期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-RENAL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 296, 期 3, 页码 F564-F574出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.90328.2008
关键词
cell polarity; three-dimensional cell culture; PAR-3
资金
- National Institutes of Health [K12-HD00850, K08-DK-068358, R01-DK-074398]
Brakeman PR, Liu KD, Shimizu K, Takai Y, Mostov KE. Nectin proteins are expressed at early stages of nephrogenesis and play a role in renal epithelial cell morphogenesis. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 296: F564-F574, 2009. First published December 30, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.90328.2008.-Development of the nephron requires conversion of the metanephric mesenchyme into tubular epithelial structures with specifically organized intercellular junctions. The nectin proteins are a family of transmembrane proteins that dimerize to form intercellular junctional complexes between epithelial cells. In this study, we demonstrate that nectin junctions appear during the earliest stages of epithelial cell morphogenesis in the murine nephron concurrently with the transition of mesenchymal cells into epithelial cells. We have defined the role of nectin during epithelial cell morphogenesis by studying nectin in a three-dimensional culture of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. In a three-dimensional culture of MDCK cells grown in purified type 1 collagen, expression of a dominant negative form of nectin causes disruption of the formation of cell polarity and disruption of tight junction (TJ) formation, as measured by zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1) localization. In MDCK cells cultured in Matrigel, exogenous expression of nectin-1 causes disruption of normal epithelial cell cyst formation and decreased apoptosis. These data demonstrate that nectins play an important role in normal epithelial cell morphogenesis and may play a role in mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition during nephrogenesis by providing an antiapoptotic signal and promoting the formation of TJs and cell polarity.
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