Arabidopsis phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase 1 binds F-actin and recruits phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase beta1 to the actin cytoskeleton.

The actin cytoskeleton can be influenced by phospholipids and lipid-modifying enzymes. In animals the phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinases (PIPKs) are associated with the cytoskeleton through a scaffold of proteins; however, in plants such an interaction was not clear. Our approach was to determine which of the plant PIPKs interact with actin ...
and determine whether the PIPK-actin interaction is direct. Our results indicate that AtPIPK1 interacts directly with actin and that the binding is mediated through a predicted linker region in the lipid kinase. AtPIPK1 also recruits AtPI4Kbeta1 to the cytoskeleton. Recruitment of AtPI4Kbeta1 to F-actin was dependent on the C-terminal catalytic domain of phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase but did not require the presence of the N-terminal 251 amino acids, which includes 7 putative membrane occupation and recognition nexus motifs. In vivo studies confirm the interaction of plant lipid kinases with the cytoskeleton and suggest a role for actin in targeting PIPKs to the membrane.
Mesh Terms:
1-Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase, Actins, Arabidopsis, Arabidopsis Proteins, Cytoskeleton, Glutathione Transferase, Immunoblotting, Mass Spectrometry, Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates, Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor), Recombinant Fusion Proteins
J. Biol. Chem.
Date: May. 11, 2007
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