Quo vadis: polarized membrane recycling in motility and phagocytosis.
Quo vadis: polarized membrane recycling in motility and phagocytosis.
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VADIS:运动性和吞噬作用中极化的膜回收。
DOI:
10.1083/jcb.149.3.529
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发表时间:
2000-05-01
影响因子:
7.8
通讯作者:
Mellman, I
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作者:
Mellman, I
The colloquial expression “let’s go out to eat” implies a relationship between movement and ingestion that can also be found at the cellular level. Phagocytic cells, such as neutrophils and Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae, have a marked capacity to move towards their intended meals by detecting and orienting towards chemoattractants released by bacteria and other microorganisms. In the case of neutrophils, subsequent phagocytosis of bacteria is for the purpose of host defense (as opposed to nutrition), but the relationship remains nevertheless. There is also a mechanistic relationship between motility and phagocytosis. Both processes often involve the directed elaboration of cell extensions, either in the form of pseudopods that envelop particulate substrates during phagocytosis or the pronounced membrane ruffles that are found at the leading edge of a motile cell. Both processes are also well known to be highly dependent on the localized polymerization of actin filaments and activity of Rho family GTPases that help organize actin polymerization. The actin-binding protein coronin is also found either at a moving cell’s leading edge or at the site of particle uptake (Gerisch et al., 1995; Maniak et al., 1995). Conceivably, motility and phagocytosis are reflections of the same, or at least tightly linked, functions which emerged together in evolution: competition for ingestion would be enhanced by the capacity to move towards the bacterial meal as opposed to waiting for the meal to be delivered, as it were. In this issue of The Journal of Cell Biology, Grinstein and colleagues present data that may help resolve the uncertainty over the mechanism of these processes (Bajno et al., 2000).The problem of cell motility is one of the oldest in modern cell biology, dating back to studies in the early 1970’s by Abercrombie, Raff, de Petris, and others who noted that cell-bound particles or cross-linked antibodies exhibited directed movement on the plasma membrane. As articulated by Mark Bretscher (Bretscher, 1996; Bretscher and Aguado-Velasco, 1998), such work gave rise to two views of how cells move. The first proposes that directed actin polymerization provides a physical force from within the cell that effectively pushes it forward. As the filamentous actin is pushed rearward, surface-bound particles would be similarly swept to the cell’s trailing edge. The alternative view suggests that there is polarized insertion of