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doi:10.1083/jcb.200809173
The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 183, No. 3, 375-376
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Dances with leukocytes: how tetraspanin-enriched microdomains assemble to form endothelial adhesive platforms
Klaus Ley and
Hong Zhang
Division of Inflammation Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA 92037
Correspondence to Klaus Ley: klaus{at}liai.org
Rather than just providing an unstructured adhesive surface for leukocytes, cytokine-activated endothelial cells assemble preexisting tetraspanin-enriched microdomains to form endothelial adhesive platforms (EAPs) and endothelial docking structures. In this issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, Barreiro et al. (Barreiro, O., M. Zamai, M. Yáñez-Mó, E. Tejera, P. López-Romero, P.N. Monk, E. Gratton, V.R. Caiolfa, and F. Sánchez-Madrid. 2008. J. Cell Biol. 183:527–542) show how the immunoglobulin superfamily adhesion molecules intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)–1 and vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)–1 form nanoclusters with the tetraspanins CD9 and CD151 in a physiologically relevant system. Furthermore, convincing biochemical data suggest that these structures are distinct from lipid rafts.
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