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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
卷 13, 期 4, 页码 1227-1237出版社
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.01-08-0423
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [P30 DK034854, DK-34854] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM-37751, GM-18974, R01 GM037751, R01 GM018974] Funding Source: Medline
Occludin is an integral membrane protein that is tyrosine phosphorylated when localized at tight junctions. When Ca2+ was depleted from the culture medium, occludin tyrosine phosphorylation was diminished from Madin-Darby canine kidney epithelial cells in 2 min. This dephosphorylation was correlated with a significant reduction in transepithelial electrical resistance (TER), indicating a global loss of the tight junction barrier function. Reconstitution of Ca2+ resulted in a robust tyrosine rephosphorylation of occludin that was temporally associated with an increase in TER. Moreover, we demonstrate in this study that occludin was colocalized with the nonreceptor tyrosine kinase c-Yes at cell junction areas and formed an immunoprecipitable complex with c-Yes in vivo. This complex dissociated when the cells were incubated in medium without Ca2+ or treated with a c-Yes inhibitor, CGP77675. In the presence of CGP77675 after Ca2+ repletion, occludin tyrosine phosphorylation was completely abolished and both tight junction formation and the increase of the TER were inhibited. Our study thus provides strong evidence that occludin tyrosine phosphorylation is tightly linked to tight junction formation in epithelial cells, and that the nonreceptor tyrosine kinase c-Yes is involved in the regulation of this process.
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