Matrix mechanics regulates epithelial defence against cancer by tuning dynamic localization of filamin

Shilpa P. Pothapragada, Praver Gupta, Soumi Mukherjee and Tamal Das ()
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Shilpa P. Pothapragada: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad (TIFR-H)
Praver Gupta: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad (TIFR-H)
Soumi Mukherjee: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad (TIFR-H)
Tamal Das: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad (TIFR-H)

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract In epithelia, normal cells recognize and extrude out newly emerged transformed cells by competition. This process is the most fundamental epithelial defence against cancer, whose occasional failure promotes oncogenesis. However, little is known about what factors determine the success or failure of this defence. Here we report that mechanical stiffening of extracellular matrix attenuates the epithelial defence against HRasV12-transformed cells. Using photoconversion labelling, protein tracking, and loss-of-function mutations, we attribute this attenuation to stiffening-induced perinuclear sequestration of a cytoskeletal protein, filamin. On soft matrix mimicking healthy epithelium, filamin exists as a dynamically single population, which moves to the normal cell-transformed cell interface to initiate the extrusion of transformed cells. However, on stiff matrix mimicking fibrotic epithelium, filamin redistributes into two dynamically distinct populations, including a new perinuclear pool that cannot move to the cell-cell interface. A matrix stiffness-dependent differential between filamin-Cdc42 and filamin-perinuclear cytoskeleton interaction controls this distinctive filamin localization and hence, determines the success or failure of epithelial defence on soft versus stiff matrix. Together, our study reveals how pathological matrix stiffening leads to a failed epithelial defence at the initial stage of oncogenesis.

Date: 2022
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