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p21-Activated Kinase1 (Pak1) RegulatesCell Motility inMammalian Fibroblasts Mary Ann SellsJonathan T. BoydJonathan Chernoff1999 год

p21-Activated Kinase 1 (Pak1) Regulates Cell Motility in Mammalian Fibroblasts
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Аннотация: The p21 (Cdc42/Rac) activated kinase Pak1 regulates cell morphology and polarity in most, if not all, eukaryotic cells. We and others have established that Pak's effects on these parameters are mediated by changes in the organization of cortical actin. Because cell motility requires polarized rearrangements of the actin/myosin cytoskeleton, we examined the role of Pak1 in regulating cell movement. We established clonal tetracycline-regulated NIH-3T3 cell lines that inducibly express either wild-type Pak1, a kinase-dead, or constitutively-active forms of this enzyme, and examined the morphology, F-actin organization, and motility of these cells. Expression of any of these forms of Pak1 induced dramatic changes in actin organization which were not inhibited by coexpression of a dominant-negative form of Rac1. Cells inducibly expressing wild-type or constitutively-active Pak1 had large, polarized lamellipodia at the leading edge, were more motile than their normal counterparts when plated on a fibronectin-coated surface, and displayed enhanced directional movement in response to an immobilized collagen gradient. In contrast, cells expressing a kinase-dead form of Pak1 projected multiple lamellipodia emerging from different parts of the cell simultaneously. These cells, though highly motile, displayed reduced persistence of movement when plated on a fibronectin-coated surface and had defects in directed motility toward immobilized collagen. Expression of constitutively activated Pak1 was accompanied by increased myosin light chain (MLC) phosphorylation, whereas expression of kinase-dead Pak1 had no effect on MLC. These results suggest that Pak1 affects the phosphorylation state of MLC, thus linking this kinase to a molecule that directly affects cell movement.
Год издания: 1999
Авторы: Mary Ann Sells, Jonathan T. Boyd, Jonathan Chernoff
Издательство: Rockefeller University Press
Источник: The Journal of Cell Biology
Ключевые слова: Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling, Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
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