Intertwined And Finely Balanced: Endoplasmic Reticulum Morphology, Dynamics, Function, And Diseases Part 4

3. ER Dynamics

The ER is not only complex in its organization but also in its motion. Progress in the understanding of ER dynamics has been slower than ER morphology as the narrow tubules and constant motion and rearrangement of the network make the ER challenging to image. 

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ER dynamics in mammalian cells can be categorized into three types: the oscillation of established network elements; the dynamics of particles within the ER lumen or membrane; and the generation of new network elements (see Figure 3). 

The purpose of ER dynamics is still unclear, but the predominant theory is that oscillations accelerate the processes carried out in the ER by facilitating the movement of lumenal and transmembrane particles [25,180,181].

3.1. Cytoskeletal Control of ER Dynamics

The ER constantly rearranges its spatial organisation. The impressive dynamics of the ER were observed in living cultured CV1 cells [182], newt lung cells [23], and growth cones in cultured neurons [183] long before the discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP), by the use of the lipophilic dye DiOC6. 

New tubules can be drawn out from the existing network and fused to neighboring tubules or junctions to create new connections, and network polygons can form and disappear ([182]; Figure 4). This microtubule-motor-driven movement is described in Section 3.1.1. The proportion of the network in sheets and tubules can also change dynamically. 

ER sheets reorganize into tubules when ribosomes are stripped from their surface with puromycin [45]. As described below, inhibiting microtubule-based tubule movement can in turn increase the proportion of sheet-like regions. Entry into mitosis has been reported to trigger sheet expansion [37,43,184], although other studies have demonstrated enhanced mitotic tubulation [45] that is driven by REEPs 3 and 4 [185]. 

Such dynamic reorganization may help the organelle to sample the cellular volume rapidly [1] and respond to changes in cellular requirements and nutritional status (Section 3.1.3). 

ER-associated microtubule motors are not the only means by which the ER interacts with the cytoskeleton, and in the following sections, we describe how tubules can also be extended by interactions with growing microtubules via tip attachment complexes (TACs) and by association with motile MCSs. 

Static interactions of ER tubules with microtubules and the role played by the actin cytoskeleton are also outlined.

3.1.1. Microtubule Motors Drive ER Dynamics

Early studies using DiOC6 revealed that ER tubules in the cell periphery often coaligned closely with microtubules [23,183,186], as confirmed in many subsequent studies (e.g., [21,38,187]). 

Ring rearrangement and tubule branching also occur in association with microtubules [38]. The depolymerization of microtubules completely inhibited ER tubule and network dynamics in VERO cells [20] increased the amount of ER in sheet-like structures and reduced the tubular network [20,37,38,186,188]. 

Super-resolution imaging in live cells has shown that these sheets consist of a mixture of morphologies, including thick sheets, thinner sheets containing nanoholes, and dense tubular networks [33], suggesting that microtubules not only control the position of the ER network but also contribute to the detailed organization of ER membrane domains. 

Direct visualization of ER-like tubules extending along microtubules came first from in vitro assays using extracts from CV1 cells [189] or interphase Xenopus eggs [190] where video-enhanced differential interference contrast microscopy revealed membrane tubules sliding along microtubules. The Xenopus networks were shown to be ER by antibody labeling and the presence of polysomes on the membrane surface [19]. 

Motility brought tubules in contact with each other, resulting in tubule fusion [19,20,189] which was atlastin-dependent [184]. In addition, both smooth and rough ER from rat liver formed motile networks when combined with interphase Xenopus egg cytosol, demonstrating crossspecies conservation of motility and membrane fusion [191]. However, if the concentration of membrane is high enough in vitro, an ER tubule network can form in the absence of microtubules [192]. 

The motor-driven sliding of ER tubules along microtubules has since been visualized many times using fluorescence microscopy (e.g., [20–22,38]). Since microtubules are oriented in most cultured non-neuronal cells with their dynamic 'plus' ends towards the cell periphery, rapid outward ER tubule sliding requires a plus-end-directed microtubule motor. The founding member of the kinesin superfamily, kinesin-1, is responsible for this motility [20,193,194]. 

Inhibition of kinesin-1 not only inhibited outward tubule movement but also increased the proportion of ER sheet regions in the cell periphery [20]. Given that sheet-like regions can consist of either accumulated fine tubular networks [34] or sheets containing nanoholes [33], it will be interesting to see if these sheets correspond with either type of structure, or if there is a mixture of morphologies, as seen after nocodazole treatment [33]. 

Most kinesin-1 in animal cells is tetrameric, comprising two identical motor (KIF5) subunits and two identical KLCs [195]. Vertebrates express three KIF5 genes: KIF5B is expressed ubiquitously, while KIF5A and C are neuronally enriched. We will return to KIF5A later since mutations cause neurodegenerative diseases (Table 1) [195]. There are four KLC genes, with KLCs 1, 2, and 4 being widely expressed. 

KLC1 exists in multiple alternately spliced forms, with KLC1B being required for ER motility [20,193]. An important outstanding question is the identity of the kinesin-1 receptor in the ER. Several candidates have been proposed, but there are caveats with all of them. There may be different receptors in neuronal vs. non-neuronal cells, and in different tissues. Kinectin was identified using a function-blocking monoclonal antibody [196] and binds to the KIF5 C-terminus [197]. 

Kinectin has been implicated in the regulation of focal adhesion dynamics during chemotaxis by promoting ER targeting to focal adhesions at the cell's leading edge [198,199]. 

Interestingly, Rab18 is required for this process and forms a ternary complex with kinectin and kinesin-1 [198]. However, kinectin knock-out mice had no phenotype, with normal ER (and other organelle) distribution in KO MEFs [200]. 

Furthermore, in cultured neurons, the ER extends all along axons, yet kinectin is only observed in the cell body [194], in keeping with its proposed role in maintaining ER sheet spacing [13]. 

Nevertheless, the siRNA depletion of kinectin decreased ER network dynamics in Cos-7 cells [26]. Intriguingly, Rab10 is also implicated in regulating ER tubule formation [7] and has been reported to form a complex with JIP1, a neuronally expressed kinesin adaptor, and KLC1, to promote the transport of secretory vesicles during neuronal polarisation and axon growth [201]. 

Whether this complex is involved in ER tubule extension in neurons, and whether the Rab18-kinectin-KIF5B complex is needed for ER tubule extension in non-migrating cells are open questions. Another candidate ER kinesin-1 receptor is p180, which shares homology with kinectin's kinesin-1 binding domain [202], and which, like kinectin, has also been localized to central sheet regions in non-neuronal cells [13,16,194].

 In cultured neurons, however, p180 localized not only to sheets in the cell body, but also to tubules in axons, but not dendrites [194], a localization consistent with KIF5 binding. However, it is likely to act as an anchor between the ER and microtubules rather than as a kinesin-1 receptor (see Section 3.1.3). There are two further candidate kinesin receptors. 

Protrudin (gene name ZFYVE27) is an ER-resident kinesin binding protein with a key role to play in generating motile late endosome–ER MCS motility, as described in Section 3.1.2. However, it is expressed at very low levels (undetected in the HeLa cell proteome [203]), and while its depletion with siRNA leads to late endosome clustering at the cell center [204,205], it is not clear what effect this has on ER distribution. 

Finally, the ER-localised transmembrane DNA-J-domain protein B14 has been shown to interact with KIF5B to generate a site for SV40 virus release from the ER [206], but its involvement in normal ER dynamics remains to be tested.

Given that the ER extends outwards from the nuclear envelope towards the cell periphery, an unexpected finding was that ER tubules moved towards microtubule minus ends in interphase Xenopus egg extracts, driven by dynein [19,184,190,207,208]. 

This fits with the requirement for dynein at the nuclear envelope to drive pronuclear migration, which can be reconstituted in these extracts [209]. However, exclusively dynein-driven ER motility continued even in extracts made from embryos after the fifth cell division: kinesin-dependent ER movement was only seen when cytosol from a tadpole cell line was used [187]. 

Recent work has provided a satisfying explanation for this phenomenon [210]: the perinuclear pool of ER that accumulates due to dynein activity is needed to assemble the large nuclei seen in early embryos (sea urchin and Xenopus embryos in this study). 

Furthermore, expressing additional reticulon 4b decreased the size of nuclei, presumably by reducing the formation of ER sheet regions [210]. Xenopus egg extracts have also revealed cell cycle-dependent changes in ER dynamics, with dynein-driven movement being inhibited in metaphase-arrested extracts [184,190,207] while myosin V-driven ER motility on actin filaments was activated [211]. 

ER sheets accumulated [184], as has been reported in mitotic HeLa cells [37], although other studies contradict this [45,185]. Dynein is not just an important ER motor in embryonic cells. Around half of rapid ER tubule movements in VERO cells occurred towards the cell center and were dynein-driven [20]. 

Furthermore, the inhibition of dynein led to a profound accumulation of ER sheets in the cell periphery without affecting outwards, kinesin-driven movement [20]. Similarly, both dynein and kinesin-1 drive ER tubule motility in axons [194] and dendrites [212,213] of cultured rodent hippocampal neurons. As yet, the receptor for dynein on the ER has not been identified in any system, unlike for ERES (Section 2.2.2). 

A final example of microtubule-motor-driven movement involving the ER is provided by nuclear migration and positioning. As well as the pro-nuclear migration mentioned above, kinesin and dynein coordinate nuclear positioning in many different situations, such as during neuronal nuclear migration during brain development [214] and nuclear movement at many stages of C. elegans development [215]. 

Dynein at the nuclear envelope is important for centrosome separation in late G2/prophase and facilitates nuclear envelope fragmentation (reviewed in [216]). Kinesin-1 is also involved in centrosome and nuclear positioning in non-polarised cells, where it is recruited to the nuclear envelope by RanBP2 and BICD2 [217]. 

Interestingly, nesprin 4 is specifically expressed at the outer nuclear envelope in polarised epithelia, where it recruits kinesin-1 which then translocates the nucleus to the base of the cell [218].

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