Part I: Basic Protocols for the Study of Integrin and Related Cell Adhesion Molecule Functionality In Vitro
1. Overview: Assays for Studying Integrin-Dependent Cell Adhesion
Alexandre Chigaev and Larry A. Sklar
2. Cell Adhesion Assays
Gabriele Weitz-Schmidt and Stéphanie Chreng
3. Real Time Analysis of Integrin-dependent Transendothelial Migration and Integrin-independent Interstitial Motility of Leukocytes
Ziv Shulman and Ronen Alon
4. Lentiviral Gene Transfer Method to Study Integrin Function in T Lymphocytes
Daliya Banerjee and Motomu Shimaoka
5. Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing in Studies of the Binding between b2 Integrin I Domains and their Ligands
Thomas Vorup-Jensen
6. Cell-Free Ligand-Binding Assays for Integrin LFA-1
Koichi Yuki
Part II: Structural Biology Approaches for Studying Integrins and Related Cell Adhesion Molecules
7. Overview: Structural Biology of Integrins
Guanyuan Fu, Wei Wang, and Bing-Hao Luo
8. Protein Expression and Purification of Integrin I Domains and IgSF Ligands for Crystallography
Hongmin Zhang and Jia-huai Wang
9. Electron Microscopic Imaging of Integrin
Kenji Iwasaki
10. An NMR Method to Study Protein-Protein Interactions
Noritaka Nishida and Ichio Shimada
11. Single Molecule Methods to Study Cell Adhesion Molecules
Joonil Seog
Part III: Imaging for Investigating Cell Adhesion and Migration
12. Overview: Imaging in the Study of Integrins
Christopher V. Carman
13. Live Imaging of LFA-1-dependent T Cell Motility and Stop Signals
Andrew J. Wiemer, Sarah Wernimont, and Anna Huttenlocher
14. Monitoring Integrin Activation by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
Craig T. Lefort, Young-min Hyun, and Minsoo Kim
15. High-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy to Study Transendothelial Migration
Christopher V. Carman
16. Multiphoton Intravital Microscopy to Study Lymphocyte Motility in Lymph Nodes
Thomas T. Murooka and Thorsten R. Mempel
Part IV: Signaling through Cell Adhesion Molecules
17. Overview of Integrin Signaling in the Immune System
Tatsuo Kinashi
18. Rap1 and Integrin Inside-out Signaling
Koko Katagiri and Tatsuo Kinashi
19. Isolation of Focal Adhesion Proteins for Biochemical and Proteomic Analysis
Jean-Cheng Kuo, Xuemei Han, John R. Yates III, and Clare M. Waterman
20. Talin and Signaling Through Integrins
Mohamed Bouaouina, David S. Harburger, and David A. Calderwood
21. Proteomics Method for Identification of Pseudopodium Phosphotyrosine Proteins
Yingchun Wang and Richard L. Klemke
Part V: Cell Adhesion and Migration at Organismal Levels in a Physiological Context
22. Overview: Studying Integrins In Vivo
Clifford A. Lowell and Tanya N. Mayadas
23. A Method for the Generation of Conditional Gene-Targeted Mice
Masahiro Yamamoto and Kiyoshi Takeda
24. T Cell Homing to the Gut Mucosa: General Concepts and Methodological Considerations
Jaime De Calisto, Eduardo J. Villablanca, Sen Wang, Maria R. Bono, Mario Rosemblatt, and J. Rodrigo Mora
25. In Vivo Quantitative Proteomics: the SILAC-Mouse
Sara Zanivan, Marcus Krueger, and Matthias Mann
26. Analysis of Chemotaxis in Dictyostelium
Huaqing Ca