Journal article
EWI-2 modulates lymphocyte integrin α4β1 functions
Blood, Vol.103(8), pp.3013-3019
2004
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-07-2201
PMID: 15070678
Abstract
The most prominent cell-surface integrin alpha4beta1 partner, a 70-kDa protein, was isolated from MOLT-4 T leukemia cells, using anti-alpha4beta1 integrin antibody-coated beads. By mass spectrometry, this protein was identified as EWI-2, a previously described cell-surface partner for tetraspanin proteins CD9 and CD81. Wild-type EWI-2 overexpression had no effect on MOLT-4 cell tethering and adhesion strengthening on the alpha4beta1 ligand, vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), in shear flow assays. However, EWI-2 markedly impaired spreading and ruffling on VCAM-1. In contrast, a mutant EWI-2 molecule, with a different cytoplasmic tail, neither impaired cell spreading nor associated with alpha4beta1 and CD81. The endogenous wild-type EWI-2-CD81-alpha4beta1 complex was fully soluble, and highly specific as seen by the absence of other MOLT-4 cell-surface proteins. Also, it was relatively small in size (0.5 x 10(6) Da to 4 x 10(6) Da), as estimated by size exclusion chromatography. Overexpression of EWI-2 in MOLT-4 cells caused reorganization of cell-surface CD81, increased the extent of CD81-CD81, CD81-alpha4beta1, and alpha4beta1-alpha4beta1 associations, and increased the apparent size of CD81-alpha4beta1 complexes. We suggest that EWI-2-dependent reorganization of alpha4beta1-CD81 complexes on the cell surface is responsible for EWI-2 effects on integrin-dependent morphology and motility functions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- EWI-2 modulates lymphocyte integrin α4β1 functions
- Creators
- Tatiana V KolesnikovaChristopher S StippRavi M RaoWilliam S LaneFrancis W LuscinskasMartin E Hemler
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Blood, Vol.103(8), pp.3013-3019
- DOI
- 10.1182/blood-2003-07-2201
- PMID
- 15070678
- ISSN
- 0006-4971
- eISSN
- 1528-0020
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2004
- Academic Unit
- Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Biology
- Record Identifier
- 9983992098702771
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