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Volume 136, Number 3, February 10, 1997 633-647

Myosin I Overexpression Impairs Cell Migration

Kristine D. Novak, and Margaret A. Titus

Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710

Dictyostelium myoB, a member of the myosin I family of motor proteins, is important for controlling the formation and retraction of membrane projections by the cell's actin cortex (Novak, K.D., M.D. Peterson, M.C. Reedy, and M.A. Titus. 1995. J. Cell Biol. 131:1205-1221). Mutants that express a three- to sevenfold excess of myoB (myoB⁺ cells) were generated to further analyze the role of myosin I in these processes. The myoB⁺ cells move with an instantaneous velocity that is 35% of the wild-type rate and exhibit a 6-8-h delay in initiation of aggregation when placed under starvation conditions. The myoB⁺ cells complete the developmental cycle after an extended period of time, but they form fewer fruiting bodies that appear to be small and abnormal. The myoB⁺ cells are also deficient in their ability both to form distinct F-actin filled projections such as crowns and to become elongate and polarized. This defect can be attributed to the presence of at least threefold more myoB at the cortex of the myoB⁺ cells. In contrast, threefold overexpression of a truncated myoB that lacks the src homology 3 (SH3) domain (myoB/SH3 cells) or myoB in which the consensus heavy chain phosphorylation site was mutated to an alanine (S332A-myoB) does not disturb normal cellular function. However, there is an increased concentration of myoB in the cortex of the myoB/SH3 and S332A-myoB cells comparable to that found in the myoB⁺ cells. These results suggest that excess full-length cortical myoB prevents the formation of the actin-filled extensions required for locomotion by increasing the tension of the F-actin cytoskeleton and/ or retracting projections before they can fully extend. They also demonstrate a role for the phosphorylation site and SH3 domain in mediating the in vivo activity of myosin I.

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