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- Title
Roles of type II myosin and a tropomyosin isoform in retrograde actin flow in budding yeast.
- Authors
Huckaba, Thomas M.; Lipkin, Thomas; Pon, Liza A.
- Abstract
Retrograde flow of cortical actin networks and bundles is essential for cell motility and retrograde intracellular movement, and for the formation and maintenance of microvilli, stereocilia, and filopodia. Actin cables, which are F-actin bundles that serve as tracks for anterograde and retrograde cargo movement in budding yeast, undergo retrograde flow that is driven, in part, by actin polymerization and assembly. We find that the actin cable retrograde flow rate is reduced by deletion or delocalization of the type II myosin Myo1p, and by deletion or conditional mutation of the Myo1p motor domain. Deletion of the tropomyosin isoform Tpm2p, but not the Tpm1p isoform, increases the rate of actin cable retrograde flow. Pretreatment of F-actin with Tpm2p, but not Tpm1p, inhibits Myo1p binding to F-actin and Myo1p-dependent F-actin gliding. These data support novel, opposing roles of Myo1 p and Tpm2 in regulating retrograde actin flow in budding yeast and an isoform-specific function of Tpm1p in promoting actin cable function in myosin-driven anterograde cargo transport.
- Subjects
MYOSIN; TROPOMYOSINS; MICROFILAMENT proteins; ACTIN; YEAST
- Publication
Journal of Cell Biology, 2006, Vol 175, Issue 6, p957
- ISSN
0021-9525
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1083/jcb.200609155