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Altered glycosylation and cell surface expression of beta 1 integrin receptors during keratinocyte activation

LT Kim, S Ishihara, CC Lee, SK Akiyama, KM Yamada and F Grinnell
Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235.

We studied the mechanism by which cell adhesiveness becomes activated when keratinocytes are removed from skin and placed into cell culture. Our results suggest that activation involves altered beta 1 integrin subunit glycosylation accompanied by an increase in cell surface beta 1 integrin receptors. Activated keratinocytes contained two forms of the beta 1 integrin subunit, approximately 93 kDa and approximately 113 kDa. As shown by pulse-chase experiments, the smaller represented the cytoplasmic precursor of the larger, and only the 113 kDa mature form was detected in integrin receptors expressed at the cell surface. Pre-activated keratinocytes contained beta 1 integrin subunits ranging from approximately 97 to 110 kDa. These beta 1 subunits had been processed through the Golgi, based on resistance to endoglycosidase-H treatment, and were not converted to 113 kDa subunits during subsequent cell culture. Experiments with endoglycosidase-F showed that differences in the apparent sizes of beta 1 integrin subunits observed in pre-activated and activated keratinocytes could be attributed to differences in subunit glycosylation. Smaller beta 1 subunits found in pre-activated keratinocytes, like the precursor beta 1 subunits of activated cells, appeared to be less efficient in reaching the cell surface. Overall, a approximately 10-fold increase in the level of cell surface integrin receptors occurred concomitant with the increased proportion of 113 kDa beta 1 subunits found in activated cells. Endoglycosidase-F experiments also indicated that there were changes in keratinocyte alpha subunits associated with beta 1. In related experiments, keratinocytes cultured in low Ca2+, serum-free MCDB medium for 4 days proliferated but their adhesiveness did not become activated. Therefore, keratinocyte proliferation and activation of adhesion are regulated separately. Finally, substantial activation of keratinocytes was observed when serum was added to cells cultured in MCDB with serum, indicating a role for serum factors in the activation process.
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