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| Journal Article | PreJuSER-21270 |
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2011
Landes Bioscience
Austin, Tex.
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.4161/cam.5.5.17400
Abstract: The ability of mammalian cells to adhere and to migrate is an essential prerequisite to form higher organisms. Early migratory events include substrate sensing, adhesion formation, actin bundle assembly and force generation. Latest research revealed that filopodia are important not only for sensing the substrate but for all of the aforementioned highly regulated processes. However, the exact regulatory mechanisms are still barely understood. Here, we demonstrate that filopodia of human keratinocytes exhibit distinct cycles of repetitive elongation and persistence. A single filopodium thereby is able to initiate the formation of several stable adhesions. Every single filopodial cycle is characterized by an elongation phase, followed by a stabilization time and in many cases a persistence phase. The whole process is strongly connected to the velocity of the lamellipodial leading edge, characterized by a similar phase behavior with a slight time shift compared to filopodia and a different velocity. Most importantly, re-growth of existing filopodia is induced at a sharply defined distance between the filopodial tip and the lamellipodial leading edge. On the molecular level this re-growth is preceded by a strong filopodial reduction of the actin bundling protein fascin. This reduction is achieved by a switch to actin polymerization without fascin incorporation at the filopodial tip and therefore subsequent out-transport of the cross-linker by actin retrograde flow.
Keyword(s): Actins: chemistry (MeSH) ; Actins: metabolism (MeSH) ; Carrier Proteins: metabolism (MeSH) ; Cell Adhesion: physiology (MeSH) ; Cell Adhesion Molecules: chemistry (MeSH) ; Cell Adhesion Molecules: metabolism (MeSH) ; Cell Line (MeSH) ; Cell Movement (MeSH) ; Focal Adhesions: metabolism (MeSH) ; Humans (MeSH) ; Keratinocytes: cytology (MeSH) ; Keratinocytes: metabolism (MeSH) ; Microfilament Proteins: chemistry (MeSH) ; Microfilament Proteins: metabolism (MeSH) ; Polymerization (MeSH) ; Pseudopodia: chemistry (MeSH) ; Pseudopodia: metabolism (MeSH) ; Actins ; Carrier Proteins ; Cell Adhesion Molecules ; Microfilament Proteins ; fascin ; J ; filopodia (auto) ; lamellipodia (auto) ; cell migration (auto) ; fascin (auto) ; adhesion (auto) ; retrograde flow (auto) ; actin polymerization (auto)
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