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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 204, Issue 6, Pages 1027-1044Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201306147
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- MRC [U105115237]
- Herchel Smith Fellowship
- Warwick Systems Biology DTC
- BBSRC [BB/I008209/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MC_U105115237] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I008209/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105115237] Funding Source: researchfish
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Blebs and F-actin-driven pseudopods are alternative ways of extending the leading edge of migrating cells. We show that Dictyostelium cells switch from using predominantly pseudopods to blebs when migrating under agarose overlays of increasing stiffness. Blebs expand faster than pseudopods leaving behind F-actin scars, but are less persistent. Blebbing cells are strongly chemotactic to cyclic-AMP, producing nearly all of their blebs up-gradient. When cells re-orientate to a needle releasing cyclic-AMP, they stereotypically produce first microspikes, then blebs and pseudopods only later. Genetically, blebbing requires myosin-II and increases when actin polymerization or cortical function is impaired. Cyclic-AMP induces transient blebbing independently of much of the known chemotactic signal transduction machinery, but involving PI3-kinase and downstream PH domain proteins, CRAC and PhdA. Impairment of this PI3-kinase pathway results in slow movement under agarose and cells that produce few blebs, though actin polymerization appears unaffected. We propose that mechanical resistance induces bleb-driven movement in Dictyostelium, which is chemotactic and controlled through PI3-kinase.
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