Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

GPCR-induced calcium transients trigger nuclear actin assembly for chromatin dynamics

  • Ying Wang,
  • Alice Sherrard,
  • Bing Zhao,
  • Michael Melak,
  • Jonathan Trautwein,
  • Eva-Maria Kleinschnitz,
  • Nikolaos Tsopoulidis,
  • Oliver T. Fackler,
  • Carsten Schwan,
  • Robert Grosse

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13322-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The extracellular cues regulating filamentous actin formation in somatic cell nuclei are unclear. Here, the authors show that activated GPCR signalling initiates transient accumulation of nuclear F-actin/formation in nuclear actin filaments, driven by calcium and requiring the nucleator Formin INF2.