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Investigations of human myosin VI targeting using optogenetically controlled cargo loading.


ABSTRACT: Myosins play countless critical roles in the cell, each requiring it to be activated at a specific location and time. To control myosin VI with this specificity, we created an optogenetic tool for activating myosin VI by fusing the light-sensitive Avena sativa phototropin1 LOV2 domain to a peptide from Dab2 (LOVDab), a myosin VI cargo protein. Our approach harnesses the native targeting and activation mechanism of myosin VI, allowing direct inferences on myosin VI function. LOVDab robustly recruits human full-length myosin VI to various organelles in vivo and hinders peroxisome motion in a light-controllable manner. LOVDab also activates myosin VI in an in vitro gliding filament assay. Our data suggest that protein and lipid cargoes cooperate to activate myosin VI, allowing myosin VI to integrate Ca2+, lipid, and protein cargo signals in the cell to deploy in a site-specific manner.

SUBMITTER: French AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5338553 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Investigations of human myosin VI targeting using optogenetically controlled cargo loading.

French Alexander R AR   Sosnick Tobin R TR   Rock Ronald S RS  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170213 9


Myosins play countless critical roles in the cell, each requiring it to be activated at a specific location and time. To control myosin VI with this specificity, we created an optogenetic tool for activating myosin VI by fusing the light-sensitive <i>Avena sativa</i> phototropin1 LOV2 domain to a peptide from Dab2 (LOVDab), a myosin VI cargo protein. Our approach harnesses the native targeting and activation mechanism of myosin VI, allowing direct inferences on myosin VI function. LOVDab robustl  ...[more]

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