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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 275, Issue 40, Pages 30970-30976Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M003946200
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Junctional adhesion molecule (JAM) is an integral membrane protein that belongs to the immunoglobulin superfamily, localizes at tight junctions, and regulates both paracellular permeability and leukocyte transmigration. To investigate molecular determinants of JAM function, the extracellular domain of murine JAM was produced as a recombinant soluble protein (rsJAM) in insect cells, rsJAM consisted in large part of noncovalent homodimers, as assessed by analytical ultracentrifugation, JAM dimers were also detected at the surface of Chinese hamster ovary cells transfected with murine JAM, as evaluated by cross-linking and immunoprecipitation. Furthermore, fluid-phase rsJAM bound dose-dependently solid-phase rsJAM, and such hemophilic binding was inhibited by anti-JAM Fab BV11, but not by Fab BV12, Interestingly, Fab BV11 exclusively bound rsJAM dimers (but not monomers) in solution, whereas Fab BV12 bound both dimers and monomers, Finally, we mapped the BV11 and BV12 epitopes to a largely overlapping sequence in proximity of the extracellular amino terminus of JAM, me hypothesize that rsJAM dimerization induces a BV11-positive conformation which in turn is critical for rsJAM hemophilic interactions. Dimerization and hemophilic binding may contribute to both adhesive function and junctional organization of JAM.
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