What type of receptor is integrin?

Integrins are a class of receptors that comprise heterodimeric type I transmembrane proteins consisting of α and β subunits. These subunits contain a large extracellular domain, a single transmembrane domain, and a short cytoplasmic tail.

What type of protein is integrin?

Integrins are crucially important because they are the main receptor proteins that cells use to both bind to and respond to the extracellular matrix. An integrin molecule is composed of two noncovalently associated transmembrane glycoprotein subunits called α and β (Figure 19-64; see also Figure 19-12B).

Are integrins genes?

Studies on integrin genes from lower and higher eukaryotes clearly indicate that integrin genes (both α and β) derived from a common ancestral gene by gene duplications.

What are types of integrins?

In regard to ligand specificity, the mammalian integrins can be broadly grouped into laminin-binding integrins (α1β1, α2β1, α3β1, α6β1, α7β1, and α6β4), collagen-binding integrins (α1β1, α2β1, α3β1, α10β1, and α11β1), leukocyte integrins (αLβ2, αMβ2, αXβ2, and αDβ2), and RGD-recognizing integrins (α5β1, αVβ1, αVβ3.

What do integrin proteins do?

Integrins regulate cellular growth, proliferation, migration, signaling, and cytokine activation and release and thereby play important roles in cell proliferation and migration, apoptosis, tissue repair, as well as in all processes critical to inflammation, infection, and angiogenesis.

How is integrin brought to the cell?

Thus integrins lie at the heart of many cellular biological processes. The attachment of the cell takes place through formation of cell adhesion complexes, which consist of integrins and many cytoplasmic proteins, such as talin, vinculin, paxillin, and alpha-actinin.

What is affinity modulation?

Integrin affinity modulation is proposed to involve the propagation of conformational changes from the cytoplasmic domains to the extracellular ligand-binding sites, leading to a direct increase in ligand-binding affinity.