Current research in biology uses evermore complex computational and imaging tools. Here we describe Icy, a collaborative bioimage informatics platform that combines a community website for contributing and sharing tools and material, and software with a high-end visual programming framework for seamless development of sophisticated imaging workflows. Icy extends the reproducible research principles, by encouraging and facilitating the reusability, modularity, standardization and management of algorithms and protocols. Icy is free, open-source and available at http://icy.bioimageanalysis.org/.

Dynamin superfamily molecular motors use guanosine triphosphate (GTP) as a source of energy for membrane-remodeling events. We found that knockdown of nucleoside diphosphate kinases (NDPKs) NM23-H1/H2, which produce GTP through adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-driven conversion of guanosine diphosphate (GDP), inhibited dynamin-mediated endocytosis. NM23-H1/H2 localized at clathrin-coated pits and interacted with the proline-rich domain of dynamin. In vitro, NM23-H1/H2 were recruited to dynamin-induced tubules, stimulated GTP-loading on dynamin, and triggered fission in the presence of ATP and GDP. NM23-H4, a mitochondriaspecific NDPK, colocalized with mitochondrial dynamin-like OPA1 involved in mitochondria * Corresponding author. mathieu.boissan@inserm.fr (M.B.); philippe.chavrier@curie.fr (P.C. Europe PMC Funders Author ManuscriptsEurope PMC Funders Author Manuscripts inner membrane fusion and increased GTP-loading on OPA1. Like OPA1 loss of function, silencing of NM23-H4 but not NM23-H1/H2 resulted in mitochondrial fragmentation, reflecting fusion defects. Thus, NDPKs interact with and provide GTP to dynamins, allowing these motor proteins to work with high thermodynamic efficiency.The 100-kD dynamin guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) promotes uptake of cell-surface receptors both by clathrin-dependent and -independent pathways (1, 2). Dynamin polymerizes into helix around the neck of endocytic pits and induces guanosine triphosphate (GTP) hydrolysis-driven membrane fission (3-7). Typical of molecular motors, dynamin has a low affinity for GTP and a high basal GTP-hydrolysis rate, which can be further stimulated by dynamin polymerization (8,9). This maximizes chemical energy gain and kinetics of hydrolysis, respectively, which in vivo depend on high concentration ratios of adenosine triphosphate/adenosine diphosphate (ATP/ADP) or GTP/guanosine diphosphate (GDP). The cellular concentrations of GTP and GDP are at least a factor of 10 lower than those of ATP and ADP, and GTP/GDP ratios could thus decrease much more rapidly at elevated workload, both of which make GTP not an ideal substrate for high-turnover, energy-dependent enzymes. Paradoxically, dynamin GTPases are among the most powerful molecular motors described (7).Studies in Drosophila identified a genetic interaction between dynamin and Awd (10-12). Awd belongs to the family of nucleoside diphosphate kinases (NDPKs), which catalyze synthesis of nucleoside triphosphates, including GTP, from corresponding nucleoside diphosphates and ATP (13). The most abundant human NDPKs are the highly related cytosolic proteins NM23-H1 and -H2. NM23-H4, another NDPK-family member, localizes exclusively at the mitochondrial inner membrane (14, 15). Mitochondrial membrane dynamics require dynamin-related GTPases (16). We hypothesized that NDPKs could influence the function of dynamin family members in membrane-remodeling events through spatially controlled GTP production and availability.Knockdown of NM23-H1 and -H2 (fig. S1, A to E) reduced clathrin-dependent endocyt...

SummaryIntraflagellar transport (IFT) is necessary for the construction of cilia and flagella. IFT proteins are concentrated at the base of the flagellum but little is known about the actual role of this pool of proteins. Here, IFT was investigated in Trypanosoma brucei, an attractive model for flagellum studies, using GFP fusions with IFT52 or the IFT dynein heavy chain DHC2.1. Tracking analysis by a curvelet method allowing automated separation of forward and return transport demonstrated a uniform speed for retrograde IFT (5 mm s 21 ) but two distinct populations for anterograde movement that are sensitive to temperature. When they reach the distal tip, anterograde trains are split into three and converted to retrograde trains. When a fast anterograde train catches up with a slow one, it is almost twice as likely to fuse with it rather than to overtake it, implying that these trains travel on a restricted set of microtubules. Using photobleaching experiments, we show for the first time that IFT proteins coming back from the flagellum are mixed with those present at the flagellum base and can reiterate a full IFT cycle in the flagellum. This recycling is dependent on flagellum length and IFT velocities. Mathematical modelling integrating all parameters actually reveals the existence of two pools of IFT proteins at the flagellum base, but only one is actively engaged in IFT.

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