Kosmas, Kosmas (2014). Cyclase associated protein 2: Roles in heart physiology and wound healing. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Cyclase-associated proteins (CAPs) are evolutionary conserved proteins, essential for normal actin organization by binding to G-actin and regulating actin filament dynamics. Loss of CAP results in defects in cell morphology, migration, endocytosis and development. Higher eukaryotes have two homologs of CAP, CAP1 and CAP2, which are closely related. CAP1 shows a broad tissue distribution, whereas CAP2 is significantly expressed only in brain, heart and skeletal muscle, and skin. To identify the in vivo function of CAP2 we generated mice in which the Cap2 gene was inactivated by a gene-trap approach. Mutant mice showed a decrease in body weight and had a decreased survival rate. We analyzed skeletal muscle, heart and skin phenotypes. Knockout mice developed a severe cardiac defect marked by dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) associated with drastic reduction in basal heart rate and prolongations in atrial and ventricular conduction times. In muscle, CAP2 is an essential component of the M-line in the sarcomere and its ablation leads to disarrayed sarcomeric organization. In human skin, CAP2 is present in all living layers of the epidermis localizing to the nuclei and the cell periphery. We performed in vivo wound healing experiments in WT and in mice lacking CAP2 and observed delayed wound repair in knockout mice. In addition, knockout mice showed decreased macrophage infiltration, slower neovascularization and increase in apoptosis. Furthermore, fibroblasts which were isolated from mice lacking CAP2 showed reduced velocity, developed long filopodia and increased focal adhesions, something that can be attributed to the effect of CAP2 on G-/F-actin ratio. Taken together, our studies so far show that CAP2 has roles in cardiac physiology, cell migration and wound healing.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-60690 | ||||||||
Date: | 5 May 2014 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Biochemie > Institut I für Biochemie | ||||||||
Subjects: | Natural sciences and mathematics Chemistry and allied sciences Life sciences Medical sciences Medicine |
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Date of oral exam: | 23 June 2014 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/6069 |
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