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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 20, Pages 4486-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.081
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- National Institutes of Health [RO1 GM121850, RO1 GM134104]
- Uniformed Services University start-up fund
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Cytoplasmic dynein is activated by the dynactin complex, cargo adapters, and LIS1, with ATP hydrolysis at AAA3 regulating its activation and localization on microtubules. Dynein activation and localization in fungal hyphae depend on the interaction of different regulators, including the Hook protein, dynactin, and LIS1. Blocking ATP hydrolysis at AAA3 can lead to alternative activation pathways for dynein, impacting its interaction with LIS1 and cargo binding.
Cytoplasmic dynein is activated by the dynactin complex, cargo adapters and LIS1 (Lissencephaly 1). How this process is regulated in vivo remains unclear. The dynein motor ring contains six AAA+ (ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities) domains. Here, we used the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans to examine whether ATP hydrolysis at AAA3 regulates dynein activation in the context of other regulators. In fungal hyphae, early endosomes undergo dynein-mediated movement away from the microtubule plus ends near the hyphal tip. Dynein normally accumulates at the microtubule plus ends. The early endosomal adaptor Hook protein, together with dynactin, drives dynein activation to cause its relocation to the microtubule minus ends. This activation process depends on LIS1, but LIS1 tends to dissociate from dynein after its activation. In this study, we found that dynein containing a mutation-blocking ATP hydrolysis at AAA3 can undergo LIS1-independent activation, consistent with our genetic data that the same mutation suppresses the growth defect of the A. nidulans LIS1-deletion mutant. Our data also suggest that blocking AAA3 ATP hydrolysis allows dynein activation by dynactin without the early endosomal adaptor. As a consequence, dynein accumulates at microtubule minus ends whereas early endosomes stay near the plus ends. Dynein containing a mutation-blocking ATP binding at AAA3 largely depends on LIS1 for activation, but this mutation abnormally prevents LIS1 dissociation upon dynein activation. Together, our data suggest that the AAA3 ATPase cycle regulates the coordination between dynein activation and cargo binding as well as the dynamic dynein-LIS1 interaction.
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