This study extends the observations on the defects in pseudopod formation of ABP-120+ and ABP-120- cells by a detailed morphological and biochemical analysis of the actin based cytoskeleton. Both ABP-120+ and ABP-120- cells polymerize the same amount of F-actin in response to stimulation with cAMP. However, unlike ABP-120+ cells, ABP-120- cells do not incorporate actin into the Triton X-100-insoluble cytoskeleton at 30-50 s, the time when ABP-120 is incorporated into the cytoskeleton and when pseudopods are extended after cAMP stimulation in wild-type cells. By confocal and electron microscopy, pseudopods extended by ABP-120- cells are not as large or thick as those produced by ABP-120+ cells and in the electron microscope, an altered filament network is found in pseudopods of ABP-120- cells when compared to pseudopods of ABP-120+ cells. The actin filaments found in areas of pseudopods in ABP-120+ cells either before or after stimulation were long, straight, and arranged into space filling orthogonal networks. Protrusions of ABP-120- cells are less three-dimensional, denser, and filled with multiple foci of aggregated filaments consistent with collapse of the filament network due to the absence of ABP-120-mediated cross-linking activity. The different organization of actin filaments may account for the diminished size of protrusions observed in living and fixed ABP-120- cells compared to ABP-120+ cells and is consistent with the role of ABP-120 in regulating pseudopod extension through its cross-linking of actin filaments.
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March 01 1995
Genetic deletion of ABP-120 alters the three-dimensional organization of actin filaments in Dictyostelium pseudopods.
D Cox,
D Cox
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
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J A Ridsdale,
J A Ridsdale
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
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J Condeelis,
J Condeelis
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
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J Hartwig
J Hartwig
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
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D Cox
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
J A Ridsdale
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
J Condeelis
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
J Hartwig
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
Online ISSN: 1540-8140
Print ISSN: 0021-9525
J Cell Biol (1995) 128 (5): 819–835.
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D Cox, J A Ridsdale, J Condeelis, J Hartwig; Genetic deletion of ABP-120 alters the three-dimensional organization of actin filaments in Dictyostelium pseudopods.. J Cell Biol 1 March 1995; 128 (5): 819–835. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.128.5.819
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