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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 8, Pages 698-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41594-018-0093-x
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- NIH [U54HL119893, R01GM098672, S10OD020054, S10OD021741, P41CA196276]
- University of California Office of the President Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
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Integrins are conformationally flexible cell surface receptors that survey the extracellular environment for their cognate ligands. Interactions with ligands are thought to be linked to global structural rearrangements involving transitions between bent, extended-closed and extended-open forms. Thus far, structural details are lacking for integrins in the extended conformations due to extensive flexibility between the headpiece and legs in this conformation. Here we present single-particle electron cryomicroscopy structures of human alpha v beta 8 integrin in the extended-closed conformation, which has been considered to be a low-affinity intermediate. Our structures show the headpiece rotating about a flexible alpha v knee, suggesting a ligand surveillance mechanism for integrins in their extended-closed form. Our model predicts that the extended conformation is mainly stabilized by an interface formed between flexible loops in the upper and lower domains of the alpha v leg. Confirming these findings with the alpha v beta 3 integrin suggests that our model of stabilizing the extended-closed conformation is generalizable to other integrins.
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