THE ARCHITECTURE OF ACTIN-FILAMENTS AND THE ULTRASTRUCTURAL LOCATION OF ACTIN-BINDING PROTEIN IN THE PERIPHERY OF LUNG MACROPHAGES
THE ARCHITECTURE OF ACTIN-FILAMENTS AND THE ULTRASTRUCTURAL LOCATION OF ACTIN-BINDING PROTEIN IN THE PERIPHERY OF LUNG MACROPHAGES
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DOI:
10.1083/jcb.103.3.1007
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发表时间:
1986-09-01
影响因子:
7.8
通讯作者:
SHEVLIN, P
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作者:
HARTWIG, JH;SHEVLIN, P
A highly branched filament network is the principal structure in the periphery of detergent-extracted cytoskeletons of macrophages that have been spread on a surface and either freeze or critical point dried, and then rotary shadowed with platinum-carbon. This array of filaments completely fills lamellae extended from the cell and fiburcates to form 0.2-0.5 .mu.m thick layers on the top and bottom of the cell body. Reaction of the macrophage cytoskeletons with anti-actin IgG and with anti-IgG bound to colloidal gold produces dense staining of these filaments, and incubation with myosin subfragment I uniformly decorates these filaments, identifying them as actin. 45% of the total cellular actin and .apprx. 70% of actin-binding protein remains in the detergent-insoluble cell residue. The soluble actin is not filamentous as determined by sedimentation analysis, the DNAse I inhibition assay, and electron microscopy, indicating that the cytoskeleton is not fragmented by detergent extraction. The spacing between the ramifications of the actin network is 94 .+-. 47 nm and 118 .+-. 72 nm in cytoskeletons prepared for electron microscopy by freeze drying and critical point drying, respectively. Free filament ends are rare, except for a few which project upward from the body of the network or which extend down to the substrate. Filaments of the network intersect predominantly at right angles to form either T-shaped and X-shaped overlaps having striking perpendicularity or else Y-shaped intersections composed of filaments intersecting at 120-130.degree. angles. The actin filament concentration in the lamellae is high, with an average value of 12.5 mg/ml. The concentration was much more uniform in freeze-dried preparations than in critical point-dried specimens, indicating that there is less collapse associated with the freezing technique. The orthogonal actin network of the macrophage cortical cytoplasm resembles actin gels made with actin-binding protein. Reaction of cell cytoskeletons and of an actin gel made with actin-binding protein with anti-actin-binding protein IgG and anti-IgG-coated gold beads resulted in the deposition of clusters of gold at points where filaments intersect and at the ends of filaments that may have been in contact with the membrane before its removal with detergent. In the actin gel made with actin-binding protein, 75% of actin-fiber intersections labeled, and the filament spacing between intersections is consistent with that predicted on theoretical grounds if each added actin-binding protein molecule cross-links two filaments to form an intersection in the gel. On the other hand, only 38% of all filament intersections in the macrophage cortical cytoskeletons labeled, and the filament spacing between junctions is much smaller than that predicted from the molar ratio of actin-binding protein to actin in the cytoskeletons. Despite the differences between actin gels made with actin-binding protein and macrophage cytoskeletons, which presumably arise from the greater complexity of the cell compared with the purified protein assembly, the networks were qualitatively similar.