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Vol. 13, Issue 9, 3257-3267, September 2002

Division of Cell Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, 1066CX
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Phosphatidylinositol 4, 5-bisphosphate (PIP2)
at the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane has been proposed to
locally regulate the actin cytoskeleton. Indeed, recent studies that
use GFP-tagged pleckstrin homology domains (GFP-PH) as fluorescent
PIP2 sensors suggest that this lipid is enriched in
membrane microdomains. Here we report that this concept needs revision.
Using three distinct fluorescent GFP-tagged pleckstrin homology
domains, we show that highly mobile GFP-PH patches colocalize perfectly
with various lipophilic membrane dyes and, hence, represent increased
lipid content rather than PIP2-enriched microdomains. We
show that bright patches are caused by submicroscopical folds and
ruffles in the membrane that can be directly visualized at ~15 nm
axial resolution with a novel numerically enhanced imaging method.
F-actin motility is inhibited significantly by agonist-induced
PIP2 breakdown, and it resumes as soon as PIP2
levels are back to normal. Thus, our data support a role for
PIP2 in the regulation of cortical actin, but they
challenge a model in which spatial differences in PIP2
regulation of the cytoskeleton exist at a micrometer scale.

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