A role for cytoplasmic dynein and LIS1 in directed cell movement.
Cytoplasmic dynein has been implicated in numerous aspects of intracellular movement. We recently found dynein inhibitors to interfere with the reorientation of the microtubule cytoskeleton during healing of wounded NIH3T3 cell monolayers. We now find that dynein and its regulators dynactin and LIS1 localize to the leading cell cortex during this process. In the presence of serum, bright diffuse staining was observed in regions of active ruffling. This pattern was abolished by cytochalasin D, and was not observed in cells treated with lysophosphatidic acid, conditions which allow microtubule reorientation but not forward cell movement. Under the same conditions, using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, clear punctate dynein/dynactin containing structures were observed along the sides and at the tips of microtubules at the leading edge. Overexpression of dominant negative dynactin and LIS1 cDNAs or injection of antidynein antibody interfered with the rate of cell migration. Together, these results implicate a leading edge cortical pool of dynein in both early and persistent steps in directed cell movement.
Dujardin
Denis L
DL
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Pathology, Columbia University, P & S 15-409, 630 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA.
Barnhart
Lora E
LE
Stehman
Stephanie A
SA
Gomes
Edgar R
ER
Gundersen
Gregg G
GG
Vallee
Richard B
RB
D043203:1-Alkyl-2-acetylglycerophosphocholine Esterase; D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000494:pharmacology; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D002642:Chick Embryo; D015638:Cytochalasin D / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000378:metabolism*; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D000072159:Dynactin Complex; D004398:Dyneins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008246:Lysophospholipids / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism; D008954:Models, Biological; D041681:NIH 3T3 Cells; D011554:Pseudopodia / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000235:genetics
D000906:Antibodies; D001798:Blood Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D000072159:Dynactin Complex; D008246:Lysophospholipids; D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins; D015638:Cytochalasin D; D043203:1-Alkyl-2-acetylglycerophosphocholine Esterase; C513190:Pafah1b1 protein, mouse; D004398:Dyneins