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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 731-735Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.03.060
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in epithelial cell movements, which occur during wound healing or embryonic morphogenesis, sheets of cells move together as a unit [1, 2]. Molecular mechanisms that regulate this sheet movement have been largely unknown, although cell locomotion or movement mechanisms for individual cells, such as for fibroblastic cells, have been extensively studied [3-5]. Here, we show that, during wound healing, sheets of MDCK epithelial cells migrate coordinately as a unit, and wound-induced activation of ERK MAP kinase (ERK1/2) propagates in cell sheets in accordance with the cell sheet movement. Inhibition of ERK1/2 activation by specific MEK inhibitors or by expressing dominant-negative ERK2 results in marked inhibition of the sheet movement during wound healing, and inhibition of the cell sheet movement by disrupting actin cytoskeleton suppresses propagation of ERK1/2 activation. These results indicate that cell movement and ERK1/2 activation form a positive feedback loop, which facilitates cell sheet migration. Moreover, we find that Src family kinase inhibitors suppress both cell migration and propagation of ERK1/2 activation, suggesting that Src family kinase may participate in this feedback loop. Interestingly, neither cell sheet migration as a unit nor migration-dependent propagation of ERK1/2 activation occurs during wound healing in fibroblastic 3Y1 cells. Thus, our results identify specific requirements of ERK1/2 MAP kinase for epithelial cell sheet movement.
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