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  • Cathepsin H mediates the processing of talin and regulates migration of prostate cancer cells
    Jevnikar, Zala ...
    The cytoskeletal protein talin, an actin- and Ž-integrin tail-binding protein,plays an important role in cell migration by promoting integrin activation and focal adhesion formation. Here, we show ... that talin is a substrate for cathepsin H (CtsH), a lysosomal cysteine protease with a strong aminopeptidase activity. Purified active CtsH sequentially cleaved a synthetic peptide representing the N terminus of the talin F0 head domain. The processing of talin by CtsH was determined also in the metastatic PC-3 prostate cancer cell line, which exhibits increased expression of CtsH. The attenuation of CtsH aminopeptidase activity by a specific inhibitor or siRNA-mediated silencing significantly reduced the migration of PC-3 cells on fibronectin and invasion through Matrigel. We found that in migrating PC-3 cells, CtsH was co-localized with talin in the focal adhesions. Furthermore, specific inhibition of CtsH increased the activation of Ž(v)Ž(3)-integrin on PC-3 cells. We propose that CtsH-mediated processing of talin might promote cancer cell progression by affecting integrin activation and adhesion strength.
    Source: The Journal of biological chemistry. - ISSN 0021-9258 (Vol. 288, 2013, str. 2201-2209)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2013
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 3390321