Cellule myoépithéliale

Les cellules myoépithéliales sont des cellules musculaires lisses à propriété contractile. Elles sont situées entre les cellules épithéliales sécrétrices et la lame basale (dans la partie distale des canaux excréteurs), généralement dans les acini glandulaires (2 à 3 par acinus). La contraction de ces dernières favorise l'excrétion de la substance sécrétée par une glande exocrine. Des filaments d'actine, de myosine et de desmine leur confèrent ces propriétés contractiles. Elle est régulée par des fibres nerveuses végétatives. Elles sont présentes à la jonction derme/épiderme dans les cavités sécrétantes des glandes sudorales. On les retrouve entre autres dans les glandes mammaires. D'ailleurs, selon de récentes données, ces cellules seraient à l'origine des tumeurs mammaires, et sont donc un sujet de recherche en biologie cellulaire activement étudié à travers le monde. Notes et références Lien externe *

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Loss of organization is a principle feature of cancers; therefore it is important to understand how normal adult multilineage tissues, such as bilayered secretory epithelia, establish and maintain their architectures. The self-organization process that drives heterogeneous mixtures of cells to form organized tissues is well studied in embryology and with mammalian cell lines that were abnormal or engineered. Here we used a micropatterning approach that confined cells to a cylindrical geometry combined with an algorithm to quantify changes of cellular distribution over time to measure the ability of different cell types to self-organize relative to each other. Using normal human mammary epithelial cells enriched into pools of the two principal lineages, luminal and myoepithelial cells, we demonstrated that bilayered organization in mammary epithelium was driven mainly by lineage-specific differential E-cadherin expression, but that P-cadherin contributed specifically to organization of the myoepithelial layer. Disruption of the actomyosin network or of adherens junction proteins resulted in either prevention of bilayer formation or loss of preformed bilayers, consistent with continual sampling of the local microenvironment by cadherins. Together these data show that self-organization is an innate and reversible property of communities of normal adult human mammary epithelial cells.

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During tissue development, cells are able to form different layers and to self organize. At the moment, there are two principal hypotheses that try to explain cell sorting. The so called differential adhesion hypothesis (DAH) posits that cells organize according to the level of expression of cell-cell adhesion proteins so as to reduce free-energy in the system. The second hypothesis explains the formation of different germ layers according to cortical tension among cells of distinct phenotypes. For this work, we wanted to study cell sorting in the mammary glands, which are bilayered branching structures composed of outer myoepithelial (MEP) and inner luminal epithelial cells (LEP). Both sorting hypotheses were tested using bioengineered cell culture substrata. Using arrays of micro-wells that were cast in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) coupled with quantitative image analysis, we observed that cell sorting occurred over time between LEP and MEP that were isolated by fluorescence-activated cell sorting from primary human mammary epithelial cells. Inhibitors of specific cadherins were able to prevent cell sorting in accordance with the DAH. However, chemical inhibitors of cytoskeletal proteins, which effectively prevented the cells from modulating their innate elasticity, also prevented cell sorting suggesting cortical tension also plays an important role. Thus, our data suggests a third hypothesis, which is essentially a unification of the original two, such that differences in cortical tension are essentially lineage-specific and are governed wholly or in-part by cell-cell adhesion molecules. Experimental resolution of this hypothesis is being actively pursued

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Ovarian hormones control mammary gland development and impinge on breast carcinogenesis acting via their cognate receptors in the luminal epithelium. The extracellular matrix has a key role in physiology and disease but how the two are linked is poorly understood. Here we show that deletion of the secreted protease Adamts18 delays mammary gland development. The proteaseâs role is mammary epithelial intrinsic and required for stem cell function and epithelial regeneration potential. Progesterone controls Adamts18 in the myoepithelium through upregulation of Wnt-4 expression with ensuing canonical Wnt signaling activation in basal cells. IP-Mass Spec shows that ADAMTS18 has binding partners located in the ECM and basement membrane. Consistent with Adamts18 being an important regulator of ECM function, deletion results in increased Collagen I and IV, Laminin, and Fibronectin deposition and synergizes genetically with the basal membrane proteoglycan Collagen18a1 in controlling mammary stem cell function. In vitro, Collagen18a1 and Fibronectin are cleaved by Adamts18. RNAseq analysis reveals that the stem cell regulatory hippo pathway is downstream of Adamts18 with consequent reduction of Fgfr2 expression. Our findings link hormonal signaling in luminal mammary epithelial cells to ECM remodeling via Adamts18, and demonstrate the importance of the ECM for stem cell function in the mammary gland.

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