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ArticlePloS one2015

Spatio-Temporal Regulation of Rac1 Mobility by Actin Islands.

Vinal V Lakhani, Elizabeth Hinde, Enrico Gratton, Timothy C Elston

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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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1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Vinal V LakhaniCurriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
Elizabeth HindeAustralian Centre for NanoMedicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Enrico GrattonDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America.
Timothy C ElstonCurriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of California, Irvine · USUNSW Sydney · AU

Funding

Uncover Strategies Used By Biological SystemsP50GM076516 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI LANDER, ARTHUR D · 2007 to 2016
$25.1M
TRD4: Phasor analysisP41GM103540 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI GRATTON, ENRICO · 2012 to 2020
$12.5M
Spatiotemporal modeling of signal transduction in yeastR01GM079271 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ELSTON, TIMOTHY C, ERREDE, BEVERLY · 2006 to 2017
$4.0M
UNC Predoc Training Progr in Bioinformatics/Comp BiologyT32GM067553 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ELSTON, TIMOTHY C · 2005 to 2019
$2.5M
Mechanisms of noise regulation in cell fate transitionsR01GM114136 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DOHLMAN, HENRIK G., ELSTON, TIMOTHY C · 2015 to 2018
$2.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM079271NIGMS NIH HHS GM114136NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103540NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM076516NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079271NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114136NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM067553
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rho GTPases play important roles in many aspects of cell migration, including polarity establishment and organizing actin cytoskeleton. In particular, the Rho GTPase Rac1 has been associated with the generation of protrusions at leading edge of migrating cells. Previously we showed the mobility of Rac1 molecules is not uniform throughout a migrating cell (Hinde E et. al. PNAS 2013). Specifically, the closer a Rac1 molecule is to the leading edge, the slower the molecule diffuses. Because actin-bound Rac1 diffuses slower than unbound Rac1, we hypothesized that regions of high actin concentration, called "actin islands", act as diffusive traps and are responsible for the non-uniform diffusion observed in vivo. Here, in silico model simulations demonstrate that equally spaced actin islands can regulate the time scale for Rac1 diffusion in a manner consistent with data from live-cell imaging experiments. Additionally, we find this mechanism is robust; different patterns of Rac1 mobility can be achieved by changing the actin islands' positions or their affinity for Rac1.

Indexed as

Actin CytoskeletonActinsAlgorithmsBiosensing TechniquesComputer SimulationIntracellular SpaceModels, BiologicalProtein BindingProtein Transportrac1 GTP-Binding ProteinActinsrac1 GTP-Binding Protein

Identifiers

PMID26606145
PMCPMC4659588
OpenAlexW2180974388

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