Journal
CELL ADHESION & MIGRATION
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 373-382Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/cam.3.4.9708
Keywords
actin waves; Dictyostelium; membrane tension; pattern formation; phagocytosis; PI3-kinase; PI(3,4,5)P3; self-organization
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- Max Planck Society
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SPP 1128]
- National Science Foundation [MCB-0344541]
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Actin waves that travel on the planar membrane of a substrate-attached cell underscore the capability of the actin system to assemble into dynamic structures by the recruitment of proteins from the cytoplasm. The waves have no fixed shape, can reverse their direction of propagation and can fuse or divide. Actin waves separate two phases of the plasma membrane that are distinguished by their lipid composition. The area circumscribed by a wave resembles in its phosphoinositide content the interior of a phagocytic cup, leading us to explore the possibility that actin waves are in-plane phagocytic structures generated without the localized stimulus of an attached particle. Consistent with this view, wave-forming cells were found to exhibit a high propensity for taking up particles. Cells fed rod-shaped particles produced elongated phagocytic cups that displayed a zonal pattern that reflected in detail the actin and lipid pattern of free-running actin waves. Neutrophils and macrophages are known to spread on surfaces decorated with immune complexes, a process that has been interpreted as frustrated phagocytosis. We suggest that actin waves enable a phagocyte to scan a surface for particles that might be engulfed.
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