Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
Article Title: An Allosteric shift in CD11c affinity activates a pro-atherogenic state in arrested intermediate monocytes
doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2000485
Figure Lengend Snippet: Recruitment of iMo on VCAM-1 is regulated by the expression level and affinity state of CD11c, which discriminates cardiac patients from healthy controls. (A) Integrin dependence of iMo arrest following treatment with a pan–anti-CD11c mAb to a nonblocking common epitope (IgG), an allosteric anti-CD11c low affinity–inducing mAb, and anti–VLA-4 functional blocking mAb (healthy, n = 5; CAD, n = 5; NSTEMI, n = 21). Data are represented as mean ± SD iMo arrest number (two-way ANOVA with Tukey posttest, *p < 0.05 between patient groups, #p < 0.05 from the anti-CD11c IgG control). Arrest fraction of iMo/10,000 monocytes infused into the A-Chip plotted against an individual patient’s mean receptor number for (B) CD11c (n = 6, healthy; n = 8, CAD; n = 20, NSTEMI), (C) VLA-4 (n = 6, healthy; n = 10, CAD; n = 7, NSTEMI), (D) CD11b (n = 6, healthy; n = 10, CAD; n = 7, NSTEMI), and (E) CX3CR1 (n = 6, healthy; n = 8, CAD; n = 7, NSTEMI) receptor expression measured on whole blood monocytes via FACS analysis with the resulting Pearson correlation. (F) Principle component plot of integrin and chemokine receptor expression from six random individuals from each of the healthy, CAD, and NSTEMI groups, in which each data point represents a unique individual. The plot represents a two-dimensional space that contains 80.7% of the original expression data, in which the x-axis or dimension 1 (Dim1) represents 52.6% of the original expression data, and the y-axis given by dimension 2 (Dim2) represents 28.1% of the original input of expression data. (G) Heatmap of the integrin and chemokine receptor parameters used in the principal component clustering analysis. Relative weighting of the correlations depicted by a gradient in which blue is the minimum, white (0) is the median, and red indicates the maximum.
Article Snippet: Blocking Abs to CD11c (3.9) and VLA-4 (HP2/1) were purchased from BioLegend and GeneTex, respectively.
Techniques: Expressing, Functional Assay, Blocking Assay, Control