Mechanism of actin-based motility: A dynamic state diagram

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1411-1419

  Bernheim Groswasser, Anne ^a   Prost, Jacques ^b   Sykes, Cécile ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; ELASTICITY; FRICTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 23244442444     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.055822     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Taunton, J., B. A. Rowning, M. L. Coughlin, M. Wu, R. T. Moon, T. J. Mitchison, and C. A, Larabell. 2000. Actin-dependent propulsion of endosomes and lysosomes by recruitment of N-WASp. J. Cell Biol. 148:519-530.
2. Merrifield, C. J., S. E. Moss, C. Ballestrem, B. A. Imhof, G. Giese, I. Wunderlich, and W. Almers. 1999. Endocytic vesicles move at the tips of actin tails in cultured mast cells. Nat. Cell Biol. 1:72-74.
3. Theriot, J. A., T. J. Mitchison, L. G. Tilney, and D. A. Portnoy. 1992. The rate of actin-based motility of intracellular Listeria monocytogenes equals the rate of actin polymerization. Nature. 357:257-260.
4. Egile, C., T. P. Loisel, V. Laurent, R. Li, D. Pantanoli, P. J. Sansonetti, and M.-F. Carlier. 1999. Activation of the CDC42 effector N-WASp by the Shigella flexneri Ics A protein promotes actin nucleation by Arp2/3 complex and bacterial actin-based motility. J. Cell Biol. 146:1319-1332.
5. Machesky, L. M., R. D. Mullins, H. N. Higgs, D. A. Kaiser, L. Blanchoin, R. C. May, M. E. Hall, and T. D. Pollard. 1999. SCAR, a WASp-related protein, activates nucleation of actin filaments by the Arp2/3 complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96:3739-3744.
6. Pistor, S., T. Chakraborty, K. Niebuhr, E. Domann, and J. Wehland. 1994. The Act A protein of Listeria monocytogenes acts as a nucleator inducing reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton. EMBO J. 13:758-763.
7. Mogilner, A., and G. Oster. 1996. Cell motility driven by actin polymerization. Biophys. J. 71:3030-3045.
8. Mogilner, A., and G. Oster. 2003. Force generation by actin polymerization. II. The elastic ratchet and tethered filaments. Biophys. J. 84:1591-1605.
9. Gerbal, F., V. Noireaux, C. Sykes, F. Jülicher, P. Chaikin, A. Ott, J. Prost, R. M. Golsteyn, E. Friederich, V. Louvard, V. Laurent, and M. F. Carlier. 1999. On the Listeria propulsion mechanism. Pramana J. Phys. 53:155-170.
10. Gerbal, F., P. Chaikin, Y. Rabin, and J. Prost. 2000. An elastic analysis of Listeria monocytogenes propulsion. Biophys. J. 79:2259-2275.
11. Carlsson, A. E. 2001. Growth of branched actin networks against obstacles. Biophys. J. 81:1907-1923.
12. Carlsson, A. E. 2003. Growth velocities of branched actin networks. Biophys. J. 84:2907-2918.
13. Cameron, L. A., J. R. Robbins, M. J. Footer, and J. A. Theriot. 2004. Biophysical parameters influence actin-based movement, trajectory, and initiation in a cell-free system. Mol. Biol. Cell. 15:2312-2323.
14. Noireaux, V., R. M. Golsteyn, E. Friederich, J. Prost, C. Antony, D. Louvard, and C. Sykes. 2000. Growing an actin gel on spherical surfaces. Biophys. J. 278:1643-1654.
15. Lasa, I., E. Gouin, M. Goethals, K. Vancompernolle, V. David, J. Vandekerckhove, and P. Cossart, 1997. Identification of two regions in the amino terminal domain of ActA involved in the actin comet tail formation by Listeria monocytogenes. EMBO J. 16:1531-1540.
16. Cameron, L. A., M. J. Footer, A. Van Oudenaarden, and J. A. Theriot. 1999. Motility of ActA protein-coated microspheres driven by actin polymerization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96:4908-4913.
17. Upadhyaya, A., J. R. Chabot, A. Andreeva, A. Samadani, and A. van Oudenaarden. 2003. Probing polymerization forces by using actin-propelled vesicles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100:4521-4526.
18. Giardini, P. A., D. A. Fletcher, and J. A. Theriot. 2003. Compression forces generated by actin comet tails on lipid vesicles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100:6493-6498.
19. Loisel, T. P., R. Boujemaa, D. Pantaloni, and M. F. Carlier. 1999. Reconstitution of actin-based motility of Listeria and Shigella using pure proteins. Nature. 401:613-616.
20. Bernheim-Groswasser, A., S. Wiesner, R. M. Golsteyn, M.-F. Carlier, and C. Sykes. 2002. The dynamics of actin-based motility depend on surface parameters. Nature. 417:308-311.
21. Prost, J. 2001. The physics of Listeria propulsion. In Physics of Biomolecules and Cells. H. Flyvbjerg, F. Julicher, P. Ormos, and F. David, Springer, Les Houches, France. 215-236.
22. Fradelizi, J., V. Noireaux, J. Plastino, B. Menichi, D. Louvard, C. Sykes, R. M. Golsteyn, and E. Friederich. 2001. ActA and human zyxin harbour Arp2/3-independent actin-polymerization activity. Nat. Cell Biol. 3:699-707.
23. Head, D. A., A. J. Levine, and F. C. MacKintosh. 2003. Distinct regimes of elastic response and deformation modes of cross-linked cytoskeletal and semiflexible polymer networks. Phys. Rev. E. 68: 061907.
24. Amann, K. J., and T. D. Pollard. 2001. Direct real-time observation of actin filament branching mediated by ARP2/3 complex using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98:15009-15013.
25. Marcy, Y., J. Prost, M.-F. Carlier, and C. Sykes. 2004. Forces generated during actin-based propulsion: a direct measurement by micromanipulation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101:5993-5997.
26. Gerbal, F., V. Laurent, A. Ott, M.-F. Carlier, P. Chaikin, and J. Prost. 2000. Measurement of the elasticity of the actin tail of Listeria monocytogenes. Eur. Biophys. J. 29:134-140.