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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 21, Issue 16, Pages 2905-2915Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E10-06-0494
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- National Institutes of Health [GM-026132, GM-0026338]
- American Heart Association [022579T]
- EMBO [ALTF 1261-2007]
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We used the dendritic nucleation hypothesis to formulate a mathematical model of the assembly and disassembly of actin filaments at sites of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in fission yeast. We used the wave of active WASp recruitment at the site of the patch formation to drive assembly reactions after activation of Arp2/3 complex. Capping terminated actin filament elongation. Aging of the filaments by ATP hydrolysis and gamma-phosphate dissociation allowed actin filament severing by cofilin. The model could simulate the assembly and disassembly of actin and other actin patch proteins using measured cytoplasmic concentrations of the proteins. However, to account quantitatively for the numbers of proteins measured over time in the accompanying article (Sirotkin et al., 2010, MBoC 21: 2792-2802), two reactions must be faster in cells than in vitro. Conditions inside the cell allow capping protein to bind to the barbed ends of actin filaments and Arp2/3 complex to bind to the sides of filaments faster than the purified proteins in vitro. Simulations also show that depolymerization from pointed ends cannot account for rapid loss of actin filaments from patches in 10 s. An alternative mechanism consistent with the data is that severing produces short fragments that diffuse away from the patch.
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