The Integrin Receptors: From Discovery to Structure to Medicines

Overview

Journal Immunol Rev

Specialties Allergy & Immunology
General Surgery

Date 2024 Dec 26

PMID 39724488

Authors

M Amin Arnaout

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Abstract

Innate immune cells perform vital tasks in detecting, seeking, and eliminating invading pathogens, thus ensuring host survival. However, loss of function of these cells or their overactive response to tissue injury often causes serious ailments. It is, therefore, crucial to understand at a basic level how these cells function in health and disease. A major step toward this goal came from studies I conducted in the late 1970s investigating the cause of life-threatening bacterial infections in a pediatric patient. This work led us to trace this disease to the inability of the patient's neutrophils to seek and clear infections due to an inherited deficiency in leukocyte adhesion caused by the loss of a plasma membrane glycoprotein complex now known as CD11/CD18 or β2 integrins. I followed this work by determining the 3-dimensional structures of integrins. These studies provided the foundation for understanding the unique properties of integrins in mediating bidirectional cell adhesion signaling and enabled a structure-guided design of compounds to dial down overactive integrins in common disorders, including thromboinflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

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