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- Title
Matrix-Bound PAI-1 Supports Cell Blebbing via RhoA/ROCK1 Signaling.
- Authors
Cartier-Michaud, Amandine; Malo, Michel; Charrière-Bertrand, Cécile; Gadea, Gilles; Anguille, Christelle; Supiramaniam, Ajitha; Lesne, Annick; Delaplace, Franck; Hutzler, Guillaume; Roux, Pierre; Lawrence, Daniel A.; Barlovatz-Meimon, Georgia
- Abstract
The microenvironment of a tumor can influence both the morphology and the behavior of cancer cells which, in turn, can rapidly adapt to environmental changes. Increasing evidence points to the involvement of amoeboid cell migration and thus of cell blebbing in the metastatic process; however, the cues that promote amoeboid cell behavior in physiological and pathological conditions have not yet been clearly identified. Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) is found in high amount in the microenvironment of aggressive tumors and is considered as an independent marker of bad prognosis. Here we show by immunoblotting, activity assay and immunofluorescence that, in SW620 human colorectal cancer cells, matrixassociated PAI-1 plays a role in the cell behavior needed for amoeboid migration by maintaining cell blebbing, localizing PDK1 and ROCK1 at the cell membrane and maintaining the RhoA/ROCK1/MLC-P pathway activation. The results obtained by modeling PAI-1 deposition around tumors indicate that matrix-bound PAI-1 is heterogeneously distributed at the tumor periphery and that, at certain spots, the elevated concentrations of matrix-bound PAI-1 needed for cancer cells to undergo the mesenchymal-amoeboid transition can be observed. Matrix-bound PAI-1, as a matricellular protein, could thus represent one of the physiopathological requirements to support metastatic formation.
- Subjects
TUMORS; CANCER cells; CELL migration; PLASMINOGEN activator inhibitors; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; CANCER
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0032204