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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 281, Issue 18, 12397-12407, May 5, 2006

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Migfilin Interacts with Vasodilator-stimulated Phosphoprotein (VASP) and Regulates VASP Localization to Cell-Matrix Adhesions and Migration^*

From the Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

Cell migration is a complex process that is coordinately regulated by cell-matrix adhesion and actin cytoskeleton. We report here that migfilin, a recently identified component of cell-matrix adhesions, is a biphasic regulator of cell migration. Loss of migfilin impairs cell migration. Surprisingly, overexpression of migfilin also reduces cell migration. Molecularly, we have identified vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP) as a new migfilin-binding protein. The interaction is mediated by the VASP EVH1 domain and a single L¹⁰⁴PPPPP site located within the migfilin proline-rich domain. Migfilin and VASP form a complex in both suspended and adhered cells, and in the latter, they co-localize in cell-matrix adhesions. Functionally, migfilin facilitates VASP localization to cell-matrix adhesions. Using two different approaches (VASP-binding defective migfilin mutants and small interfering RNA-mediated VASP knockdown), we show that the interaction with VASP is crucially involved in migfilin-mediated regulation of cell migration. Our results identify migfilin as an important regulator of cell migration and provide new information on the mechanism by which migfilin regulates this process.

Received for publication, November 10, 2005 , and in revised form, February 13, 2006.

^* This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants GM65188 and DK54639 (to C. W.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: 707B Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace St., Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Tel.: 412-648-2350; Fax: 509-561-4062; E-mail: carywu{at}pitt.edu.

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