Affiliation:
1. Laboratory of Epithelial Cell Biology, Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, and Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
Abstract
All cells experience and respond to mechanical stimuli, such as changes in plasma membrane tension, shear stress, hydrostatic pressure, and compression. This review is an examination of the changes in membrane traffic that occur in response to mechanical forces. The plasma membrane has an associated tension that modulates both exocytosis and endocytosis. As membrane tension increases, exocytosis is stimulated, which acts to decrease membrane tension. In contrast, increased membrane tension slows endocytosis, whereas decreased tension stimulates internalization. In most cases, secretion is stimulated by external mechanical stimuli. However, in some cells mechanical forces block secretion. External stimuli also enhance membrane and fluid endocytosis in several cell types. Transduction of mechanical stimuli into changes in exocytosis/endocytosis may involve the cytoskeleton, stretch-activated channels, integrins, phospholipases, tyrosine kinases, and cAMP.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
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215 articles.
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