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ArticleCell reports2021

Integrin intra-heterodimer affinity inversely correlates with integrin activatability.

Guangyu Sun, Emilie Guillon, Scott A Holley

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Article in Cell reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Guangyu SunDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, 260 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Emilie GuillonDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, 260 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Scott A HolleyDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, 260 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: scott.holley@yale.edu.
Whitney Museum of American Art · USYale University · US

Funding

The cross-scale biomechanics of tissue morphogenesisR01HD092361 · NICHD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HOLLEY, SCOTT A · 2017 to 2021
$2.1M
The Molecular Biophysics and Tissue Biomechanics of Somite MorphogenesisR01GM127876 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HOLLEY, SCOTT A · 2018 to 2021
$1.5M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD092361NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM127876
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Integrins are heterodimeric cell surface receptors composed of an α and β subunit that mediate cell adhesion to extracellular matrix proteins such as fibronectin. We previously studied integrin α5β1 activation during zebrafish somitogenesis, and in the present study, we characterize the integrin αV fibronectin receptors. Integrins are activated via a conformational change, and we perform single-molecule biophysical measurements of both integrin activation via fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) and integrin intra-heterodimer stability via fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS) in living embryos. We find that integrin heterodimers that exhibit robust cell surface expression, including αVβ3, αVβ5, and αVβ6, are never activated in this in vivo context, even in the presence of fibronectin matrix. In contrast, activatable integrins, such as integrin αVβ1, and alleles of αVβ3, αVβ5, αVβ6 that are biased to the active conformation exhibit poor cell surface expression and have a higher intra-heterodimer dissociation constant (K

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AnimalsHumansIntegrinsZebrafishIntegrinscell adhesionfibronectinfluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopyfluorescence lifetime imagingfluorescence resonance energy transferintegrinintra-heterodimer stabilitymolecular dynamicssomitogenesiszebrafish

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PMID34107244
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