title: Role of the lectin domain of Mac-1/CR3 (CD11b/CD18) in regulating intercellular adhesion.
abstract: Leukocyte diapedesis requires that Mac-1/CR3-dependent adhesion be regulated so that cells can move from one attachment site to another. The high affinity adhesion state of Mac-1/CR3 is generated when it forms a lectin-dependent complex with the receptor for urokinase plasminogen activator (uPAR; CD87). The extensively glycosylated uPAR binds to the same C-terminal lectin domain of CD11b that had previously been shown to prime Mac-1/CR3 for cytotoxic degranulation in response to beta-glucan. uPAR and beta-glucan compete for a lectin site that is near to the CBRM1/23 epitope (residues 943-1047) at the C-terminus of CD11b, and thus the lectin domain is critical to both the adhesion and cytotoxic functions of Mac-1/CR3. Adhesion is reversed when the uPA enzyme is captured by its receptor (uPAR), causing uPAR to bind to CD11b at a second site (residues 424-440) that is in between the N-terminal I-domain and the divalent cation binding region.
authors.affiliation: The James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Department of Pathology, University of Louisville, KY 40292, USA. gordon.ross@louisville.edu
authors.forename: Gordon D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D037102:Lectins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000502:physiology*; D016177:Macrophage-1 Antigen / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000378:metabolism; D055293:Receptors, Urokinase Plasminogen Activator; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D037102:Lectins; D016177:Macrophage-1 Antigen; C524899:Plaur protein, mouse; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D055293:Receptors, Urokinase Plasminogen Activator