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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Integrins are hetero-dimeric (alpha and beta subunits) signal transducer proteins involved in cell adhesions and migrations. The cytosolic tails of integrins are essential for transmitting bi-directional signaling and also implicated in maintaining the resting states of the receptors. In addition, cytosolic tails of integrin often undergo post-translation modification like phosphorylation. However, consequences of phosphorylation on the structures and interactions are not clear. The leukocyte-specific integrin alphaMbeta2 is essential for myeloid cell adhesion, phagocytosis and degranulation. In this work, we determine solution structures of myristoylated cytosolic tail of alphaM and a Ser phosphorylated variant in DPC micelles by NMR spectroscopy. Further, the interactions between alphaM tails, non phosphorylated and phosphorylated, with beta2 tail are investigated by NMR and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). The 3D structures of the 24-residue cytosolic tail of alphaM or phosphorylated alphaM are characterized by an N-terminal amphipathic helix and a loop at the C-terminus. The residues at the loop contain packing interactions with the hydrophobic face of the helix. 15N-1H HSQC experiments identify residues of alphaM and beta2 tails, those may be involved in formation of tail-tail hetero-complex. We have further examined interactions between myristoylated beta2 tail, in DPC micelles, with dansylated alphaM tail peptides by FRET. These studies reveal enhanced interactions between alphaM or phosphorylated alphaM tails with beta2 tail with Kd ~ 5.2+0.6 alphaM and Kd ~4.4+0.7 alphaM, respectively. Docked structures of tail/tail complexes delineated that alphaM/beta2 interface at the cytosolic region could be sustained by a network of polar interactions, ionic and/or hydrogen bonds.

Structures and interaction analyses of the integrin alphaMbeta2 cytoplasmic tails.,Chua GL, Tang XY, Amalraj M, Tan SM, Bhattacharjya S J Biol Chem. 2011 Nov 3. PMID:22052909^[1]

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