RNP stress-granule formation is inhibited by microtubule disruption
RNP stress-granule formation is inhibited by microtubule disruption
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DOI:
10.1016/s1065-6995(02)00341-4
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发表时间:
2003-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Nadezhdina, ES
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作者:
Ivanov, PA;Chudinova, EM;Nadezhdina, ES
Stress-granules (SGs) are dense micrometre sized particles that assemble in the cytoplasm of animal and plant cells in response to cell stress: heat shock, drug application, etc.(Nover et al., 1989). SGs contain components of the translation initiation machinery, poly (A) RNA, some RNA-binding proteins, 40S ribosomal subunit and initiation factors eIF3, eIF4E and eIF4G (Kedersha et al., 2000, 2002). They are defined as dynamic non-membrane cellular compartments existing in dynamic equilibrium with polysomes. Surprisingly, SG formation takes minutes. It is not clear how hundreds of large molecules can find each other so quickly in a large cell volume. We speculated that SG constituents could bind or move along cytoskeletal elements, and this binding/moving could increase the probability of molecules to congregate. Interaction of SGs with microtubules (MTs), actin filaments and intermediate filaments and the dependence of SG formation on the integrity of the MT and actin network were studied in this work.Treatment of cells with sodium arsenate is often used as an approach for SG induction (Kedersha et al., 2000, 2002). Arsenate treatment does not influence cell MTs (Fig. 1A, C) or actin filaments (data not shown). To study the interaction of SGs and cytoskeleton, we treated cultured mammalian cells CV-1 (green monkey kidney fibroblasts) with 2.8 mM sodium arsenate dissolved in growth medium, fixed them with glutaraldehyde, and immunostained with antibody A167 (to p167 subunit of eIF3 factor, described in Shanina et al., 2001) and commercial antibodies to cytoskeletal structures. Immunostained A167 cells demonstrated diffuse antigen distribution or sometimes very small granules in the cytoplasm (Fig. 1E). If cells were incubated with arsenate, the antigen was concentrated in SGs within 30 min (Fig. 1G).