Cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions.
Cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions.
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DOI:
10.1091/mbc.e13-11-0671
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发表时间:
2014-03
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Horne-Badovinac S
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作者:
Horne-Badovinac S
Intracellular interactions shape cells Intestinal epithelial cells build a brush border of microvilli at their apical surfaces that mediates nutrient absorption and host defense. Scott Crawley (Tyska Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Medical Center) showed that brush border assembly is driven by trans interactions between protocadherin-24 and mucin-like protocadherin at the tips of adjacent microvilli. Loss of this adhesive complex causes irregularities in the length and spacing of these protrusions and contributes to the intestinal pathology seen in a mouse model of Usher syndrome.Cells interact with their neighbors Two talks used Drosophila cells to investigate the seemingly opposite behaviors of cell–cell fusion and cell–cell repulsion. Cell–cell fusions are common during development and include the union of egg and sperm and the formation of multinucleate muscle fibers. Elizabeth Chen (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) showed that an “attacking” cell penetrates its target cell using podosome-like projections. Interestingly, podosomes increase the myosin-dependent cortical tension within the target cell at the point of contact. Reducing this tension disrupts cell–cell fusion, even though the podosome invades farther. In contrast, Andrei Luchici (Stramer Laboratory, King’s College, London) investigated the