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ArticleeLife2020

Cadherin clusters stabilized by a combination of specific and nonspecific cis-interactions.

Connor J Thompson, Zhaoqian Su, Vinh H Vu, Yinghao Wu, Deborah E Leckband, Daniel K Schwartz

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Connor J Thompson *Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6226-7171
Zhaoqian Su *Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8369-0697
Vinh H VuDepartment of Biochemistry and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.
Yinghao WuDepartment of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1181-5670
Deborah E LeckbandDepartment of Biochemistry and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.
Daniel K SchwartzDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5397-7200
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USUniversity of Colorado Boulder · USUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

Multiscale investigation of the impact of 2D confinement on adhesion protein functionR01GM117104 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI LECKBAND, DEBORAH E · 2017 to 2020
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01GM117104NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We demonstrate a combined experimental and computational approach for the quantitative characterization of lateral interactions between membrane-associated proteins. In particular, weak, lateral (cis) interactions between E-cadherin extracellular domains tethered to supported lipid bilayers, were studied using a combination of dynamic single-molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations. Cadherins are intercellular adhesion proteins that assemble into clusters at cell-cell contacts through cis- and trans- (adhesive) interactions. A detailed and quantitative understanding of cis-clustering has been hindered by a lack of experimental approaches capable of detecting and quantifying lateral interactions between proteins on membranes. Here single-molecule intermolecular FRET measurements of wild-type E-cadherin and cis-interaction mutants combined with simulations demonstrate that both nonspecific and specific cis-interactions contribute to lateral clustering on lipid bilayers. Moreover, the intermolecular binding and dissociation rate constants are quantitatively and independently determined, demonstrating an approach that is generalizable for other interacting proteins.

Indexed as

Antigens, CDCadherinsFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferHEK293 CellsHumansProtein BindingSingle Molecule ImagingAntigens, CDCadherinsCDH1 protein, humanadherens junctionscell adhesionE-cadherinlateral interactionsmembrane proteinmolecular biophysicsnonesingle-moleculestructural biology

Identifiers

PMID32876051
PMCPMC7505656
OpenAlexW3081518224

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