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Published online January 14, 2008
doi:10.1084/jem.20071543
The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol. 205, No. 1, 195-205
The Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1007 $30.00
© 2008 Morin et al.
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 Nonmuscle myosin heavy chain IIA mediates integrin LFA-1 de-adhesion during T lymphocyte migration

Nicole A. Morin1, Patrick W. Oakes2, Young-Min Hyun6, Dooyoung Lee4, Y. Eugene Chin1, Michael R. King5, Timothy A. Springer3, Motomu Shimaoka3, Jay X. Tang2, Jonathan S. Reichner1, and Minsoo Kim6

1 Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903
2 Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
3 The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
4 Department of Chemical Engineering, 5 Department of Biomedical Engineering, and 6 Department of Microbiologyand Immunology, David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642

CORRESPONDENCE Minsoo Kim:minsoo_kim{at}urmc.rochester.edu

Precise spatial and temporal regulation of cell adhesion and de-adhesion is critical for dynamic lymphocyte migration. Although a great deal of information has been learned about integrin lymphocyte function–associated antigen (LFA)-1 adhesion, the mechanism that regulates efficient LFA-1 de-adhesion from intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 during T lymphocyte migration is unknown. Here, we show that nonmuscle myosin heavy chain IIA (MyH9) is recruited to LFA-1 at the uropod of migrating T lymphocytes, and inhibition of the association of MyH9 with LFA-1 results in extreme uropod elongation, defective tail detachment, and decreased lymphocyte migration on ICAM-1, without affecting LFA-1 activation by chemokine CXCL-12. This defect was reversed by a small molecule antagonist that inhibits both LFA-1 affinity and avidity regulation, but not by an antagonist that inhibits only affinity regulation. Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy of the contact zone between migrating T lymphocytes and ICAM-1 substrate revealed that inactive LFA-1 is selectively localized to the posterior of polarized T lymphocytes, whereas active LFA-1 is localized to their anterior. Thus, during T lymphocyte migration, uropodal adhesion depends on LFA-1 avidity, where MyH9 serves as a key mechanical link between LFA-1 and the cytoskeleton that is critical for LFA-1 de-adhesion.

Abbreviations used: DIC, differential interference contrast; ICAM, intercellular adhesion molecule; MLC, myosin regulatory light chain; MyH9, nonmuscle myosin heavy chain IIA; ROCK, Rho-associated kinase; siRNA, small interfering RNA; TIRF, total internal reflection fluorescence.


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