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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 415-427Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(03)00261-2
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [R01 AR027883-28] Funding Source: Medline
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alphabeta1 integrins have been implicated in the survival, spreading, and migration of cells and tissues. To explore the underlying biology, we identified conditions where primary beta1 null keratinocytes adhere, proliferate, and display robust alphanubeta6 integrin-induced, peripheral focal contacts associated with elaborate stress fibers. Mechanistically, this appears to be due to reduced FAK and Src and elevated RhoA and Rock activities. Visualization on a genetic background of GFPactin shows that beta1 null keratinocytes spread, but do so aberrantly, and when induced to migrate from skin explants in vitro, the cells are not able to rapidly reorient their actin cytoskeleton toward the polarized movement. As judged by RFPzyxin/GFPactin videomicroscopy, the alphanubeta6-actin network does not undergo efficient turnover. Without the ability to remodel their integrin-actin network efficiently, alphabeta1-deficient keratinocytes cannot respond dynamically to their environment and polarize movements.
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