Journal of Biological Chemistry
Volume 277, Issue 41, 11 October 2002, Pages 38328-38338
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MOLECULAR BASIS OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Characterization of PINCH-2, a New Focal Adhesion Protein That Regulates the PINCH-1-ILK Interaction, Cell Spreading, and Migration*

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Integrin-linked kinase (ILK) is a multidomain protein that plays important roles at cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) adhesion sites. We describe here a new LIM-domain containing protein (termed as PINCH-2) that forms a complex with ILK. PINCH-2 is co-expressed with PINCH-1 (previously known as PINCH), another member of the PINCH protein family, in a variety of human cells. Immunofluorescent staining of cells with PINCH-2-specific antibodies show that PINCH-2 localizes to both cell-ECM contact sites and the nucleus. Deletion of the first LIM (LIM1) domain of PINCH-2 abolished the ability of PINCH-2 to form a complex with ILK. The ILK-binding defective LIM1-deletion mutant, unlike the wild type PINCH-2 or the ILK-binding competent LIM5-deletion mutant, was incapable of localizing to cell-ECM contact sites, suggesting that ILK binding is required for this process. Importantly, the PINCH-2-ILK and PINCH-1-ILK interactions are mutually exclusive. Overexpression of PINCH-2 significantly inhibited the PINCH-1-ILK interaction and reduced cell spreading and migration. These results identify a novel nuclear and focal adhesion protein that associates with ILK and reveals an important role of PINCH-2 in the regulation of the PINCH-1-ILK interaction, cell shape change, and migration.

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Published, JBC Papers in Press, August 6, 2002, DOI 10.1074/jbc.M205576200

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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants GM65188 and DK54639 (to C. W.).The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBank™/EBI Data Bank with accession number(s) AF484961.

Both authors contributed equally to this work.