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JCS ePress
online publication date 15 Jan 2008
doi: 10.1242/jcs.008037
Research Article
Multiple regulatory inputs converge on cortactin to control invadopodia biogenesis and extracellular matrix degradation
Inmaculada Ayala,
Massimiliano Baldassarre,
Giada Giacchetti,
Giusi Caldieri,
Stefano Tetè,
Alberto Luini,
and
Roberto Buccione*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: buccione{at}negrisud.it)
Invadopodia are proteolytically active protrusions formed by invasive tumoral cells when grown on an extracellular matrix (ECM) substratum. Although many molecular components have been defined, less is known of the formation and regulation of invadopodia. The multidomain protein cortactin, which is involved in the regulation of actin polymerisation, is one such component, but how cortactin is modulated to control the formation of invadopodia has not been elucidated. Here, a new invadopodia synchronization protocol is used to show that the cortactin N-terminal acidic and SH3 domains, involved in Arp2/3 complex and N-WASP binding and activation, respectively, are both required for invadopodia biogenesis. In addition, through a combination of RNA interference and a wide array of cortactin phosphorylation mutants, we were able to show that three convergent regulatory inputs based on the regulation of cortactin phosphorylation by Src-family kinases, Erk1/Erk2 and PAK are necessary for invadopodia formation and extracellular matrix degradation. These findings suggest that cortactin is a scaffold protein bringing together the different components necessary for the formation of the invadopodia, and that a fine balance between different phosphorylation events induces subtle changes in structure to calibrate cortactin function.
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