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Jennifer Lising Roxas1, Gayatri Vedantam1,2,3,4, V K Viswanathan1,2,3
1a School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences , University of Arizona , Tucson , AZ , USA.
Abstract:
Desmosomes are junctional protein complexes that confer strong adhesive capacity to adjacent host cells. In a recent study, we showed that enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) disrupts desmosomes, weakens cell-cell adhesion and perturbs barrier function of intestinal epithelial (C2BBe) cells. Desmosomal damage was dependent on the EPEC effector protein EspH and its inhibitory effect on Rho GTPases. EspH-mediated Rho inactivation resulted in retraction of keratin intermediate filaments and degradation of desmosomal cadherins. Immunofluorescence studies of EPEC-infected C2BBe cells revealed keratin retraction towards the nucleus coincident with significant cytoplasmic redistribution of the desmosomal cadherin desmoglein-2 (DSG2). In this addendum, we expand on how EPEC-induced keratin retraction leads to loss of DSG2 anchoring at the junctions, and show that maturity of the epithelial cell monolayer impacts the fate of desmosomes during infection.
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