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Reconstruction of integrin activation.

ABSTRACT: Integrins are integral membrane proteins that mediate cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesion. They are important for vascular development and hematopoiesis, immune and inflammatory responses, and hemostasis. Integrins are also signaling receptors that can transmit information bidirectionally across plasma membranes. Research in the past 2 decades has made progress in unraveling the mechanisms of integrin signaling and brings the field to the moment of attempting synthetic reconstruction of the signaling pathways in vitro. Reconstruction of biologic processes provides stringent tests of our understanding of the process, as evidenced by studies of other biologic machines, such as ATP synthase, lactose permease, and G-protein-coupled receptors. Here, we review recent progress in reconstructing integrin signaling and the insights that we have gained through these experiments.

SUBMITTER: Ye F

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3251231 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reconstruction of integrin activation.

Ye Feng F Kim Chungho C Ginsberg Mark H MH

Blood 20110914 1

Integrins are integral membrane proteins that mediate cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesion. They are important for vascular development and hematopoiesis, immune and inflammatory responses, and hemostasis. Integrins are also signaling receptors that can transmit information bidirectionally across plasma membranes. Research in the past 2 decades has made progress in unraveling the mechanisms of integrin signaling and brings the field to the moment of attempting synthetic reconstruction of the signa ...[more]

PMID: 21921044

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Project description:Integrin-linked kinase (ILK) is an important signaling regulator that assembles into the heteroternary complex with adaptor proteins PINCH and parvin (termed the IPP complex). We recently reported that ILK is important for integrin activation in a Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell system. We previously established parental CHO cells expressing a constitutively active chimeric integrin (?IIb?6B?3) and mutant CHO cells expressing inactive ?IIb?6B?3 due to ILK deficiency. In this study, we further investigated the underlying mechanisms for ILK-dependent integrin activation. ILK-deficient mutant cells had trace levels of PINCH and ?-parvin, and transfection of ILK cDNA into the mutant cells increased not only ILK but also PINCH and ?-parvin, resulting in the restoration of ?IIb?6B?3 activation. In the parental cells expressing active ?IIb?6B?3, ILK, PINCH, and ?-parvin were co-immunoprecipitated, indicating the formation of the IPP complex. Moreover, short interfering RNA (siRNA) experiments targeting PINCH-1 or both ?- and ?-parvin mRNA in the parent cells impaired the ?IIb?6B?3 activation as well as the expression of the other components of the IPP complex. In addition, ILK mutants possessing defects in either PINCH or parvin binding failed to restore ?IIb?6B?3 activation in the mutant cells. Kindlin-2 siRNA in the parental cells impaired ?IIb?6B?3 activation without disturbing the expression of ILK. For CHO cells stably expressing wild-type ?IIb?3 that is an inactive form, overexpression of a talin head domain (THD) induced ?IIb?3 activation and the THD-induced ?IIb?3 activation was impaired by ILK siRNA through a significant reduction in the expression of the IPP complex. In contrast, overexpression of all IPP components in the ?IIb?3-expressing CHO cells further augmented THD-induced ?IIb?3 activation, whereas they did not induce ?IIb?3 activation without THD. These data suggest that the IPP complex rather than ILK plays an important role and supports integrin activation probably through stabilization of the active conformation.

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