Uniform cAMP stimulation of Dictyostelium cells induces localized patches of signal transduction and pseudopodia |
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| Authors: | Postma Marten Roelofs Jeroen Goedhart Joachim Gadella Theodorus W J Visser Antonie J W G Van Haastert Peter J M |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands. |
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| Abstract: | The chemoattractant cAMP induces the translocation of cytosolic PHCrac-GFP to the plasma membrane. PHCrac-GFP is a green fluorescent protein fused to a PH domain that presumably binds to phosphatydylinositol polyphosphates in the membrane. We determined the relative concentration of PHCrac-GFP in the cytosol and at different places along the cell boundary. In cells stimulated homogeneously with 1microM cAMP we observed two distinct phases of PHCrac-GFP translocation. The first translocation is transient and occurs to nearly the entire boundary of the cell; the response is maximal at 6-8 s after stimulation and disappears after approximately 20 s. A second translocation of PHCrac-GFP starts after approximately 30 s and persists as long as cAMP remains present. Translocation during this second response occurs to small patches with radius of approximately 4-5 microm, each covering approximately 10% of the cell surface. Membrane patches of PHCrac-GFP are both temporally and spatially closely associated with pseudopodia, which are extended at approximately 10 s from the area with a PHCrac-GFP patch. These signaling patches in pseudopodia of homogeneously stimulated cells resemble the single patch of PHCrac-GFP at the leading edge of a cell in a gradient of cAMP, suggesting that PHCrac-GFP is a spatial cue for pseudopod formation also in uniform cAMP. |
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