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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 107, Issue 3 683-692, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Cytoskeletal involvement in the modulation of cell-cell junctions by the protein kinase inhibitor H-7

S Citi, T Volberg, AD Bershadsky, N Denisenko and B Geiger
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Cornell University Medical School, New York, NY.

The protein kinase inhibitor H-7 has been shown to block junction dissociation induced by low extracellular calcium in Madin Darby canine kidney epithelial cells (S. Citi, J. Cell Biol. (1992) 117, 169-178). To understand the basis of this effect, we have examined how H-7 affects the organization of junctions and the actin cytoskeleton in different types of epithelial cells in culture. Immunofluorescence microscopy showed that H-7 confers Ca2+ independence on cultured epithelial lens cells, which lack tight junctions and desmosomes but have microfilament-associated adherens junctions. In these cells, H-7 did not protect N-cadherin from trypsin digestion at low extracellular calcium, suggesting that H-7 does not stabilize the 'active' cadherin conformation. In cultured Madin Darby canine kidney cells, H-7 partially prevented the fall in transepithelial resistance induced by cytochalasin D, either alone or in conjunction with calcium chelators. Double-immunofluorescence microscopy showed that H-7 inhibits both the fragmentation of labeling for the tight junction protein cingulin and the condensation of actin into cytoplasmic foci induced by cytochalasin D. Taken together, these observations indicate that H-7 inhibits junction dissociation by affecting the contractility of the adherens junction-associated microfilaments following treatment with calcium chelators or cytochalasin D.


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