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J. Cell Biol.,
Volume 143, Number 7, December 28, 1998 1931-1945
Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
The actin cytoskeleton in budding yeast consists of cortical patches and cables, both of which polarize toward regions of cell growth. Tropomyosin localizes specifically to actin cables and not cortical patches.
Upon shifting cells with conditionally defective tropomyosin to restrictive temperatures, actin cables disappear within 1 min and both the unconventional class
V myosin Myo2p and the secretory vesicle-associated
Rab GTPase Sec4p depolarize rapidly. Bud growth
ceases and the mother cell grows isotropically. When
returned to permissive temperatures, tropomyosin-containing cables reform within 1 min in polarized arrays.
Cable reassembly permits rapid enrichment of Myo2p
at the focus of nascent cables as well as the Myo2p-
dependent recruitment of Sec4p and the exocyst protein Sec8p, and the initiation of bud emergence. With
the loss of actin cables, cortical patches slowly assume
an isotropic distribution within the cell and will repolarize only after restoration of cables. Therefore, actin
cables respond to polarity cues independently of the
overall distribution of cortical patches and are able to directly target the Myo2p-dependent delivery of secretory vesicles and polarization of growth.
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