Interaction of a Dictyostelium member of the plastin/fimbrin family with actin filaments and actin-myosin complexes

J Prassler, S Stocker, G Marriott, M Heidecker, J Kellermann and G Gerisch

Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany.

A protein purified from cytoskeletal fractions of Dictyostelium discoideum proved to be a member of the fimbrin/plastin family of actin- bundling proteins. Like other family members, this Ca(2+)-inhibited 67- kDa protein contains two EF hands followed by two actin-binding sites of the alpha-actinin/beta-spectrin type. Dd plastin interacted selectively with actin isoforms: it bound to D. discoideum actin and to beta/gamma-actin from bovine spleen but not to alpha-actin from rabbit skeletal muscle. Immunofluorescence labeling of growth phase cells showed accumulation of Dd plastin in cortical structures associated with cell surface extensions. In the elongated, streaming cells of the early aggregation stage, Dd plastin was enriched in the front regions. To examine how the bundled actin filaments behave in myosin II-driven motility, complexes of F-actin and Dd plastin were bound to immobilized heavy meromyosin, and motility was started by photoactivating caged ATP. Actin filaments were immediately propelled out of bundles or even larger aggregates and moved on the myosin as separate filaments. This result shows that myosin can disperse an actin network when it acts as a motor and sheds light on the dynamics of protein-protein interactions in the cortex of a motile cell where myosin II and Dd plastin are simultaneously present.

Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 83-95, 01/01/1997
Copyright © 1997 by The American Society for Cell Biology

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