Shc mediates anoikis through RhoA
Shc mediates anoikis through RhoA
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2007
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Zhenyi Ma;D. Myers;R. Wu;F. Nwariaku;L. Terada
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Zhenyi Ma;D. Myers;R. Wu;F. Nwariaku;L. Terada
Parenchymal cells require integrin-dependent attachment to solid structures to survive. As a consequence of such anchorage dependence, most tissue cells start to undergo apoptotic death within hours of being forced into suspension in a fl uid environment, a process termed anoikis (Frisch and Francis, 1994). Physiological anoikis occurs during the involution of mammary and prostate glands, whereas pathological loss of anoikis is thought to accompany the malignant cell’s acquisition of metastatic capabilities. Presently, anoikis is understood largely in terms of withdrawal of integrin-related outside-in survival signals. Thus, constitutive activation of the survival proteins focal adhesion kinase (FAK), Src, Akt, and Ras all bypass detachment-induced death (Frisch and Francis, 1994; Frisch et al., 1996; Martin et al., 2006). However, anoikis can be circumvented in the absence of Ras, phosphoinositide 3-kinase, or FAK activation (McFall et al., 2001; Díaz-Montero et al., 2006; Kang et al., 2007), suggesting that the activation of specifi c death pathways may be necessary in addition to the disabling of survival signals. Furthermore, integrin ligation without structural matrix rigidity is insuffi cient to prevent anoikis, indicating that integrins also control anoikis by sensing mechanical properties of the environment. Soluble matrix fragments or solid-phase RGD peptides bound to microbeads, e.g., ligate and cluster integrins, but neither prevent rounding nor increase the survival rate of fl oating endothelial cells (Re et al., 1994), which is consistent with observations that cell rounding by itself forces death upon attachmentdependent cells (Chen et al., 1997). The shortcomings of a unidirectional outside-in signaling model to explain attachment sensation is consistent with the concept that cells initiate processes designed to gauge substrate stiffness in an “inside-outside-in” feedback loop (Discher et al., 2005). The molecular machinery responsible for such mechanosensation and its relationship to anchorage dependence have remained recondite; hematopoietic cells, for instance, lack such machinery, as they are both anchorage independent and insensitive to substrate stiffness (Discher et al., 2005). Interestingly, hematopoietic cells also repress expression of p66, the long isoform of the integrin-associated adaptor Shc (Migliaccio et al., 1997). Whereas p52 is known to facilitate survival and proliferative signals, in large part through Ras recruitment and activation, p66 is best known as a proapoptotic protein. Here, we show that p66 permits activation of RhoA, which leads to tension-dependent death in fl oating cells. p66 may thus be important in the efferent limb of a mechanosensory loop reporting detachment.