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LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE
卷 2, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE LLC
DOI: 10.26508/lsa.201900414
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP18H03999, JP16H05121, JP17K17853, JP18K14696, JP18J22965]
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) [JP115811]
The paracellular barrier function of tight junctions (TJs) in epithelial cell sheets is robustly maintained against mechanical fluctuations, by molecular mechanisms that are poorly understood. Vinculin is an adaptor of a mechanosensory complex at the adherens junction. Here, we generated vinculin KO Eph4 epithelial cells and analyzed their confluent cell-sheet properties. We found that vinculin is dispensable for the basic TJ structural integrity and the paracellular barrier function for larger solutes. However, vinculin is indispensable for the paracellular barrier function for ions. In addition, TJs stochastically showed dynamically distorted patterns in vinculin KO cell sheets. These KO phenotypes were rescued by transfecting full-length vinculin and by relaxing the actomyosin tension with blebbistatin, a myosin II ATPase activity inhibitor. Our findings indicate that vinculin resists mechanical fluctuations to maintain the TJ paracellular barrier function for ions in epithelial cell sheets.
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