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Geometrical Constraints Greatly Hinder Formin mDia1 Activity.

ABSTRACT: Formins are one of the central players in the assembly of most actin networks in cells. The sensitivity of these processive molecular machines to mechanical tension is now well established. However, how the activity of formins is affected by geometrical constraints related to network architecture, such as filament cross-linking and formin spatial confinement, remains largely unknown. Combining microfluidics and micropatterning, we reconstituted in vitro mDia1 formin-elongated filament bundles induced by fascin, with different geometrical constraints on the formins, and measured the impact of these constraints on formin elongation rate and processivity. When filaments are not bundled, the anchoring details of formins have only a mild impact on their processivity and do not affect their elongation rate. When formins are unanchored, we show that filament bundling by fascin reduces both their elongation rate and their processivity. Strikingly, when filaments elongated by surface-anchored formins are cross-linked together, formin elongation rate immediately decreases and processivity is reduced up to 24-fold depending on the cumulative impact of formin rotational and translational freedom. Our results reveal an unexpected crosstalk between the constraints at the filament and the formin levels. We anticipate that in cells the molecular details of formin anchoring to the plasma membrane strongly modulate formin activity at actin filament barbed ends.

SUBMITTER: Suzuki EL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7086397 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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