Journal
JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 132, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.224063
Keywords
Mechanotransduction; Tension; Morphogenesis; Ajuba
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 GM121537]
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Adherens junctions provide attachments between neighboring epithelial cells and a physical link to the cytoskeleton, which enables them to sense and transmit forces and to initiate biomechanical signaling. Examination of the Ajuba LIM protein Jub in Drosophila embryos revealed that it is recruited to adherens junctions in tissues experiencing high levels of myosin activity, and that the pattern of Jub recruitment varies depending upon how tension is organized. In cells with high junctional myosin, Jub is recruited to puncta near intercellular vertices, which are distinct from Ena-containing puncta, but can overlap Vinc-containing puncta. We identify roles for Jub in modulating tension and cellular organization, which are shared with the cytohesin Step, and the cytohesin adapter Sstn, and show that Jub and Sstn together recruit Step to adherens junctions under tension. Our observations establish Jub as a reporter of tension experienced at adherens junctions, and identify distinct types of tension-dependent and tension-independent junctional complexes. They also identify a role for Jub in mediating a feedback loop that modulates the distribution of tension and cellular organization in epithelia.
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