Microtubules, Motors and Membranes

Microtubules, Motors and Membranes

Transport on Microtubules

• In neurons there is visible transport of vesicles from cell body to growth cone– Transcription and translation and membrane

biosynthesis in cell body– Need to get material to growth cone to elongate

• Axonal transport– Fast anterograde (3µm/sec)-vesicles– Intermediate anterograde (0.6µm/sec)-mitochondria– Slow anterograde- (0.002-0.03µm/sec) -proteins– Retrograde- 2µm/sec

Fast axonal transport movie

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Vesicles on microtubule’s in vitro

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Kinesin animation


• Giant Squid axoplasm can be extruded and watched under microscope– Can watch vesicles move on mt’s

– Now use brain mt’s and squid axoplasm

– vesicles move with ATP added (2µm/sec)

– vesicles bind but don’t move with AMPPNP

– now isolate proteins that bind to mt’s in the presence of AMPPNP but elute with ATP!

• Kinesin is discovered

Kinesins

• Moves toward the (+) end (1-2 µm/sec)

• 2 x 124kd + 64kd complex

• Double headed ATP motor with a tail that binds cargo

• 4 families involved in vesicle movement

• 3 families involved in spindle function

• Some are actually (-) end directed

Head Stalk

Flexible hinge

Heavy chains Light chain

T ail

αα α αβ β β β

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Dynein

• Huge protein complex– 2-3 500 kd proteins– several intermediate and light chains– dynactin complex– 4 proteins including an actin-related protein (ARP)– regulates dynein?

• (-) end directed ATPase motor (1-14µm/sec)• Three classes of cytoplasmic plus flagellar

– One looks vesicular– One is near Golgi– One is in punctate structures of unknown origin

Microtubule motors in vitro


1- Put motor on slide and add microtubules- the motor pushes the microtubule along2- add vesicles to microtubules on slide and the vesicles are moved on the microtubules

Terasaki et al.

• DiOC6 stains mitochondria +ER

• Shows a reticular network in cells

• Co-localizes with mt’s

• Depolymerize mt’s and it collapses, but slower than mt’s

• During regrowth, the ER follows the mt’s

DiOC6 stain of NIH3T3 cell

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Dabora and Sheetz

• Make an membrane prep from CEF cells• Add to mt’s on coverslip• the vesicles are pulled out into a reticular network• requires ATP• inhibited by AMPPNP and vanadate (requires

kinesin and dynein motors)• looks like Terasaki’s ER• Recent- Kinesin binding protein found on

cytoplasmic face of ER- Kinectin

Turner and Tartakoff

• Depolymerize mt’s with nocodazole

• Golgi vesiculates

• required energy

• Now remove nocodazole

• mt’s reform

• Golgi coalescence

• requires energy

Golgi (green) Microtubules’s (red)

Add nocodazole

ER-Golgi- Transport

• ER to Golgi traffic visualized in living cells John F. Presley, Nelson B. Cole, Trina A. Schroer, Koret Hirschberg, Kristien Zaal and Jennifer Lippincott-SchwartzNature,Volume 389, Pages 81-85, 1997

• Kinetic Analysis of Secretory Protein Traffic and Characterization of Golgi to Plasma Membrane Transport Intermediates in Living Cells J. Cell Biol., Volume 143, Number 6, 1998 1485-1503 Koret Hirschberg, Chad M. Miller, Jan Ellenberg, John F. Presley, Eric D.

Siggia, Robert D. Phair,§ and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz • Use GFP probes to visualize ER to Golgi transport

– VSVG ts mutant- doesn’t fold correctly at low temperature– 40°C- blocked in ER– 15°C- blocked in pre-Golgi– 32°C- transports normally

Hirschberg et al. Cells incubated at 40C overnight to

block in ER and then released to visualize

dynamics of transport

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Presley et al. Cells held at 40 to block in ER and then released to see movement to Golgi



Presley et al. Cells blocked in pre-golgi at 15 then released to 32 to see movement to Golgi



Presley et al. Movement of pre-golgi structures (15C) in the presence of nocodazole



Presley et al. Overexpress Dynamitin at 15C and then shift

to 32 (release to Golgi)



Mitochondria and Microtubules

• Mitochondria also coalign with Mt’s in cell

• They are elongated into tubules along the length of mT’s

• Recently, a kinesin homolog (Kif1B) has been found to be specific for mitochondria

Mitochondria in Epithelial cell

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Lysosomes and Microtubules

• Label endosomal system see extensive network of vesicles and tubules clustered around MTOC

• Nocodazole causes dispersal• Movements of individual vesicles ceases

when mt’s depolymerized• repolymerize mt’s and they recluster at

MTOC

Melanophores

• Vesicles move bidirectionally on Mt’s to change the color of cells in fish scales– Melatonin stimulating hormone causes vesicles to

disperse• cAMP increases

– Melatonin causes them to aggregate near the nucleus• cAMP decreases

• Dynein does inward movement• Kinesin + Myosin V does outward

Models for bidirectional vesicle

transport (Gross et al. The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 156, Number 4,

February 28, 2002 715–724)

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Melanophore papers

• Movements of melanophores in cells

• Functional Coordination of Microtubule and Actin Based Motility in Melanophores. V. I. Rodionov, A. J. Hope, T. M. Svitkina and G.G. Borisy Curr. Biol., 8(3): 165-168, 1998

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Melanophore aggregation



Melanophore dispersion



Movements are

microtubule dependent Gross et al. The Journal of Cell

Biology, Volume 156, Number 5,

March 4, 2002 855–865



Melanophore dispersion after Lantrunculin treatment



All three motors stay bound to melanosomes during movement (Gross et al.

The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 156, Number 5, March 4, 2002 855–865



Dynactin complex (Deacon et al. The Journal of Cell Biology,

Volume 160, Number 3, February 3, 2003 297–301)

• Complex that binds dynein to cargo• Inhibition of function by overexpressing

dynamitin ( a component of dynactin complex) inhibits both aggregation and dispersal

• Found dynamitin binds to Kinesin as well as dynein

• Thus the dynactin complex may regulate both with some kind of bidirectional on/off switch

Vesicle trafficking: Golgi-TGN-sorting in epithelial cells

• Problem: All secretory, lysosomal, membrane proteins sort from ER to Golgi and then are distributed in the TGN to different sites

• How is the sorting accomplished?

• In Epithelial cells you sort cargo to the apical and basolateral membranes. How?

Use fluorescent labeled markers that sort to apical (CFP) or basolateral (YFP) part of the cell. Keller et al. Nature Cell

Biology, 3:140-147 2001

• Transfect in probes• Block transport at low temperature• Release block and image• Most probe is initially in the same vesicle (yellow)• Over time, they sort into red and green vesicles• Can see tubules pull out of a single sorting

compartment that are either red or green• Mechanism unknown

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Movements near the membrane are not diffusion! (Keller et al.)



TIRF imaging of basolateral side of cell

Red- endocytic marker (dextran uptake)

Green- basolateral secretory marker

Membrane Tension• Membranes seem to be under tension-note the pulling out of

membranes along microtubule’s in vitro looks like ER• Sorting seems to involve stretching of the sorting

compartment membranes into tubules• There is now evidence that in the TGN, you don’t bud off

small vesicles, but large interconnected networks of tubules and vesicles

• Brefeldin A Blinkout– Brefeldin A blocks the transport from ER to Golgi– Does not block recycling from Golgi to ER– Add bfa and watch the Golgi disperse- it is not gradual, it is

explosive!!

Golgi Blinkout with Brefeldin A



Future?

• Challenge is to figure out the specific function of each motor– Where is it?– What is it’s cargo?– What turns the motor off and on?

• Organization of Golgi, ER, lysosomes by motors and how function is interrelated

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