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JCS ePress online publication date 24 Jul 2008
doi: 10.1242/jcs.029819

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Fibrillin-1 microfibril deposition is dependent on fibronectin assembly


Rachel Kinsey, Matthew R. Williamson, Shazia Chaudhry, Kieran T. Mellody, Amanda McGovern, Seiichiro Takahashi, C. Adrian Shuttleworth, and Cay M. Kielty*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: cay.kielty{at}manchester.ac.uk)

Newly deposited microfibrils strongly colocalise with fibronectin in primary fibroblasts. Microfibril formation is grossly inhibited by fibronectin depletion, but rescued by supplementation with exogenous cellular fibronectin. As integrin receptors are key determinants of fibronectin assembly, we investigated whether they also influenced microfibril deposition. Analysis of {beta}1-integrin-receptor-null fibroblasts, blockage of cell surface integrin receptors that regulate fibronectin assembly and disruption of Rho kinase all result in suppressed deposition of both fibronectin and microfibrils. Antibody activation of {beta}1 integrins in fibronectin-depleted cultures is insufficient to rescue microfibril assembly. In fibronectinRGE/RGE mutant mouse fibroblast cultures, which do not engage {alpha}5{beta}1 integrin, extracellular assembly of both fibronectin and microfibrils is markedly reduced. Thus, pericellular microfibril assembly is regulated by fibronectin fibrillogenesis.


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