Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone and endothelin-1 have opposing effects on melanocyte adhesion, migration, and pp125FAK phosphorylation

Experimental Cell Research
G ScottZ A Abdel-Malek

Abstract

Recent reports show that alpha-MSH (melanocyte-stimulating hormone) is mitogenic and melanogenic for normal human melanocytes, and that this effect is mediated through binding to the melanocortin receptor (MC1R) and activation of cAMP formation. alpha-MSH has also been shown to induce changes in cell shape in melanocytes and melanoma cells, particularly increased dendricity, suggesting a potential role for alpha-MSH in melanocyte-matrix interactions and pigment transfer through reorganization of the melanocyte actin filament cytoskeleton. In this report we show that the potent alpha-MSH analog (Nle4, D-Phe7)-alpha-MSH (NDP-MSH) induces reorganization of the actin stress fiber cytoskeleton in treated human melanocytes and that this reorganization is associated with increased adhesion to fibronectin (FN). Because most melanocyte growth factors act synergistically on melanocyte mitogenesis, we also sought to determine the effect of the melanocyte mitogen endothelin-1 (ET-1) on the melanocyte actin cytoskeleton, melanocyte adhesion, and melanocyte migration. We show that ET-1, which increases melanocyte migration on FN, has opposite effects on melanocyte adhesion to FN compared with NDP-MSH and that endothelin-1-induced actin reorg...Continue Reading

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