In many organisms, depolarizing stimuli cause an increase in intraciliary Ca2+, which results in reversal of ciliary beat direction and backward swimming. The mechanism by which an increase in intraciliary Ca2+ causes ciliary reversal is not known. Here we show that Tetrahymena cells treated with okadaic acid or cantharidin to inhibit protein phosphatases do not swim backwards in response to depolarizing stimuli. We also show that both okadaic acid and cantharidin inhibit backward swimming in reactivated, extracted cell models treated with Ca2+. In contrast, treatment of whole cells or extracted cell models with protein kinase inhibitors has no effect on backward swimming. These results suggest that a component of the axonemal machinery is dephosphorylated during ciliary reversal. The phosphorylation state of inner arm dynein 1 (I1) was determined before and after cells were exposed to depolarizing conditions that induce ciliary reversal. An I1 intermediate chain is phosphorylated in forward swimming cells but is dephosphorylated in cells treated with a depolarizing stimulus. Our results suggest that dephosphorylation of Tetrahymena inner arm dynein 1 may be an essential part of the mechanism of ciliary reversal in response to increased intraciliary Ca2+.
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