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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 327-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.06.017
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- JST CREST, Japan [JPMJCR1852]
- Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Japan Foundation for Applied Enzymology
- MEXT KAKENHI [JP26114003]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP24687027, JP16H04800, JP18K14691]
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Remodeling of cell-cell junctions drives cell intercalation that causes tissue movement during morphogenesis through the shortening and growth of bicellular junctions. The growth of new junctions is essential for continuing and then completing cellular dynamics and tissue shape sculpting; however, the mechanism underlying junction growth remains obscure. We investigated Drosophila genitalia rotation where continuous cell intercalation occurs to show that myosin II accumulating at the vertices of a new junction is required for the junction growth. This myosin II accumulation requires the adhesive transmembrane protein Sidekick (Sdk), which localizes to the adherens junctions (AJs) of tricellular contacts (tAJs). Sdk also localizes to and blocks the accumulation of E-Cadherin at newly formed growing junctions, which maintains the growth rate. We propose that Sdk facilitates tAJ movement by mediating myosin II-driven contraction and altering the adhesive properties at the tAJs, leading to cell-cell junction extension during persistent junction remodeling.
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