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A novel mode of capping protein-regulation by twinfilin.

Elife. 2018 Oct 23;7
Adam B Johnston 1 , Denise M Hilton 1 , Patrick McConnell 2 , Britney Johnson 3 , Meghan T Harris 1 , Avital Simone 1 , Gaya K Amarasinghe 3 , John A Cooper 2 , Bruce L Goode 1
Adam B Johnston 1 , Denise M Hilton 1 , Patrick McConnell 2 , Britney Johnson 3 , Meghan T Harris 1 , Avital Simone 1 , Gaya K Amarasinghe 3 , John A Cooper 2 , Bruce L Goode 1
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  • 1 Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States.
  • 2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University, St Louis, United states.
  • 3 Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St Louis, United States.

摘要


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.

KEYWORDS: actin, cell biology, cell culture, cytoskeleton