Nature Communications (May 2017)

L-selectin mechanochemistry restricts neutrophil priming in vivo

  • Zhenghui Liu,
  • Tadayuki Yago,
  • Nan Zhang,
  • Sumith R. Panicker,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Longbiao Yao,
  • Padmaja Mehta-D’souza,
  • Lijun Xia,
  • Cheng Zhu,
  • Rodger P. McEver

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15196
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Neutrophil adhesion is tightly regulated to enforce protective immunity, but it is unclear how mechanochemical processes such as catch bonds and slip bonds modulate neutrophilsin vivo. Here the authors show that a point mutation in the adhesion molecule L-selectin alters mechanochemical regulation to affect neutrophil functions in mice.