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Cooperativity between trans and cis interactions in cadherin-mediated junction formation.


ABSTRACT: Intercellullar junctions formed by cadherins, including desmosomes and adherens junctions, comprise two dimensional arrays of "trans" dimers formed between monomers emanating from opposing cell surfaces. Lateral "cis" interfaces between cadherins from the same cell surface have been proposed to play a role in cadherin clustering. Although the molecular details of cis interactions remain uncertain, they must define an anisotropic arrangement where binding is favorable only in certain orientations. Here we report Monte Carlo simulations performed on a 2D lattice constructed to account for the anisotropy in cadherin cis interactions. A crucial finding is that the "phase transition" between freely diffusing cadherin monomers and dimers and a condensed ordered 2D junction formed by dimers alone is a cooperative process involving both trans and cis interactions. Moreover, cis interactions, despite being too weak to be measured in solution, are critical to the formation of an ordered junction structure. We discuss these results in light of available experimental information on cadherin binding free energies that are transformed from their bulk solution values to interaction energies on a 2D lattice.

SUBMITTER: Wu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2955114 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cooperativity between trans and cis interactions in cadherin-mediated junction formation.

Wu Yinghao Y   Jin Xiangshu X   Harrison Oliver O   Shapiro Lawrence L   Honig Barry H BH   Ben-Shaul Avinoam A  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100927 41


Intercellullar junctions formed by cadherins, including desmosomes and adherens junctions, comprise two dimensional arrays of "trans" dimers formed between monomers emanating from opposing cell surfaces. Lateral "cis" interfaces between cadherins from the same cell surface have been proposed to play a role in cadherin clustering. Although the molecular details of cis interactions remain uncertain, they must define an anisotropic arrangement where binding is favorable only in certain orientations  ...[more]

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