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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 183, Issue 1, Pages 157-168Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200807049
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- National Institutes of Health [HD49100]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Despite significant progress in identifying the guidance pathways that control cell migration, how a cell starts to move within an intact organism, acquires motility, and loses contact with its neighbors is poorly understood. We show that activation of the G protein-coupled receptor ( GPCR) trapped in endoderm 1 (Tre1) directs the redistribution of the G protein G beta as well as adherens junction proteins and Rho guanosine triphosphatase from the cell periphery to the lagging tail of germ cells at the onset of Drosophila melanogaster germ cell migration. Subsequently, Tre1 activity triggers germ cell dispersal and orients them toward the midgut for directed transepithelial migration. A transition toward invasive migration is also a prerequisite for metastasis formation, which often correlates with down-regulation of adhesion proteins. We show that uniform down-regulation of E-cadherin causes germ cell dispersal but is not sufficient for transepithelial migration in the absence of Tre1. Our findings therefore suggest a new mechanism for GPCR function that links cell polarity, modulation of cell adhesion, and invasion.
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