Integrin clustering as a result of local membrane deformations and local signaling feedbacks

Federico Felizzi and Dagmar Iber

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 408, issue C, 198-211

Abstract: Integrins are essential receptors for the development and functioning of multicellular animals because they mediate cell adhesion and migration, and regulate cell proliferation and apoptosis. Ligand-dependent activation of integrins involves the formation of receptor clusters and this has been accounted both to extracellular forces as mediated by the glycocalyx as well as to intracellular forces mediated by the cytoskeleton. Here we describe a Monte Carlo simulation that considers both the binding processes on the membrane as well as the intracellular signaling processes that stabilize the open integrin conformation. We show that integrin clustering can result both from the effects of integrin avidity, as a result of membrane deformations, as well as from the locally enhanced availability of talins in the open conformation, as a result of local positive feedback signaling via PIPKIγ and PIP2. The model was carefully parameterized based on reported quantitative data and reproduces a wide range of experimental data, including results that previously appeared inconsistent.

Keywords: Monte-Carlo; Spatial distribution; Aggregation; Integrin; Talin; PIP2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.04.031

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