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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 55-65Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E12-11-0781
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- Interfaces in Science Career Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund [1003964]
- Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust [J-991]
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Neuronal Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (N-WASP)-activated actin polymerization drives extension of invadopodia and podosomes into the basement layer. In addition to activating Arp2/3, N-WASP binds actin-filament barbed ends, and both N-WASP and barbed ends are tightly clustered in these invasive structures. We use nanofibers coated with N-WASP WWCA domains as model cell surfaces and single-actin-filament imaging to determine how clustered N-WASP affects Arp2/3-independent barbed-end assembly. Individual barbed ends captured by WWCA domains grow at or below their diffusion-limited assembly rate. At high filament densities, however, overlapping filaments form buckles between their nanofiber tethers and myosin attachment points. These buckles grew similar to 3.4-fold faster than the diffusion-limited rate of unattached barbed ends. N-WASP constructs with and without the native polyproline (PP) region show similar rate enhancements in the absence of profilin, but profilin slows barbed-end acceleration from constructs containing the PP region. Increasing Mg2+ to enhance filament bundling increases the frequency of filament buckle formation, consistent with a requirement of accelerated assembly on barbed-end bundling. We propose that this novel N-WASP assembly activity provides an Arp2/3-independent force that drives nascent filament bundles into the basement layer during cell invasion.
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