Journal
TISSUE BARRIERS
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201104143
Keywords
tight junction; JAM-A; aPKC; epithelial barrier; cell polarity; PAR complex; cell-cell contact
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- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Medical Faculty of the University Munster (IZKF, IMF)
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Cell-cell adhesion plays a critical role in the formation of barrier-forming epithelia. The molecules which mediate cell-cell adhesion frequently act as signaling molecules by recruiting and/or assembling cytoplasmic protein complexes. Junctional adhesion molecule (JAM)-A interacts with the cell polarity protein PAR-3, a member of the PAR-3-aPKC-PAR-6 complex, which regulates the formation of cell-cell contacts and the development of tight junctions (TJs). In our recent study we found that JAM-A is localized at primordial, spot-like cell-cell junctions (pAJs) in a non-phosphorylated form. After the recruitment of the PAR a PKC complex and its activation at pAJs, aPKC phosphorylates JAM-A at Ser285 to promote the maturation of immature junctions. In polarized epithelial cells, aPKC phosphorylates JAM-A selectively at the TJs to maintain the barrier function of TJs. Thus, through mutual regulation, JAM-A and aPKC form a functional unit that regulates the establishment of barrier-forming junctions in vertebrate epithelial cells.
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