U2OS Adhesion Isolations +/- CytochalasinD and Neomycin

U2OS cells preferentially utilise integrin alphaV beta5 in adhesion complexes when grown under standard cell culture conditions for 3 days. AlphaV beta5 can be found in both classical 'Focal' adhesions and in novel 'Reticular' adhesions that do not associate with F-actin or other known adhesion protein components. In order to identify components of reticular adhesions, cells were treated with cytochalasinD in order to disrupt F-actin and promote loss of focal adhesions. Remaining reticular adhesion complexes were stabilised with DTBP crosslinking reagent before adhesion complexes were isolated. Preliminary data suggested that depletion of PIP2 by Neomycin treatment would lead to disruption of reticular adhesions preferentially over focal adhesions and so this manipulation was included in these experiments.