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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 1, 2003, 23(7):2527
Control of Growth Cone Motility and Morphology by LIM
Kinase and Slingshot via Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation of
Cofilin
Mitsuharu
Endo1,
Kazumasa
Ohashi1,
Yukio
Sasaki2,
Yoshio
Goshima2,
Ryusuke
Niwa3, 4,
Tadashi
Uemura3, 4, and
Kensaku
Mizuno1
1 Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Graduate
School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan,
2 Department of Pharmacology, Yokohama City
University School of Medicine, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan,
3 Department of Molecular Genetics, The Institute for Virus
Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan, and
4 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology,
Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kawaguchi 332-0012
Growth cone motility and morphology are based on actin-filament
dynamics. Cofilin plays an essential role for the rapid turnover of
actin filaments by severing and depolymerizing them. The activity of
cofilin is repressed by phosphorylation at Ser3 by LIM kinase (LIMK, in which LIM is an acronym of the three gene products Lin-11, Isl-1, and Mec-3) and is reactivated by dephosphorylation by
phosphatases, termed Slingshot (SSH). We investigated the roles of
cofilin, LIMK, and SSH in the growth cone motility and morphology and
neurite extension by expressing fluorescence protein-labeled cofilin, LIMK1, SSH1, or their mutants in chick dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons and then monitoring live images of growth cones by time-lapse video fluorescence microscopy. The expression of LIMK1 remarkably repressed growth cone motility and neurite extension, whereas the
expression of SSH1 or a nonphosphorylatable S3A mutant of cofilin
enhanced these events. The fan-like shape of growth cones was
disorganized by the expression of any of these proteins. The repressive
effects on growth cone behavior by LIMK1 expression were significantly
rescued by the coexpression of S3A-cofilin or SSH1. These findings
suggest that LIMK1 and SSH1 play critical roles in controlling growth
cone motility and morphology and neurite extension by regulating the
activity of cofilin and may be involved in signaling pathways that
regulate stimulus-induced growth cone guidance. Using various mutants
of cofilin, we also obtained evidence that the actin-filament-severing
activity of cofilin is critical for growth cone motility and neurite extension.
Key words:
LIM kinase; Slingshot; cofilin; actin-depolymerizing factor; growth cone guidance; neurite
outgrowth
Copyright © 2003 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/03/2372527-11$05.00/0
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