Cytoskeletal Disassembly and Cell Rounding Promotes Adipogenesis from ES Cells

Overview

Journal Stem Cell Rev Rep

Publisher Springer

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2010 Feb 12

PMID 20148318

Citations 20

Authors

Tianshu Feng

Eva Szabo

Ewa Dziak

Michal Opas

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Abstract

Biomechanical signals such as cell shape and spreading play an important role in controlling stem cell commitment. Cell shape, adhesion and spreading are also affected by calreticulin, a multifunctional calcium-binding protein, which influences several cellular processes, including adipogenesis. Here we show that cytoskeletal disruption in mouse embryonic stem cells using cytochalasin D or nocodazole promotes adipogenesis. While cytochalasin D disrupts stress fibres and inhibits focal adhesion formation, nocodazole depolymerises microtubules and promotes focal adhesion formation. Furthermore, cytochalasin D increases the levels of both total and activated calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, whereas nocodazole decreases it. Nevertheless, both treatments significantly increase the adipogenic potential of embryonic stem cells in vitro. Both cytochalasin D and nocodazole exposure caused cell rounding suggesting that it is cell shape that causes the switch towards the adipogenic programme. Calreticulin-containing embryonic stem cells, under baseline conditions, show low adipogenic potential, have low activity of signalling via calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and display normal adhesive properties and cellular spreading in comparison to the highly adipogenic but poorly spread calreticulin-deficient ES cells. We conclude that forced cell rounding via cytoskeletal disruption overrides the effects of calreticulin, an ER chaperone, thus negatively regulating adipogenesis via focal adhesion-mediated cell spreading.

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