Arp2/3-mediated F-actin formation controls regulated exocytosis in vivo

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Abstract

The actin cytoskeleton plays crucial roles in many cellular processes, including regulated secretion. However, the mechanisms controlling F-actin dynamics in this process are largely unknown. Through 3D time-lapse imaging in a secreting organ, we show that F-actin is actively disassembled along the apical plasma membrane at the site of secretory vesicle fusion and re-assembled directionally on vesicle membranes. Moreover, we show that fusion pore formation and PIP 2 redistribution precedes actin and myosin recruitment to secretory vesicle membranes. Finally, we show essential roles for the branched actin nucleators Arp2/3- and WASp in the process of secretory cargo expulsion and integration of vesicular membranes with the apical plasma membrane. Our results highlight previously unknown roles for branched actin in exocytosis and provide a genetically tractable system to image the temporal and spatial dynamics of polarized secretion in vivo.

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Tran, D. T., Masedunskas, A., Weigert, R., & Ten Hagen, K. G. (2015). Arp2/3-mediated F-actin formation controls regulated exocytosis in vivo. Nature Communications, 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10098

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