Redundant roles of EGFR ligands in the ERK activation waves during collective cell migration
| Autor: | Michiyuki Matsuda, Kazuhiro Aoki, Gembu Maryu, Eriko Deguchi, Shuhao Lin, Daiki Hirayama, Kenta Terai, Naoya Hino, Kimiya Matsuda, Ryo Iwamoto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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MAPK/ERK pathway
TGF alpha Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Gene Expression Plant Science Ligands Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) Epiregulin Cell Line Epidermal growth factor Cell Movement CDC2 Protein Kinase Animals Humans ERBB3 Epidermal growth factor receptor RNA Messenger Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases ERBB4 Research Articles Ecology biology Epidermal Growth Factor Chemistry Kinase Cell Biology Cell biology ErbB Receptors Gene Knockdown Techniques Mutation biology.protein Single-Cell Analysis Protein Binding Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Life Science Alliance |
| ISSN: | 2575-1077 |
| Popis: | By knocking out all four EGFR ligands expressed in MDCK cells, this study shows the redundant and specific roles of each EGFR ligand in the ERK activation waves during collective cell migration. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays a pivotal role in collective cell migration by mediating cell-to-cell propagation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) activation. Here, we aimed to determine which EGFR ligands mediate the ERK activation waves. We found that epidermal growth factor (EGF)–deficient cells exhibited lower basal ERK activity than the cells deficient in heparin-binding EGF (HBEGF), transforming growth factor alpha (TGFα) or epiregulin (EREG), but all cell lines deficient in a single EGFR ligand retained the ERK activation waves. Surprisingly, ERK activation waves were markedly suppressed, albeit incompletely, only when all four EGFR ligands were knocked out. Re-expression of the EGFR ligands revealed that all but HBEGF could restore the ERK activation waves. Aiming at complete elimination of the ERK activation waves, we further attempted to knockout NRG1, a ligand for ErbB3 and ErbB4, and found that NRG1-deficiency induced growth arrest in the absence of all four EGFR ligand genes. Collectively, these results showed that EGFR ligands exhibit remarkable redundancy in the propagation of ERK activation waves during collective cell migration. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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