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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 148, Issue 4, Pages 825-838Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.148.4.825
Keywords
adhesion; integrins; tissue transglutaminase; fibronectin; focal adhesions
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- NCI NIH HHS [R29CA77697] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL21791] Funding Source: Medline
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The protein cross-linking enzyme tissue transglutaminase binds in vitro with high affinity to fibronectin via its 42-kD gelatin-binding domain. Here we report that cell surface transglutaminase mediates adhesion and spreading of cells on the 42-kD fibronectin fragment, which lacks integrin-binding motifs. Overexpression of tissue transglutaminase increases its amount on the cell surface, enhances adhesion and spreading on fibronectin and its 42-kD fragment, enlarges focal adhesions, and amplifies adhesion-dependent phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase, These effects are specific for tissue transglutaminase and are not shared by its functional homologue, a catalytic subunit of factor XIII. Adhesive function of tissue trans-glutaminase does not require its cross-linking activity but depends on its stable noncovalent association with integrins. Transglutaminase interacts directly with multiple integrins of beta 1 and beta 3 subfamilies, but not with beta 2 integrins. Complexes of transglutaminase with integrins are formed inside the cell during biosynthesis and accumulate on the surface and in focal adhesions, Together our results demonstrate that tissue transglutaminase mediates the interaction of integrins with fibronectin, thereby acting as an integrin-associated coreceptor to promote cell adhesion and spreading.
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