User:Andy Maloney/Kinesin & Microtubule Page/Surface passivation/The alpha4beta1 integrin can mediate leukocyte adhesion to casein and denatured protein substrates
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These are my notes on the paper below. Please read the paper before reading my notes.
Paper
The α4β1 integrin can mediate leukocyte adhesion to casein and denatured protein substrates
Notes
- Shows that α4β1 integrin can interact with casein and denatured albumin.
- α4β1 has a binding tripeptide, Leu-Asp-Val (LDV).
- Bovine α-casein does not have a LDV site. But, it does have an aspartic residue that is next to hydrophobic amino acids.
- This is the take home from the paper.
- They note that you need divalent cations for stuff to stick.
- They also note that because you need divalent cations for stuff to stick, this is a big indicator that an integrin is involved in the adhesion.
- I'm not clear on this.
- The possibility of using α4β1 as casein blocker for motility experiments is pretty high. I should look into it.
- They finally note that they used two types of casein fragments, one at 6 kDa and the other at 16 kDa. There are no 16 kDa casein components and so I think that they were looking at some other component in this study.
- The paper was all about α4β1 and how they should look at it more closely to figure out what other kinds of things this integrin will stick to.
