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J. Cell Biol.,
Volume 143, Number 6, December 14, 1998 1535-1545



* Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 2QR, United
Kingdom; Myosin VI is an unconventional myosin that
may play a role in vesicular membrane traffic through
actin rich regions of the cytoplasm in eukaryotic cells.
In this study we have cloned and sequenced a cDNA
encoding a chicken intestinal brush border myosin VI.
Polyclonal antisera were raised to bacterially expressed
fragments of this myosin VI. The affinity purified antibodies were highly specific for myosin VI by immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation and were used to
study the localization of the protein by immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy. It was found
that in NRK and A431 cells, myosin VI was associated
with both the Golgi complex and the leading, ruffling
edge of the cell as well as being present in a cytosolic
pool. In A431 cells in which cell surface ruffling was
stimulated by EGF, myosin VI was phosphorylated and
recruited into the newly formed ruffles along with ezrin
and myosin V. In vitro experiments suggested that a
p21-activated kinase (PAK) might be the kinase responsible for phosphorylation in the motor domain.
These results strongly support a role for myosin VI in membrane traffic on secretory and endocytic pathways.
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 2QH, United Kingdom; and § Department of Biochemistry,
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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