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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 276, Issue 29, Pages 27083-27089Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M101676200
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Calreticulin, a Ca2+ storage protein and chaperone in the endoplasmic reticulum, also modulates cell adhesiveness. Overexpression of calreticulin correlates with (i) increased cell adhesiveness, (ii) increased expression of N-cadherin and vinculin, and (iii) decreased protein phosphorylation on tyrosine. Among proteins that are dephosphorylated in cells that overexpress calreticulin is beta -catenin, a structural component of cadherin-dependent adhesion complexes, a member of the armadillo family of proteins and a part of the Wnt signaling pathway. We postulate that the changes in cell adhesiveness may be due to calreticulin-mediated effects on a signaling pathway from the endoplasmic reticulum, which impinges on the Wnt signaling pathway via the cadherin/catenin protein system and involves changes in the activity of protein-tyrosine kinases and/or phosphatases.
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