Contactus Adherens, a Special Type of Plaque-bearing Adhering Junction Containing M-cadherin, in the Granule Cell Layer of the Cerebellar Glomerulus

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Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1995 Jun 20

PMID 7597073

Citations 18

Authors

O Rose

C Grund

S Reinhardt

A Starzinski-Powitz

W W Franke

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Abstract

In the glomeruli of the granule cell layer of mammalian cerebellum, neuronal extensions are interconnected by numerous small, nearly isodiametric (diameters up to 0.1 micron), junctions previously classified as puncta adherentia related to the vinculin-containing, actin microfilament-anchoring junctions of the zonula adherens of epithelial and certain other cells. Using immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy, we have found, however, that these junctions are negative for E- and VE-cadherin, for desmosomal cadherins, and also for vinculin, alpha-actinin, and desmoplakin, but they do contain, in addition to the protein plakoglobin common to all forms of adhering junctions, the plaque proteins alpha- and beta-catenin and the transmembrane glycoprotein M-cadherin previously found as a spread--i.e., not junction bound--plasma membrane protein in certain fetal and regenerating muscle cells and in satellite cells of adult skeletal muscle. We conclude that these M-cadherin-containing junctions of the granule cell layer represent a special type of adhering junction, for which we propose the term contactus adherens (from the Latin contactus, for touch, site of bordering upon, also influence), and we discuss the differences between the various adhering junctions on the basis of their molecular constituents.

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