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Blood, 15 April 2004, Vol. 103, No. 8, pp. 3013-3019.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on December 18, 2003; DOI 10.1182/blood-2003-07-2201.

Submitted July 2, 2003
Accepted December 2, 2003
EWI-2 modulates lymphocyte integrin 4 1 functions
Tatiana V Kolesnikova, Christopher S Stipp, Ravi M Rao, William S Lane, Francis W Luscinskas, and Martin E Hemler*
CIA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Harvard Microchemistry Facility, Cambridge, MA, USA
* Corresponding author; email: Martin_Hemler{at}DFCI.Harvard.EDU.
The most prominent cell surface integrin 4 1 partner, a 70 kDa protein, was isolated from MOLT-4 T leukemia cells, using anti- 4 1 integrin antibody-coated beads. By mass spectrometry, this protein was identified as EWI-2, a previously described cell surface partner for tetraspanin proteins CD9 and CD81. Wild type EWI-2 over-expression had no effect on MOLT-4 cell tethering and adhesion strengthening on the 4 ligand, VCAM-1, in shear flow assays. However, EWI-2 markedly impaired spreading and ruffling on VCAM-1. In contrast, a mutant EWI-2 molecule, with a different cytoplasmic tail, neither impaired cell spreading nor associated with 4 1 and CD81. The endogenous wild type EWI-2-CD81- 4 1 complex was fully soluble, and highly specific as seen by the absence of other MOLT-4 cell surface proteins. Also it was relatively small in size (0.5-4x106), as estimated by size exclusion chromatography. Over-expression of EWI-2 in MOLT-4 cells caused reorganization of cell surface CD81, increased the extent of CD81-CD81, CD81- 4 1, and 4 1- 4 1 associations, and increased the apparent size of CD81- 4 1 complexes. We suggest that EWI-2 dependent reorganization of 4 1-CD81 complexes on the cell surface is responsible for EWI-2 effects on integrin-dependent morphology and motility functions.

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