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Regulatory interaction of N-formyl peptide chemoattractant receptors with the membrane skeleton in human neutrophils

, , , and . J Immunol, 152 (2): 801-10 (January 1994)Klotz, K N Krotec, K L Gripentrog, J Jesaitis, A J R01-AI-22735/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States In Vitro Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. United states Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) J Immunol. 1994 Jan 15;152(2):801-10..

Abstract

The cytoskeleton and/or membrane skeleton has been implicated in the regulation of N-formyl peptide receptors. The coupling of these chemotactic receptors to the membrane skeleton was investigated in plasma membranes from unstimulated and desensitized human neutrophils using the photoreactive agonist N-formyl-met-leu-phe-lys-N epsilon-125I2(p-azidosalicylamido)ethyl-1,3'- dithiopropionate (fMLFK-125IASD). When membranes of unstimulated cells were solubilized in Triton-X 100, a detergent that does not disrupt actin filaments, only 50% of the photoaffinity-labeled receptors were solubilized sedimenting in sucrose density gradients at a rate consistent with previous reports. The remainder were found in the pellet fraction along with the membrane skeletal actin. Solubilization of the membranes in the presence of p-chloromercuriphenylsulfonic acid, elevated concentrations of KCl, or deoxyribonuclease I released receptors in parallel with actin. When membranes from neutrophils, desensitized by incubation with fMLFK-125IASD at 15 degrees C, were solubilized, nearly all receptors were recovered in the pellet fraction. Incubation of cells with the ligand at 4 degrees C inhibited desensitization partially and prevented the conversion of a significant fraction of receptors to the form associated with the membrane skeletal pellet. In these separations the photoaffinity-labeled receptors not sedimenting to the pellet cosedimented with actin. Approximately 25% of these receptors could be immunosedimented with antiactin antibodies suggesting that N-formyl peptide receptors may interact directly with actin. These results are consistent with a regulatory role for the interaction of chemotactic N-formyl peptide receptors with actin of the membrane skeleton.

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