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This review covers recent advances in non-erythroid spectrin re-distributions during development, structural motifs recently discovered in ankyrin, band 4.2, band 4.1, ezrin, talin, and myosin I, and our present understanding of actin-membrane interactions at focal adhesions and in liver, platelet, and Dictyostelium discoideum plasma membranes.
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- E J Luna
- Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
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Geiger B, Ginsberg D. The cytoplasmic domain of adherens-type junctions. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 1991; 20:1-6. [PMID: 1756576 DOI: 10.1002/cm.970200102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- B Geiger
- Department of Chemical Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Geiger B, Ginsberg D, Salomon D, Volberg T. The molecular basis for the assembly and modulation of adherens-type junctions. CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGISTS 1990; 32:343-53. [PMID: 2129157 DOI: 10.1016/0922-3371(90)90049-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- B Geiger
- Department of Chemical Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Burridge K, Nuckolls G, Otey C, Pavalko F, Simon K, Turner C. Actin-membrane interaction in focal adhesions. CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGISTS 1990; 32:337-42. [PMID: 2129156 DOI: 10.1016/0922-3371(90)90048-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Focal adhesions are regions of the plasma membrane where cells in tissue culture adhere strongly to the underlying extracellular matrix, and which at their cytoplasmic face serve to anchor bundles of actin microfilaments. They provide an experimental model for studying the links between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. Members of the integrin family of extracellular matrix receptors are prominent components, spanning the membrane in focal adhesions, but there is evidence that other membrane components are also needed for these structures to form. A number of proteins are concentrated at the cytoplasmic face of focal adhesions. Recent efforts have sought to determine the links between actin and the integrin cytoplasmic domains. Using in vitro binding assays, two potential bridges between actin and integrin have been identified. One involves talin, which has recently been shown to bind actin directly. The other involves the actin-binding protein, alpha-actinin, which has been found to interact with several integrins. The physiological significance of these two potential bridges between actin and integrin remains to be determined in vivo.
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- K Burridge
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7090
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The 68-kD protein (paxillin) is a cytoskeletal component that localizes to the focal adhesions at the ends of actin stress fibers in chicken embryo fibroblasts. It is also present in the focal adhesions of Madin-Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) epithelial cells but is absent, like talin, from the cell-cell adherens junctions of these cells. Paxillin purified from chicken gizzard smooth muscle migrates as a diffuse band on SDS-PAGE gels with a molecular mass of 65-70 kD. It is a protein of multiple isoforms with pIs ranging from 6.31 to 6.85. Using purified paxillin, we have demonstrated a specific interaction in vitro with another focal adhesion protein, vinculin. Cleavage of vinculin with Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease results in the generation of two fragments of approximately 85 and 27 kD. Unlike talin, which binds to the large vinculin fragment, paxillin was found to bind to the small vinculin fragment, which represents the rod domain of the molecule. Together with the previous observation that paxillin is a major substrate of pp60src in Rous sarcoma virus-transformed cells (Glenney, J. R., and L. Zokas. 1989. J. Cell Biol. 108:2401-2408), this interaction with vinculin suggests paxillin may be a key component in the control of focal adhesion organization.
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- C E Turner
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7090
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Weller PA, Ogryzko EP, Corben EB, Zhidkova NI, Patel B, Price GJ, Spurr NK, Koteliansky VE, Critchley DR. Complete sequence of human vinculin and assignment of the gene to chromosome 10. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:5667-71. [PMID: 2116004 PMCID: PMC54388 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.15.5667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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We have determined the complete sequence of human vinculin, a cytoskeletal protein associated with cell-cell and cell-matrix junctions. Comparison of human and chicken embryo vinculin sequences shows that both proteins contain 1066 amino acids and exhibit a high level of sequence identity (greater than 95%). The region of greatest divergence falls within three 112-amino acid repeats spanning residues 259-589. Interestingly, nematode vinculin lacks one of these central repeats. The regions of human vinculin that are N- and C-terminal to the repeats show 54% and 61% sequence identity, respectively, to nematode vinculin. Southern blots of human genomic DNA hybridized with short vinculin cDNA fragments indicate that there is a single vinculin gene. By using a panel of human-rodent somatic cell hybrids, the human vinculin gene was mapped to chromosome 10q11.2-qter.
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- P A Weller
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
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Lesot H, Kubler MD, Fausser JL, Ruch JV. A 165 kDa membrane antigen mediating fibronectin-vinculin interaction is involved in murine odontoblast differentiation. Differentiation 1990; 44:25-35. [PMID: 2123807 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.1990.tb00533.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Membrane-mediated matrix-microfilament interactions are involved in odontoblast differentiation. In this study, we analyzed the interactions of vinculin and fibronectin with plasma membrane proteins separated by sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and then transferred onto polyvinylidene-difluoride (PVDF) paper. Vinculin was found to interact with 58, 63 and 165 kDa plasma membrane proteins. Fibronectin interacted with three high molecular weight (145, 165, and 185 kDa) membrane proteins. Attempts were made to characterize the 165 kDa protein which interacted with vinculin and with fibronectin. The interaction of the 165 kDa protein with fibronectin was not competitively inhibited by synthetic peptides such as GRGDS or GRGDSP, suggesting that the protein was not related to integrins. Antibodies directed against the 165 kDa protein allowed the identification of the precise localization and biological role of this membrane antigen. The data presented in this paper and previous observations indicate that the 165 kDa protein, involved in odontoblast elongation and polarization, mediates a fibronectin-vinculin transmembrane interaction.
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- H Lesot
- Institut de Biologie Médicale, INSERM CJF 88-08, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France
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The protein talin has two domains of approximately 200 and 47 kD, which can be cleaved apart by a variety of proteases. To examine the function of these two structural domains of talin, we have digested purified talin with a calcium-dependent protease and separated the resulting fragments chromatographically. Both fragments were radioiodinated and used to probe Western blots of whole fibroblasts and chicken gizzard extracts. The large talin fragment bound to vinculin and metavinculin. The small fragment did not demonstrate any binding in this assay. The fragments were labeled fluorescently and microinjected into fibroblasts in tissue culture. The large talin fragment incorporated quickly into focal adhesions where it remained stable for at least 14 h. The small fragment associated with focal adhesions of fibroblasts but was also distributed diffusely in the cytoplasm and the nucleus. These experiments suggest that talin has at least two sites that contribute to its localization in focal adhesions. Intact talin microinjected into Madin-Darby bovine kidney epithelial cells localized to the focal adhesions but was excluded from the zonulae adherentes, despite the localization of vinculin to both of these sites. In contrast, the large talin fragment, when microinjected into these epithelial cells, incorporated into both focal adhesions and zonulae adherentes. The difference in localization between the large talin fragment and intact talin seems to be due to the removal of the small domain. This difference in localization suggests that talin binding sites in zonulae adherentes have limited accessibility.
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- G H Nuckolls
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599
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Duband JL, Thiery JP. Spatio-temporal distribution of the adherens junction-associated molecules vinculin and talin in the early avian embryo. CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGISTS 1990; 30:55-76. [PMID: 2112421 DOI: 10.1016/0922-3371(90)90074-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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To gain an insight into the possible involvement of the cytoskeletal components and cellular junctions in morphogenetic processes during development, we have studied the spatio-temporal distribution of two major adherens-junction-associated molecules, vinculin and talin, during avian embryogenesis, using immunofluorescence microscopy and immunoblotting. Both molecules were detected at very early stages during morphogenesis and were found in a wide variety of tissues deriving from the three primary germ layers. A number of tissues, including smooth and striated muscles, endothelia, and some hemopoietic precursors, expressed vinculin and talin at especially high levels either transiently or permanently. Conversely, only a few cell types, e.g., circulating erythrocytes and neurones in the central nervous system lacked or expressed them at very low levels. In addition, expression of vinculin and talin was in some cases modulated in connection with morphological rearrangements of tissues. In particular, they were transiently enhanced in restricted areas of the ectoderm and endoderm undergoing extensive foldings. However, other morphogenetic events such as local disruptions of epithelia were not accompanied by extensive modifications in their expression. Finally, it appeared that, in most cases, vinculin and talin overlapped in their distribution, and the level of their expression was regulated coincidently with the notable exceptions of the primordium of the central nervous system, the nephron, and the liver where each molecule followed independent regulatory patterns. It appears from this study that the spatio-temporal distribution of vinculin and talin correlates frequently with that of the adhesion molecules A-CAM (or N-cadherin), L-CAM, and of integrin receptors. Thus, vinculin and talin, in association with the membrane components of adherens junctions, may actively participate both in the control of cellular interactions during early embryonic development and in cell differentiation.
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- J L Duband
- Laboratoire de Physiopathologie du Développement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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Brands R, de Boer A, Feltkamp CA, Roos E. Disintegration of adhesion plaques in chicken embryo fibroblasts upon Rous sarcoma virus-induced transformation: different dissociation rates for talin and vinculin. Exp Cell Res 1990; 186:138-48. [PMID: 2153550 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(90)90220-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The localization of talin and vinculin in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) during transformation was studied by immunoelectron microscopy. CEF cells were infected with a temperature-sensitive mutant of Rous sarcoma virus. After 16 h at 42 degrees C, transformation was induced by incubation at 37 degrees C for different intervals up to 3 h. Cells were cleaved by "wet cleaving" as reported previously by us (R. Brands and C.A. Feltkamp, 1988, Exp. Cell Res. 176, 309) and labeled with affinity-purified polyclonal antibodies to talin or vinculin, or monoclonal anti-vinculin. We observed a rapid reduction of vinculin in adhesion plaques within 15 min and a much slower dissociation of talin. This was found using single-labeling procedures and also within the same cell using double labeling. Seemingly intact microfilament bundles were observed associated with adhesion plaques that contained relatively little vinculin. These observations show that an early event in src-induced transformation is the release of vinculin from adhesion plaques. Furthermore, since adhesion plaques with attached filament bundles can exist at least transiently with very little or no vinculin present, it seems likely that vinculin is not, or not the only protein, linking actin filaments to adhesion plaques.
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- R Brands
- Division of Cell Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute (Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Huis), Amsterdam
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Vinculin is clearly a key element in the transmembrane assemblages that link cells to each other or to the substrate. However, despite all the studies that have been done on the protein, we still do not know its function within these assemblages. The bulk of the biochemical and cell biological evidence suggests that, in some unknown way, its presence in the junctions may be involved in the stable association of actin with the membrane, yet vinculin by itself does not appear to interact with actin. In the future, identification of additional junctional molecules that interconnect actin and vinculin may resolve this dilemma. Alternatively, studies with vinculin that is phosphorylated or acylated may yield clues to its function. Perhaps the complexity of the protein composition of microfilament-containing junctions suggests that protein assemblages rather than individual proteins provide novel functions. As new proteins belonging to these junctions are discovered, it will be important to assess their interaction with already known components such as vinculin and to ask if the protein combination has a particular function.
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- J J Otto
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907
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Jones P, Jackson P, Price GJ, Patel B, Ohanion V, Lear AL, Critchley DR. Identification of a talin binding site in the cytoskeletal protein vinculin. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1989; 109:2917-27. [PMID: 2512301 PMCID: PMC2115903 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.109.6.2917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Binding of the cytoskeletal protein vinculin to talin is one of a number of interactions involved in linking F-actin to cell-matrix junctions. To identify the talin binding domain in vinculin, we expressed the NH2-terminal region of the molecule encoded by two closely similar, but distinct vinculin cDNAs, using an in vitro transcription translation system. The 5' Eco RI-Bam HI fragment of a partial 2.89-kb vinculin cDNA encodes a 45-kD polypeptide containing the first 398 amino acids of the molecule. The equivalent restriction enzyme fragment of a second vinculin cDNA (cVin5) lacks nucleotides 746-867, and encodes a 41-kD polypeptide missing amino acids 167-207. The radiolabeled 45-kD vinculin polypeptide bound to microtiter wells coated with talin, but not BSA, and binding was inhibited by unlabeled vinculin. In contrast, the 41-kD vinculin polypeptide was devoid of talin binding activity. The role of residues 167-207 in talin binding was further analyzed by making a series of deletions spanning this region, each deletion of seven amino acids contiguous with the next. Loss of residues 167-173, 174-180, 181-187, 188-194, or 195-201 resulted in a marked reduction in talin binding activity, although loss of residues 202-208 had much less effect. When the 45-kD vinculin polypeptide was expressed in Cos cells, it localized to cell matrix junctions, whereas the 41-kD polypeptide, lacking residues 167-207, was unable to do so. Interestingly, some deletion mutants with reduced ability to bind talin in vitro, were still able to localize to cell matrix junctions.
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- P Jones
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
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