Vinculin, and A-Actinin K.-L
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 93, pp. 9182-9187, August 1996 Medical Sciences The differential adhesion forces of anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligament fibroblasts: Effects of tropomodulin, talin, vinculin, and a-actinin K.-L. PAUL SUNG*tt§, LI YANG*t, DARREN E. WHITTEMOREt, YAN SHI*, GANG JIN t, ADAM H. HSIEH*t, WAYNE H. AKESON*, AND L. AMY SUNGt¶ *Departments of Orthopaedics and tBioengineering, tCancer Center, and TCenter for Molecular Genetics, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0412 Communicated by Y C. Fung, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, May 28, 1996 (received for review April 8, 1996) ABSTRACT We have determined the effects of tropo- fashion along the grooves of the actin double helix, stiffening modulin (Tmod), talin, vinculin, and a-actinin on ligament the filament and regulating the interaction between actin and fibroblast adhesion. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), other actin-binding proteins (12). Tmod may, therefore, reg- which lacks a functional healing response, and the medial ulate the length and/or organization of actin filaments by collateral ligament (MCL), a functionally healing ligament, differential binding to TM. In fibroblasts, hTM5 (one of the were selected for this study. The micropipette aspiration TM isoforms) is present not only in the more stable structures technique was used to determine the forces needed to separate of stress fibers, but also in the ruffled regions where the F-actin ACL and MCL cells from a fibronectin-coated surface. De- structures are rapidly changing (14). We found previously in a livery of exogenous tropomodulin, an actin-filament capping monocytic cell line that Tmod increases cell adhesion strength protein, into MCL fibroblasts significantly increased adhe- to fibronectin (FN), whereas the antibody against Tmod sion, whereas its monoclonal antibody (mAb) significantly decreases adhesion strength (15).
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