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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69267-6
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Tendons are specialized tissues composed primarily of load-responsive fibroblasts (tenocytes) embedded in a collagen-rich extracellular matrix. Habitual mechanical loading or targeted exercise causes tendon cells to increase the stiffness of the extracellular matrix; this adaptation may occur in part through collagen synthesis or remodeling. Integrins are likely to play an important role in transmitting mechanical stimuli from the extracellular matrix to tendon cells, thereby triggering cell signaling pathways which lead to adaptive regulation of mRNA translation and protein synthesis. In this study, we discovered that mechanical stimulation of integrin beta 1 leads to the phosphorylation of AKT, an event which required the presence of integrin-linked kinase (ILK). Repetitive stretching of tendon cells activates the AKT and mTOR pathways, which in turn regulates mRNA translation and collagen expression. These results support a model in which integrins are an upstream component of the mechanosensory cellular apparatus, regulating fundamental tendon cell functions relevant to exercise-induced adaptation and mechanotherapy.
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