The ubiquitin-proteasome system regulates focal adhesions at the leading edge of migrating cells

  1. Anjali Teckchandani
  2. Jonathan A Cooper  Is a corresponding author
  1. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

Abstract

Cell migration requires the cyclical assembly and disassembly of focal adhesions. Adhesion induces phosphorylation of focal adhesion proteins, including Cas (Crk-associated substrate/p130Cas/BCAR1). However, Cas phosphorylation stimulates adhesion turnover. This raises the question of how adhesion assembly occurs against opposition from phospho-Cas. Here we show that suppressor of cytokine signaling 6 (SOCS6) and Cullin 5, two components of the CRL5SOCS6 ubiquitin ligase, inhibit Cas-dependent focal adhesion turnover at the front but not rear of migrating epithelial cells. The front focal adhesions contain phospho-Cas which recruits SOCS6. If SOCS6 cannot access focal adhesions, or cullins or the proteasome are inhibited, adhesion disassembly is stimulated. This suggests that the localized targeting of phospho-Cas within adhesions by CRL5SOCS6 and concurrent cullin and proteasome activity provide a negative feedback loop, ensuring that adhesion assembly predominates over disassembly at the leading edge. By this mechanism, ubiquitination provides a new level of spatio-temporal control over cell migration.

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  1. Anjali Teckchandani

    Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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    No competing interests declared.
  2. Jonathan A Cooper

    Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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    jcooper@fhcrc.org
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    Jonathan A Cooper, Reviewing editor, eLife.
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National Institutes of Health (R01 GM109463)

  • Jonathan A Cooper

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2016, Teckchandani & Cooper

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  1. Anjali Teckchandani
  2. Jonathan A Cooper
(2016)
The ubiquitin-proteasome system regulates focal adhesions at the leading edge of migrating cells
eLife 5:e17440.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.17440

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