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JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY
Volume 116, Issue 5, Pages 686-692Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING INC
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2001.01342.x
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apoptosis; cell-matrix interaction; cytochalasin D; fibroblastic cell; integrin
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The mechanisms underlying the contraction-dependent apoptosis of primary fibroblasts are of prime importance in understanding anchorage-dependent survival/apoptosis of dermal fibroblasts. As integrins are essential extracellular matrix receptors in fibroblasts, their role in anchorage-dependent apoptosis/ survival of fibroblasts was analyzed. Primary human fibroblasts displayed a marked reduction of apoptosis in mechanically relaxed collagen matrices in the presence of adhesion-blocking antibodies against alpha (1)beta (1) or alpha (2)beta (1). Anti-alpha (v)beta (3) antibodies had a considerably weaker effect. In additional experiments RD cells, which lack alpha (2) integrin, displayed no apoptosis in mechanically relaxed collagen matrices. Their susceptibility to apoptosis was restored after transfection with functional alpha (2) integrin, and it could be blocked again by adhesion-blocking antibodies against alpha (2)beta (1) integrin. Therefore we conclude that apoptosis of human primary fibroblasts in contractile collagen matrices is - at least in part - inhibited by adhesion-blocking anti-integrin antibodies, suggesting that the mode of apoptosis in this case is different from anoikis. Further, apoptosis in a mechanically relaxed collagen matrix could be abrogated by depolymerization of F-actin using cytochalasin D and also by disturbing actin-myosin interaction using 2,3-butanedione monoxime, indicating a possible dependence of apoptosis on mechanical forces and/or cell shape.
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