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Cdc42 is crucial for the maturation of primordial cell junctions in keratinocytes independent of Rac1
被引:14
作者:
Du, Dan
[1
,2
,3
]
Pedersen, Esben
[1
]
Wang, Zhipeng
[1
]
Karlsson, Richard
[1
]
Chen, Zhengjun
[2
]
Wu, Xunwei
[1
]
Brakebusch, Cord
[1
]
机构:
[1] Univ Copenhagen, Inst Biomed, BRIC, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Inst Biol Sci, Inst Biochem & Cell Biol, Grad Sch, Shanghai 200031, Peoples R China
[3] Max Planck Inst Biochem, Dept Mol Med, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
关键词:
Cdc42;
Cell junction maturation;
Keratinocytes;
EPITHELIAL POLARITY;
TIGHT;
APKC;
ACTIVATION;
ADHESION;
PROTEIN;
DIFFERENTIATION;
ESTABLISHMENT;
MIGRATION;
MEMBRANE;
D O I:
10.1016/j.yexcr.2008.11.012
中图分类号:
R73 [肿瘤学];
学科分类号:
100214 ;
摘要:
Cell-cell contacts are crucial for the integrity of all tissues. Contrasting reports have been published about the role of Cdc42 in epithelial cell-cell contacts in vitro. In keratinocytes, it was suggested that Rac1 and not Cdc42 is crucial for the formation of mature epithelial junctions, based on dominant negative inhibition experiments. Deletion of the Cdc42 gene in keratinocytes in vivo slowly impaired the maintenance of cell-cell contacts by an increased degradation of beta-catenin. Whether Cdc42 is required for the formation of mature junctions was not tested. We show now that Cdc42-deficient immortalized and primary keratinocytes form only punctate primordial cell contacts in vitro, which cannot mature into belt-like junctions. This defect was independent of enhanced degradation of beta-catenin, but correlated to an impaired activation and localization of aPKC zeta in the Cdc42-null keratinocytes. Inhibition of aPKC zeta by the inhibitor Go6983 reproduced the phenotype, suggesting that decreased activation of aPKC zeta was sufficient to explain the defective junctional maturation. In the absence of Cdc42, Rac1 activation was strongly decreased, indicating that Cdc42 is upstream of Rac1 activation. These data reveal that Cdc42 is crucial for the formation of mature epithelial cell junctions between keratinocytes by regulating activation of aPKC zeta. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:1480 / 1489
页数:10
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