Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Author for correspondence (e-mail: yoshida{at}cosmos.bot.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Accepted March 3, 2001
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Key words: Pseudopod, Myosin, Actin polymerization, Contraction, Contractile vacuole
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Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain how these processes are coordinated to generate the force responsible for protrusion formation. One of the most classical hypotheses is the tail contraction model (Mast, 1926; Janson and Taylor, 1993; Yanai et al., 1996), which suggests that an increase in the hydrostatic pressure due to contraction of the cortical layer of the cell causes cytoplasmic flow through the membrane region with the smallest resistance to form a pseudopod. Another type of classical hypothesis called the frontal contraction model (Allen, 1961) proposes that sliding forces generated within the pseudopods are responsible for the cytoplasmic flow. Actin polymerization in the leading front of a protrusion (Wang, 1985) is also estimated to produce enough force for the extension of protrusions (Condeelis, 1993; Mogilner and Oster, 1996; Abraham et al., 1999). In some instances, osmotic influx of water accounts for the force required for protrusion extension (Tilney and Inoué, 1985). Membrane components have also been suggested to play important roles in protrusion formation. Bretschers lipid flow hypothesis states that a continuing cycle of exocytosis at the leading edge of the cell and endocytosis at its rear end causes a lipid flow on the membrane surface, which not only leads to the uneven distribution of cell surface receptors and capping but also propels the cell forward (Bretscher, 1984).
Although these hypotheses are often regarded as competing ones, it seems more likely that they represent a repertoire of mechanisms for protrusion formation in motile cells. Different mechanisms are probably not mutually exclusive but may coexist and work together within a single cell, and different spatial and temporal combination of these mechanisms, with varied degrees of their manifestation, would result in diverse appearance of pseudopods (such as lamellipodia, filopodia and lobopodia), depending on the cell type and culture condition. Indeed, coexistence of different types of pseudopods, as well as transitions from one type to another, within a cell are common in many kinds of motile cells (Trinkaus, 1973; Harris, 1990; Cunningham, 1995). For analytical studies of force generation in motile cells, it would be necessary, therefore, to resolve the entire process of protrusion formation into elementary processes corresponding to specific mechanisms (or modes of protrusion formation) such as tail contraction and actin polymerization, and to investigate cell movement under conditions where only one mode is predominant.
Amoeboid cells of the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium share many features in common with animal cells, and exhibit active cell movement as solitary cells and within multicellular tissues. We found that a millimolar concentration of quinine induces Dictyostelium cells to form a rapidly elongating, cylindrical protrusion, which often led to continuous movement of the cells. Analyses under various conditions indicate that the force responsible for quinine-induced lobopodium-like protrusions is generated mainly by contraction of the cell body which requires normal myosin II functions but not actin polymerization itself. In Dictyostelium, protrusions of similar appearance are sometimes seen under physiological conditions, most notably with cells dissociated from multicellular tissues undergoing morphogenesis. We suggest that the protrusions observed in the present study represent one of the native modes (tail-contraction mode) of protrusion formation in Dictyostelium and possibly in other organisms as well.
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Observation with conventional light microscopy
Cells at the exponentially growing phase were allowed to settle on a coverslip or a glass-bottomed plastic culture dish (MarTek Inc., USA). After 10 minutes, the growth medium was replaced with 5 mM MES solution (adjusted to pH 6.2 with Tris) containing various concentrations of quinine, sorbitol and 10 µM cytochalasin A, either singly or in combination as indicated. In standard experiments, cells were observed with an inverted phase-contrast microscope (Nikon TMD) with a 40x objective. To obtain a higher magnification, the coverslip was placed face down on a drop of silicon oil (KF-99, Shin-etsu Chemical co.) on a slideglass. The cells were observed with a phase-contrast upright microscope (Nikon S) with a 100x objective.
To obtain dissociated slug cells, growth phase cells were freed of nutrient by repeated washes in phosphate buffer, and a dense cell suspension was streaked on agar plate containing 20 mM K/Na2 phosphate buffer pH 7.4. The next day, the streaked part of the agar was cut out and discarded, and slugs migrating on the clean surface of the remaining agar were collected in the same buffer. The slugs were dissociated into single cells by repeated passages through a 25G needle with a 1 ml syringe, and plated in a well made of a coverslip and a square piece of silicon rubber (22x22x2 mm) with a round hole (diameter 15 mm). Excessive buffer was immediately removed so that the remaining buffer formed a thin film of a depth just enough to cover the remaining cells. The hole of the silicon rubber was topped with another coverslip to prevent desiccation, and the cells entrapped within the buffer film were immediately observed with an inverted phase-contrast microscope.
Sequential images were captured at regular intervals with a CCD video camera (Tokyo Denshi, CS8310) connected to a frame grabber board (AG-5, Scion Instruments) mounted on a Macintosh computer. NIH Image 1.62 (developed at the US National Institutes of Health and available on the Internet at http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/) was used for the control of image capturing (video-rate averaging of 3-8 frames when necessary), image processing and data analysis.
To measure the elongation velocity of a protrusion, an image stack was made of a cell forming a protrusion and an image profile was created using the Reslice function of NIH Image in the direction of the protrusion extension. To estimate the bulk flux into the protrusion, the velocity of the protrusion was multiplied by the cross-section of the protrusion assuming it to be a cylinder of a fixed diameter. To estimate the bulk flux into the spherical bleb formed in the presence of cytochalasin A, the volume of the bleb was calculated from its diameter assuming it to be a sphere. To measure the maximal travelling distance of the inner solid material pushed out of the broken cells, the medium was replaced with 2 mM quinine/2.5 mM MES solution containing 1% methyl cellulose, and sequential images were captured.
Observation of living cells with a confocal laser-scanning microscope
Cells were stained with 1 µg/ml RH 795 in 5 mM MES for 10-20 minutes, and an excess of the same buffer containing 2 mM quinine without the dye was added. By this time, the fluorescence was predominantly localized on the contractile vacuole (John Heuser, personal communication; see http://www.heuserlab.wustl.edu/). Cells were observed with a confocal microscope (Zeiss LSM410) with excitation wavelength at 495 nm and a cut-off wavelength at 515 nm or 505-550 nm with a 63x Neofluar objective (NA 1.4). GFP-myosin-expressing cells and GFP-ABD cells were observed using the same conditions. In many experiments, fluorescence and differential interference contrast (Nomarski) images were simultaneously recorded at regular intervals.
Immunofluorescence
Cells were fixed as described previously (Neuhaus et al., 1998) without ethane-freezing. Briefly, a coverslip carrying the cells was dipped into methanol at -85°C, then the temperature was slowly raised to -35°C over a period of 30 minutes, and the coverslip transferred to PBS at room temperature (temperature lower than 15°C resulted in unsatisfactory fixation of extended protrusions). After washing with PBS three times, the coverslip was incubated with an antibody against the 100 kDa subunit of Dictyostelium V-ATPase (N2 antibody; Fok et al., 1993) diluted 1:50 in PBS or an antibody against calmodulin (2D1 antibody) diluted 1:400. After three washes in PBS, the specimens were incubated with a rhodamine-conjugated affinity purified anti-mouse IgG diluted 1:200.
For phalloidin staining, cells that had been incubated in buffer containing 100 mM sorbitol with or without 1 mM quinine (and 10 µM cytochalasin A) for 1 minute were fixed in 1% glutaraldehyde in 20 mM Na/K phosphate buffer, pH 6.5 for 30 minutes, permeabilized in a 1:2 diluted fixative solution containing 0.2% Triton X-100, and the autofluorescence was quenched in PBS containing 1 mg/ml NaBH4 and 100 mM glycine (Sesaki and Ogihara, 1997; Ginger, 1998). After washing in PBS and incubation in PBS containing 1% BSA, the cells were stained with 1 unit Alexa 568-phalloidin in 50 µl PBS containing 1% BSA for 30 minutes, washed in PBS, and observed with the confocal microscope (excitation wavelength, 543 nm; cut-off wavelength, 590 nm).
Particle tracking
Concanavalin A (ConA) was covalently linked to carboxylate-modified microspheres (FluoSpheres, 0.5 µm, red fluorescence) using a water soluble carbodiimide, 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide (EDAC), according to the manufacturers instructions (Jay and Elson, 1992). The cells were allowed to settle on a coverslip and incubated in 10 mM MES (pH 6.2) containing ConA-linked fluorescent beads for 5 minutes. After an extensive wash in a large volume of the same buffer to remove unattached beads, the cells were immersed in buffer containing 2 mM quinine, and placed under silicon oil layer (see above). Confocal observation was conducted with the maximal pinhole size.
Materials
The N2 mAb was a generous gift of A. Fok of Hawaii University. Quinine hydrochloride, concanavalin A, cytochalasin A, and the anti-calmodulin antibody (2D1) were purchased from Sigma, RH795, FluoSpheres, EDAC and Alexa-phalloidin were from Molecular Probes, and the anti-mouse IgG was from Chemicon. Silicon oil (KF-99) was a generous gift of Shin-etsu Chemicals.
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Membrane markers
Fig. 2 shows sequential photographs of a cell that had been stained with a fluorescence dye RH-795, which has high affinity to the contractile vacuole membranes. The fluorescence on the large vacuole seen in the first frame appeared to translocate to the cell membrane in the next frame at the position where the contractile vacuole had disappeared. It can be seen that the patch of fluorescence stayed on the leading edge of the protrusion without much dispersal over the period of more than 30 seconds of cell locomotion. Immunofluorescence detection of V-ATPase and calmodulin around the tip of the protrusion also indicates its origin to be the contractile vacuole membrane (Fig. 3). These protein markers remained undiffused for at least 5 minutes.
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Bleb formation was also observed with cytochalasin A alone, but in this case formation of a bleb is a much slower process, requiring 1 minute at the minimum for its first appearance, and the bleb did not normally engulf the entire cellular content (data not shown).
Bleb formation without drug treatment
Lobopodium-like protrusions are not peculiar to cells treated with quinine or cytochalasin A but also quite common in Dictyostelium cells without any drug treatment, as in many other types of cells (reviewed by Taylor and Condeelis, 1979; Harris, 1990). When growth phase cells of Dictyostelium are brought from an ice-cold suspension onto glass at 22°C, a small fraction of the cells quickly extend a cylindrical protrusion very similar to those induced by quinine treatment. Such protrusions are, however, much more common in cells at the multicellular stage of development. Fig. 12 shows a cell mechanically dissociated from migrating slugs and placed in a thin film of buffer solution. It can be seen that the cell moves by rapidly extending a large cylindrical protrusion in a manner similar to the quinine-treated cells. Such protrusions lack any detectable F-actin in their front end (Fig. 12B) as in quinine-induced protrusions.
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Although the mechanism for the induction of protrusion formation by quinine remains to be clarified, the effect of quinine is most likely an indirect one. Quinine is a general K+ channel blocker, and we previously showed that it blocks the voltage-dependent K+ channel found in a fraction enriched in contractile vacuole membranes of Dictyostelium (Yoshida et al., 1997). As shown in the present study, the activity of contractile vacuoles in vivo was also affected by quinine under low ionic conditions. However, the toxic effect as well as the induction of protrusion formation was abolished by addition of the growth medium or salts to the buffer, in which cases cells can grow or develop depending on what was added (see also Van Duijn et al., 1989), suggesting both effects to be mainly ionic. Presumably, the altered ionic transport would impair the osmotic regulation of the cell, causing a rise of its internal pressure, and would lead to herniation of contractile vacuoles and eventual bursting of the cell.
Whatever the mechanism, the cylindrical protrusion induced by quinine has some features common to naturally observed pseudopods. First, its elongation can lead to locomotion of the cell. Second, conA beads attached to the surface of the protrusion stayed in the same place with respect to the substratum during its elongation and were converged at the rear edge if the cell continued locomotion as in many types of pseudopods including ones observed in Dictyostelium cells (Jay and Elson, 1992). Also, the speed of extension was in the same order as the maximal elongation speed of naturally observed pseudopods (Schindl et al., 1995). By contrast, it differs from pseudopods observed in many kinds of motile cells spreading on solid substrata in that it is cylindrical rather than flat and has smooth and round ends, where F-actin is undetectable or forms only a very thin layer. Protrusion formation of this kind, usually referred to as blebs or lobopodia, is often incorrectly considered as artefacts seen only in unhealthy cells, but in fact they are common under normal conditions (Harris, 1990; Grbecki, 1994; Cunningham, 1995; Keller and Bebie, 1996). For instance, blebbing is a regular feature of some cells during spreading (Erickson and Trinkaus, 1976), mitosis (Boss, 1955), and development (Trinkaus, 1973), and it is also common in Dictyostelium cells at the multicellular stage, as shown in this study.
Immunofluorescence and vital staining data demonstrate the insertion of expulsed contractile vacuole membranes into the leading edge of the protrusions. Although protrusion formation initiated by expulsion of a contractile vacuole may be unusual, only shown so far to occur in a mutant of Dictyostelium discoideum lacking drainin (a protein involved in contractile vacuole discharge) (Becker et al., 1999), formation of a protrusion by an exocytic event is very common. There is evidence that the leading edge of locomoting cells are the sites where new membrane materials are inserted from internal pools by exocytosis (Bergmann et al., 1983; Kupfer et al., 1987; Bretscher, 1983; Ekblom et al., 1983; Bretscher and Aguado-Velasco, 1998). Previous studies directly observed exocytosis of slime-containing vesicles in Physarum plasmodia migrating on a solid substrate, and found that a single protrusion forms immediately after each exocytotic event in the vicinity of the site of expulsion (Sesaki and Ogihara, 1997). From quantitative measurements, they showed a linear relationship between the surface area of individual protrusions and that of the single slime-containing vesicles. In the quinine-induced protrusion in the present study, the membrane derived from the contractile vacuole constituted only a limited membrane area at the tip of the protrusion. Conceivably, insertion of contractile vacuole membrane triggers only the formation of a protrusion by providing a membrane domain with low cortical tension, while its contribution to the elongation of the protrusion is limited. The origin of the flanking part of the membrane of the protrusion remains to be clarified, but the continuous presence of both lipid and protein markers of the contractile vacuole membrane at the tip of the protrusion (Fig. 2; Fig. 3) suggests that insertion by exocytosis at the tip of the protrusion is unlikely. Presumably, lipids laterally flow from the cell body into the protruded area, as has been suggested in locomoting free-living amoebae and mammalian cells (Grbecki, 1986; Lee et al., 1990; Heath and Holifield, 1991; see Fig. 10B). The observation of conA beads being stationary to the substratum implies that their receptor proteins were anchored to the cytoskeleton and that the cytoskeleton was stationary to the substratum.
The above results indicate that the endo- and exocytosis-mediated lipid flow does not play a significant role in generating the force for the protrusion elongation. We tested other possible candidates for the source of the motive force (i.e. osmotic swelling, myosin II and actin polymerization).
In the acrosomal reaction of Thyone sperms, osmotic swelling of the cell has been proposed to be the main source of the force (Tilney and Inoué, 1985; Oster and Perelson, 1987). However, quinine-induced protrusions were still capable of elongation, albeit at lower speeds, in solutions of much higher osmolarity than the cytosol. This result indicates that the force resulting from passive influx of water can only partially account for the formation of protrusions, and suggests the involvement of active processes.
Requirement of functional myosin system in bleb formation has been suggested in mammalian cells (Torgerson and McNiven, 1998; Hagmann et al., 1999). In our system, no protrusion was formed in mutant cells lacking myosin II (mhc- cells). In these cells, fusion of contractile vacuoles did occur (Fig. 6), indicating that their defects are not in the insertion of contractile vacuole membranes but in the generation of protrusive forces. The cortical localization of myosin II and its initial absence within the protrusions in Ax2 cells suggest that the effect of myosin II here is to cause contraction of the cell cortex, which would result in increased cortical tension and consequently a flow of the cytosol into the protrusion. This view is consistent with the significantly shorter length of cellular contents protruded out of punctured mhc- cells in a viscous solution, and gains further support from the reduced rate of cortical contraction (Fukui et al., 1999) and diminished cortical tension (Pasternak et al., 1989; Egelhoff et al., 1996; Dai et al., 1999) in mhc- cells.
Myosin II eventually accumulated in the cortex of the protrusion, progressively from its base towards the tip. When the layer of myosin II reached the distal end of the protrusion, it invariably started to retract, as in the case of natural pseudopods of Dictyostelium cells (Moores et al., 1996)
By contrast, our results do not support the possible role of actin polymerization in the generation of the motive force in the quinine-induced protrusions in which F-actin is either absent or scarce in the leading front. The absence of an F-actin layer in rapidly expanding protrusions have also been noted in other kinds of cells. For instance, it has been shown using cultured tumor cell lines that a newly formed bleb is devoid of a cortical layer of F-actin, but that a new cortex of F-actin forms inside the bleb soon after it has formed (Keller and Eggli, 1998; Hagmann et al., 1999). It was previously noted that the expansion rates of blebs were inversely proportional to the F-actin content in human melanoma cells, suggesting that blebs are formed when the fluid-driven expansion of the cell membrane is sufficiently rapid to outpace the local actin polymerization (Cunningham, 1995). This explanation may be applicable to our observations that F-actin was not detectable in the leading edge of rapidly elongating protrusions, whereas retracting protrusions were lined with a thick layer of F-actin all over. Also, the close correlation between the fluctuation of the elongation speed of the protrusion and the detachment of F-actin layers from its front end (Fig. 11C,D) can be best explained if the F-actin layer that is firmly attached to the membrane acts as a resistance to the expansion of the protrusion. The antagonizing effects of F-actin on the elongation of protrusions were further demonstrated by the considerably more rapid expansion of spherical blebs (as opposed to elongated directional protrusions) in cells treated with quinine plus cytochalasin A. These results suggest that the actin polymerization itself does not contribute to the protrusive force, but rather acts to restrain the protrusion from expanding sideways. However, the backward movement of the detached actin layers suggests that they were being pulled backwards by continuous contraction of the actin cortex to which they are connected. Rearward flow of cortical F-actin has been proposed to be the basis of cell movement in general (Bray and White, 1988) and actually demonstrated in locomoting Dictyostelium cells (Fukui et al., 1999).
The above considerations led us to consider the three forces that would determine the initiation and the subsequent fate of a protrusion: the cytosolic pressure, the force derived from contraction of the cortical cytoskeleton, and the force needed to detach the membrane-cytoskeleton adhesion. Whether the protrusion elongates or retracts will therefore depend on the balance between these forces. Grbecki has proposed an essentially identical model for the control of pseudopod elongation in free-living soil amoebae (Gr
becki, 1990; Gr
becki, 1994). Fig. 13 summarizes the model for the quinine-induced protrusion formation leading to cell locomotion or followed by its retraction.
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Although actin polymerization itself has been shown to generate sufficient forces for protrusion extension and is widely believed to be a major machinery of pseudopod extension in cells firmly adhered to the substratum (reviewed by Borisy and Svitkina, 2000), the results shown in this study provide a clear example in which actin polymerization in the leading edge of a protrusion does not provide the force for its extension but rather constrain it. As mentioned above, similar situations have been described in other types of cells as diverse as locomoting free-living amoebae (Grbecki, 1990) and in Walker carcinosarcoma cells (Keller and Bebie, 1996), both exhibiting rapid locomotion by progressive extension of a large lobopodium. In fact, the antagonizing effect of F-actin on protrusion extension is not limited to blebs or lobopodia. Lamellipodial extension in mouse fibroblasts, for example, is inversely correlated with the membrane tension, which is largely determined by the membrane-associated cytoskeleton (Raucher and Sheetz, 2000). In fish keratocytes, lamellipodial extension is closely correlated with the site of low membrane tension and can be stimulated or suppressed by local application of drugs that presumably alter the stability of F-actin (and therefore membrane tension) downwards or upwards, respectively (Bereiter-Hahn and Luers, 1998). These results suggest the universality of the mechanism in which F-actin acts as a constraint on protrusion extension.
Elongation of protrusions driven by contraction of the cell cortex, as was observed in quinine-treated cells, would represent one of the native modes of pseudopod elongation, which may be called the tail-contraction mode. Protrusions of similar appearance can be found in Dictyostelium cells under physiological conditions. During unicellular stages of development, such protrusions can be seen only transiently before taken over by other types of protrusions, but they are very common in cells dissociated from multicellular structures (Fig. 12). In this connection, it is noteworthy that Dictyostelium cells lacking myosin II are only partially defective in amoeboid movement when adhered to solid substratum but their movement during multicellular morphogenesis is severely affected (Knecht and Loomis, 1987; De Lozanne and Spudich, 1987; Traynor et al., 1994; Springer et al., 1994; Knecht and Shelden, 1995; Clow and McNally, 1999). Although the tail-contraction mode may be obscured by prominent protrusions of other modes when cells are firmly adhered to a solid substratum, it may be playing an important role in cells forming 3D multicellular structures in Dictyostelium and possibly in many other organisms (Trinkaus, 1973).
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