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Mammalian diaphanous-related formin Dia1 controls the organization of E-cadherin-mediated cell-cell junctions
17 Oct 2007
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The formin-homology protein Dia1 is a target of RhoA and a potent activator of nucleation and elongation of actin filaments. Here, we demonstrate that short-hairpin (sh) RNA-mediated downregulation of Dia1 in human MCF7 epithelial cells disrupts adherens junctions, as manifested by the significantly decreased localization of E-cadherin and associated proteins to cell-cell contacts. Expression of mouse Dia1, which...
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