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?V-integrins are required for mechanotransduction in MDCK epithelial cells.

ABSTRACT: The properties of epithelial cells within tissues are regulated by their immediate microenvironment, which consists of neighboring cells and the extracellular matrix (ECM). Integrin heterodimers orchestrate dynamic assembly and disassembly of cell-ECM connections and thereby convey biochemical and mechanical information from the ECM into cells. However, the specific contributions and functional hierarchy between different integrin heterodimers in the regulation of focal adhesion dynamics in epithelial cells are incompletely understood. Here, we have studied the functions of RGD-binding ?V-integrins in a Madin Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cell model and found that ?V-integrins regulate the maturation of focal adhesions (FAs) and cell spreading. ?V-integrin-deficient MDCK cells bound collagen I (Col I) substrate via ?2?1-integrins but failed to efficiently recruit FA components such as talin, focal adhesion kinase (FAK), vinculin and integrin-linked kinase (ILK). The apparent inability to mature ?2?1-integrin-mediated FAs and link them to cellular actin cytoskeleton led to disrupted mechanotransduction in ?V-integrin deficient cells seeded onto Col I substrate.

SUBMITTER: Teravainen TP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3747215 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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αV-integrins are required for mechanotransduction in MDCK epithelial cells.

Teräväinen Terhi P TP Myllymäki Satu M SM Friedrichs Jens J Strohmeyer Nico N Moyano Jose V JV Wu Chuanyue C Matlin Karl S KS Muller Daniel J DJ Manninen Aki A

PloS one 20130819 8

The properties of epithelial cells within tissues are regulated by their immediate microenvironment, which consists of neighboring cells and the extracellular matrix (ECM). Integrin heterodimers orchestrate dynamic assembly and disassembly of cell-ECM connections and thereby convey biochemical and mechanical information from the ECM into cells. However, the specific contributions and functional hierarchy between different integrin heterodimers in the regulation of focal adhesion dynamics in epit ...[more]

PMID: 23977051

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?V-integrins are required for mechanotransduction in MDCK epithelial cells.

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αV-integrins are required for mechanotransduction in MDCK epithelial cells.

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