Pivotal Advance: Interconversion between pure chemotactic ligands and chemoattractant/secretagogue ligands of neutrophil C5a receptor by a single amino acid substitution.

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Skp derived from Escherichia coli attracts leukocytes as a pure chemotactic ligand of the C5a receptor. We identified the submolecular region of Skp that binds and activates the C5a receptor to be -Gln103-Asp104-Arg105- using synthetic peptide fragments and site-directed mutants of Skp. As the C5a amino acid residue equivalent to Gln103 of Skp is Leu72, we prepared a Gln103Leu-Skp mutant as a recombinant protein....

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