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(American Journal of Pathology. 1999;155:927-940.)
© 1999 American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Collagen Receptor Control of Epithelial Morphogenesis and Cell Cycle Progression

Mary M. Zutter^*, Samuel A. Santoro^*, Justina E. Wu^*, Tetsuro Wakatsuki, S. Kent Dickeson^* and Elliot L. Elson

From the Departments of Pathology^*
and Biochemistry,
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

To define the unique contributions of the subunit cytoplasmic tails of the ₁ß₁ and ₂ß₁ integrin to epithelial differentiation and branching morphogenesis, a variant NMuMG cell line lacking ₁ß₁ and ₂ß₁ integrin expression was stably transfected with the full-length ₂ integrin subunit cDNA (X2C2), chimeric cDNA consisting of the extracellular and transmembrane domains of the ₂ subunit and the cytoplasmic domain of the ₁ subunit (X2C1), or ₂ cDNA truncated after the GFFKR sequence (X2C0). The X2C2 and X2C1 transfectants effectively adhered, spread, and formed focal adhesion complexes on type I collagen matrices. The X2C0 transfectants were less adherent to low concentrations of type I collagen, spread less well, and formed poorly defined focal adhesion complexes in comparison to the X2C2 and X2C1 transfectants. The X2C2 and X2C1 transfectants but not the X2C0 transfectants proliferated on collagen substrates. Only the X2C2 transfectants developed elongate branches and tubules in three-dimensional collagen gels and migrated on type I collagen. These findings suggest a unique role for the ₂ integrin cytoplasmic domain in postligand binding events and cooperative interactions with growth factors that mediate epithelial differentiation and branching morphogenesis. Either intact ₁ or ₂ integrin subunit cytoplasmic domain can promote cell cycle progression.

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