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Published 8 July 2002. doi:10.1083/jcb.200203038
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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/2002/7/139 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 158, Number 1, July 8, 2002 139-152

Article

Filopodia and actin arcs guide the assembly and transport of two populations of microtubules with unique dynamic parameters in neuronal growth cones



Andrew W. Schaefer, Nurul Kabir and Paul Forscher

Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520

Address correspondence to Paul Forscher, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, KBT222, Yale University, P.O. Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103. Tel.: (203) 432-6344. Fax: (203) 432-8999. E-mail: paul.forscher{at}yale.edu

We have used multimode fluorescent speckle microscopy (FSM) and correlative differential interference contrast imaging to investigate the actin–microtubule (MT) interactions and polymer dynamics known to play a fundamental role in growth cone guidance. We report that MTs explore the peripheral domain (P-domain), exhibiting classical properties of dynamic instability. MT extension occurs preferentially along filopodia, which function as MT polymerization guides. Filopodial bundles undergo retrograde flow and also transport MTs. Thus, distal MT position is determined by the rate of plus-end MT assembly minus the rate of retrograde F-actin flow. Short MT displacements independent of flow are sometimes observed. MTs loop, buckle, and break as they are transported into the T-zone by retrograde flow. MT breakage results in exposure of new plus ends which can regrow, and minus ends which rapidly undergo catastrophes, resulting in efficient MT turnover. We also report a previously undetected presence of F-actin arc structures, which exhibit persistent retrograde movement across the T-zone into the central domain (C-domain) at ~1/4 the rate of P-domain flow. Actin arcs interact with MTs and transport them into the C-domain. Interestingly, although the MTs associated with arcs are less dynamic than P-domain MTs, they elongate efficiently as a result of markedly lower catastrophe frequencies.

Key Words: microtubules; axon outgrowth; actin; growth cone; dynamics


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