Página principal > Artículos > A functional analysis on the interspecies interaction between mouse LFA-1 and human intercellular adhesion molecule-1 at the cell level
Resumen: The interaction between intercellular adhesion molecules (ICAM) and the integrin leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) is crucial for the regulation of several physiological and pathophysiological processes like cell-mediated elimination of tumor or virus infected cells, cancer metastasis, or inflammatory and autoimmune processes. Using purified proteins it was reported a species restriction for the interaction of ICAM-1 and LFA-1, being mouse ICAM-1 able to interact with human LFA-1 but not human ICAM-1 with mouse LFA-1. However, in vivo results employing tumor cells transfected with human ICAM-1 suggest that functionally mouse LFA-1 can recognize human ICAM-1. In order to clarify the interspecies cross-reactivity of the ICAM-1/LFA-1 interaction, we have performed functional studies analyzing the ability of human soluble ICAM-1 and human/mouse LFA-1 derived peptides to inhibit cell aggregation and adhesion as well as cell-mediated cytotoxicity in both mouse and human systems. In parallel, the affinity of the interaction between mouse LFA-1-derived peptides and human ICAM-1 was determined by calorimetry assays. According to the results obtained, it seems that human ICAM-1 is able to interact with mouse LFA-1 on intact cells, which should be taking into account when using humanized mice and xenograft models for the study of immune-related processes. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01817 Año: 2017 Publicado en: Frontiers in Immunology 8, DEC (2017), 817 [12 pp] ISSN: 1664-3224 Factor impacto JCR: 5.511 (2017) Categ. JCR: IMMUNOLOGY rank: 30 / 155 = 0.194 (2017) - Q1 - T1 Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 2.803 - Immunology and Allergy (Q1) - Immunology (Q1)