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ArticleHuman molecular genetics2017

Opposing FlnA and FlnB interactions regulate RhoA activation in guiding dynamic actin stress fiber formation and cell spreading.

Jianjun Hu, Jie Lu, Akshay Goyal, Timothy Wong, Gewei Lian, Jingping Zhang, Jonathan L Hecht, Yuanyi Feng, Volney L Sheen

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Article in Human molecular genetics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jianjun HuDepartment of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jie LuDepartment of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Akshay GoyalDepartment of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Timothy WongDepartment of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Gewei LianDepartment of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jingping ZhangDepartment of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jonathan L HechtDepartment of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Yuanyi FengDepartment of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Volney L SheenDepartment of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USHarvard University · USNorthwestern University · US

Funding

Apical Abscission and Periventricular Heterotopia: A common basis for diseaseR01NS092062 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI FERLAND, RUSSELL JAMES, SHEEN, VOLNEY L · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS092062
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Filamins are a family of actin-binding proteins responsible for diverse biological functions in the context of regulating actin dynamics and vesicle trafficking. Disruption of these proteins has been implicated in multiple human developmental disorders. To investigate the roles of different filamin isoforms, we focused on FlnA and FlnB interactions in the cartilage growth plate, since mutations in both molecules cause chondrodysplasias. Current studies show that FlnA and FlnB share a common function in stabilizing the actin cytoskeleton, they physically interact in the cytoplasm of chondrocytes, and loss of FlnA enhances FlnB expression of chondrocytes in the growth plate (and vice versa), suggesting compensation. Prolonged FlnB loss, however, promotes actin-stress fiber formation following plating onto an integrin activating substrate whereas FlnA inhibition leads to decreased actin formation. FlnA more strongly binds RhoA, although both filamins overlap with RhoA expression in the cell cytoplasm. FlnA promotes RhoA activation whereas FlnB indirectly inhibits this pathway. Moreover, FlnA loss leads to diminished expression of β1-integrin, whereas FlnB loss promotes integrin expression. Finally, fibronectin mediated integrin activation has been shown to activate RhoA and activated RhoA leads to stress fiber formation and cell spreading. Fibronectin stimulation in null FlnA cells impairs enhanced spreading whereas FlnB inhibited cells show enhanced spreading. While filamins serve a primary static function in stabilization of the actin cytoskeleton, these studies are the first to demonstrate a dynamic and antagonistic relationship between different filamin isoforms in the dynamic regulation of integrin expression, RhoGTPase activity and actin stress fiber remodeling.

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Actin CytoskeletonChondrocytesFibronectinsFilaminsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGrowth PlateHumansIntegrin beta1Protein BindingrhoA GTP-Binding ProteinStress FibersFibronectinsFilaminsFLNA protein, humanFLNB protein, humanIntegrin beta1rhoA GTP-Binding Protein

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PMID28175289
PMCPMC6074819
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