The human cytoplasmic dynein interactome reveals novel activators of motility.

In human cells, cytoplasmic dynein-1 is essential for long-distance transport of many cargos, including organelles, RNAs, proteins, and viruses, towards microtubule minus ends. To understand how a single motor achieves cargo specificity, we identified the human dynein interactome by attaching a promiscuous biotin ligase ('BioID') to seven components of the ...
dynein machinery, including a subunit of the essential cofactor dynactin. This method reported spatial information about the large cytosolic dynein/dynactin complex in living cells. To achieve maximal motile activity and to bind its cargos, human dynein/dynactin requires 'activators', of which only five have been described. We developed methods to identify new activators in our BioID data, and discovered that ninein and ninein-like are a new family of dynein activators. Analysis of the protein interactomes for six activators, including ninein and ninein-like, suggests that each dynein activator has multiple cargos.
Mesh Terms:
Carrier Proteins, Cell Line, Cell Movement, Cytological Techniques, Cytoplasmic Dyneins, Dynactin Complex, Humans, Microtubules, Staining and Labeling
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Date: Dec. 18, 2016
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