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ARP2/3-mediated junction-associated lamellipodia control VE-cadherin-based cell junction dynamics and maintain monolayer integrity.


ABSTRACT: Maintenance and remodeling of endothelial cell junctions critically depend on the VE-cadherin/catenin complex and its interaction with the actin filament cytoskeleton. Here we demonstrate that local lack of vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin at established cell junctions causes actin-driven and actin-related protein 2/3 complex (ARP2/3)-controlled lamellipodia to appear intermittently at those sites. Lamellipodia overlap the VE-cadherin-free adjacent plasma membranes and facilitate formation of new VE-cadherin adhesion sites, which quickly move into the junctions, driving VE-cadherin dynamics and remodeling. Inhibition of the ARP2/3 complex by expression of the N-WASP (V)CA domain or application of two ARP2/3 inhibitors, CK-548 and CK-666, blocks VE-cadherin dynamics and causes intercellular gaps. Furthermore, expression of carboxy-terminal-truncated VE-cadherin increases the number of ARP2/3-controlled lamellipodia, whereas overexpression of wild-type VE-cadherin largely blocks it and decreases cell motility. The data demonstrate a functional interrelationship between VE-cadherin-mediated cell adhesion and actin-driven, ARP2/3-controlled formation of new VE-cadherin adhesion sites via intermittently appearing lamellipodia at established cell junctions. This coordinated mechanism controls VE-cadherin dynamics and cell motility and maintains monolayer integrity, thus potentially being relevant in disease and angiogenesis.

SUBMITTER: Abu Taha A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3890345 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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ARP2/3-mediated junction-associated lamellipodia control VE-cadherin-based cell junction dynamics and maintain monolayer integrity.

Abu Taha Abdallah A   Taha Muna M   Seebach Jochen J   Schnittler Hans-J HJ  

Molecular biology of the cell 20131113 2


Maintenance and remodeling of endothelial cell junctions critically depend on the VE-cadherin/catenin complex and its interaction with the actin filament cytoskeleton. Here we demonstrate that local lack of vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin at established cell junctions causes actin-driven and actin-related protein 2/3 complex (ARP2/3)-controlled lamellipodia to appear intermittently at those sites. Lamellipodia overlap the VE-cadherin-free adjacent plasma membranes and facilitate formation of  ...[more]

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