Journal: Journal of Cell Science
Article Title: N-WASP-directed actin polymerization activates Cas phosphorylation and lamellipodium spreading
doi: 10.1242/jcs.134692
Figure Lengend Snippet: Neither actomyosin contractility nor talin-dependent focal adhesion is required for CasSD phosphorylation. (A–D) CasSD phosphorylation during spreading on fibronectin did not decrease with the treatment of blebbistatin (Bb). However, FAK phosphorylation at residue Y397 was significantly impaired (*P<0.05.). Cells were pre-incubated in medium containing DMSO or 50 µM blebbistatin for 30 min and plated on fibronectin-coated dishes for the indicated time before being lysed for western blot assay (IB). sus, suspension. A.U., arbitrary units. (E–H) F-actin staining confirmed that stress fibers were missing in the cells treated with blebbistatin (F,H). The pY165 signal of Cas was comparable in control and treated cells (E,F). FAK phosphorylation at residue Y397 was greatly reduced with loss of focal adhesion structure in blebbistatin-treated cells (G,H). All samples were fixed 20 min after plating. (I–K) Western blots showed comparable CasSD phosphorylation at residue Y165 in talin-deficient cells 10 min after plating on fibronectin although levels of pY165 decreased at later time-points (I). The profile of phosphorylation at residue Y410 was similar to that for residue Y165, except that a smeared signal at a lower molecular mass was observed at later time-points. (J) pY165 Cas∶total Cas and (K) pY410 Cas∶total Cas ratios in different experiments were normalized against control samples (con) at the 60-min time-point. Depletion of talin2 in talin1−/− fibroblasts was examined by total talin antibody 8d4. tl2, talin2. Means±s.d., three repeats. Two-tailed paired Student's t-test was performed. (L) Immunostaining with talin antibody and an antibody against Cas phosphorylated at residue Y165 confirmed that reduction of total talin did not affect CasSD phosphorylation when the cell was still spread. Cells were fixed 15 min after plating. Scale bars: 10 µm.
Article Snippet: Antibodies against the following proteins were used: talin (talin1 and talin2, monoclonal clone 8d4, Sigma), GAPDH (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), p130Cas (raised in goat, Santa Cruz), p130Cas (raised in rabbit, polyclonal, GeneTex), p130Cas (monoclonal, BD Transduction), paxillin (BD Transduction), FAK (which does not recognize FRNK, BD Transduction), Src (mAb327, Calbiochem), phospho-FAK (pY397, Biosource International), FAK (polyclonal recognizing full-length FAK and FRNK, Invitrogen), phospho-FAK (pY861, Invitrogen), phospho-Src (pY416, Cell Signaling), phospho-p130Cas (PY165, Cell Signaling), phospho-p130Cas (pY410, Cell Signaling), integrin β3 (polyclonal, Chemicon), active β1 integrin (clone 9EG7, BD Pharmingen), and N-WASP (affinity-purified, polyclonal, raised in rabbit, a gift provided by Marc W. Kirschner at Harvard Medical School).
Techniques: Incubation, Western Blot, Staining, Two Tailed Test, Immunostaining