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CELL
Volume 148, Issue 4, Pages 803-815Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.11.063
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- National Institutes of Health [AI083359, AI007520, GM T32008297, T32 08014, GM081549, GM071794, GM088428]
- Welch Foundation [I-1704, I-1644, I-1619, I-1674]
- James S. McDonnell Foundation [220020141]
- NCI Cancer Center [1P30 CA142543-01]
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Polarity in mammalian cells emerges from the assembly of signaling molecules into extensive biochemical interaction networks. Despite their complexity, bacterial pathogens have evolved parsimonious mechanisms to hijack these systems. Here, we develop a tractable experimental and theoretical model to uncover fundamental operating principles, in both mammalian cell polarity and bacterial pathogenesis. Using synthetic derivatives of the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli guanine-nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) Map, we discover that Cdc42 GTPase signal transduction is controlled by the interaction between Map and F-actin. Mathematical modeling reveals how actin dynamics coupled to a Map-dependent positive feedback loop spontaneously polarizes Cdc42 on the plasma membrane. By rewiring the pathogenic signaling circuit to operate through beta-integrin stimulation, we further show how Cdc42 is polarized in response to an extracellular spatial cue. Thus, a molecular pathway of polarity is proposed, centered on the interaction between GEFs and F-actin, which is likely to function in diverse biological systems.
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