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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages 813-U150Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1607
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Gastrulation movements are critical for establishing the three germ layers and the architecture of vertebrate embryos. During Xenopus laevis gastrulation, mesodermal tissue migrates on the blastocoel roof and elongates along the antero-posterior axis(1),(2). During this process, cells in the dorsal mesoderm are polarized and intercalate with each other, which is defined as convergent extension and is known to be regulated by the non-canonical Wnt pathway(3-5). Here, we show that paxillin plays an essential role in this process. Paxillin is a focal-adhesion associated protein implicated in the regulation of actin cytoskeletal organization and cell motility(6),7, but its role in Xenopus embryogenesis has not yet been clarified. We demonstrate that the Wnt pathway controls the ubiquitination and stability of paxillin, and that this regulatory mechanism is essential for convergent extension movements. We identified a RING finger protein XRNF185, which physically binds to paxillin and the proteasome. XRNF185 destabilizes paxillin at focal adhesions and promotes mesodermal cell migration during convergent extension. We propose a mechanism to regulate gastrulation movements that involves paxillin ubiquitination and stability controlled by Wnt signalling.
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