期刊
CELL SYSTEMS
卷 1, 期 1, 页码 25-36出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2015.06.002
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- NIH [U54-CA112967, DP5-OD019815]
- Koch Institute Support (core) from the National Cancer Institute [W911NF-09-0001, P30-CA14051]
- Ludwig Center Fund
- Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies from the U.S. Army Research Office
The AXL receptor is a TAM (Tyro3, AXL, MerTK) receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) important in physiological inflammatory processes such as blood clotting, viral infection, and innate immune-mediated cell clearance. Overexpression of the receptor in a number of solid tumors is increasingly appreciated as a key drug resistance and tumor dissemination mechanism. Although the ligand-receptor (Gas6-AXL) complex structure is known, literature reports on ligand-mediated signaling have provided conflicting conclusions regarding the influence of other factors such as phosphatidylserine binding, and a detailed, mechanistic picture of AXL activation has not emerged. Integrating quantitative experiments with mathematical modeling, we show here that AXL operates to sense local spatial heterogeneity in ligand concentration, a feature consistent with its physiological role in inflammatory cell responses. This effect arises as a result of an intricate reaction-diffusion interaction. Our results demonstrate that AXL functions distinctly from other RTK families, a vital insight for the envisioned design of AXL-targeted therapeutic intervention.
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