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A Modular Platform for the Optogenetic Control of Small GTPase Activity in Living Cells Reveals Long-Range RhoA Signaling.
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Small GTPases are critical regulators of cellular processes, such as cell migration, and comprise a family of over 167 proteins in the human genome. Importantly, the location-dependent regulation of small GTPase activity is integral to coordinating cellular signaling. Currently, there are no generalizable methods for directly controlling the activity of these signaling enzymes with subcellular precision. To address this issue, we introduce a modular, optogenetic platform for the spatial control of small GTPase activity within living cells, termed spLIT-small GTPases. This platform enabled spatially precise control of cytoskeletal dynamics such as filopodia formation (spLIT-Cdc42) and directed cell migration (spLIT-Rac1). Furthermore, a spLIT-RhoA system uncovered previously unreported long-range RhoA signaling in HeLa cells, resulting in bipolar membrane retraction. These results establish spLIT-small GTPases as a versatile platform for the direct, spatial control of small GTPase signaling and demonstrate the ability to uncover spatially defined aspects of small GTPase signaling.
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