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* National Cancer Institute, Experimental Immunology Branch, Bethesda, MD 20892;
Sanquin Research at Central Laboratory of The Netherlands Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, and Landsteiner Laboratory, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Image Analysis Laboratory, SAIC-Frederick, Frederick, MD;
Departement de Biologie Cellulaire, Institut Cochin, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 567, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 8104, Paris, France
Lymphocytes circulate in the blood and upon chemokine activation rapidly bind, where needed, to microvasculature to mediate immune surveillance. Resorption of microvilli is an early morphological alteration induced by chemokines that facilitates lymphocyte emigration. However, the antecedent molecular mechanisms remain largely undefined. We demonstrate that Rac1 plays a fundamental role in chemokine-induced microvillar breakdown in human T lymphocytes. The supporting evidence includes: first, chemokine induces Rac1 activation within 5 s via a signaling pathway that involves G
i. Second, constitutively active Rac1 mediates microvilli disintegration. Third, blocking Rac1 function by cell permeant C-terminal "Trojan" peptides corresponding to Rac1 (but not Rac2, Rho, or Cdc42) blocks microvillar loss induced by the chemokine stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1). Furthermore, we demonstrate that the molecular mechanism of Rac1 action involves dephosphorylation-induced inactivation of the ezrin/radixin/moesin (ERM) family of actin regulators; such inactivation is known to detach the membrane from the underlying actin cytoskeleton, thereby facilitating disassembly of actin-based peripheral processes. Specifically, ERM dephosphorylation is induced by constitutively active Rac1 and stromal cell-derived factor 1-induced ERM dephosphorylation is blocked by either the dominant negative Rac1 construct or by Rac1 C-terminal peptides. Importantly, the basic residues at the C terminus of Rac1 are critical to Rac1’s participation in ERM dephosphorylation and in microvillar retraction. Together, these data elucidate new roles for Rac1 in early signal transduction and cytoskeletal rearrangement of T lymphocytes responding to chemokine.
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