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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 186, Issue 1, Pages 75-83Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200810179
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- American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship [0615689T]
- Global Center of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship Center for Frontier Medicine
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [HL62289]
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Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) is a major regulator of developmental, pathological, and therapeutic angiogenesis. Its activity is partially mediated by binding to syndecan 4 (S4), a proteoglycan receptor. Angiogenesis requires polarized activation of the small guanosine triphosphatase Rac1, which involves localized dissociation from RhoGDI1 and association with the plasma membrane. Previous work has shown that genetic deletion of S4 or its adapter, synectin, leads to depolarized Rac activation, decreased endothelial migration, and other physiological defects. In this study, we show that Rac1 activation downstream of S4 is mediated by the RhoG activation pathway. RhoG is maintained in an inactive state by RhoGDI1, which is found in a ternary complex with synectin and S4. Binding of S4 to synectin increases the latter's binding to RhoGDI1, which in turn enhances RhoGDI1's affinity for RhoG. S4 clustering activates PKC alpha, which phosphorylates RhoGDI1 at Ser(96). This phosphorylation triggers release of RhoG, leading to polarized activation of Rac1. Thus, FGF2-induced Rac1 activation depends on the suppression of RhoG by a previously uncharacterized ternary S4-synectin-RhoGDI1 protein complex and activation via PKC alpha.
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