Profilin, an essential G-actin-binding protein, has two opposite regulatory functions in actin filament assembly. It facilitates assembly at the barbed ends by lowering the critical concentration (Pantaloni, D., and Carlier, M.-F.(1993) Cell 75, 1007-1014); in contrast it contributes to the pool of unassembled actin when barbed ends are capped. We proposed that the first of these functions required an input of energy. How profilin uses the ATP hydrolysis that accompanies actin polymerization and whether the acceleration of nucleotide exchange on G-actin by profilin participates in its function in filament assembly are the issues addressed here. We show that 1) profilin increases the treadmilling rate of actin filaments in the presence of Mg ions; 2) when filaments are assembled from CaATP-actin, which polymerizes in a quasireversible fashion, profilin does not promote assembly at the barbed ends and has only a G-actin-sequestering function; 3) plant profilins do not accelerate nucleotide exchange on G-actin, yet they promote assembly at the barbed end. The enhancement of nucleotide exchange by profilin is therefore not involved in its promotion of actin assembly, and the productive growth of filaments from profilin-actin complex requires the coupling of ATP hydrolysis to profilin-actin assembly, a condition fulfilled by Mg-actin, and not by Ca-actin.

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