A Cas-BCAR3 co-regulatory circuit controls lamellipodia dynamics

  1. Elizabeth M Steenkiste
  2. Jason D Berndt
  3. Carissa Pilling
  4. Christopher Simpkins
  5. Jonathan A Cooper  Is a corresponding author
  1. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

Abstract

Integrin adhesion complexes regulate cytoskeletal dynamics during cell migration. Adhesion activates phosphorylation of integrin-associated signaling proteins, including Cas (p130Cas, BCAR1), by Src-family kinases. Cas regulates leading-edge protrusion and migration in cooperation with its binding partner, BCAR3. However, it has been unclear how Cas and BCAR3 cooperate. Here, using normal epithelial cells, we find that BCAR3 localization to integrin adhesions requires Cas. In return, Cas phosphorylation, as well as lamellipodia dynamics and cell migration, requires BCAR3. These functions require the BCAR3 SH2 domain and a specific phosphorylation site, Tyr 117, that is also required for BCAR3 downregulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system. These findings place BCAR3 in a co-regulatory positive-feedback circuit with Cas, with BCAR3 requiring Cas for localization and Cas requiring BCAR3 for activation and downstream signaling. The use of a single phosphorylation site in BCAR3 for activation and degradation ensures reliable negative feedback by the ubiquitin-proteasome system.

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  1. Elizabeth M Steenkiste

    Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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  2. Jason D Berndt

    Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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  3. Carissa Pilling

    Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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  4. Christopher Simpkins

    Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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  5. 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, Senior editor, eLife.
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (T32 GM007270)

  • Elizabeth M Steenkiste

National Institutes of Health (R01 GM109463)

  • Elizabeth M Steenkiste
  • Jason D Berndt
  • Carissa Pilling
  • Christopher Simpkins
  • Jonathan A Cooper

National Institutes of Health (P30 CA015704)

  • Elizabeth M Steenkiste
  • Jason D Berndt
  • Carissa Pilling
  • Christopher Simpkins
  • 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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© 2021, Steenkiste et al.

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  1. Elizabeth M Steenkiste
  2. Jason D Berndt
  3. Carissa Pilling
  4. Christopher Simpkins
  5. Jonathan A Cooper
(2021)
A Cas-BCAR3 co-regulatory circuit controls lamellipodia dynamics
eLife 10:e67078.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67078

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