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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 172, Issue 11, Pages 7060-7068Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.11.7060
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We have recently demonstrated that promatrix metalloproteinases (proMMPs), particularly proMMP-9, are potent ligands of the leukocyte beta(2) integrins. We studied here the complex formation between proMMP-9 and alpha(M)beta(2), the major MMP and integrin of neutrophils. On resting neutrophils, the proMMP-9/alpha(M)beta(2) complex was primarily detected in intracellular granules, but after cellular activation it became localized to the cell surface, as demonstrated by immunoprecipitation and double immunofluorescence. Further indication of the complex formation was that neutrophils and alpha(M)beta(2)-transfected L cells, but not the wild-type L cells or leukocyte adhesion deficiency cells, bound to immobilized proMMP-9 or its recombinant catalytic domain in a beta(2) integrin-dependent manner. Peptides that bound to the alpha(M) integrin-I domain and inhibited its complex formation with proMMP-9 prevented neutrophil migration in a transendothelial assay in vitro and in a thioglycolate-elicited peritonitis in vivo. These results suggest that the translocating proMMP-9/alpha(M)beta(2) complex may be part of the cell surface machinery guiding neutrophil migration.
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