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Record W4407545332 · doi:10.1080/21688370.2025.2465048

β-arrestin 1 and integrin-linked kinase interact in epidermal keratinocytes and regulate cell motility

2025· article· en· W4407545332 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueTissue Barriers · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicReceptor Mechanisms and Signaling
Canadian institutionsWestern UniversityChildren’s Health Research InstituteLawson Health Research Institute
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsCell biologyIntegrin-linked kinaseArrestinBiologyMotilityIntegrinEpidermis (zoology)Signal transductionScaffold proteinCell migrationG protein-coupled receptorCellProtein kinase AKinaseCyclin-dependent kinase 2AnatomyBiochemistry

Abstract

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Arrestins and integrin-linked kinase (ILK) are important scaffold proteins that regulate myriad cell functions in metazoans. β-arrestins, first identified as critical components in G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling pathways, participate in inflammatory, immunomodulatory and tissue repair processes in GPCR-dependent and -independent manners. ILK is a central mediator of signaling cascades elicited by activation of integrins, regulating cell motility, proliferation, and mechanotransduction. In the epidermis, ILK is essential for maintenance of barrier function, hair follicle development, melanocyte colonization and regeneration after injury. In this tissue, β-arrestin 2 mitigates inflammatory processes and development of allergic dermatitis, which also is associated with loss of epidermal barrier function. However, the functional role of β-arrestin 1 in epidermal cells is poorly understood. We now report that β-arrestin 1 directly binds ILK, forming hitherto unidentified protein complexes in epidermal keratinocytes. In the absence of exogenous GPCR ligand stimulation, β-arrestin 1 and ILK are found throughout the cytoplasm in epidermal keratinocytes, and also co-localize to plasma membrane regions associated with cell protrusions. Inactivation of the genes that encode both β-arrestin 1 and 2 attenuates forward cell migration, whereas expression of ILK together with β-arrestin 1 restores cell motility. The cooperative effect of ILK and β-arrestin 1 in promoting directional cell migration may have important implications for epidermal regeneration and reestablishment of barrier function after injury.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.574

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it