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N-WASP coordinates the delivery and F-actin–mediated capture of MT1-MMP at invasive pseudopods

Metastasizing tumor cells use matrix metalloproteases, such as the transmembrane collagenase MT1-MMP, together with actin-based protrusions, to break through extracellular matrix barriers and migrate in dense matrix. Here we show that the actin nucleation–promoting protein N-WASP (Neural Wiskott-Ald...

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Autores principales: Yu, Xinzi, Zech, Tobias, McDonald, Laura, Gonzalez, Esther Garcia, Li, Ang, Macpherson, Iain, Schwarz, Juliane P., Spence, Heather, Futó, Kinga, Timpson, Paul, Nixon, Colin, Ma, Yafeng, Anton, Ines M., Visegrády, Balázs, Insall, Robert H., Oien, Karin, Blyth, Karen, Norman, Jim C., Machesky, Laura M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23091069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201203025
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Sumario:Metastasizing tumor cells use matrix metalloproteases, such as the transmembrane collagenase MT1-MMP, together with actin-based protrusions, to break through extracellular matrix barriers and migrate in dense matrix. Here we show that the actin nucleation–promoting protein N-WASP (Neural Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein) is up-regulated in breast cancer, and has a pivotal role in mediating the assembly of elongated pseudopodia that are instrumental in matrix degradation. Although a role for N-WASP in invadopodia was known, we now show how N-WASP regulates invasive protrusion in 3D matrices. In actively invading cells, N-WASP promoted trafficking of MT1-MMP into invasive pseudopodia, primarily from late endosomes, from which it was delivered to the plasma membrane. Upon MT1-MMP’s arrival at the plasma membrane in pseudopodia, N-WASP stabilized MT1-MMP via direct tethering of its cytoplasmic tail to F-actin. Thus, N-WASP is crucial for extension of invasive pseudopods into which MT1-MMP traffics and for providing the correct cytoskeletal framework to couple matrix remodeling with protrusive invasion.