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Paxillin modulates squamous cancer cell adhesion and is important in pressure-augmented adhesion.

Abstract：

:Paxillin is an adapter protein regulating signaling and focal adhesion assembly that has been linked to malignant potential in many malignancies. Overexpression of paxillin has been noted in aggressive tumors. Integrin-mediated binding through the focal adhesion complex is important in metastatic adhesion and is upregulated by extracellular pressure in malignant colonocytes through FAK and Src activation. Neither head and neck cancers nor paxillin have been studied in this regard. We hypothesized that paxillin would play a role in modulating squamous cancer adhesion both at baseline and under conditions of increased extracellular pressure. Using SCC25 tongue squamous cancer cells stably transfected with either an empty selection vector or paxillin expression and selection vectors, we studied adhesion to collagen, paxillin, FAK, and Src expression and phosphorylation in cells maintained for 30 min under ambient or 15 mmHg increased pressure conditions. Paxillin-overexpressing cells exhibited adhesion 121 +/- 2.9% of that observed in vector-only cells (n = 6, P < 0.001) under ambient pressure. Paxillin-overexpression reduced FAK phosphorylation. Pressure stimulated adhesion to 118 +/- 2.3% (n = 6, P < 0.001) of baseline in vector-only cells, similar to its effect in the parental line, and induced paxillin, FAK, and Src phosphorylation. However, increased pressure did not stimulate adhesion or phosphorylate paxillin, FAK, or Src further in paxillin-overexpressing cells. Metastasizing squamous cancer cell adhesiveness may be increased by paxillin-overexpression or by paxillin activation by extracellular pressure during surgical manipulation or growth within a constraining compartment. Targeting paxillin in patients with malignancy and minimal tumor manipulation during surgical resection may be important therapeutic adjuncts.

journal_name

J Cell Biochem

journal_title

Journal of cellular biochemistry

authors

Conway WC,Van der Voort van Zyp J,Thamilselvan V,Walsh MF,Crowe DL,Basson MD

doi

10.1002/jcb.20819

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-08-15 00:00:00

pages

1507-16

issue

eissn

0730-2312

issn

1097-4644

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Paxillin modulates squamous cancer cell adhesion and is important in pressure-augmented adhesion.