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Title: | The stress-inducible protein DRR1 exerts distinct effects on actin dynamics |
Author: | Kretzschmar, Anja Schülke, Jan-Philip Masana Nadal, Mercè Dürre, Katharina Müller, Marianne B. Bausch, Andreas R. Rein, Theo |
Keywords: | Citosquelet Proteïnes citosquelètiques Cytoskeleton Cytoskeletal proteins |
Issue Date: | 11-Dec-2018 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Abstract: | Cytoskeletal dynamics are pivotal to memory, learning, and stress physiology, and thus psychiatric diseases. Downregulated in renal cell carcinoma 1 (DRR1) protein was characterized as the link between stress, actin dynamics, neuronal function, and cognition. To elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms, we undertook a domain analysis of DRR1 and probed the effects on actin binding, polymerization, and bundling, as well as on actin-dependent cellular processes. METHODS: DRR1 domains were cloned and expressed as recombinant proteins to perform in vitro analysis of actin dynamics (binding, bundling, polymerization, and nucleation). Cellular actin-dependent processes were analyzed in transfected HeLa cells with fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) and confocal microscopy. RESULTS: DRR1 features an actin binding site at each terminus, separated by a coiled coil domain. DRR1 enhances actin bundling, the cellular F-actin content, and serum response factor (SRF)-dependent transcription, while it diminishes actin filament elongation, cell spreading, and actin treadmilling. We also provide evidence for a nucleation effect of DRR1. Blocking of pointed end elongation by addition of profilin indicates DRR1 as a novel barbed end capping factor. CONCLUSIONS: DRR1 impacts actin dynamics in several ways with implications for cytoskeletal dynamics in stress physiology and pathophysiology. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19123993 |
It is part of: | International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018, vol. 19, num. 12, p. 3993 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/156118 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19123993 |
ISSN: | 1661-6596 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (IDIBAPS: Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer) Articles publicats en revistes (Biomedicina) |
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