Trophinin-mediated cell adhesion induces apoptosis of human endometrial epithelial cells through PKC-δ

Naoaki Tamura, Kazuhiro Sugihara, Tomoya O. Akama, Michiko N. Fukuda

研究成果: ジャーナルへの寄稿学術論文査読

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Trophinin is an intrinsic membrane protein expressed in trophectoderm cells of embryos and in uterine epithelial cells. Trophinin potentially mediates apical cell adhesion at human embryo implantation sites through trophinin-trophinin binding in these two cell types. Trophinin-mediated cell adhesion activates trophectoderm cells for invasion, whereas the effect of adhesion on maternal side is not known. We show that addition of GWRQ peptide, a previously established peptide that mimics trophinin-mediated cell adhesion, to human endometrial epithelial cells expressing trophinin induces their apoptosis. FAS involvement was excluded, as GWRQ did not bind to FAS, and FAS knockdown did not alter GWRQ-induced apoptosis. Immunoblotting analyses of protein kinases revealed an elevation of PKC-δ protein in GWRQ-bound endometrial epithelial cells. In the absence of GWRQ, PKC-δ associated with trophinin and remained cytoplasmic, but after GWRQ binding to the trophinin extracellular domain, PKC-δ became tyrosine phosphorylated, dissociated from trophinin and entered the nucleus. In PKC-δ knockdown endometrial cells, GWRQ did not induce apoptosis. These results suggest that trophinin-mediated cell adhesion functions as a molecular switch to induce apoptosis through the PKC-δ pathway in endometrial epithelial cells. Thus, trophinin-mediated induction of apoptosis of endometrial epithelial cells, which function as a barrier to embryo invasion, allows trophoblast invasion of maternal tissue and embryo implantation in humans.

本文言語英語
ページ(範囲)135-143
ページ数9
ジャーナルCell Cycle
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DOI
出版ステータス出版済み - 01-01-2011
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 分子生物学
  • 発生生物学
  • 細胞生物学

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