[HTML][HTML] Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia: Current pathophysiological insights and perspectives for future diagnostics and treatment

W Stam, GE Wachholz, JM de Pereda, R Kapur… - Blood reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
FNAIT is a pregnancy-associated condition caused by maternal alloantibodies against
paternally-inherited platelet antigens, most frequently HPA-1a on integrin β3. The clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and development of platelet antibody detection

L Porcelijn, E Huiskes, M de Haas - Transfusion and Apheresis Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Human platelet antibody (HPA) detection is necessary for the diagnosis and therapeutic
decisions for refractoriness to platelet transfusions, post transfusion purpura and fetal and …

An integrin αIIbβ3 intermediate affinity state mediates biomechanical platelet aggregation

Y Chen, LA Ju, F Zhou, J Liao, L Xue, QP Su, D Jin… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Integrins are membrane receptors that mediate cell adhesion and mechanosensing. The
structure–function relationship of integrins remains incompletely understood, despite the …

Dynamic bonds and their roles in mechanosensing

C Zhu, Y Chen, LA Ju - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Mechanical forces are ubiquitous in a cell's internal structure and external environment.
Mechanosensing is the process that the cell employs to sense its mechanical environment …

Prophylactic administration of HPA-1a–specific antibodies prevents fetal/neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia in mice

H Zhi, D Sheridan, DK Newman… - Blood, The Journal of …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Fetal/neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) is a life-threatening bleeding disorder
caused by maternal alloantibodies directed against paternally inherited human platelet …

Thy-1 (CD90)-regulated cell adhesion and migration of mesenchymal cells: insights into adhesomes, mechanical forces, and signaling pathways

A Valdivia, AM Avalos, L Leyton - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cell adhesion and migration depend on the assembly and disassembly of adhesive
structures known as focal adhesions. Cells adhere to the extracellular matrix (ECM) and …

[HTML][HTML] Tenascin-C restricts reactive astrogliosis in the ischemic brain

E Dzyubenko, D Manrique-Castano, M Pillath-Eilers… - Matrix Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellular responses in glia play a key role in regulating brain remodeling post-stroke.
However, excessive glial reactivity impedes post-ischemic neuroplasticity and hampers …

High-resolution mapping of the polyclonal immune response to the human platelet alloantigen HPA-1a (PlA1)

H Zhi, MT Ahlen, AMM Thinn, H Weiler… - Blood …, 2018 - ashpublications.org
Antibodies to platelet-specific antigens are responsible for 2 clinically important bleeding
disorders: posttransfusion purpura and fetal/neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia …

[HTML][HTML] Family-wide analysis of integrin structures predicted by AlphaFold2

H Zhang, DS Zhu, J Zhu - Computational and Structural Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent advances in protein structure prediction using AlphaFold2, known for its high
efficiency and accuracy, have opened new avenues for comprehensive analysis of all …

Full-length αIIbβ3 cryo-EM structure reveals intact integrin initiate-activation intrinsic architecture

T Huo, H Wu, Z Moussa, M Sen, V Dalton, Z Wang - Structure, 2024 - cell.com
Integrin αIIbβ3 is the key receptor regulating platelet retraction and accumulation and a
proven drug-target for antithrombotic therapies. Here we resolve the cryo-EM structures of …