Dynasore, a dynamin inhibitor, suppresses lamellipodia formation and cancer cell invasion by destabilizing actin filaments

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Dynasore, a dynamin inhibitor, suppresses lamellipodia formation and cancer cell invasion by destabilizing actin filaments Hiroshi Yamada a,1, Tadashi Abe a,1, Shun-Ai Li b, Yuki Masuoka a, Mihoko Isoda a, Masami Watanabe b, Yasutomo Nasu b, Hiromi Kumon b, Akira Asai c, Kohji Takei a,* a b c

Department of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 2-5-1, Shikata-Cho, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 2-5-1, Shikata-Cho, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan Center for Drug Discovery, Graduate School Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1, Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan

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Article history: Received 18 October 2009 Available online 24 October 2009 Keywords: Dynasore Dynamin Actin cytoskeleton Cortactin Lamellipodia Invasion

a b s t r a c t Dynamic remodeling of actin filaments are bases for a variety of cellular events including cell motility and cancer invasion, and the regulation of actin dynamics implies dynamin, well characterized endocytotic protein. Here we report that dynasore, a inhibitor of dynamin GTPase, potently destabilizes F-actin in vitro, and it severely inhibits the formation of pseudopodia and cancer cell invasion, both of which are supported by active F-actin formation. Dynasore rapidly disrupted F-actin formed in brain cytosol in vitro, and the dynasore’s effect on F-actin was indirect. Dynasore significantly suppressed seruminduced lamellipodia formation in U2OS cell. Dynasore also destabilized F-actin in resting cells, which caused the retraction of the plasma membrane. A certain amount of dynamin 2 in U2OS cells localized along F-actin, and co-localized with cortactin, a physiological binding partner of dynamin and F-actin. However, these associations of dynamin were partially disrupted by dynasore treatment. Furthermore, invasion activity of H1080 cell, a lung cancer cell line, was suppressed by approximately 40% with dynasore treatment. These results strongly suggest that dynasore potently destabilizes F-actin, and the effect implies dynamin. Dynasore or its derivative would be suitable candidates as potent anti-cancer drugs. Ó 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Introduction Dynamic changes of the actin cytoskeleton are basis for a variety of cellular events including cell adhesion, motility and cancer invasion, endocytosis, and phagocytosis [1]. Cell migration and cancer cell invasion are led by pseudopodia such as lamellipodia or filopodia, plasma membrane protrusive structure enriched with F-actin. Two dimensionally or three dimensionally constructed F-actin meshwork provides driving force for membrane dynamics to generate pseudopodia. The actin undergoes active polymerization/de-polymerization cycle, and specific actin effector proteins are responsible for the proper spatio-temporal regulation of actin polymerization [2]. Dynamins, large GTPase, are composed of three isoforms, dynamin 1–3 [3], and well characterized as a fission protein in clathrin mediated endocytosis [4]. Implication of dynamin in actin dynamics has been sporadically suggested from observations of dynamin in actin-rich structures, such as growth cones [5], podosomes [6], invadopodia [7], lamellipodia and dorsal membrane ruffles [8–10], and phagocytic cups [11,12]. Furthermore, over-expression of dynamin K44A mutant changes actin cytoskeleton [13]. * Corresponding author. Fax: +81 86 235 7126. E-mail address: [email protected] (K. Takei). 1 These authors contributed equally to this work. 0006-291X/$ - see front matter Ó 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.10.105

Dynamin was later found to bind to cortactin, F-actin binding protein [10]. Dynamin GTPase activity is implicated in cortactin/Arp2/ 3-dependent actin polymerization [14], morphology, and turnover of actin filaments [14,15]. However, the precise mechanisms by which dynamin regulates actin dynamics are largely unknown. In search of specific inhibitor for dynamin GTPase, Macia and colleagues have identified dynasore as a non-competitive inhibitor [16]. Dynasore, a membrane permeable small molecule, decreases endocytosis, cell spreading, and cell attachment [16]. Since the discovery of dynasore, the reagent has been widely used for analyzing dynamin-dependent endocytosis [17]. Recently, we found that dynasore inhibits phagocytosis, an actin-dependent cellular event, and that dynasore strongly decreases F-actin formation in vitro [12], suggesting that dynasore affects on the actin dynamics. In this study, we examined effects of dynasore on stability of F-actin in vitro. Effects of dynasore on the formation of lamellipodia and cancer cell invasion, both of which are supported by active remodeling of F-actin, were also analyzed. Materials and methods Reagents. Dynasore and cytochalasin D were purchased form Sigma (St. Louis, MO). Mycalolide B was purchased from Wako

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Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, Japan). Anti-dynamin 2 polyclonal antibodies (Santa Cruz Biotechnologies, CA), anti-cortactin monoclonal antibodies (clone 4F-11, Millipore, MA) and Alexa 488-phalloidin (Life Technologies Corp., CA) were used in the study. Animals. Ten-week-old C57BL/6J male mice were purchased from SLC, Inc. (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Shimizu Laboratory Supplies Co. (Kyoto, Japan), and maintained in a specific pathogen-free environment with free access to food and water at the laboratory animal center of Okayama University. The animals were housed and handled in accordance with the Okayama University Animal Research Committee Guidelines. Cell culture. U2OS (ATCC No.: HTB 96) and H1080 cells (ATCC No.: CRL-12012) were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM; Life Technologies Corp., CA) with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Life Technologies Corp., CA) at 37 °C in humidified air with a 5% CO2 atmosphere. To induce lamellipodia formation, the cells were cultured in serum-free DMEM for more than 16 h. The serum-starved cells were pre-incubated with dynasore at indicated concentrations for 30 min, then stimulated with 10% FBS in DMEM for 40 min at 37 °C in the presence or absence of dynasore in 3% DMSO. For negative control samples, 3% DMSO was applied. To wash out dynasore, cells were quickly washed out twice with FBS-free DMEM, and then incubated in 10% FBS-containing DMEM for 40 min. To assess lamellipodia formation, cells were labeled with Alexa 488phalloidin, and analyzed by fluorescent confocal microscopy. Cells with F-actin-rich membrane extensions were determined as lamellipodia-positive cells as described previously [18]. Microscopy. U2OS cells were double-stained by immunofluorescence and examined as described [19] using an inverted microscope (IX-71, Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Japan) equipped with spinning disk confocal microscope system (CSU10, Yokogawa Electric Co., Japan) and a CoolSNAP-HQ camera (Roper Industries, FL). The system was steered by Metamorph software (Molecular Devices Corp., PA). For live imaging, cells (1  104 cells/coverslip) were cultured at 37 °C for 3 days on collagen type I-coated cover slips (12 mm in diameter). Live-cell confocal time-lapsed images were taken using a spinning disk confocal microscope described above. Images were automatically captured every 10 s. When necessary, images were further processed using Adobe photoshop and Illustrator software. In vitro actin assay. Quantitative analysis of F-actin was carried out using pyrene-actin (Cytoskeleton, MA) [19]. To assess F-actin disassembly in brain cytosol, mouse brain cytosol (12 mg/ml) was prepared as previously [19], and supplemented with 0.3 mg/ml pyrene-actin and ATP generating system (1 mM ATP, 8 mM creatine phosphate, 8 U/ml phosphocreatine kinase) in assay buffer (20 mM Hepes, 100 mM KCl, 1 mM MgCl2, 0.1 mM EDTA, 1 mM DTT, pH 7.4). The mixture was incubated in a quartz cuvette at room temperature for 10 min, and then 120 lM of liposomes containing 50% phosphatidylcholine (PC) and 50% phosphatidylserine (PS) were added to the mixture. Pyrene fluorescence was measured at 407 nm with excitation at 365 nm in a F-2500 fluorescence spectrophotometer (Hitachi Co., Ltd., Japan) with a 10-nm slit width. After F-actin formation was reached to plateau, approximately within 20 min, dynasore, Mycalolide B or cytochalasin D was added. To assess direct effect of the reagents on F-actin disassembly, F-actin was formed from 0.3 mg/ml pyrene-actin (Cytoskeleton, MA) at room temperature for 30 min in F-buffer (0.2 mM CaCl2, 50 mM KCl, 2 mM MgCl2, and 1 mM ATP in 5 mM Tris–HCl, pH 7.5). After F-actin formation was reached to plateau, dynasore, Mycalolide B or cytochalasin D diluted with G-buffer (0.2 mM CaCl2 in 5 mM Tris–HCl, pH 8.0) was added. Pyrene fluorescence was detected with fluorescent microplate reader (MTP-600F, Corona Electric Co., Ltd., Japan).

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For visual assay, 1 lM Rhodamine-actin (Life Technologies Corp., CA) was added to 20 mg/ml of brain cytosol, and F-actin formation was induced by 120 lM liposomes as described above at room temperature for 30 min. Then, 40 lM dynasore, 10 lM Mycalolide B or 10 lM cytochalasin D was added and incubated for 15 min at room temperature. The mixtures were observed by fluorescent confocal microscopy to assess actin de-polymerization. Cell invasion assay. Invasion assay was performed as described [20] using a 24-well Matrigel invasion chamber (BD Biosciences, Bedford, MA, pore size 8 lm in diameter). H1080 cells were seeded in the upper chamber at 2.5  105 cells/well in serum-free DMEM. DMEM containing 50% FBS (used as a chemo attractant) was placed in the bottom chamber. After incubation for 6 h, dynasore was added to both the upper and the lower chambers, and the cells were further incubated for 14 h to allow them to migrate through pores of the Matrigel-coated membrane, cells remained on the upper side of the membrane were scrubbed off and the membrane with invaded cells to the bottom side was fixed with methanol and stained with toluidine blue. The number of invaded cells was determined by counting cells on micrographs taken at 200-fold magnification, and total 15 different fields were analyzed (five fields each from three independent experiments). Results Dynasore indirectly destabilizes actin filaments in vitro We recently demonstrated that dynasore inhibits F-actin formation and membrane extension during phagocytosis [12]. However, it is unclear whether dynasore reduces actin assembly or Factin stabilization. First, effects of dynasore on the stability of F-actin were examined in vitro assay using pyrene-actin [12,19,21]. Pre-formed F-actin in the brain cytosol was rapidly disassembled by addition of dynasore in dose-dependent manner (Fig. 1A). Similar F-actin-disrupting effect was observed by the treatment with Mycalolide B, a marine toxin that directly disrupts actin filaments [22], whereas, cytochalasin D, which inhibits actin polymerization by capping barbed end, hardly de-polymerized F-actin (Fig. 1B). Consistently, morphological observation revealed that F-actin was drastically decreased by dynasore or Mycalolide B, but not by cytochalasin D (Fig. 1C). To examine whether dynasore and Mycalolide B directly disrupt actin filaments, F-actin was formed by incubating purified G-actin in the presence of Mg2+ and K+, and then the reagents were added. While Mycalolide B de-polymerized the F-actin, dynasore showed no effect (Fig. 1D), suggesting that the effect of dynasore on F-actin stability is indirect. Dynasore destabilizes F-actin and inhibits serum-induced lamellipodia formation in cells Next, we examined whether dynasore destabilize F-actin in cells. For this purpose, U2OS cells, human osteosarcoma cell line, was induced for the formation of lamellipodia with serum in the presence or absence of dynasore. The presence of dynasore resulted in decrease of lamellipodia formation in dose-dependent manner (Fig. 2A and B). Actin filaments were markedly reduced in dynasore-treated cells compared to that in control cells, but the effect was recovered by washing out dynasore (Fig. 2A and B). Tubulin staining as a negative control showed no change (data not shown). These results suggested that dynasore inhibits lamellipodia formation by disturbing actin dynamics. Live imaging of serum-starved U2OS cell performed in the presence of dynasore revealed that dynasore induces rapid retraction of cell membrane from the cell edges (Fig. 2C). This observation supports that dynasore disrupts F-actin not only in pseudopodium-forming cells but also in resting cells.

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Time (Sec.) Fig. 1. Dynasore decreases stability of F-actin in brain cytosol. (A) Pre-formed F-actin in mouse brain cytosol was incubated with or without dynasore at indicated concentrations, and pyrene fluorescence was measured. Time 0 indicates the time when the reagents were added (arrow). In negative control, 3% DMSO was added (DMSO). (B) Dynasore disassembles F-actin in a similar manner as Mycalolide B, but not cytochalasin D. F-actin disassembly assay was carried out as in (A). Forty micromolar dynasore (Dyna), 10 lM Mycalolide B (Mycalo), or 10 lM cytochalasin D (Cyt D) was added to pre-formed F-actin. (C) Actin disassembly was monitored by a visual assay using Rhodamine-actin to follow actin disassembly. Pre-formed F-actin in mouse brain cytosol was incubated with or without indicated reagents as in B, and Rhodamine fluorescence was observed under fluorescent confocal microscopy. Bar: 20 lm. (D) Dynasore does not directly de-polymerized F-actin. Forty micromolar dynasore (Dyna), 10 lM Mycalolide B (Mycalo), or 10 lM cytochalasin D (Cyt D) was added to purified F-actin, and then pyrene fluorescence was measured. Time 0 indicates the time when the reagents were added (arrow).

Dynasore disrupts co-localization of dynamin 2 and cortactin Given that dynasore was originally characterized as dynamin GTPase inhibitor [16], and it affects on F-actin both in vitro and in vivo, we next examined localization of dynamin 2 along F-actin. In the absence of dynasore, substantial amount of dynamin 2-positive dots, 30.4 ± 2.7% (n = 10 cells), were found along F-actin in lamellipodia of U2OS cells. However, addition of dynasore led to dissociation of dynamin 2 from F-actin, and dynamin 2-positive dots on F-actin were reduced to 8.7 ± 2.2% (n = 10 cells) (Fig. 3A and B). It has been reported that interaction between dynamin 2 and cortactin, a F-actin binding protein, is involved in remodeling of F-actin

[14,15]. We therefore examined the effect of dynasore on the distribution of cortactin and dynamin 2 in U2OS cells by immunocytochemistry. In the control cells, both cortactin and dynamin 2 were observed as numerous bright puncta in the cytoplasm (Fig. 3C, upper panels). Quantitative analysis revealed that 40.7 ± 1.6% (n = 16 cells) of the dynamin 2-positive puncta were also positive for cortactin, which were visible as yellow dots (Fig. 3C, upper panel inset). The co-localization of dynamin 2 and cortactin dropped to 16.2 ± 4.2% (n = 10 cells) in the presence of dynasore (Fig. 3C, middle panels and D), but the effect was partially recovered to 28.4 ± 2.5% (n = 12 cells) by washing out dynasore (Fig. 3C, lower panels and D). This result suggests that dynasore also interferes the interaction of dynamin 2 and cortactin.

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Dynasore inhibits invasion of lung cancer cell Since dynasore severely destabilizes F-actin both in vivo and in vitro, and it also prevents the formation of membrane extension, we next examined whether dynasore has inhibitory effect for cancer cell invasion. First, we determined the experimental conditions for the invasion assay, because dynasore-treated cells showed loose adherence [16]. H1080 cells, human lung cancer cell line, were treated with increasing concentrations of dynasore for 14 h, and cell attachment was assessed. As shown in Fig. 4A and B, dynasore did not show apparent effect both on cell adhesion and cell shape up to 40 lM, but caused significant detachment of the cells at 80 lM (Fig. 4A and B). Therefore, we examined whether 40 lM dynasore affect the invasion of H1080 cells in Transwell invasion chambers. Significant number of H1080 cells was attracted high concentration of FBS, and invaded through pored membrane of the chamber. In the presence of dynasore, however, the number of invaded cells was reduced approximately by 40% (Fig. 4C and D). Discussion In this study, we demonstrated that dynasore strongly destabilizes F-actin both in vitro and in vivo (Figs. 1 and 2). Application of dynasore led to reduction of lamellipodia formation in U2OS cells, and inhibition of cellular invasion in H1080 cells (Figs. 2 and 4). Simultaneously, dynasore drastically reduced dynamin 2-localiza-

tion on F-actin, as well as dynamin 2/cortactin co-localization in U2OS cells (Fig. 3). These results indicate that dysfunction of dynamin by dynasore may lead to instability of F-actin. How does dynasore destabilize actin filaments? Dynasore rapidly de-polymerized actin filaments like as Mycalolide B, which is known to directly sever F-actin to G-actin, and to inhibit polymerization by sequestering G-actin [22]. However, dynasore did not affect on purified F-actin (Fig. 1D), indicating that the reagent functions indirectly. We recently reported that dynasore strongly inhibits F-actin formation in cytosol by pyrene-actin assay [12]. There are three possibilities for mode of action of dynasore on actin dynamics, i.e., inhibition of actin assembly, destabilization of F-actin, or both. In this study, we have demonstrated that pre-formed F-actin in cytosol was rapidly disassembled by dynasore (Fig. 1A–C), indicating that the reagent causes at least to destabilization of F-actin. Considering that dynasore acts on dynamin and inhibits the GTPase activity in non-competitive manner [16], it is likely that effect of dynasore on actin dynamics via dynamin. Consistently, it has been reported that dynamin GTPase activity is required for actin filament morphology, its turnover [14,15] and actin polymerization [12]. Furthermore, over-expression of dynamin K44A mutant changes actin cytoskeleton [13]. Accumulating evidences suggest that dynamin is implicated in formation of actin-based structures such as lamellipodia, ruffles, and phagocytic cups [5–12]. In addition, dynamin interacts or forms complexes with variety of proteins related to actin dynamics

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Fig. 3. Dynasore decreases co-localization of dynamin 2 with F-actin and cortactin at lamellipodia. (A) Dynamin 2 partially co-localizes with F-actin in serum-stimulated U2OS cells. Cells were treated with 0.3% DMSO (DMSO) or 80 lM dynasore (Dynasore). The treated cells were fixed, permeabilized and stained for dynamin 2 and F-actin. The boxed regions were enlarged. Bar represents 20 lm in left three panels and 7.9 lm in right panels. (B) Co-localization of dynamin 2 along F-actin in U2OS cells with or without dynasore treatment. Ratio of dynamin 2-present on F-actin (yellow dots in (A), right panel) to total dynamin 2-immunoreactivity (red dots in (A), left panel) were quantified using Metamorph image analysis software. The data shown are the mean ± SEM from three independent experiments. Statistical significance was determined by Student’s t tests (**p < 0.001). (C) Double immunofluorescence of U2OS cells for dynamin 2 and cortactin. Cells were treated with 80 lM dynasore (Dynasore), or dynasore was washed out (Washout). The treated cells were fixed, permeabilized and stained. The boxed regions were magnified (right panels). Bar represents 20 lm in left three panels and 4.3 lm in right panels. (D) Co-localization of dynamin 2 and cortactin in U2OS cells quantified using Metamorph image analysis software. The data shown are the mean ± SEM from three independent experiments. Statistical significance was determined by Student’s t tests (**p < 0.001).

such as cortactin, a-actinin 4, profilin and Abp1 [10,23–25]. For example, cortactin binds to both dynamin 2 and F-actin at plasma membrane, and functions the formation of lamellipodia and ruffles [10]. In this study, dynasore disrupted co-localization of dynamin 2 with cortactin (Fig. 3C), suggesting that dynamin 2/cortactin interaction might be essential for actin dynamics. Recently, dynasore has been widely used for analyzing dynamin-dependent endocytosis [17]. Since dynasore destabilizes not only F-actin in lamellipodia, but also those in the resting cells (Fig. 2), one should carefully consider dynasore’s strong effect on actin dynamics in application of the reagent for analyzing endocytosis.

Most of molecular targets of anti-cancer drugs currently in use are molecules involved in processes of cell division or DNA replication, and few drugs target for actin dynamics. Given dynasore’s strong inhibitory effect on pseudopodium formation and invasion, dynasore or its derivative could be potential candidates for anticancer drugs that effectively suppress cancer invasion and metastasis. In conclusion, we demonstrate that dynamin inhibitor, dynasore, reduces F-actin stability and formation of lamellipodia in cancer-derived cells. It is very likely that dynamin is involved in this effect. Precise mechanism involved in F-actin regulation by dynamin is to be studied in the future.

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