Affinity modulation of very late antigen-5 through phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in mast cells.
Adhesiveness of integrins is up-regulated rapidly by a number of molecules, including growth factors, cytokines, chemokines, and other cell surface receptors, through a mechanism termed inside-out signaling. The inside-out signaling pathways are thought to alter integrin affinity for ligand, or cell surface distribution of integrin by diffusion/clustering. However, it remains to be clarified whether any physiologically relevant agonists induce a rapid change in the affinity of beta1 integrins and how ligand-binding affinity is modulated upon stimulation. In this study, we reported that affinity of beta1 integrin very late Ag-5 ( VLA-5) for fibronectin was rapidly increased in bone marrow-derived mast cells by Ag cross-linking of FcepsilonRI. Ligand-binding affinity of VLA-5 was also augmented by receptor tyrosine kinases when the phospholipase Cgamma-1/protein kinase C pathway was inhibited. Wortmannin suppressed induction of the high affinity state VLA-5 in either case. Conversely, introduction of a constitutively active p110 subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase ( PI 3-kinase) increased the binding affinity for fibronectin. Failure of a constitutively active Akt to stimulate adhesion suggested that the affinity modulation mechanisms mediated by PI 3-kinase are distinct from the mechanisms to control growth and apoptosis by PI 3-kinase. Taken together, our findings demonstrated that the increase of affinity of VLA-5 was induced by physiologically relevant stimuli and PI 3-kinase was a critical affinity modulator of VLA-5.[1]References
- Affinity modulation of very late antigen-5 through phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in mast cells. Kinashi, T., Asaoka, T., Setoguchi, R., Takatsu, K. J. Immunol. (1999) [Pubmed]
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