萱草花粉动力蛋白的分离与特性

动力蛋白(dynamin)是一类具有可被微管激活的GTP酶活性的新型马达蛋白,被证明在动物细胞受体介导的内吞小泡的形成、突触小泡再循环及高尔基体的囊泡运输中起关键作用.近几年,一些植物细胞也被发现有动力蛋白类似物.本研究通过分子量鉴定和免疫印迹法证明萱草(Hemerocallis fulva L.)花粉中存在动力蛋白,其分子量为100 kD;经过高度纯化的花粉动力蛋白仍具有GTPase活性,且可被牛脑微管激活1.64倍;电子显微镜观察结果表明,花粉动力蛋白可自我组装成环状结构.     

银杏花粉微管蛋白的纯化及鉴定

采用丙酮粉抽提,DEAE-SephadexA-50、SephacrylS-300、MonoQ柱层析,从银杏（GinkgobilobaL．）花粉中分高纯化出微管蛋白（tubulin）,其两个亚基（α、β）的分子量分别为54kD和52kD．纯化的微管蛋白可与鸡脑微管蛋白抗体发生免疫交叉反应．     

知母绒毡层和乌氏体细微结构的研究

从个体发育来看,知母绒毡层具有3个明显的特点;（1）在小孢子母细胞阶段,绒毡层细胞中有丰富的细胞器,如粗糙内质网,脂体,造粉体和小泡等,粗糙内质网－脂体－小泡常常联系在一起,形成细胞器复合体。（2）在单核花粉阶段,绒毡层细胞质中出现大量小泡,它们可以融合成小泡,而且在小泡或大泡中开始沉积与脂体电子密度相似的亲锇物质,这些物质或者充满整个小泡,或者沉积在小泡周缘,此刻,也是乌氏体形成并达到高峰的阶段。（3）在成熟花粉阶段,绒毯层细胞几乎被具膜束缚的小型脂粒和巨型脂体所占据,这些亲锇物质是质体起源的,也许它们是花粉鞘的先质。     

知母绒毡层和乌氏体细微结构的研究

从个体发育来看,知母绒毡层具有3个明显的特点;（1）在小孢子母细胞阶段,绒毡层细胞中有丰富的细胞器,如粗糙内质网,脂体,造粉体和小泡等,粗糙内质网－脂体－小泡常常联系在一起,形成细胞器复合体。（2）在单核花粉阶段,绒毡层细胞质中出现大量小泡,它们可以融合成小泡,而且在小泡或大泡中开始沉积与脂体电子密度相似的亲锇物质,这些物质或者充满整个小泡,或者沉积在小泡周缘,此刻,也是乌氏体形成并达到高峰的阶段。（3）在成熟花粉阶段,绒毯层细胞几乎被具膜束缚的小型脂粒和巨型脂体所占据,这些亲锇物质是质体起源的,也许它们是花粉鞘的先质。     

银杏花粉微管蛋白的纯化及鉴定

采用丙酮粉抽提,ＤＥＡＥ－Ｓｅｐｈａｄｅｘ Ａ－５０、Ｓｅｐｈａｃｒｙｌ Ｓ－３００、ＭｏｎｏＱ柱层析,从银杏花粉中分离纯化出微管蛋白,其两个亚基的分子量分别为５４ｋＤ和５２ｋＤ纯化的微管蛋白可与鸡脑微管蛋白抗体发生免疫交叉反应。     

杜鹃精细胞的超微结构及DNA荧光观察：着重阐明质体双亲遗传的细胞学…

迎红杜鹃（ＲｈｏｄｏｄｅｎｄｒｏｎｍｕｃｒｏｎｕｌａｔｕｎＴｕｒｃａ．）的成熟花粉为二细胞型,精细胞在花粉管中形成。花粉管中的两个精细胞及与营养核之间相联结,形成在雄性殖单位。两个精细胞的细胞质中均含有丰富的细胞器,包括质体,线粒体,小泡及微管,内质网和高尔基体稀少。     

Dynactin辅助dynein进行细胞内物质运输的研究进展

胞质动力蛋白(cytoplasmic dynein)是沿微管向负极运动的马达蛋白,参与细胞内多种物质的运输,运输的货物(cargo)小至信使RNA和蛋白质,大至细胞器和囊泡。动力蛋白只有与动力激活蛋白(dynactin)结合在一起时才有活性。动力激活蛋白是一个分子量为1.2 MDa的多亚基复合物,利用分子生物学和免疫电子显微镜技术,研究者已阐明了其亚基的组成信息,并得到了一个初步的结构模型。10年来,随着对各亚基功能研究的不断深入,研究者发现动力激活蛋白不仅可以增强动力蛋白在微管上的运动持续性,而且还可帮助其结合细胞内的其他成分。然而,动力激活蛋白与动力蛋白之间如何相互调节功能,动力激活蛋白作为接头蛋白如何控制货物在动力蛋白上的结合与解离,这两个核心问题尚未解决。本文就动力激活蛋白的亚基组成及其辅助动力蛋白发挥功能等研究成果进行总结,并对以后的研究趋势进行展望。     

萱草花粉类动力蛋白生物物理学及药理学性质

利用FPLC技术从萱草花粉中鉴定并纯化了动力蛋白,研究了它的酶学性质及部分生物化学性质。结果如下:纯化的类动力蛋白分子量为100kD,等电点pI=6·15和6·80。在280nm波长激发下,最大的荧光发射波长是346nm。荧光光谱分析结合紫外吸收光谱及导数光谱分析推断它含有色氨酸和酪氨酸残基。药理学性质研究表明巯基可能在酶的活性中心起重要作用。     

芹菜韧皮部中的微管蛋白和类动蛋白

用免疫荧光标记和免疫印迹技术,证明芹菜韧皮部中存在微管蛋白和类动蛋白（ｋｉｎｅｓｉｎ－ｌｉｋｅｎｒｏｔｅｉｎ）。微管蛋白分子量约为５５ｋＤ,以微管状态沿筛管长度排列;类动蛋白重链分子量为１００ｋＤ,主要存在于筛管中的无定型颗粒（或聚合物）上。芹菜韧皮部中的类动蛋白,很可能象动物神经细胞中的动蛋白（ｋｉｎｅｓｉｎ）一样,是作为分子马达在物质运输中起作用。     

花粉高尔基囊泡类动蛋白的鉴定

在萌发的烟草花粉管顶端,有囊泡状的颗粒被牛脑动蛋白重链的单克隆抗体所识别。用蔗糖密度梯度离心法从榛木花粉中分离得到高尔基囊泡,体外免疫胶体金处理后可被标记。ＳＤＳ－聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳和免疫印迹表明,分子量为１００ｋＤ的多肽大量存在于高尔基囊泡,此多肽可与动蛋白单克隆抗体进行特异性反应,证明花粉高尔基囊泡上有关动蛋白,其重链分子量为１００ｋＤ。     

Oligomerization state of dynamin 2 in cell membranes using TIRF and number and brightness analysis

Dynamin 2 is an ubiquitously expressed ∼100 kDa GTPase involved in receptor-mediated endocytosis, Golgi budding, and cytoskeletal reorganization. Dynamin molecules assemble around the necks of budding vesicles and constrict membranes in a GTP-dependent process, resulting in vesicle release. The oligomerization state of dynamin 2 in the membrane is still controversial. We investigated dynamin 2 within the plasma membrane of live cells using total internal reflection microscopy coupled with number and brightness analysis. Our results demonstrate that dynamin 2 is primarily tetrameric throughout the entire cell membrane, aside from punctate structures that may correspond to regions of membrane vesiculation.     

Induction of mutant dynamin specifically blocks endocytic coated vesicle formation

Dynamin is the mammalian homologue to the Drosophila shibire gene product. Mutations in this 100-kD GTPase cause a pleiotropic defect in endocytosis. To further investigate its role, we generated stable HeLa cell lines expressing either wild-type dynamin or a mutant defective in GTP binding and hydrolysis driven by a tightly controlled, tetracycline- inducible promoter. Overexpression of wild-type dynamin had no effect. In contrast, coated pits failed to become constricted and coated vesicles failed to bud in cells overexpressing mutant dynamin so that endocytosis via both transferrin (Tfn) and EGF receptors was potently inhibited. Coated pit assembly, invagination, and the recruitment of receptors into coated pits were unaffected. Other vesicular transport pathways, including Tfn receptor recycling, Tfn receptor biosynthesis, and cathepsin D transport to lysosomes via Golgi-derived coated vesicles, were unaffected. Bulk fluid-phase uptake also continued at the same initial rates as wild type. EM immunolocalization showed that membrane-bound dynamin was specifically associated with clathrin-coated pits on the plasma membrane. Dynamin was also associated with isolated coated vesicles, suggesting that it plays a role in vesicle budding. Like the Drosophila shibire mutant, HeLa cells overexpressing mutant dynamin accumulated long tubules, many of which remained connected to the plasma membrane. We conclude that dynamin is specifically required for endocytic coated vesicle formation, and that its GTP binding and hydrolysis activities are required to form constricted coated pits and, subsequently, for coated vesicle budding.     

Dynasore, a cell-permeable inhibitor of dynamin

Dynamin is essential for clathrin-dependent coated vesicle formation. It is required for membrane budding at a late stage during the transition from a fully formed pit to a pinched-off vesicle. Dynamin may also fulfill other roles during earlier stages of vesicle formation. We have screened about 16,000 small molecules and have identified 1, named here dynasore, that interferes in vitro with the GTPase activity of dynamin1, dynamin2, and Drp1, the mitochondrial dynamin, but not of other small GTPases. Dynasore acts as a potent inhibitor of endocytic pathways known to depend on dynamin by rapidly blocking coated vesicle formation within seconds of dynasore addition. Two types of coated pit intermediates accumulate during dynasore treatment, U-shaped, half formed pits and O-shaped, fully formed pits, captured while pinching off. Thus, dynamin acts at two steps during clathrin coat formation; GTP hydrolysis is probably needed at both steps.     

Domain structure and function of dynamin probed by limited proteolysis

Dynamin is a 100-kDa GTPase with multiple domains. Some of these have known functions, namely, the N-terminal GTPase domain, the PH domain that binds phosphatidylinositol lipids, and the C-terminal proline-arginine-rich domain (PRD) that binds to several SH3 domain-containing dynamin partners. Others, for example, the "middle" located between the GTPase domain and the PH domain and a predicted alpha-helical domain located between the PH domain and PRD, have unknown functions. Dynamin exists as a homotetramer in solution and self-assembles into higher-order structures resembling rings and helical stacks of rings. Dynamin self-assembly stimulates its GTPase activity. We used limited proteolysis to dissect dynamin's domain structure and to gain insight into intradomain interactions that regulate dynamin self-assembly and stimulate GTPase activity. We found that the PH domain functions as a negative regulator of dynamin self-assembly and stimulates GTPase activity and that the alpha-helical domain, termed GED for GTPase effector domain, is required for stimulated GTPase activity.     

Dynamin GTPase,a force-generating molecular switch

Dynamin is a GTPase that regulates late events in clathrin-coated vesicle formation. Our current working model suggests that dynamin is targeted to coated pits in its unoccupied or GDP-bound form, where it is initially distributed uniformly throughout the clathrin lattice. GTP/GDP exchange triggers its release from these sites and its assembly into short helices that encircle the necks of invaginated coated pits like a collar. GTP hydrolysis, which is required for vesicle detachment, presumably induces a concerted conformation change, tightening the collar. Unlike most of its GTPase cousins that serve as molecular switches, dynamin has a low affinity for GTP, a very high intrinsic rate of GTP hydrolysis and functions as a homo-oligomer. A concerted conformational change resulting from coordinated GTP hydrolysis by the dynamin oligomer might be sufficient to generate force. In this case, dynamin would be the first GTPase identified that acts as a structural protein with mechano-chemical function.     

Immunocytochemical study of endocytotic structures accumulated in HeLa cells transformed with a temperature-sensitive mutant of dynamin.

Dynamin is a 100-kD GTPase, which is required for clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Recent studies have revealed that dynamin is closely involved in clathrin-coated vesicle formation. In this study we investigated the ultrastructure of endocytotic structures accumulated in HeLa cells that were transformed with a temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of dynamin to clarify which step was blocked in dynts cells. Endocytosis of transferrin receptors was restricted at the level of surface-connected membrane structures. Tubular and vesicular membrane invaginations were accumulated in the cells' peripheral regions, suggesting that the endocytosis was blocked just before the pinching-off steps in coated vesicle formation. The "collared" tubes, which were reported to be localized in nerve terminals in shibirets1 flies and GTPgammaS-treated synaptosomes, were not observed in the dynts cells even at nonpermissive temperature. The distribution pattern of dynamin in deeply invaginated coated pits in dynts cells was similar to that in dynwt cells but not to that in dynK44A cells, which are other endocytosis-defective mutant cells. These morphological data suggest that dynts blocked the pinching-off steps in clathrin-coated vesicle formation, which may be caused by a different mechanism from that of dynK44A cells.     

Domain structure and intramolecular regulation of dynamin GTPase.

Dynamin is a 100 kDa GTPase required for receptor-mediated endocytosis, functioning as the key regulator of the late stages of clathrin-coated vesicle budding. It is specifically targeted to clathrin-coated pits where it self-assembles into 'collars' required for detachment of coated vesicles from the plasma membrane. Self-assembly stimulates dynamin GTPase activity. Thus, dynamin-dynamin interactions are critical in regulating its cellular function. We show by crosslinking and analytical ultracentrifugation that dynamin is a tetramer. Using limited proteolysis, we have defined structural domains of dynamin and evaluated the domain interactions and requirements for self-assembly and GTP binding and hydrolysis. We show that dynamin's C-terminal proline- and arginine-rich domain (PRD) and dynamin's pleckstrin homology (PH) domain are, respectively, positive and negative regulators of self-assembly and GTP hydrolysis. Importantly, we have discovered that the alpha-helical domain interposed between the PH domain and the PRD interacts with the N-terminal GTPase domain to stimulate GTP hydrolysis. We term this region the GTPase effector domain (GED) of dynamin.     

Interaction of dynamin with microtubules: its structure and GTPase activity investigated by using highly purified dynamin.

We purified a large amount of dynamin with high enzymatical activity from rat brain tissue by a new procedure. Dynamin 0.48 mg was obtained from 20 g of rat brain. The purity of dynamin was almost 98%. Dynamin plays a role of GTPase rather than ATPase. In the absence of microtubules, Michaelis constant (Km) and maximum velocity (Vmax) for dynamin GTPase were 370 microM and 0.25 min-1, respectively, and in their presence, both were significantly accelerated up to 25 microM and 5.5 min-1. On the other hand, the ATPase activity was very low in the absence of microtubules, and even in their presence, Km and Vmax for dynamin ATPase were 0.2 mM and 0.91 min-1. Despite slow GTPase turnover rate in the absence of microtubules, binding of GTP and its nonhydrolizing analogues was very fast, indicating that GTP binding step is not rate limiting. Dynamin did not cause a one-directional consistent microtubule sliding movement just like kinesin or dynein in the presence of 2 mM ATP or 2 mM GTP. We observed the molecular structure of dynamin with low-angle rotary shadowing technique and revealed that the dynamin molecule is globular in shape. Gel filtration assay revealed that these globules were the oligomers of 100-kDa dynamin polypeptide. Dynamin bound to microtubules with a 1:1 approximately 1.2 molar ratio in the absence of GTP. Quick-freeze deep-etch electron microscopy of the dynamin-microtubule complex showed that dynamin decorates the surface of microtubules helically, like a screw bolt, very orderly and tightly with 11.4 +/- 0.9 (SD)nm period. Contrary to the previous report, microtubules make bundles by the attachment of the dynamin helixes around each adjacent microtubule, and no cross-bridge formation was observed.     

Dynamin2 and cortactin regulate actin assembly and filament organization

The GTPase dynamin is required for endocytic vesicle formation. Dynamin has also been implicated in regulating the actin cytoskeleton, but the mechanism by which it does so is unclear. Through interactions via its proline-rich domain (PRD), dynamin binds several proteins, including cortactin, profilin, syndapin, and murine Abp1, that regulate the actin cytoskeleton. We investigated the interaction of dynamin2 and cortactin in regulating actin assembly in vivo and in vitro. When expressed in cultured cells, a dynamin2 mutant with decreased affinity for GTP decreased actin dynamics within the cortical actin network. Expressed mutants of cortactin that have decreased binding of Arp2/3 complex or dynamin2 also decreased actin dynamics. Dynamin2 influenced actin nucleation by purified Arp2/3 complex and cortactin in vitro in a biphasic manner. Low concentrations of dynamin2 enhanced actin nucleation by Arp2/3 complex and cortactin, and high concentrations were inhibitory. Dynamin2 promoted the association of actin filaments nucleated by Arp2/3 complex and cortactin with phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2)-containing lipid vesicles. GTP hydrolysis altered the organization of the filaments and the lipid vesicles. We conclude that dynamin2, through an interaction with cortactin, regulates actin assembly and actin filament organization at membranes.     

Dynamin II regulates hormone secretion in neuroendocrine cells

The dynamin family of GTP-binding proteins has been implicated as playing an important role in endocytosis. In Drosophila shibire, mutations of the single dynamin gene cause blockade of endocytosis and neurotransmitter release, manifest as temperature-sensitive neuromuscular paralysis. Mammals express three dynamin genes: the neural specific dynamin I, ubiquitous dynamin II, and predominantly testicular dynamin III. Mutations of dynamin I result in a blockade of synaptic vesicle recycling and receptor-mediated endocytosis. Here, we show that dynamin II plays a key role in controlling constitutive and regulated hormone secretion from mouse pituitary corticotrope (AtT20) cells. Dynamin II is preferentially localized to the Golgi apparatus where it interacts with G-protein betagamma subunit and regulates secretory vesicle release. The presence of dynamin II at the Golgi apparatus and its interaction with the betagamma subunit are mediated by the pleckstrin homology domain of the GTPase. Overexpression of the pleckstrin homology domain, or a dynamin II mutant lacking the C-terminal SH3-binding domain, induces translocation of endogenous dynamin II from the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane and transformation of dynamin II from activity in the secretory pathway to receptor-mediated endocytosis. Thus, dynamin II regulates secretory vesicle formation from the Golgi apparatus and hormone release from mammalian neuroendocrine cells.