5ES4 | pdb_00005es4

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Leukocyte integrin alpha L beta 2 headpiece structures: The alpha I domain, the pocket for the internal ligand, and concerted movements of its loops.

(2016) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113: 2940-2945

• PubMed: 26936951 Search on PubMedSearch on PubMed Central
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601379113
• Primary Citation Related Structures: 
  5E6R, 5E6S, 5E6U, 5E6V, 5E6W, 5E6X, 5ES4


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

  High-resolution crystal structures of the headpiece of lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 (integrin αLβ2) reveal how the αI domain interacts with its platform formed by the α-subunit β-propeller and β-subunit βI domains. The αLβ2 structures compared with αXβ2 structures show that the αI domain, tethered through its N-linker and a disulfide to a stable β-ribbon pillar near the center of the platform, can undergo remarkable pivoting and tilting motions that appear buffered by N-glycan decorations that differ between αL and αX subunits. Rerefined β2 integrin structures reveal details including pyroglutamic acid at the β2 N terminus and bending within the EGF1 domain. Allostery is relayed to the αI domain by an internal ligand that binds to a pocket at the interface between the β-propeller and βI domains. Marked differences between the αL and αX subunit β-propeller domains concentrate near the binding pocket and αI domain interfaces. Remarkably, movement in allostery in the βI domain of specificity determining loop 1 (SDL1) causes concerted movement of SDL2 and thereby tightens the binding pocket for the internal ligand.

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Organizational Affiliation: 
• Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, and Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204.
Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, and Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; Timothy.Springer@childrens.harvard.edu.