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Sea urchin coelomocytes represent an excellent experimental model system for studying retrograde flow. Their extreme flatness allows for excellent microscopic visualization. Their discoid shape provides a radially symmetric geometry, which simplifies analysis of the flow pattern. Finally, the nonmotile nature of the cells allows for the retrograde flow to be analyzed in the absence of cell translocation. In this study we have begun an analysis of the retrograde flow mechanism by characterizing its kinetic and structural properties. The supramolecular organization of actin and myosin II was investigated using light and electron microscopic methods. Light microscopic immunolocalization was performed with anti-actin and anti-sea urchin egg myosin II antibodies, whereas transmission electron microscopy was performed on platinum replicas of critical point-dried and rotary-shadowed cytoskeletons. Coelomocytes contain a dense cortical actin network, which feeds into an extensive array of radial bundles in the interior. These actin bundles terminate in a perinuclear region, which contains a ring of myosin II bipolar minifilaments. Retrograde flow was arrested either by interfering with actin polymerization or by inhibiting myosin II function, but the pathway by which the flow was blocked was different for the two kinds of inhibitory treatments. Inhibition of actin polymerization with cytochalasin D caused the actin cytoskeleton to separate from the cell margin and undergo a finite retrograde retraction. In contrast, inhibition of myosin II function either with the wide-spectrum protein kinase inhibitor staurosporine or the myosin light chain kinase-specific inhibitor KT5926 stopped flow in the cell center, whereas normal retrograde flow continued at the cell periphery. These differential results suggest that the mechanism of retrograde flow has two, spatially segregated components. We propose a "push-pull" mechanism in which actin polymerization drives flow at the cell periphery, whereas myosin II provides the tension on the actin cytoskeleton necessary for flow in the cell interior.
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