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Vol. 14, Issue 9, 3636-3649, September 2003
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* Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027
Submitted October 8, 2002;
Revised April 4, 2003;
Accepted April 23, 2003
Monitoring Editor: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Axonal transport of membranous organelles such as mitochondria is essential for neuron viability and function. How signaling mechanisms regulate or influence mitochondrial distribution and transport is still largely unknown. We observed an increase in the distal distribution of mitochondria in neurons upon the expression of pleckstrin homology (PH) domains of phospholipase C
1 (PLC
-PH) and spectrin (spectrin-PH). Quantitative analysis of mitochondrial transport showed that specific binding of PH domains to phosphatidylinositol (4,5) bisphosphate (PtdIns(4,5)P2) but not 3' phosphorylated phosphatidylinositol species enhanced plus-enddirected transport of mitochondria two- to threefold and at the same time decreased minus-enddirected transport of mitochondria along axonal microtubules (MTs) without altering the overall level of motility. Further, the velocity and duration of mitochondrial transport plus the association of molecular motors with mitochondria remained unchanged by the expression of PH domains. Thus, PtdIns(4,5)P2-specific PH domains caused an increase in distal mitochondria by disturbing the balance of plus- and minus-enddirected transport rather than directly affecting the molecular machinery involved. Taken together our data reveal that level and directionality of transport are separable and that PtdIns(4,5)P2 has a novel role in regulation of the directionality of axonal transport of mitochondria.
Online version of this article contains supplemental figures. Online version of this article is available at www.molbiolcell.org.
* Present address: University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, 2.205 Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, United Kingdom. E-mail address: kd269{at}columbia.edu. Abbreviations used: DsRed1-Mito, mitochondria-targeted Discosoma sp. red fluorescent protein; GRP1, general receptor for phosphoinositides-1; GRP1-PH, pleckstrin homology domain of GRP1; KLC, kinesin light chain; MT, microtubule; PH, pleckstrin homology; PLC
-PH, pleckstrin homology domain of PLC
; PtdIns(3,4,5)P3, phosphatidyl inositol (3,4,5) trisphosphate; PtdIns(4,5)P2, phosphatidyl inositol (4,5) bisphosphate; PtdInsP, phosphatidylinositol phosphate; spectrin-PH; pleckstrin homology domain of spectrin.
Corresponding author. E-mail address: ms2001{at}columbia.edu.
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