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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
卷 186, 期 3, 页码 409-421出版社
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200810196
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- National Institutes of Health [AR42047]
Keratins, the largest subgroup of intermediate filament (IF) proteins, form a network of 10-nm filaments built from type I/II heterodimers in epithelial cells. A major function of keratin IFs is to protect epithelial cells from mechanical stress. Like filamentous actin, keratin IFs must be cross-linked in vitro to achieve the high level of mechanical resilience characteristic of live cells. Keratins 5 and 14 (K5 and K14), the main pairing occurring in the basal progenitor layer of epidermis and related epithelia, can readily self-organize into large filament bundles in vitro and in vivo. Here, we show that filament self-organization is mediated by multivalent interactions involving distinct regions in K5 and K14 proteins. Self-organization is determined independently of polymerization into 10-nm filaments, but involves specific type I-type II keratin complementarity. We propose that self-organization is a key determinant of the structural support function of keratin IFs in vivo.
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