Mechanisms of cellular adhesion : II. The interplay between adhesion, the cytoskeleton and morphology in substrate-attached cells |
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Authors: | C W Lloyd C G Smith Anne Woods D A Rees |
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Abstract: | cAMP/theophylline exaggerates cell shape—whether the fibroblastic morphology of controls or the epithelioid shape of colchicine-treated cells. The ultrastructural basis is that cAMP/theophylline increases the number and linearity of microtubules and microfilament bundles, although where also treated with colchicine, the cells adopt a well-spread shape maintained by microfilament bundles alone. Since interference reflection microscopy shows that colchicine promotes the marked alignment of focal contacts (which terminate microfilament bundles) it is concluded that microtubules encourage angular cell form and modify the pattern of adhesions by influencing the directionality of microfilament bundle formation although they are inessential for the maintenance of the spread form or adhesion per se. |
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