par Xu, J.;Wang, F.;Van Keymeulen, Alexandra 
;Rentel, Maike;Bourne, Henry R
Référence Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 19, page (6884-6889)
Publication Publié, 2005-05
;Rentel, Maike;Bourne, Henry RRéférence Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 19, page (6884-6889)
Publication Publié, 2005-05
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | How do microtubules, which maintain and direct polarity of many eukaryotic cells, regulate polarity of blood neutrophils? In sharp contrast to most cells, disrupting a neutrophil's microtubule network with nocodazole causes it to polarize and migrate [Niggli, V. (2003) J. Cell Sci. 116, 813-822]. Nocodazole induces the same responses in differentiated HL-60 cells, a model neutrophil cell line, and reduces their chemotactic prowess by causing them to pursue abnormally circuitous paths in migrating toward a stationary point source of an attractant, f-Met-Leu-Phe (fMLP). The chemotactic defect stems from dramatic nocodazole-induced imbalance between the divergent, opposed fMLP-induced "backness" and "frontness" signals responsible for neutrophil polarity. Nocodazole (i) stimulates backness by increasing Rho- and actomyosin-dependent contractility, as reported by Niggli, and also (ii) impairs fMLP-dependent frontness: pseudopods are flatter, contain less F-actin, and show decreased membrane translocation of PH-Akt-GFP, a fluorescent marker for 3'-phosphoinositide lipids. Inhibiting backness with a pharmacologic inhibitor of a Rho-dependent kinase substantially reverses nocodazole's effects on chemotaxis, straightness of migration paths, morphology, and PH-Akt-GFP translocation. Thus, microtubules normally balance backness vs. frontness signals, preventing backness from reducing the strength of pseudopods and from impairing directional migration. |
