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BLOOD
Volume 120, Issue 16, Pages 3371-3381Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2012-03-419721
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP-86464, MOP-111031]
- Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute [CCSRI-019104]
- American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship
- Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec postdoctoral fellowship
- National Institutes of Health [5PO1HL32262-29, 5R01HL048801-18]
- FRSQ Junior 2 career award
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Angiogenic sprouting requires that cell-cell contacts be maintained during migration of endothelial cells. Angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) and vascular endothelial growth factor act oppositely on endothelial cell junctions. We found that Ang-1 promotes collective and directional migration and, in contrast to VEGF, induces the formation of a complex formed of atypical protein kinase C (PKC)-zeta and beta-catenin at cell-cell junctions and at the leading edge of migrating endothelial cells. This complex brings Par3, Par6, and adherens junction proteins at the front of migrating cells to locally activate Rac1 in response to Ang-1. The colocalization of PKC zeta and beta-catenin at leading edge along with PKC zeta-dependent stabilization of cell-cell contacts promotes directed and collective endothelial cell migration. Consistent with these results, down-regulation of PKC zeta in endothelial cells alters Ang-1-induced sprouting in vitro and knockdown in developing zebrafish results in intersegmental vessel defects caused by a perturbed directionality of tip cells and by loss of cell contacts between tip and stalk cells. These results reveal that PKC zeta and beta-catenin function in a complex at adherens junctions and at the leading edge of migrating endothelial cells to modulate collective and directional migration during angiogenesis. (Blood. 2012;120(16):3371-3381)
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