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ArticleLife science alliance2022

New insights into the phosphorylation of the threonine motif of the β1 integrin cytoplasmic domain.

Ralph T Böttcher, Nico Strohmeyer, Jonas Aretz, Reinhard Fässler

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Article in Life science alliance, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ralph T BöttcherDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3050-7163
Nico StrohmeyerDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5985-9800
Jonas AretzDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.
Reinhard FässlerDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany faessler@biochem.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-0145-6937
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry · DEBoard of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology · CH

Funding

European Research Council 810104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Integrins require an activation step before ligand binding and signaling that is mediated by talin and kindlin binding to the β integrin cytosolic domain (β-tail). Conflicting reports exist about the contribution of phosphorylation of a conserved threonine motif in the β1-tail (β1-pT788/pT789) to integrin activation. We show that widely used and commercially available antibodies against β1-pT788/pT789 integrin do not detect specific β1-pT788/pT789 integrin signals in immunoblots of several human and mouse cell lysates but bind bi-phosphorylated threonine residues in numerous proteins, which were identified by mass spectrometry experiments. Furthermore, we found that fibroblasts and epithelial cells expressing the phospho-mimicking β1-TT788/789DD integrin failed to activate β1 integrins and displayed reduced integrin ligand binding, adhesion initiation and cell spreading. These cellular defects are specifically caused by the inability of kindlin to bind β1-tail polypeptides carrying a phosphorylated threonine motif or phospho-mimicking TT788/789DD substitutions. Our findings indicate that the double-threonine motif in β1-class integrins is not a major phosphorylation site but if phosphorylated would curb integrin function.

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Integrin beta1ThreonineAmino Acid MotifsAnimalsCells, CulturedFibroblastsHumansMicePhosphorylationIntegrin beta1Threonine

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PMID34996844
PMCPMC8761493
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