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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages 1446-1454Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.062158
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI-050940, R01 AI050940] Funding Source: Medline
- NIBIB NIH HHS [EB-001975, P41 EB001975] Funding Source: Medline
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Some recently studied biological noncovalent bonds have shown increased lifetime when stretched by mechanical force. In each case these counterintuitive catch-bonds'' have transitioned into ordinary slip-bonds'' that become increasingly shorter lived as the tensile force on the bond is further increased. We describe analytically how these results are supported by a physical model whereby the ligand escapes the receptor binding site via two alternative routes, a catch-pathway that is opposed by the applied force and a slip-pathway that is promoted by force. The model predicts under what conditions and at what critical force the catch-to-slip transition would be observed, as well as the degree to which the bond lifetime is enhanced at the critical force. The model is applied to four experimentally studied systems taken from the literature, involving the binding of P- and L-selectins to sialyl Lewis(X) oligosaccharide-containing ligands. Good quantitative fit to the experimental data is obtained, both for experiments with a constant force and for experiments where the force increases linearly with time.
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