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ArticleScientific reports2018

The actin capping protein in Aspergillus nidulans enhances dynein function without significantly affecting Arp1 filament assembly.

Jun Zhang, Rongde Qiu, Xin Xiang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jun ZhangDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences- F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, USA.
Rongde QiuDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences- F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, USA.
Xin XiangDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences- F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, USA. xin.xiang@usuhs.edu.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences · US

Funding

Regulation of cytoplasmic dynein in vivoR01GM121850 · NIGMS · HENRY M. JACKSON FDN FOR THE ADV MIL/MED · PI XIANG, XIN · 2017 to 2020
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM121850Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (OER) R01GM121850-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The minus-end-directed microtubule motor cytoplasmic dynein requires the dynactin complex for in vivo functions. The backbone of the vertebrate dynactin complex is the Arp1 (actin-related protein 1) mini-filament whose barbed end binds to the heterodimeric actin capping protein. However, it is unclear whether the capping protein is a dynactin component in lower eukaryotic organisms, especially because it does not appear to be a component of the budding yeast dynactin complex. Here our biochemical data show that the capping protein is a component of the dynactin complex in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans. Moreover, deletion of the gene encoding capping protein alpha (capA) results in a defect in both nuclear distribution and early-endosome transport, two dynein-mediated processes. However, the defect in either process is less severe than that exhibited by a dynein heavy chain mutant or the ∆p25 mutant of dynactin. In addition, loss of capping protein does not significantly affect the assembly of the dynactin Arp1 filament or the formation of the dynein-dynactin-∆C-HookA (Hook in A. nidulans) complex. These results suggest that fungal capping protein is not important for Arp1 filament assembly but its presence is required for enhancing dynein function in vivo.

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Actin Capping ProteinsActin CytoskeletonAspergillus nidulansCell NucleusDynactin ComplexDyneinsEndosomesFungal ProteinsMutationPhenotypeProtein BindingActin Capping ProteinsDynactin ComplexDyneinsFungal Proteins

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PMID30061726
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