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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 100, Issue 5, Pages 2403-2408Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0438060100
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-48675, P01 HL048675] Funding Source: Medline
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The affinity of the extracellular domain of integrins for ligand is regulated by conformational changes signaled from the cytoplasm. Alternative types of conformational movement in the ligand binding headpiece have been proposed. In one study, electron micrograph image averages of the headpiece of integrin aVbeta3 show two different conformations. The open conformation of the headpiece is present when a ligand mimetic peptide is bound and differs from the closed conformation in the presence of an obtuse angle between the beta3 subunit hybrid and I-like domains. We tested the hypothesis that opening of the hybrid-l-like domain interface increases ligand-binding affinity by mutationally introducing an N-glycosylation site into it. Both beta3 and beta1 integrin glycan wedge mutants exhibit constitutively high affinity for physiological ligands. The data uniquely support one model of integrin activation and suggest that movement at the interface with the hybrid domain pulls down the C-terminal helix of the I-like domain and activates its metal ion-dependent adhesion site, analogously to activation of the integrin I domain.
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