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Role for Plastin in Host Defense Distinguishes Integrin Signaling from Cell Adhesion and Spreading
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Role for Plastin in Host Defense Distinguishes Integrin Signaling from Cell Adhesion and Spreading

Hua Chen, Attila Mocsai, Hong Zhang, Rong-Xian Ding, J.Hiroshi Morisaki, Michael White, Jacob M. Rothfork, Patrick Heiser, Emma Colucci-Guyon, Clifford A. Lowell, …
Immunity (Cambridge, Mass.), v 19(1)
01 Jul 2003
PMID: 12871642
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S1074-7613(03)00172-9View
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Abstract

Integrin ligation activates both cell adhesion and signal transduction, in part through reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton. Plastins (also known as fimbrins) are actin-crosslinking proteins of the cortical cytoskeleton present in all cells and conserved from yeast to mammals. Here we show that plastin-deficient polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) are deficient in killing the bacterial pathogen Staphylococcus aureus in vivo and in vitro, despite normal phagocytosis. Like integrin β2-deficient PMN, plastin-deficient PMN cannot generate an adhesion-dependent respiratory burst, because of markedly diminished integrin-dependent syk activation. Unlike β2 –/– PMN, plastin-deficient PMN adhere and spread normally. Deficiency of plastin thus separates the classical integrin receptor functions of adhesion and spreading from intracellular signal transduction.

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