Heterodimeric Protein Surface‐Coupling Platform: Immobilization of Conformation Switchable and Functional αIIbβ3 Integrin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Many biotechnologies require direct contact between biomolecules and (semi)solid substrates. However, little information is available regarding site‐directed covalent surface immobilization of heterodimeric proteins. Integrins are heterodimeric, conformationally dependent membrane adhesion‐receptors, which are important in the (patho)biology of almost all human diseases. In this study, a biomimetic‐platform is developed for covalent and site‐directed immobilization of oriented integrin heterodimers onto most hydroxyl bearing surfaces, herein demonstrated on both glass‐slides and silica‐particles. This platform consists of a self‐assembled monolayer, upon which C‐terminal modified αIIbβ3 integrin extracellular domains are oriented and covalently anchored. As with cell surface integrins, the conformation of immobilized αIIbβ3 is switchable and can be modulated to the active ligand‐binding conformation by divalent cations. Furthermore, the αIIbβ3‐coupled silica particles display platelet‐mimetic hemostat function and co‐aggregate with platelets from both wild‐type and fibrinogen/von Willebrand factor double deficient mice, facilitating αIIbβ3‐non‐classical ligand discoveries. This work provides a biomaterial platform for functional multimeric protein‐substrate coupling, which should have broad impact on multiple fields of biology, biotechnology, and clinical diagnosis/therapy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".