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SUBMITTER: Stanicek L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7251106 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stanicek Laura L Lozano-Vidal Noelia N Bink Diewertje Ilse DI Hooglugt Aukie A Yao Wenjie W Wittig Ilka I van Rijssel Jos J van Buul Jaap Diederik JD van Bergen Anke A Klems Alina A Ramms Anne Sophie AS Le Noble Ferdinand F Hofmann Patrick P Szulcek Robert R Wang ShengPeng S Offermanns Stefan S Ercanoglu Meryem Seda MS Kwon Hyouk-Bum HB Stainier Didier D Huveneers Stephan S Kurian Leo L Dimmeler Stefanie S Boon Reinier Abraham RA
Communications biology 20200526 1
Blood vessels are constantly exposed to shear stress, a biomechanical force generated by blood flow. Normal shear stress sensing and barrier function are crucial for vascular homeostasis and are controlled by adherens junctions (AJs). Here we show that AJs are stabilized by the shear stress-induced long non-coding RNA LASSIE (linc00520). Silencing of LASSIE in endothelial cells impairs cell survival, cell-cell contacts and cell alignment in the direction of flow. LASSIE associates with junction ...[more]