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Drebrin contains a cryptic F-actin-bundling activity regulated by Cdk5 phosphorylation.


ABSTRACT: Drebrin is an actin filament (F-actin)-binding protein with crucial roles in neuritogenesis and synaptic plasticity. Drebrin couples dynamic microtubules to F-actin in growth cone filopodia via binding to the microtubule-binding +TIP protein EB3 and organizes F-actin in dendritic spines. Precisely how drebrin interacts with F-actin and how this is regulated is unknown. We used cellular and in vitro assays with a library of drebrin deletion constructs to map F-actin binding sites. We discovered two domains in the N-terminal half of drebrin-a coiled-coil domain and a helical domain-that independently bound to F-actin and cooperatively bundled F-actin. However, this activity was repressed by an intramolecular interaction relieved by Cdk5 phosphorylation of serine 142 located in the coiled-coil domain. Phospho-mimetic and phospho-dead mutants of serine 142 interfered with neuritogenesis and coupling of microtubules to F-actin in growth cone filopodia. These findings show that drebrin contains a cryptic F-actin-bundling activity regulated by phosphorylation and provide a mechanistic model for microtubule-F-actin coupling.

SUBMITTER: Worth DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3760615 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Drebrin contains a cryptic F-actin-bundling activity regulated by Cdk5 phosphorylation.

Worth Daniel C DC   Daly Catherine N CN   Geraldo Sara S   Oozeer Fazal F   Gordon-Weeks Phillip R PR  

The Journal of cell biology 20130826 5


Drebrin is an actin filament (F-actin)-binding protein with crucial roles in neuritogenesis and synaptic plasticity. Drebrin couples dynamic microtubules to F-actin in growth cone filopodia via binding to the microtubule-binding +TIP protein EB3 and organizes F-actin in dendritic spines. Precisely how drebrin interacts with F-actin and how this is regulated is unknown. We used cellular and in vitro assays with a library of drebrin deletion constructs to map F-actin binding sites. We discovered t  ...[more]

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