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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 127, Issue 7, Pages 1379-1393Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.134627
Keywords
Actin cytoskeleton; Contractility; FHOD1; Intracellular organization; Myosin; Stress fibers
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Priority Programme SPP 1464 [NA 413/3-1]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [GE 976/4]
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The formin FHOD1 (formin homology 2 domain containing protein 1) can act as a capping and bundling protein in vitro. In cells, active FHOD1 stimulates the formation of ventral stress fibers. However, the cellular mechanisms by which this phenotype is produced and the physiological relevance of FHOD1 function are not currently understood. Here, we first show that FHOD1 controls the formation of two distinct stress fiber precursors differentially. On the one hand, it inhibits dorsal fiber growth, which requires the polymerization of parallel bundles of long actin filaments. On the other hand, it stimulates transverse arcs that are formed by the fusion of short antiparallel actin filaments. This combined action is crucial for the maturation of stress fibers and their spatio-temporal organization, and a lack of FHOD1 function perturbs dynamic cell behavior during cell migration. Furthermore, we show that the GTPase-binding and formin homology 3 domains (GBD and FH3) are responsible for stress fiber association and colocalization with myosin. Surprisingly, a version of FHOD1 that lacks these domains nevertheless retains its full capacity to stimulate arc and ventral stress fiber formation. Based on our findings, we propose a mechanism in which FHOD1 promotes the formation of short actin filaments and transiently associates with transverse arcs, thus providing tight temporal and spatial control of the formation and turnover of transverse arcs into mature ventral stress fibers during dynamic cell behavior.
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