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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 188, Issue 6, Pages 769-777Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200909176
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- National Institutes of Health [GM42759]
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Although actin filaments can form by oligomer annealing in vitro, they are assumed to assemble exclusively from actin monomers in vivo. In this study, we show that a pool of actin resistant to the monomer-sequestering drug latrunculin A (lat A) contributes to filament assembly in vivo. Furthermore, we show that the cofilin accessory protein Aip1 is important for establishment of normal actin monomer concentration in cells and efficiently converts cofilin-generated actin filament disassembly products into monomers and short oligomers in vitro. Additionally, in aip1 Delta mutant cells, lat A-insensitive actin assembly is significantly enhanced. We conclude that actin oligomer annealing is a physiologically relevant actin filament assembly pathway in vivo and identify Aip1 as a crucial factor for shifting the distribution of short actin oligomers toward monomers during disassembly.
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