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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2006

Regulation of cytoplasmic dynein ATPase by Lis1.

Mariano T Mesngon, Cataldo Tarricone, Sachin Hebbar, Aimee M Guillotte, E William Schmitt, Lorene Lanier, Andrea Musacchio, Stephen J King, Deanna S Smith

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Multiple steps of dynein activation by Lis1 visualized by cryo-EM.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025
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  6. Activation and Regulation of Cytoplasmic Dynein.Trends in biochemical sciences · 2020
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  7. Cargo-Mediated Activation of Cytoplasmic DyneinFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Mariano T MesngonDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
Cataldo Tarricone
Sachin Hebbar
Aimee M Guillotte
E William Schmitt
Lorene Lanier
Andrea Musacchio
Stephen J King
Deanna S Smith
University of South Carolina · USIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

TISSUE BIOREPOSITORYP20RR017698 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI FAYAD, RAJA · 2002 to 2011
$22.5M
Dynactin/microtubule interactions in dynein motilityR01NS048501 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY · PI KING, STEPHEN J · 2004 to 2014
$2.9M
Examining the role of the Lissencephaly Protein, Lis1, in Dynein-Based TransportR01NS056314 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI SMITH, DEANNA S · 2008 to 2017
$2.5M
NCRR NIH HHS 1P20RR017698-01NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS048501NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS056314
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutations in Lis1 cause classical lissencephaly, a developmental brain abnormality characterized by defects in neuronal positioning. Over the last decade, a clear link has been forged between Lis1 and the microtubule motor cytoplasmic dynein. Substantial evidence indicates that Lis1 functions in a highly conserved pathway with dynein to regulate neuronal migration and other motile events. Yeast two-hybrid studies predict that Lis1 binds directly to dynein heavy chains (Sasaki et al., 2000; Tai et al., 2002), but the mechanistic significance of this interaction is not well understood. We now report that recombinant Lis1 binds to native brain dynein and significantly increases the microtubule-stimulated enzymatic activity of dynein in vitro. Lis1 does this without increasing the proportion of dynein that binds to microtubules, indicating that Lis1 influences enzymatic activity rather than microtubule association. Dynein stimulation in vitro is not a generic feature of microtubule-associated proteins, because tau did not stimulate dynein. To our knowledge, this is the first indication that Lis1 or any other factor directly modulates the enzymatic activity of cytoplasmic dynein. Lis1 must be able to homodimerize to stimulate dynein, because a C-terminal fragment (containing the dynein interaction site but missing the self-association domain) was unable to stimulate dynein. Binding and colocalization studies indicate that Lis1 does not interact with all dynein complexes found in the brain. We propose a model in which Lis1 stimulates the activity of a subset of motors, which could be particularly important during neuronal migration and long-distance axonal transport.

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1-Alkyl-2-acetylglycerophosphocholine EsteraseAlternative SplicingAnimalsAxonal TransportBrainCell LineCell MovementDyneinsGenetic VariationMiceMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsNeuronsRecombinant ProteinsSpodopteraTransfection1-Alkyl-2-acetylglycerophosphocholine EsteraseDyneinsMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsPafah1b1 protein, mouseRecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID16481446
PMCPMC4399971
OpenAlexW2127106459

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