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Real-time Imaging of Myeloid Cells Dynamics in ApcMin/+ Intestinal Tumors by Spinning Disk Confocal Microscopy
Published on: October 6, 2014
PH domain-mediated membrane targeting of Asef
Ken Muroya1, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Tomoatsu Hayashi
1Laboratory of Molecular and Genetic Information, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan.
Abstract:
The APC-associated guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) Asef regulates cell morphology and migration. Asef contains a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain in addition to Dbl homology (DH), APC-binding (ABR), and Src homology 3 (SH3) domains. Here we show that the PH domain of Asef binds to phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphophate [PtdIns(3,4,5)P3] and targets Asef to the cell-cell adhesion sites in MDCK II cells. Furthermore, we demonstrate that overexpression of Asef in MDCK II cells results in increases in the amounts of E-cadherin and the actin filaments at the sites of cell-cell contact. These results suggest that Asef is targeted via its PH domain to the cell-cell adhesion sites and is involved in the regulation of cell adhesion.
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