Itga7

Summary

Gene Symbol: Itga7
Description: integrin alpha 7
Alias: alpha7, integrin alpha-7
Species: mouse

Publications

  1. Laminin-111 protein therapy prevents muscle disease in the mdx mouse model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
    Jachinta E Rooney
    Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV 89557, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:7991-6
  2. Alpha7 integrin expression is negatively regulated by deltaEF1 during skeletal myogenesis
    Poonam Jethanandani
    Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 0640, USA
    J Biol Chem 280:36037-46
  3. Role for the alpha7beta1 integrin in vascular development and integrity
    Nichole L Flintoff Dye
    Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Manville Health Science Building, Reno, 89557, USA
    Dev Dyn 234:11-21
  4. Cdx2 is required for correct cell fate specification and differentiation of trophectoderm in the mouse blastocyst
    Dan Strumpf
    Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto M5G 1X5, Ontario, Canada
    Development 132:2093-102
  5. Alpha7 integrin mediates neurite outgrowth of distinct populations of adult sensory neurons
    Natalie J Gardiner
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
    Mol Cell Neurosci 28:229-40
  6. Force transmission, compliance, and viscoelasticity are altered in the alpha7-integrin-null mouse diaphragm
    M A Lopez
    Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 288:C282-9
  7. Beta1 integrins in muscle, but not in motor neurons, are required for skeletal muscle innervation
    Martin Schwander
    Department of Cell Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Disease, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
    J Neurosci 24:8181-91
  8. Integrins in the mouse myotome: developmental changes and differences between the epaxial and hypaxial lineage
    Fernanda Bajanca
    Departamento de Biologia Animal, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
    Dev Dyn 231:402-15
  9. ADP-ribosylation of integrin alpha7 modulates the binding of integrin alpha7beta1 to laminin
    Zhefeng Zhao
    Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, 104 Willard Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
    Biochem J 385:309-17
  10. Genetic compensation for sarcoglycan loss by integrin alpha7beta1 in muscle
    Michael J Allikian
    Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    J Cell Sci 117:3821-30

Scientific Experts

  • Charles ffrench-Constant
  • J Rossant
  • Nicolai Miosge
  • S C Previtali
  • Thomas U Mayer
  • Dean J Burkin
  • Thomas Samson
  • Stefan Plantman
  • Stephen J Kaufman
  • Jianming Liu
  • Praveen B Gurpur
  • Jachinta E Rooney
  • Marni D Boppart
  • Ulrike Mayer
  • Helga von der Mark
  • Jennifer V Welser
  • Nichole L Flintoff Dye
  • Poonam Jethanandani
  • C C Yao
  • Noriyuki Nishioka
  • J V Welser
  • U Mayer
  • Justin D Lathia
  • Ania L Gheyara
  • Laurin M Hanft
  • Chun Guo
  • Paul Scowen
  • Nichole L Flintoff-Dye
  • Louis F Reichardt
  • Dan Strumpf
  • Natalie J Gardiner
  • Zhefeng Zhao
  • M A Lopez
  • Sandra Blaess
  • R H Kramer
  • Fernanda Bajanca
  • Michael J Allikian
  • Martin Schwander
  • Randall H Kramer
  • G Saher
  • Jianqiao Xiao
  • Chi Shing Chan
  • A Sonnenberg
  • Anne Rosbottom
  • B L Ziober
  • San Pun
  • A van Der Flier
  • M Sixt
  • E Klaffky
  • G Collo
  • A Werner
  • Sonja E Volker
  • Nicole Alexander
  • R D Cohn
  • Kazuki Nakao
  • Hiroko Sato
  • Mitsunori Ota
  • Shinji Yamamoto
  • Hiroshi Kiyonari
  • Atsushi Sawada
  • Hiroshi Sasaki
  • H R Burkin
  • Tim Magnus
  • Rene St-Arnaud
  • Rene St Arnaud
  • Daniel J Bogan
  • Maeve A Caldwell
  • Takako Sasaki
  • Lin Mei
  • Keling Zang
  • N Flintoff-Dye
  • Charles Ffrench Constant
  • Joe N Kornegay
  • Kathleen D Keef
  • Mark P Mattson
  • James M Ervasti
  • N Flintoff Dye
  • Ainara Vallejo-Illarramendi
  • S J Kaufman
  • Ainara Vallejo Illarramendi
  • Cherie A Singer
  • Mahendra S Rao
  • Margaret Elorza
  • Mohamed R Mughal
  • William T Gerthoffer
  • Naomi Lange
  • Bruce Patton
  • D Mark Eckley
  • Shoukat Dedhar
  • N D Lange

Detail Information

Publications62

  1. Laminin-111 protein therapy prevents muscle disease in the mdx mouse model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
    Jachinta E Rooney
    Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV 89557, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:7991-6
    ..These findings demonstrate that laminin-111 is a highly potent therapeutic agent for the mdx mouse model of DMD and represents a paradigm for the systemic delivery of extracellular matrix proteins as therapies for genetic diseases...
  2. Alpha7 integrin expression is negatively regulated by deltaEF1 during skeletal myogenesis
    Poonam Jethanandani
    Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 0640, USA
    J Biol Chem 280:36037-46
    b>Alpha7 integrin levels increase dramatically as myoblasts differentiate to myotubes. A negative regulatory element with putative sites for deltaEF1 is present in the alpha7 proximal promoter region...
  3. Role for the alpha7beta1 integrin in vascular development and integrity
    Nichole L Flintoff Dye
    Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Manville Health Science Building, Reno, 89557, USA
    Dev Dyn 234:11-21
    ..To identify the expression pattern of the alpha7 integrin in these tissues during embryonic development, alpha7 integrin chain knockout mice were generated by a ..
  4. Cdx2 is required for correct cell fate specification and differentiation of trophectoderm in the mouse blastocyst
    Dan Strumpf
    Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto M5G 1X5, Ontario, Canada
    Development 132:2093-102
    ..Thus, Cdx2 is essential for segregation of the ICM and TE lineages at the blastocyst stage by ensuring repression of Oct4 and Nanog in the TE...
  5. Alpha7 integrin mediates neurite outgrowth of distinct populations of adult sensory neurons
    Natalie J Gardiner
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
    Mol Cell Neurosci 28:229-40
    ..Following sciatic nerve crush, alpha7 integrin is expressed by medium-large diameter, NF200-immunoreactive (IR), and medium diameter, CGRP-IR, neurons, ..
  6. Force transmission, compliance, and viscoelasticity are altered in the alpha7-integrin-null mouse diaphragm
    M A Lopez
    Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 288:C282-9
    Alpha7beta1 integrin is a transmembrane structural and receptor protein of skeletal muscles, and the absence of alpha7-integrin causes muscular dystrophy...
  7. Beta1 integrins in muscle, but not in motor neurons, are required for skeletal muscle innervation
    Martin Schwander
    Department of Cell Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Disease, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
    J Neurosci 24:8181-91
    ..We conclude that Itgb1 expression in muscle, but not in motor neurons, is critical for NMJ development...
  8. Integrins in the mouse myotome: developmental changes and differences between the epaxial and hypaxial lineage
    Fernanda Bajanca
    Departamento de Biologia Animal, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
    Dev Dyn 231:402-15
    ..Here, we describe the expression patterns of the alpha1, alpha4, alpha5, alpha6, and alpha7 integrin subunits in the mouse myotome and correlate them with the expression of several differentiation markers...
  9. ADP-ribosylation of integrin alpha7 modulates the binding of integrin alpha7beta1 to laminin
    Zhefeng Zhao
    Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, 104 Willard Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
    Biochem J 385:309-17
    The extracellular domain of integrin alpha7 is ADP-ribosylated by an arginine-specific ecto-ADP-ribosyltransferase after adding exogenous NAD+ to intact C2C12 skeletal muscle cells...
  10. Genetic compensation for sarcoglycan loss by integrin alpha7beta1 in muscle
    Michael J Allikian
    Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    J Cell Sci 117:3821-30
    ..Mice lacking integrin alpha7 develop mild muscle degeneration, while sarcoglycan mutant mice display overt muscle degeneration and muscular ..
  11. The LIM-only proteins FHL2 and FHL3 interact with alpha- and beta-subunits of the muscle alpha7beta1 integrin receptor
    Thomas Samson
    Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Medizin I, Nikolaus Fiebiger Zentrum für Molekulare Medizin, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Glückstrasse 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
    J Biol Chem 279:28641-52
    ..However, in cardiac and skeletal muscles, FHL2 and FHL3, respectively, are colocalized with alpha(7)beta(1) integrin receptor at the periphery of Z-discs, suggesting a role in mechanical stabilization of muscle cells...
  12. Beta1-integrins are critical for cerebellar granule cell precursor proliferation
    Sandra Blaess
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
    J Neurosci 24:3402-12
    ....
  13. Regulation of alpha7 integrin expression during muscle differentiation
    Jianqiao Xiao
    Departments of Stomatology and Anatomy, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0422, USA
    J Biol Chem 278:49780-8
    Expression of the laminin-binding alpha7 integrin is tightly regulated during myogenic differentiation, reflecting required functions that range from cell motility to formation of stable myotendinous junctions...
  14. Alpha7beta1-integrin regulates mechanotransduction and prevents skeletal muscle injury
    Marni D Boppart
    Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
    Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 290:C1660-5
    ..These experiments provide the first evidence that alpha7beta1-integrin is a negative regulator of mechanotransduction in vivo and provides resistance to exercise-induced muscle damage...
  15. Absence of alpha 7 integrin in dystrophin-deficient mice causes a myopathy similar to Duchenne muscular dystrophy
    Chun Guo
    Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Hum Mol Genet 15:989-98
    ..Absence of either dystrophin or alpha7 integrin results in a muscular dystrophy...
  16. Severe muscular dystrophy in mice that lack dystrophin and alpha7 integrin
    Jachinta E Rooney
    Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno, 89557, USA
    J Cell Sci 119:2185-95
    ..Mutations in the alpha7 integrin gene cause congenital myopathy in humans and mice...
  17. Valproic acid activates the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in muscle and ameliorates pathology in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
    Praveen B Gurpur
    Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, B107 CLSL, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
    Am J Pathol 174:999-1008
    ..Transgenic overexpression of the alpha7 integrin in mdx/utrn(-/-) mice, a model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy ameliorates the disease...
  18. Genetically determined proteolytic cleavage modulates alpha7beta1 integrin function
    Jianming Liu
    Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
    J Biol Chem 283:35668-78
    ..Here we report a species-specific difference in alpha7 chains that results from an intra-peptide proteolytic cleavage, by a serine protease, at the 603RRQ605 site...
  19. Exercise promotes alpha7 integrin gene transcription and protection of skeletal muscle
    Marni D Boppart
    Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
    Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 295:R1623-30
    ..A single bout of downhill running exercise selectively increased transcription of the alpha7 integrin gene in 5-wk-old wild-type mice 3 h postexercise, and an increased alpha7 chain was detected in muscle ..
  20. Integrin-laminin interactions controlling neurite outgrowth from adult DRG neurons in vitro
    Stefan Plantman
    Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Mol Cell Neurosci 39:50-62
    ....
  21. Tead4 is required for specification of trophectoderm in pre-implantation mouse embryos
    Noriyuki Nishioka
    Laboratory for Embryonic Induction, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, 2 2 3 Minatojima minamimachi, Chuo, Kobe, Hyogo 650 0047, Japan
    Mech Dev 125:270-83
    ....
  22. Deletion of integrin-linked kinase from skeletal muscles of mice resembles muscular dystrophy due to alpha 7 beta 1-integrin deficiency
    Ania L Gheyara
    Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
    Am J Pathol 171:1966-77
    ..These findings resemble those seen in humans and mice lacking the alpha 7-integrin subunit and suggest that Ilk may act as a cytoplasmic effector of alpha 7 beta1-integrin in the pathogenesis of these deficiencies...
  23. Increasing alpha 7 beta 1-integrin promotes muscle cell proliferation, adhesion, and resistance to apoptosis without changing gene expression
    Jianming Liu
    Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B107 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
    Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 294:C627-40
    ..These results support the use of integrin enhancement as a therapy for muscular dystrophy...
  24. Patterns of laminins and integrins in the embryonic ventricular zone of the CNS
    Justin D Lathia
    Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    J Comp Neurol 505:630-43
    ....
  25. Placental defects in alpha7 integrin null mice
    J V Welser
    Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
    Placenta 28:1219-28
    ..Loss of the alpha7 integrin chain results in partial embryonic lethality...
  26. Loss of the alpha7 integrin promotes extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation and altered vascular remodeling
    Jennifer V Welser
    Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV 89557, USA
    Circ Res 101:672-81
    ..In this study, we show that loss of the alpha7 integrin in VSMCs results in activation of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase and translocation of the ..
  27. Cytoplasmic gamma-actin expression in diverse animal models of muscular dystrophy
    Laurin M Hanft
    Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
    Neuromuscul Disord 17:569-74
    ..other dystrophic animal models, including mice deficient in beta-sarcoglycan, alpha-dystrobrevin, laminin-2, or alpha7 integrin...
  28. Def-6, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rac1, interacts with the skeletal muscle integrin chain alpha7A and influences myoblast differentiation
    Thomas Samson
    Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
    J Biol Chem 282:15730-42
    Integrin alpha7beta1 is the major laminin binding integrin receptor of muscle cells. The alpha7 chain occurs in several splice isoforms, of which alpha7A and alpha7B differ in their intracellular domains only...
  29. Lineage allocation and asymmetries in the early mouse embryo
    Janet Rossant
    Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X5, Canada
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 358:1341-8; discussion 1349
    ....
  30. Integrin requirement for hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial memory
    Chi Shing Chan
    Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Neurosci 23:7107-16
    ..These results demonstrate that several different integrins are involved in physiological plasticity and provide the first evidence of their requirement for behavioral plasticity in vertebrates...
  31. Functional expression of the alpha 7 integrin receptor in differentiated smooth muscle cells
    C C Yao
    Department of Stomatology, School of Dentistry, University of California San Francisco, 94143, USA
    J Cell Sci 110:1477-87
    Expression of the alpha7 integrin is developmentally regulated and is thought to be tissue-specific for both skeletal and cardiac muscles...
  32. Differential expression of alpha-6 and other subunits of laminin binding integrins during development of the murine heart
    B P Hierck
    Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
    Dev Dyn 206:100-11
    ..This study suggests a distinct role for alpha-6-beta-1 in the heart and provides insight concerning probably important roles of integrins and their extracellular matrix ligands during embryonic development...
  33. Laminins promote the locomotion of skeletal myoblasts via the alpha 7 integrin receptor
    C C Yao
    Department of Stomatology, School of Dentistry, University of California San Francisco 94143 0512, USA
    J Cell Sci 109:3139-50
    ..These results established that alpha 7 beta 1 receptor can promote myoblast adhesion and motility on a restricted number of laminin isoforms and may be important in myogenic precursor recruitment during regeneration and differentiation...
  34. Distinct alpha 7A beta 1 and alpha 7B beta 1 integrin expression patterns during mouse development: alpha 7A is restricted to skeletal muscle but alpha 7B is expressed in striated muscle, vasculature, and nervous system
    T Velling
    Department of Animal Physiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
    Dev Dyn 207:355-71
    ..We conclude that the alpha 7A and alpha 7B integrin variants are expressed in a developmentally regulated, tissue-specific pattern suggesting different functions for the two splice forms...
  35. Identification and characterization of the cell type-specific and developmentally regulated alpha7 integrin gene promoter
    B L Ziober
    Department of Stomatology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 0512, USA
    J Biol Chem 271:22915-22
    Expression of alpha7 is mainly confined to skeletal and cardiac muscle in which it appears to be the major laminin-binding integrin. When myoblasts differentiate to myotubes, alpha7 mRNA and protein expression is up-regulated...
  36. Differential expression of laminin chain-specific mRNA transcripts during mouse preimplantation embryo development
    C Shim
    Department of Molecular Biology, Seoul National University, South Korea
    Mol Reprod Dev 44:44-55
    ..The uterine environment enclosing the preimplantation embryos appears, therefore, to play an important role in the regulation of laminin gene expression during blastocyst development...
  37. Synaptic integrins in developing, adult, and mutant muscle: selective association of alpha1, alpha7A, and alpha7B integrins with the neuromuscular junction
    P T Martin
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University Medical School, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    Dev Biol 174:125-39
    ..alpha1 chain was selectively associated with presynaptic cells (Schwann cells and/or nerve terminals), while alpha7 was present on both synaptic and extrasynaptic portions of the muscle fiber surface...
  38. A new isoform of the laminin receptor integrin alpha 7 beta 1 is developmentally regulated in skeletal muscle
    G Collo
    Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
    J Biol Chem 268:19019-24
    ..Splicing of alpha 7B mRNA in C2C12 occurred shortly after myogenin expression and could be an indicator of progression through the program of skeletal muscle differentiation...
  39. Developmental regulation of integrin expression at the time of implantation in the mouse embryo
    A E Sutherland
    Department of Stomatology, University of California San Francisco 94143
    Development 119:1175-86
    ..abstract truncated at 400 words)..
  40. Alternative extracellular and cytoplasmic domains of the integrin alpha 7 subunit are differentially expressed during development
    B L Ziober
    Department of Stomatology and Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco 94143
    J Biol Chem 268:26773-83
    ....
  41. Processing of ADP-ribosylated integrin alpha 7 in skeletal muscle myotubes
    A Zolkiewska
    Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Branch, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1434, USA
    J Biol Chem 270:9227-33
    b>Integrin alpha 7 is a major substrate in skeletal muscle cells for the cell surface, glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored, arginine-specific ADP-ribosyltransferase...
  42. Expression of a developmentally regulated antigen on the surface of skeletal and cardiac muscle cells
    S J Kaufman
    J Cell Biol 100:1977-87
    ..We conclude that H36 is a muscle-specific, developmentally regulated cell-surface antigen that may have a role in myoblast differentiation and that can be used to determine the embryonic lineages of skeletal and cardiac muscle...
  43. Skeletal myoblasts utilize a novel beta 1-series integrin and not alpha 6 beta 1 for binding to the E8 and T8 fragments of laminin
    H von Der Mark
    Max Planck Society Clinical Research Group for Rheumatology, University of Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany
    J Biol Chem 266:23593-601
    ..However, there were distinctive differences; in particular, 2 residues were deleted in comparison with alpha 6...
  44. Spatial and temporal expression of the beta1D integrin during mouse development
    A van Der Flier
    Division of Cell Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
    Dev Dyn 210:472-86
    ..The switch from the beta1A to the beta1D subunit in cardiac muscle cells coincides with the expression of alpha7. In adults there is a distinct concentration of beta1D at the myotendinous junctions of muscle fibers and at ..
  45. Altered expression of the alpha7beta1 integrin in human and murine muscular dystrophies
    B L Hodges
    Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
    J Cell Sci 110:2873-81
    ..Becker muscular dystrophies indicates that the increase in the alpha7beta1 integrin is regulated at the level of alpha7 gene transcription...
  46. Differential onset of expression of alpha 7 and beta 1D integrins during mouse heart and skeletal muscle development
    M Brancaccio
    Department of Genetics, Biology and Medical Chemistry, University of Torino, Italy
    Cell Adhes Commun 5:193-205
    ..In conclusion these data show that the expression of the beta 1D muscle specific integrin during development occurs much earlier in heart than in skeletal muscle and it can dimerize with different alpha subunits...
  47. Expression of laminin receptors in schwann cell differentiation: evidence for distinct roles
    Stefano C Previtali
    Neuropathology Unit, Department of Neuroscience and DIBIT, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy
    J Neurosci 23:5520-30
    ..These data suggest that the action of laminin is mediated by beta1 integrins during axonal sorting and by dystroglycan, alpha6beta1, and alpha6beta4 integrins during myelination...
  48. Schwann cells synthesize alpha7beta1 integrin which is dispensable for peripheral nerve development and myelination
    S C Previtali
    Neuropathology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
    Mol Cell Neurosci 23:210-8
    ..The expression of alpha7 appears postnatally, such that alpha7beta1 is the last laminin receptor expressed by differentiating Schwann cells...
  49. TGF-beta 1 regulates adhesion of mucosal mast cell homologues to laminin-1 through expression of integrin alpha 7
    Anne Rosbottom
    Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK EH25 9RG
    J Immunol 169:5689-95
    ..05), demonstrating a novel role for this molecule in adhesion of a hemopoietic cell to laminin-1...
  50. An intrinsic distinction in neuromuscular junction assembly and maintenance in different skeletal muscles
    San Pun
    Friedrich Miescher Institute, Maulbeerstrasse 66, CH 4058 Basel, Switzerland
    Neuron 34:357-70
    ..Our results show that postsynaptic differentiation processes intrinsic to FaSyn and DeSyn muscles influence the formation of NMJs during development and their maintenance in the adult...
  51. Trophoblast-specific expression and function of the integrin alpha 7 subunit in the peri-implantation mouse embryo
    E Klaffky
    Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 0732, USA
    Dev Biol 239:161-75
    ..We have identified integrin alpha 7 beta 1 as a major receptor for trophoblast-laminin interactions during implantation and yolk sac placenta ..
  52. Alternative splice variants of alpha 7 beta 1 integrin selectively recognize different laminin isoforms
    Helga von der Mark
    Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Nikolaus Fiebiger Zentrum für Molekulare Medizin, Department of Experimental Medicine I, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
    J Biol Chem 277:6012-6
    ....
  53. Endothelial cell laminin isoforms, laminins 8 and 10, play decisive roles in T cell recruitment across the blood-brain barrier in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
    M Sixt
    Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research IZKF, Nikolaus Fiebiger Center, University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Glückstr 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
    J Cell Biol 153:933-46
    ....
  54. Impaired axonal regeneration in alpha7 integrin-deficient mice
    A Werner
    Department of Neuromorphology, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
    J Neurosci 20:1822-30
    ..b>alpha7 and beta1 subunits were present on the axons and their growth cones in the regenerating facial nerve...
  55. Organization of the myotendinous junction is dependent on the presence of alpha7beta1 integrin
    N Miosge
    Zentrum Anatomie, Abteilung Histologie, Universität Göttingen, Germany
    Lab Invest 79:1591-9
    ..receptor alpha7beta1 is enriched at the myotendinous junctions, and mice with a targeted inactivation of the alpha7 gene develop a form of muscular dystrophy that primarily affects this structure...
  56. Activation of c-Raf-1 kinase signal transduction pathway in alpha(7) integrin-deficient mice
    G Saher
    Max Planck Institut für Biochemie, Am Klopferspitz 18a, D 82152 Martinsried, Germany
    J Biol Chem 274:27651-7
    ....
  57. Secondary reduction of alpha7B integrin in laminin alpha2 deficient congenital muscular dystrophy supports an additional transmembrane link in skeletal muscle
    R D Cohn
    Department of Pediatrics, University of Essen, Germany
    J Neurol Sci 163:140-52
    ..The main binding partners of the alpha7 integrin are laminin-1 (alpha1-beta1-gamma1), laminin-2 (alpha2-beta1-gamma1) and laminin-4 (alpha2-beta2-gamma1)...
  58. Cre-loxP-mediated inactivation of the alpha6A integrin splice variant in vivo: evidence for a specific functional role of alpha6A in lymphocyte migration but not in heart development
    C Gimond
    Division of Cell Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    J Cell Biol 143:253-66
    ..Nevertheless, the expression of alpha6A might be necessary for optimal lymphocyte migration on laminin in certain pathological conditions...
  59. H36-alpha 7 is a novel integrin alpha chain that is developmentally regulated during skeletal myogenesis
    W K Song
    Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
    J Cell Biol 117:643-57
    ..We conclude that H36-alpha 7 is a novel alpha integrin laminin binding protein whose expression is developmentally regulated during skeletal myogenesis...