an important contribution to cell migration within a 3D tissue environment.
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- Minna Poukkula
- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Rosenstiel Center for Basic Biomedical Research, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Rosenstiel Center for Basic Biomedical Research, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014 Helsinki, Finland; Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014 Helsinki, Finland; Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Rosenstiel Center for Basic Biomedical Research, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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Jansen S, Collins A, Golden L, Sokolova O, Goode BL. Structure and mechanism of mouse cyclase-associated protein (CAP1) in regulating actin dynamics. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:30732-30742. [PMID: 25228691 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.601765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Srv2/CAP is a conserved actin-binding protein with important roles in driving cellular actin dynamics in diverse animal, fungal, and plant species. However, there have been conflicting reports about whether the activities of Srv2/CAP are conserved, particularly between yeast and mammalian homologs. Yeast Srv2 has two distinct functions in actin turnover: its hexameric N-terminal-half enhances cofilin-mediated severing of filaments, while its C-terminal-half catalyzes dissociation of cofilin from ADP-actin monomers and stimulates nucleotide exchange. Here, we dissected the structure and function of mouse CAP1 to better understand its mechanistic relationship to yeast Srv2. Although CAP1 has a shorter N-terminal oligomerization sequence compared with Srv2, we find that the N-terminal-half of CAP1 (N-CAP1) forms hexameric structures with six protrusions, similar to N-Srv2. Further, N-CAP1 autonomously binds to F-actin and decorates the sides and ends of filaments, altering F-actin structure and enhancing cofilin-mediated severing. These activities depend on conserved surface residues on the helical-folded domain. Moreover, N-CAP1 enhances yeast cofilin-mediated severing, and conversely, yeast N-Srv2 enhances human cofilin-mediated severing, highlighting the mechanistic conservation between yeast and mammals. Further, we demonstrate that the C-terminal actin-binding β-sheet domain of CAP1 is sufficient to catalyze nucleotide-exchange of ADP-actin monomers, while in the presence of cofilin this activity additionally requires the WH2 domain. Thus, the structures, activities, and mechanisms of mouse and yeast Srv2/CAP homologs are remarkably well conserved, suggesting that the same activities and mechanisms underlie many of the diverse actin-based functions ascribed to Srv2/CAP homologs in different organisms.
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- Silvia Jansen
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454 and
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454 and
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454 and
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- Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, GSP-1, 1 Leninskie Gory, Building 12, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454 and.
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Graziano BR, Yu HYE, Alioto SL, Eskin JA, Ydenberg CA, Waterman DP, Garabedian M, Goode BL. The F-BAR protein Hof1 tunes formin activity to sculpt actin cables during polarized growth. Mol Biol Cell 2014; 25:1730-43. [PMID: 24719456 PMCID: PMC4038500 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-03-0850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2014] [Accepted: 04/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Asymmetric cell growth and division rely on polarized actin cytoskeleton remodeling events, the regulation of which is poorly understood. In budding yeast, formins stimulate the assembly of an organized network of actin cables that direct polarized secretion. Here we show that the Fer/Cip4 homology-Bin amphiphysin Rvs protein Hof1, which has known roles in cytokinesis, also functions during polarized growth by directly controlling the activities of the formin Bnr1. A mutant lacking the C-terminal half of Hof1 displays misoriented and architecturally altered cables, along with impaired secretory vesicle traffic. In vitro, Hof1 inhibits the actin nucleation and elongation activities of Bnr1 without displacing the formin from filament ends. These effects depend on the Src homology 3 domain of Hof1, the formin homology 1 (FH1) domain of Bnr1, and Hof1 dimerization, suggesting a mechanism by which Hof1 "restrains" the otherwise flexible FH1-FH2 apparatus. In vivo, loss of inhibition does not alter actin levels in cables but, instead, cable shape and functionality. Thus Hof1 tunes formins to sculpt the actin cable network.
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- Brian R Graziano
- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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Gould CJ, Chesarone-Cataldo M, Alioto SL, Salin B, Sagot I, Goode BL. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Kelch proteins and Bud14 protein form a stable 520-kDa formin regulatory complex that controls actin cable assembly and cell morphogenesis. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:18290-301. [PMID: 24828508 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.548719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Formins perform essential roles in actin assembly and organization in vivo, but they also require tight regulation of their activities to produce properly functioning actin structures. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Bud14 is one member of an emerging class of formin regulators that target the FH2 domain to inhibit actin polymerization, but little is known about how these regulators are themselves controlled in vivo. Kelch proteins are critical for cell polarity and morphogenesis in a wide range of organisms, but their mechanistic roles in these processes are still largely undefined. Here, we report that S. cerevisiae Kelch proteins, Kel1 and Kel2, associate with Bud14 in cell extracts to form a stable 520-kDa complex with an apparent stoichiometry of 2:2:1 Bud14/Kel1/Kel2. Using pairwise combinations of GFP- and red fluorescent protein-tagged proteins, we show that Kel1, Kel2, and Bud14 interdependently co-localize at polarity sites. By analyzing single, double, and triple mutants, we show that Kel1 and Kel2 function in the same pathway as Bud14 in regulating Bnr1-mediated actin cable formation. Loss of any component of the complex results in long, bent, and hyper-stable actin cables, accompanied by defects in secretory vesicle traffic during polarized growth and septum formation during cytokinesis. These observations directly link S. cerevisiae Kelch proteins to the control of formin activity, and together with previous observations made for S. pombe homologues tea1p and tea3p, they have broad implications for understanding Kelch function in other systems.
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- Christopher J Gould
- From the Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, and
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- From the Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, and
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- From the Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, and
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- the Université de Bordeaux-Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires and CNRS-UMR5095, Bordeaux, France
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- the Université de Bordeaux-Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires and CNRS-UMR5095, Bordeaux, France
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- From the Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, and
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