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Cdc42 is not essential for filpodium, directed migration, cell poarization, and mitosis in fibroblastoid cells.
Mol. Biol. Cell 16, 4473-4484 (2005)
Cdc42 is a small GTPase involved in the regulation of the cytoskeleton and cell polarity. To test whether Cdc42 has an essential role in the formation of filopodia or directed cell migration, we generated Cdc42-deficient fibroblastoid cells by conditional gene inactivation. We report here that loss of Cdc42 did not affect filopodium or lamellipodium formation and had no significant influence on the speed of directed migration nor on mitosis. Cdc42-deficient cells displayed a more elongated cell shape and had a reduced area. Furthermore, directionality during migration and reorientation of the Golgi apparatus into the direction of migration was decreased. However, expression of dominant negative Cdc42 in Cdc42-null cells resulted in strongly reduced directed migration, severely reduced single cell directionality, and complete loss of Golgi polarization and of directionality of protrusion formation toward the wound, as well as membrane blebbing. Thus, our data show that besides Cdc42 additional GTPases of the Rho-family, which share GEFs with Cdc42, are involved in the establishment and maintenance of cell polarity during directed migration. © 2005 by The American Society for Cell Biology.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1059-1524
e-ISSN
1939-4586
Journal
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Quellenangaben
Volume: 16,
Issue: 10,
Pages: 4473-4484
Publisher
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
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Peer reviewed
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Institute of Stem Cell Research (ISF)