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Vimentin Phosphorylation Underlies Myofibroblast Sensitivity to Withaferin A In
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Bargagna-Mohan P
; Lei L
; Thompson A
; Shaw C
; Kasahara K
; Inagaki M
; Mohan R
PLoS One
2015[]; 10
(7
): e0133399
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Vimentin is a newly recognized target for corneal fibrosis. Using primary rabbit
corneal fibroblasts and myofibroblasts we show that myofibroblasts, unlike
fibroblasts, display impaired cell spreading and cell polarization, which is
associated with increased levels of soluble serine-38 phosphorylated vimentin
(pSer38Vim). This pSer38Vim isoform is inefficiently incorporated into growing
vimentin intermediate filaments (IFs) of myofibroblasts during cell spreading,
and as a result, myofibroblasts maintain higher soluble pSer38Vim levels compared
to fibroblasts. Moreover, the soluble vimentin-targeting small molecule and
fibrotic inhibitor withaferin A (WFA) causes a potent blockade of cell spreading
selectively in myofibroblasts by targeting soluble pSer38Vim for
hyperphosphorylation. WFA treatment does not induce vimentin hyperphosphorylation
in fibroblasts. This hyperphosphorylated pSer38Vim species in WFA-treated
myofibroblasts becomes complexed with adaptor protein filamin A (FlnA), and these
complexes appear as short squiggles when displaced from focal adhesions. The
extracellular-signal regulated kinase (ERK) is also phosphorylated (pERK) in
response to WFA, but surprisingly, pERK does not enter the nucleus but remains
bound to pSer38Vim in cytoplasmic complexes. Using a model of corneal alkali
injury, we show that fibrotic corneas of wild type mice possess high levels of
pERK, whereas injured corneas of vimentin-deficient (Vim KO) mice that heal with
reduced fibrosis have highly reduced pERK expression. Finally, WFA treatment
causes a decrease in pERK and pSer38Vim expression in healing corneas of wild
type mice. Taken together, these findings identify a hereto-unappreciated role
for pSer38Vim as an important determinant of myofibroblast sensitivity to WFA.