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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 286, 期 5, 页码 C987-C997出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00522.2003
关键词
endothelial cell; cytoskeleton; beta-catenin; p120(ctn); cell adhesion; vascular endothelial cadherin
资金
- NHLBI NIH HHS [K02-HL-004332] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAMS NIH HHS [R01-AR-048266] Funding Source: Medline
VE-cadherin was first identified in the early 1990s and quickly emerged as an important endothelial cell adhesion molecule. The past decade of research has revealed key roles for VE-cadherin in vascular permeability and in the morphogenic events associated with vascular remodeling. The details of how VE-cadherin functions in adhesion became apparent with structure-function analysis of the cadherin extracellular domain and with the identification of the catenins, a series of cytoplasmic proteins that bind to the cadherin tail and mediate interactions between cadherins and the cytoskeleton. Whereas early work focused on the armadillo family proteins beta-catenin and plakoglobin, more recent investigations have identified p120-catenin (p120(ctn)) and a related group of armadillo family members as key binding partners for the cadherin tail. Furthermore, a series of new studies indicate a key role for p120(ctn) in regulating cadherin membrane trafficking in mammalian cells. These recent studies place p120(ctn) at the hub of a cadherin-catenin regulatory mechanism that controls cadherin plasma membrane levels in cells of both epithelial and endothelial origin.
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