Enhanced fear expression in Spir-1 actin organizer mutant mice

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This 'highways and local roads' model suggests that MTs are tracks for long-range transport (highways) between the cell centre and periphery, driven by kinesin and dynein motors. Meanwhile AFs (local roads) and myosin motors work down-stream picking up cargo at the periphery and transporting it for the 'last m' to its final destination. This model makes intuitive sense as MTs in animal cells in culture typically form a polarised radial network of tracks spanning >10 m from the centrally located centrosome to the periphery and appear ideally distributed for long-distance transport. Meanwhile, with some exceptions in which AFs form uniformly polarised arrays, e.g. lamellipodia, filopodia and dendritic spines, AF architecture appears much more complex. In many fixed cells AF appear to comprise populations of short (1-2 m length), with random or anti-parallel filament polarity, and not an obvious system of tracks for directed transport 5,6 . This view is exemplified by the co-operative capture (CC) model of melanosome transport in melanocytes 7,8 . Skin melanocytes make pigmented melanosomes and then distribute them, via dendrites, to adjacent keratinocytes, thus providing pigmentation and photo-protection (reviewed in 9 ). The CC model proposes that transport of melanosomes into dendrites occurs by sequential longdistance transport from the cell body into dendrites along MTs (propelled by kinesin/dynein motors), followed by AF/myosin-Va dependent tethering in the dendrites. Consistent with this, in myosin-Va-null cells melanosomes move bi-directionally along MTs into dendrites, but do not accumulate therein, and instead cluster in the cell body 7,10 . This defect results in partial albinism in mammals due to uneven pigment transfer from melanocytes to keratinocytes (e.g. dilute mutant mouse and human Griscelli syndrome (GS) type I patients; Figure 1A) 11,12 . Subsequent studies revealed similar defects in mutant mice (and human GS types II and III patients) lacking the small

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Rab27a co-ordinates actin-dependent transport by controlling organelle-associated motors and track assembly proteins

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Robinson

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“…The novel mitoSPIRE1 knockout mouse generated here were viable and are currently phenotypically analysed. Behavioural studies revealed that the SPIRE1 mutant mouse, which lacks vesicular and mitochondrial SPIRE1 functions had an increase in fear (Pleiser et al, 2014). Recent findings show that actin-dependent positioning of mitochondria is important for morphological synaptic plasticity (Rangaraju et al, 2019), suggesting a possible role of mitoSPIRE1 in neuronal anchoring of mitochondria during learning and memory, which may influence fear learning, memory and expression.…”

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“…To inhibit SPIRE1 function we have isolated primary fibroblasts from two different mouse models, the mitoSPIRE1 knockout mouse and the SPIRE1 mutant mouse. The SPIRE1 mutant mouse has a gene trap insertion in the SPIRE1 gene, which abrogates SPIRE1 expression in between the KIND and WH2 domains (Pleiser et al, 2014). SPIRE1 mutant mice do not express functional SPIRE1 proteins, and thereby lack vesicular and mitochondrial SPIRE1 functions.…”

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The SPIRE1 actin nucleator coordinates actin/myosin functions in the regulation of mitochondrial motility

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Alberico

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statement: The mitochondrial SPIRE1 protein targets myosin 5 motor proteins and formin actin-filament nucleators/elongators towards mitochondria and negatively regulates mitochondrial motility. AbstractSubcellular localisation of mitochondria provides a spatial and temporal organisation for cellular energy demands. Long-range mitochondrial transport is mediated by microtubule tracks and associated dynein and kinesin motor proteins. The actin cytoskeleton has a more versatile role and provides transport, tethering, and anchoring functions. SPIRE actin nucleators organise actin filament networks at vesicle membranes, which serve as tracks for myosin 5 motor protein-driven transport processes. Following alternative splicing, SPIRE1 is targeted to mitochondria. In analogy to vesicular SPIRE functions, we have analysed whether SPIRE1 regulates mitochondrial motility. By tracking mitochondria of living fibroblast cells from SPIRE1 mutant mice and splice-variant specific mitochondrial SPIRE1 knockout mice, we determined that the loss of SPIRE1 function increased mitochondrial motility. The SPIRE1 mutant phenotype was reversed by transient overexpression of mitochondrial SPIRE1, which almost completely inhibited motility. Conserved myosin 5 and formin interaction motifs contributed to this inhibition. Consistently, mitochondrial SPIRE1 targeted myosin 5 motors and formin actin filament generators to mitochondria. Our results indicate that SPIRE1 organises an actin/myosin network at mitochondria, which opposes mitochondrial motility.

“…The enhanced performance in vesicle motility by SPIRE/FMN generated actin networks may contribute to the complexity of cellular communications in animals. Mouse genetics showed that this specifically holds true for neuronal communication in the brain, by showing a function of SPIRE1 and FMN2 in fear learning (Peleg, et al 2010;Pleiser, et al 2014;Agis-Balboa, et al 2017). In analogy, humans with a homozygous FMN2 mutation suffer from intellectual disability (Law, et al 2014).…”

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“…In addition, SPIRE1, SPIRE2, FMN2 and MYO5B direct cortical transport of RAB11 vesicles in mouse oocytes (Pfender, et al 2011;Schuh 2011). In neuronal networks a function of SPIRE, FMN and MYO5 proteins has been associated with memory and learning (Wang, et al 2008;Wagner, et al 2011;Pleiser, et al 2014;Agis-Balboa, et al 2017).…”

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Animal evolution coincides with a novel degree of freedom in exocytic transport processes

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Straub

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Exocytic transport of transmembrane receptors and secreted ligands provides the basis for cellular communication in animals. The RAB8/RAB3/RAB27 trafficking regulators function in transport processes towards the cell membrane. The small G-proteins recruit a diversity of effectors that mediate transport along microtubule and actin tracks, as well as membrane tethering and fusion. SPIRE actin nucleators organise local actin networks at exocytic vesicle membranes. By complex formation with class-5 myosins, vesicle transport track generation and motor protein activation are coordinated. Our phylogenetic analysis traced the onset of SPIRE function back to the origin of the Holozoa. We have identified SPIRE in the closest unicellular relatives of animals, the choanoflagellates, and the more distantly related ichthyosporeans. The discovery of a SPIRE-like protein encoding a KIND and tandem-WH2 domains in the amoebozoan Physarum polycephalum suggests that the SPIRE-type actin nucleation mechanism originated even earlier. Choanoflagellate SPIRE interacts with RAB8, the sole choanoflagellate representative of the metazoan RAB8/RAB3/RAB27 family. Major interactions including MYO5, FMN-subgroup formins and vesicle membranes are conserved between the choanoflagellate and mammalian SPIRE proteins and the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis SPIRE protein can rescue mouse SPIRE1/2 function in melanosome transport. Genome duplications generated two mammalian SPIRE genes (SPIRE1 and SPIRE2) and allowed for the separation of SPIRE protein function in terms of tissue expression and RAB GTPase binding. SPIRE1 is highest expressed in the nervous system and interacts with RAB27 and RAB8. SPIRE2 shows high expression in the digestive tract and specifically interacts with RAB8. We propose that at the dawn of the animal kingdom a new transport mechanism came into existence, which bridges microtubule tracks, detached vesicles and the cellular actin cytoskeleton by organising actin/myosin forces directly at exocytic vesicle membranes.The new degree of freedom in transport may reflect the increased demands of the sophisticated cellular communications in animals.