Faculty Opinions recommendation of Analysis of the myosin-II-responsive focal adhesion proteome reveals a role for β-Pix in negative regulation of focal adhesion maturation.

Author(s):  
Thomas Egelhoff
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Cheng Kuo ◽  
Xuemei Han ◽  
Cheng-Te Hsiao ◽  
John R. Yates III ◽  
Clare M. Waterman

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khyber Shinwari ◽  
Guojun Liu ◽  
Mikhail Bolkov ◽  
Monib Ullah ◽  
Irina Tuzankina

HOIL-1/RBCK1 deficiency is a new autosomal receiving disorder with dysfunctional cellular responses to pro-inflammatory cytokines, leading to auto-inflammation, pyogenic bacterial disease, and muscle amylopectinosis growth. Our study with integrated bioinformatics studies of the feature genes and the correlative gene functions, investigated the molecular mechanisms of RBCK1 deficiency. GSE31064 dataset expression profile was downloaded from the Omnibus Gene Expression database. Between RBCK1, MYDK88, NEMO deficient fibroblast, and healthy fibroblast specimens, differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were defined. Gene ontology (GO) gene role enrichment analysis and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Gene and Genome (KEGG) pathway analysis were performed using the Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery Database (DAVID). The protein-protein interaction (PPI) of these DEGs was visualized using Cytoscape. GO analysis revealed that the “Skeletal system development, Extracellular matrix organization, Positive regulation of cell migration, Negative regulation of canonical Wnt signaling pathway, Cell adhesion, Angiogenesis and Negative regulation of BMP signaling pathway, Serine-type carboxypeptidase activity, Polysaccharide binding, Calcium ion binding, frizzled binding, Neuropilin binding, and cell adhesion molecule binding, extracellular exosome, extracellular space, extracellular region, lysosomal lumen, endoplasmic reticulum lumen, cell surface and focal adhesion to BP, MF, and CC, respectively. The study of the KEGG pathway showed that the complement and coagulation cascade, interactions of the ECM receptor, PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, PPAR signaling pathway, TGF-beta signaling pathway, cancer pathway, viral carcinogenesis and focal adhesion pathway were closely correlated with the incidence of RBCK1 deficiency. Importantly, it has been predicted that TK1, AURKB, CDCA2, UBE2C, KIFC1, CEP55, CDCA3, GINS2, MCM6 and CDC45 are significantly associated with RCBK1 deficiency. Our study offers a record of damaged genes and pathways in RCBK1, which will boost the understanding of RBCK1 deficiency pathogenesis and other inherent immunodeficiency diseases. This research has the potential and can possibly use in the clinic for diagnosis and targeted therapy of HOIL-1/RBCK1 disorder and other inherent immunodeficiencies.


2012 ◽  
Vol 196 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick W. Oakes ◽  
Yvonne Beckham ◽  
Jonathan Stricker ◽  
Margaret L. Gardel

Focal adhesion composition and size are modulated in a myosin II–dependent maturation process that controls adhesion, migration, and matrix remodeling. As myosin II activity drives stress fiber assembly and enhanced tension at adhesions simultaneously, the extent to which adhesion maturation is driven by tension or altered actin architecture is unknown. We show that perturbations to formin and α-actinin 1 activity selectively inhibited stress fiber assembly at adhesions but retained a contractile lamella that generated large tension on adhesions. Despite relatively unperturbed adhesion dynamics and force transmission, impaired stress fiber assembly impeded focal adhesion compositional maturation and fibronectin remodeling. Finally, we show that compositional maturation of focal adhesions could occur even when myosin II–dependent cellular tension was reduced by 80%. We propose that stress fiber assembly at the adhesion site serves as a structural template that facilitates adhesion maturation over a wide range of tensions. This work identifies the essential role of lamellar actin architecture in adhesion maturation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 127 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuldeep Singh ◽  
Anne B Kim ◽  
Kathleen G Morgan

Non-muscle myosin II plays a role in many fundamental cellular processes including cell adhesion, migration, and cytokinesis. However, its role in vascular function is not well understood. Here, we investigated the function of non-muscle myosin II in the biomechanical properties of mouse proximal aorta. We found that blebbistatin, a specific inhibitor of non-muscle myosin II decreases agonist-induced aortic stress and stiffness in a dose-dependent manner. We also specifically demonstrate, in freshly isolated contractile aortic smooth muscle cells, using deconvolution microscopy that the NM myosin IIA isoform co-localizes with contractile filaments in the core of the cell as well as in the non-muscle cell cortex. However, the NM myosin IIB isoform is only colocalized with contractile filaments, and is excluded from the cell cortex. Furthermore, both the siRNA knockdown of NMIIA and NMIIB isoforms in a differentiated smooth muscle cell line A7r5 and blebbistatin-mediated inhibition of NM myosin II suppresses agonist-activated increases in phosphorylation of FAK Y925 and paxillin Y118. Thus, in the present study, we show, for the first time, that NM myosin II regulates aortic stiffness and that this regulation is mediated at least in part through the tension-dependent phosphorylation of focal adhesion proteins FAK and paxillin.


2006 ◽  
Vol 90 (10) ◽  
pp. 3774-3782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo T. Frey ◽  
Irene Y. Tsai ◽  
Thomas P. Russell ◽  
Steven K. Hanks ◽  
Yu-li Wang

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Gallegos ◽  
Mei Rosa Ng ◽  
Joan S. Brugge
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2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Chagnon-Lessard ◽  
Hubert Jean-Ruel ◽  
Michel Godin ◽  
Andrew E. Pelling

The strain-induced reorientation response of cyclically stretched cells has been well characterized in uniform strain fields. In the present study, we comprehensively analyse the behaviour of human fibroblasts subjected to a highly non-uniform strain field within a polymethylsiloxane microdevice. Our results indicate that the strain gradient amplitude and direction regulate cell reorientation through a coordinated gradient avoidance response. We provide critical evidence that strain gradient is a key physical cue that can guide cell organization. Specifically, our work suggests that cells are able to pinpoint the location under the cell of multiple physical cues and integrate this information (strain and strain gradient amplitudes and directions), resulting in a coordinated response. To gain insight into the underlying mechanosensing processes, we studied focal adhesion reorganization and the effect of modulating myosin-II contractility. The extracted focal adhesion orientation distributions are similar to those obtained for the cell bodies, and their density is increased by the presence of stretching forces. Moreover, it was found that the myosin-II activity promoter calyculin-A has little effect on the cellular response, while the inhibitor blebbistatin suppresses cell and focal adhesion alignment and reduces focal adhesion density. These results confirm that similar internal structures involved in sensing and responding to strain direction and amplitude are also key players in strain gradient mechanosensing and avoidance.


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