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Mechanical Stabilization of the Glandular Acinus by Linker of Nucleoskeleton and Cytoskeleton Complex.

ABSTRACT: The nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton are important protein networks that govern cellular behavior and are connected together by the linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) complex. Mutations in LINC complex components may be relevant to cancer, but how cell-level changes might translate into tissue-level malignancy is unclear. We used glandular epithelial cells in a three-dimensional culture model to investigate the effect of perturbations of the LINC complex on higher order cellular architecture. We show that inducible LINC complex disruption in human mammary epithelial MCF-10A cells and canine kidney epithelial MDCK II cells mechanically destabilizes the acinus. Lumenal collapse occurs because the acinus is unstable to increased mechanical tension that is caused by upregulation of Rho-kinase-dependent non-muscle myosin II motor activity. These findings provide a potential mechanistic explanation for how disruption of LINC complex may contribute to a loss of tissue structure in glandular epithelia.

SUBMITTER: Zhang Q

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736724 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mechanical Stabilization of the Glandular Acinus by Linker of Nucleoskeleton and Cytoskeleton Complex.

Zhang Qiao Q Narayanan Vani V Mui Keeley L KL O'Bryan Christopher S CS Anderson Ruthellen H RH Kc Birendra B Cabe Jolene I JI Denis Kevin B KB Antoku Susumu S Roux Kyle J KJ Dickinson Richard B RB Angelini Thomas E TE Gundersen Gregg G GG Conway Daniel E DE Lele Tanmay P TP

Current biology : CB 20190808 17

The nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton are important protein networks that govern cellular behavior and are connected together by the linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) complex. Mutations in LINC complex components may be relevant to cancer, but how cell-level changes might translate into tissue-level malignancy is unclear. We used glandular epithelial cells in a three-dimensional culture model to investigate the effect of perturbations of the LINC complex on higher order cellular arc ...[more]

PMID: 31402305

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Mechanical Stabilization of the Glandular Acinus by Linker of Nucleoskeleton and Cytoskeleton Complex.

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Mechanical Stabilization of the Glandular Acinus by Linker of Nucleoskeleton and Cytoskeleton Complex.

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