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doi: 10.1242/10.1242/jcs.00278

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TES is a novel focal adhesion protein with a role in cell spreading

Cancer Research UK Laboratories, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Switchback Road, Bearsden, Glasgow, G61 1BD, UK

* Author for correspondence (e-mail: d.black{at}beatson.gla.ac.uk)

Accepted 18 November 2002

Previously, we identified TES as a novel candidate tumour suppressor gene that mapped to human chromosome 7q31.1. In this report we demonstrate that the TES protein is localised at focal adhesions, actin stress fibres and areas of cell-cell contact. TES has three C-terminal LIM domains that appear to be important for focal adhesion targeting. Additionally, the N-terminal region is important for targeting TES to actin stress fibres. Yeast two-hybrid and biochemical analyses yielded interactions with several focal adhesion and/or cytoskeletal proteins including mena, zyxin and talin. The fact that TES localises to regions of cell adhesion suggests that it functions in events related to cell motility and adhesion. In support of this, we demonstrate that fibroblasts stably overexpressing TES have an increased ability to spread on fibronectin.

Key words: TES, Focal adhesion, LIM domain, Cell spreading

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