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SUBMITTER: Fan Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5013657 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fan Zhichao Z McArdle Sara S Marki Alex A Mikulski Zbigniew Z Gutierrez Edgar E Engelhardt Britta B Deutsch Urban U Ginsberg Mark M Groisman Alex A Ley Klaus K
Nature communications 20160831
Neutrophils are essential for innate immunity and inflammation and many neutrophil functions are β2 integrin-dependent. Integrins can extend (E(+)) and acquire a high-affinity conformation with an 'open' headpiece (H(+)). The canonical switchblade model of integrin activation proposes that the E(+) conformation precedes H(+), and the two are believed to be structurally linked. Here we show, using high-resolution quantitative dynamic footprinting (qDF) microscopy combined with a homogenous confor ...[more]