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CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 641-651Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00371-X
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Integrins are alphabeta heterodimeric cell-surface receptors that are vital to the survival and function of nucleated cells. They recognize aspartic-acid- or a glutamic-acid-based sequence motifs in structurally diverse ligands. Integrin recognition of most ligands is divalent cation dependent and conformationally sensitive. In addition to this common property, there is an underlying binding specificity between integrins and ligands for which there has been no structural basis. The recently reported crystal structures of the extracellular segment of an integrin in its unliganded state and in complex with a prototypical Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) ligand have provided an atomic basis for cation-mediated binding of aspartic-acid-based ligands rho integrins. They also serve as a basis for modelling other integrins in complex with larger physiologic ligands. These models provide new insights into the molecular basis for ligand binding specificity in integrins and its regulation by activation-cl riven tertiary and quaternary changes.
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