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- Title
Tight junction protein MAGI-1 is up-regulated by transfection with connexin 32 in an immortalized mouse hepatic cell line: cDNA microarray analysis.
- Authors
Murata, Masaki; Kojima, Takashi; Yamamoto, Toshinobu; Go, Mitsuru; Takano, Ken-ichi; Chiba, Hideki; Tokino, Takashi; Sawada, Norimasa
- Abstract
Gap junctions are considered to play a crucial role in differentiation of epithelial cells, including hepatocytes. Recently, we found that Cx32 but not Cx26 was closely related to tight junctional proteins in primary cultured rat hepatocytes (Kojima et al., Exp Cell Res 263:193-201, 2001) and that Cx32 formation and/or Cx32-mediated intercellular communication could induce expression and function of tight junctions in a mouse hepatic cell line (Kojima et al., Exp Cell Res 276:40-51, 2002). In this study, to investigate the mechanisms of induction of tight junctions by transfection with Cx32, we performed cDNA microarray analysis of Cx32 transfectants, compared with parental cells derived from Cx32-deficient hepatocytes. In cDNA microarray analysis, a 2.5-fold increase in expression of membrane-associated guanylate kinase with inverted orientation-1 (MAGI-1), which is known to be localized at adherens and tight junction regions, was observed. High expression of MAGI-1 in Cx32 transfectants was confirmed by Western blotting and RT-PCR. MAGI-1 was colocalized with occludin, claudin-2, ZO-1, and F-actin, but not with E-cadherin in the apical-most regions at cell borders of Cx32 transfectants, similar to junctional adhesion molecule-1 (JAM-1), which may play a crucial role in formation and assembly of tight junctions. Treatment with the gap junction blocker 18ß-glycyrrhetinic acid did not affect expression of MAGI-1 and JAM-1 in Cx32 transfectants. These results suggest that Cx32 expression is in part related to induction of tight junctions through modulation of MAGI-1 expression in an immortalized mouse hepatic cell line.
- Subjects
CELL junctions; PROTEINS; GENE transfection; LIVER cells; CELL lines; DNA microarrays
- Publication
Cell & Tissue Research, 2005, Vol 319, Issue 2, p341
- ISSN
0302-766X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00441-004-1017-0