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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 108, Issue 2 735-745, Copyright © 1995 by Company of Biologists

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Transverse pattern of microfilament bundles induced in epitheliocytes by cylindrical substrata

TM Svitkina, YA Rovensky, AD Bershadsky and JM Vasiliev
Belozersky Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Russia.

Cylindrical culture substrata are known to induced longitudinal orientation of polarized fibroblasts and corresponding alignment of actin microfilament bundles in these cells. We studied microfilament bundle distribution in two cell types, fibroblasts and epitheliocytes, spread on two kinds of anisotropic substrata, quartz glass cylinders with a diameter 32 microns and narrow (25-40 microns wide) flat glass adhesive strips with non-adhesive borders. Rat embryo and human diploid fibroblasts, as expected, formed predominantly longitudinally aligned bundles on both substrata. In contrast, transverse bundles on cylinders and randomly oriented bundles on flat strips were formed in IAR-2 and MDCK epithelial cells. We interpret these data as showing that the epitheliocyte attempts to override the guiding influence of anisotropic substrata. The microfilament bundle pattern on cylinders depends on the integrity of the microtubules. Colcemid-induced microtubule depolymerization caused formation of longitudinal as well as transverse bundles both in fibroblasts and epitheliocytes, thus diminishing the differences in microfilament bundle patterns in two cell types. These results show that microtubules control the cell-type-specific distribution of microfilament bundles both in polarized fibroblasts and in discoid epitheliocytes. However, the results of this control are opposite: microtubules enhance cell polarization in fibroblasts, but prevent it in epithelial cells.


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