Historical Background
CD103 (integrin αEβ7) was first identified through the binding of a monoclonal antibody (HML-1, human mucosal lymphocyte antigne-1) to a population of lymphocytes that is preferentially associated with gut epithelium (Cerf-Bensussan et al. 1987). It was later identified that HML-1 bound to CD103 which was expressed predominantly on CD3+ CD8+ T cells, and the vast majority of these cells were found in the intestinal mucosa (Russell et al. 1994). Several functionally distinct epitopes were identified. The HML-1 and αE7-1 epitopes were found to function as costimulatory molecules in lymphocyte proliferative responses to a breast cancer epithelial cell line while the αE7-2 and αE7-3 epitopes did not provide such costimulation (Russell et al. 1994).
It is now clear that CD103 is a classic integrin heterodimer composed of the β7 and αE integrin (CD103) subunits. As described above, early studies...
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Anthony, B.A., Hadley, G.A. (2018). Alpha E Integrin. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_168
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