CytoskeletonPub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1002/cm.21937
{"title":"Front Cover Image","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cm.21937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21937","url":null,"abstract":"<p>ON THE FRONT COVER: Normal human breast epithelial cells expressing GFP-LIMD1 (green) and tained for F-actin (red) and DNA (blue).</p><p>Credit: Samriddha Ray, Chamika DeSilva, Natasha Cruz-Calderon and Daniel McCollum. University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":55186,"journal":{"name":"Cytoskeleton","volume":"81 9-10","pages":"C1"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cm.21937","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CytoskeletonPub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1002/cm.21939
{"title":"Inner Back Cover Image","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cm.21939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21939","url":null,"abstract":"<p>ON THE INNER BACK COVER: Image of the skeletal muscles showing the striated localization pattern of metastasis associated 1 (MTA1).</p><p>Credit: Chundong Gu (The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China) and Ming-Fei Lang (Medical College, Dalian University, Dalian, China)\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":55186,"journal":{"name":"Cytoskeleton","volume":"81 9-10","pages":"C3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cm.21939","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CytoskeletonPub Date : 2024-10-20DOI: 10.1002/cm.21931
{"title":"Picture of the month by Chundong Gu and Ming-Fei Lang","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cm.21931","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cm.21931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55186,"journal":{"name":"Cytoskeleton","volume":"81 9-10","pages":"506"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142482304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CytoskeletonPub Date : 2024-10-20DOI: 10.1002/cm.21930
{"title":"Picture of the month by Samriddha Ray, Chamika DeSilva, Natasha Cruz-Calderon, and Daniel McCollum","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cm.21930","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cm.21930","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55186,"journal":{"name":"Cytoskeleton","volume":"81 9-10","pages":"505"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142482305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CytoskeletonPub Date : 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1002/cm.21919
Paul J. Griffin
{"title":"Author Profile: Paul Griffin","authors":"Paul J. Griffin","doi":"10.1002/cm.21919","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cm.21919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55186,"journal":{"name":"Cytoskeleton","volume":"81 11","pages":"695-696"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142382612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CytoskeletonPub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1002/cm.21932
{"title":"Picture of the month by Aparna Bhattacharyya and Kenneth Barbee","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cm.21932","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cm.21932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55186,"journal":{"name":"Cytoskeleton","volume":"81 9-10","pages":"507"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142333682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CytoskeletonPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1002/cm.21928
Gülseren Özduman, Faruk Şimşek, Aadil Javed, Kemal Sami Korkmaz
{"title":"HN1 expression contributes to mitotic fidelity through Aurora A‐PLK1‐Eg5 axis","authors":"Gülseren Özduman, Faruk Şimşek, Aadil Javed, Kemal Sami Korkmaz","doi":"10.1002/cm.21928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21928","url":null,"abstract":"Hematological and neurological expressed 1 (HN1) is homolog of Jupiter protein from <jats:italic>Drosophila melanogaster</jats:italic> where it functions as a microtubule‐associated protein. However, in mammalian cells, HN1 is associated partially with y‐tubulin in centrosomes, Stathmin for stabilizing microtubules, and Cdh1 for regulating Cyclin B1 for cell cycle regulation. Moreover, HN1 overexpression leads to early mitotic exit as well. Other molecular functions and interactions of HN1 are not clear yet. Here, based on our previous analysis where HN1 was shown to cluster supernumerary centrosomes and maintain mitotic spindle assembly, we further investigated the role of HN1 in centrosome maintenance and mitotic fidelity in PC‐3 prostate and MDA‐MB231 mammary cancer cell lines. The maturation‐associated roles of HN1 during cell division by examining the AuroraA‐PLK1 axis involving a plus end kinesin, Eg5 as well as pericentriolar matrix protein (PCM1) as components of centrosomes were established. We found that HN1 co‐localized to centrioles with Eg5 and Aurora A to suppress aberrant spindle formation to ensure the fidelity of centriole/centrosome duplication when overexpressed. Consistently, depleting the HN1 expression using siRNA or shRNA resulted in an increased number of dysregulated mitotic spindle structures, where Aurora A as well as PLK1 co‐localizations with Eg5 and PCM1 were disrupted. Further, the PLK1 and Aurora A kinase's phosphorylations also decreased, confirming the hypothesis that the cells struggle in mitotic progression, display nuclear and cytokinetic abnormalities with supernumerary but immature mononucleated centrosomes. In summary, we described the role of HN1 in centrosome nucleation/maturation in PLK1‐Eg5 axis and concomitant mitotic spindle formation in human cells.","PeriodicalId":55186,"journal":{"name":"Cytoskeleton","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142267444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CytoskeletonPub Date : 2024-09-14DOI: 10.1002/cm.21927
Bryan Demosthene, Pavlo Kravchuk, Connor L. Harmon, Abdulrazak Kalae, Ellen H. Kang
{"title":"Small organic osmolytes accelerate actin filament assembly and stiffen filaments","authors":"Bryan Demosthene, Pavlo Kravchuk, Connor L. Harmon, Abdulrazak Kalae, Ellen H. Kang","doi":"10.1002/cm.21927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21927","url":null,"abstract":"Actin filament assembly and mechanics are crucial for maintenance of cell structure, motility, and division. Actin filament assembly occurs in a crowded intracellular environment consisting of various types of molecules, including small organic molecules known as osmolytes. Ample evidence highlights the protective functions of osmolytes such as trimethylamine‐N‐oxide (TMAO), including their effects on protein stability and their ability to counteract cellular osmotic stress. Yet, how TMAO affects individual actin filament assembly dynamics and mechanics is not well understood. We hypothesize that, owing to its protective nature, TMAO will enhance filament dynamics and stiffen actin filaments due to increased stability. In this study, we investigate osmolyte‐dependent actin filament assembly and bending mechanics by measuring filament elongation rates, steady‐state filament lengths, and bending persistence lengths in the presence of TMAO using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy and pyrene assays. Our results demonstrate that TMAO increases filament elongation rates as well as steady‐state average filament lengths, and enhances filament bending stiffness. Together, these results will help us understand how small organic osmolytes modulate cytoskeletal protein assembly and mechanics in living cells.","PeriodicalId":55186,"journal":{"name":"Cytoskeleton","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142267446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}