Pressure activates colon cancer cell adhesion via paxillin phosphorylation, Crk, Cas, and Rac1
Pressure activates colon cancer cell adhesion via paxillin phosphorylation, Crk, Cas, and Rac1
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DOI:
10.1007/s00018-008-8038-x
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发表时间:
2008-05-01
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8
通讯作者:
Basson, M. D.
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Downey, C.;Craig, D. H.;Basson, M. D.
Physical forces can activate colon cancer cell adhesion, critical for metastasis. Paxillin is phosphorylated by FAK and required for pressure-stimulated adhesion. However, whether paxillin acts as an inert scaffolding protein or whether paxillin phosphorylation is required is unknown. Transfection with paxillin point-phosphorylation mutants demonstrated that phosphorylation at tyrosines 31 and 118 together is necessary for pressure-stimulated adhesion. We further evaluated-potential paxillin partners. Reducing the adaptor protein Crk or the focal adhesion protein p130(Cas) blocked pressure-stimulated adhesion. Furthermore, Crk and p130(Cas) both displayed increased co-immunoprecipitation with paxillin in response to increased pressure, except in cells transfected with a Y31Y118 paxillin mutant. Inhibiting the small GTPase Rac1 also abolished pressure-stimulated adhesion, and reducing paxillin by siRNA blocked Rac1 phosphorylation by pressure. Thus, paxillin phosphorylation at tyrosines 31 and 118 together is necessary for pressure-induced adhesion. Paxillin, Crk and Cas form a trimeric complex that activates Rac1 and mediates this effect.