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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 767-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.049
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- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- Jane and Aator Erkko Foundation
- Cancer Society Finland
- 100 talents program'' from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shanghai Talents Development Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31970660]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [19ZR1463000]
- Doctoral School in Health Sciences
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
- NIH [T32 AR053461, R01-GM073791]
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Eukaryotic cells have diverse protrusive and contractile actin filament structures, which compete with one another for a limited pool of actin monomers. Numerous actin-binding proteins regulate the dynamics of actin structures, including tropomodulins (Tmods), which cap the pointed end of actin filaments. In striated muscles, Tmods prevent actin filaments from overgrowing, whereas in non-muscle cells, their function has remained elusive. Here, we identify two Tmod isoforms, Tmod1 and Tmod3, as key components of contractile stress fibers in non-muscle cells. Individually, Tmodl and Tmod3 can compensate for one another, but their simultaneous depletion results in disassembly of actin-tropomyosin filaments, loss of force-generating stress fibers, and severe defects in cell morphology. Knockout-rescue experiments reveal that Tmod's interaction with tropomyosin is essential for its role in the stabilization of actin-tropo-myosin filaments in cells. Thus, in contrast to their role in muscle myofibrils, in non-muscle cells, Tmods bind actin-tropomyosin filaments to protect them from depolymerizing, not elongating. Furthermore, loss of Tmods shifts the balance from linear actin-tropomyosin filaments to Arp2/3 complex-nucleated branched networks, and this phenotype can be partially rescued by inhibiting the Arp2/3 complex. Collectively, the data reveal that Tmods are essential for the maintenance of contractile actomyosin bundles and that Tmod-dependent capping of actin-tropomyosin filaments is critical for the regulation of actin homeostasis in non-muscle cells.
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