E-N-cadherin heterodimers define novel adherens junctions connecting endoderm-derived cells.
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Authors
Straub, Beate KRickelt, Steffen
Zimbelmann, Ralf
Grund, Christine
Kuhn, Caecilia
Iken, Marcus
Ott, Michael
Schirmacher, Peter
Franke, Werner W
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2011-11-28
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Intercellular junctions play a pivotal role in tissue development and function and also in tumorigenesis. In epithelial cells, decrease or loss of E-cadherin, the hallmark molecule of adherens junctions (AJs), and increase of N-cadherin are widely thought to promote carcinoma progression and metastasis. In this paper, we show that this "cadherin switch" hypothesis does not hold for diverse endoderm-derived cells and cells of tumors derived from them. We show that the cadherins in a major portion of AJs in these cells can be chemically cross-linked in E-N heterodimers. We also show that cells possessing E-N heterodimer AJs can form semistable hemihomotypic AJs with purely N-cadherin-based AJs of mesenchymally derived cells, including stroma cells. We conclude that these heterodimers are the major AJ constituents of several endoderm-derived tissues and tumors and that the prevailing concept of antagonistic roles of these two cadherins in developmental and tumor biology has to be reconsidered.Citation
E-N-cadherin heterodimers define novel adherens junctions connecting endoderm-derived cells. 2011, 195 (5):873-87 J. Cell Biol.Journal
The Journal of cell biologyPubMed ID
22105347Type
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1540-8140ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1083/jcb.201106023
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