ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloprotease) are a family of proteins that possess functionaladhesive and proteolytic domains. ADAM 28 (MDC-L) is expressed by
human lymphocytes and containsa disintegrin-like domain that serves as a ligand for the
leukocyte integrin,
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1. To elucidate whichresidues comprise the
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1 binding site in the ADAM 28 disintegrin domain, a charge-to-alaninemutagenesis strategy was utilized. Each alanine substitution mutant was evaluated and compared to thenative sequence for its ability to support cell adhesion of the T-lymphoma cell line, Jurkat. This approachidentified ADAM 28 residues Lys
437, Lys
442, Lys
455, Lys
459, Lys
460, Lys
469, and Glu
476 as being essentialfor
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1-dependent cell adhesion. The epitope for a function-blocking monoclonal
antibody, Dis 1-1,was localized to the N-terminal end of the ADAM 28 disintegrin domain using these same charge-to-alanine mutants. Three distinct molecular models based upon the known structures of snake venomdisintegrins suggested that residues contributing to
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1 recognition are aligned on one face of the domain.This study demonstrates that residues located outside of the disintegrin loop participate in integrinrecognition of mammalian disintegrins.