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ArticleScience advances2021

Propagation of F-actin disassembly via Myosin15-Mical interactions.

Shannon K Rich, Raju Baskar, Jonathan R Terman

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Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Myosin motors in sensory hair bundle assembly.Current opinion in cell biology · 2022
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  19. MICAL2 fine-tunes Arp2/3 for actin branching.The Journal of cell biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shannon K RichDepartments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0232-0580
Raju BaskarDepartments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
Jonathan R TermanDepartments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA. jonathan.terman@utsouthwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9898-8293
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance and neural connectivityR01MH085923 · NIMH · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI JONATHAN R TERMAN · 2009 to 2026
$6.2M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH085923
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The F-actin cytoskeleton drives cellular form and function. However, how F-actin-based changes occur with spatiotemporal precision and specific directional orientation is poorly understood. Here, we identify that the unconventional class XV myosin [Myosin 15 (Myo15)] physically and functionally interacts with the F-actin disassembly enzyme Mical to spatiotemporally position cellular breakdown and reconstruction. Specifically, while unconventional myosins have been associated with transporting cargo along F-actin to spatially target cytoskeletal assembly, we now find they also target disassembly. Myo15 specifically positions this F-actin disassembly by associating with Mical and using its motor and MyTH4-FERM cargo-transporting functions to broaden Mical's distribution. Myo15's broadening of Mical's distribution also expands and directionally orients Mical-mediated F-actin disassembly and subsequent cellular remodeling, including in response to Semaphorin/Plexin cell surface activation signals. Thus, we identify a mechanism that spatiotemporally propagates F-actin disassembly while also proposing that other F-actin-trafficked-cargo is derailed by this disassembly to directionally orient rebuilding.

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PMCPMC8115926
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