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Alison McDowall, David Inwald, Birgit Leitinger, Alison Jones, Ri Liesner, Nigel Klein, Nancy Hogg
Published in Volume 111, Issue 1
J Clin Invest. 2003; 111(1):51–60 doi:10.1172/JCI14076
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Comparison of the affinity and avidity state of integrins. (a) Control (black line) and patient (gray region) T cells incubated with mAbs 24 (β2 integrin activation reporter) or HUTS 21 (β1 integrin activation reporter) at 25 μg/ml, or ICAM-1Fc (300 μg/ml) or VCAM-1Fc (2 μg/ml) for 20 minutes at 37°C in the presence of 0.5 mM MnCl2; control (dotted line) and patient (dashed line) T cells incubated with mAbs or soluble ligand as above for 20 minutes at 4°C in the presence of 1 mM EDTA. Data are from one representative experiment (n = 3). (b) T cells were either unstimulated or treated with 5 mM Mg2+/1 mM EGTA, 50 nM PdBu, or 5 μM thapsigargin then labeled with LFA-1 mAb G25.2 and analyzed by confocal microscopy. A false color scheme is employed, which depicts the intensity of the fluorescent signal from blue (low) to yellow (high) (2). One optical section is shown at midheight of the cells. Data are representative of four experiments. The total fluorescent signal was quantified and averaged over four experiments as follows: no treatment, control 61.5 ± 5.0, patient 98.8 ± 4.9; Mg2+/EGTA, control 59.5 ± 3.5, patient 105.5 ± 6.8; PdBu, control 78.8 ± 2.9, patient 101.0 ± 1.8; thapsigargin, control 81.0 ± 3.4, patient 96.5 ± 6.6.