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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 102, Issue 5, Pages 1290-1299Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21359
Keywords
wound healing; basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF); lysophosphatidic acid; Rho; Rac; phosphalidylinositol-3-kinase
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Fibroblast-collagen matrix contraction has been used as a model system) 10 Study how cells organize connective tissue. Previous work showed that lysophosphatidic acid (LPA)-stimulated floating collagen matrix contraction is independent of Rho kinase while platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-Stimulated contraction is Rho kinase-dependent. The current studies were carried out to determine the signaling mechanisms of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF)-stimulated fibroblast-collagen matrix contraction. Both bFGF and LPA promoted equally collagen matrix contraction well. Three different inhibitors, LY294002 for phosphatidylinositol-beta-kinase (P beta K), exotransferase for Rho and Y27632 for Rho kinase, suppressed the bFGF-stimulated fibroblast-collagen matrix contraction. With bFGF Stimulation, fibroblasts spread with prominent stress fiber network formation and focal adhesions. in the presence of Rho kinase inhibitor, focal adhesions and stress fibers were mostly lost. We demonstrated that bFGF stimulation for fibroblast caused transient Rac and Rho activation but did not activate Cdc42. In addition, bFGF enhanced fibroblast migration in wound healing assay. The present study implicates PI3K, Rac, Rho, and Rho kinase as being involved in bFGF-stimulated collagen matrix contraction. The elucidation of bFGF-triggered signal transduction may be an important clue to understand the roles of bFGF in wound healing.
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