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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
43
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-10-22
pubmed:abstractText
Elastic fibers consist primarily of an amorphous elastin core associated with microfibrils, 10-12 nm in diameter, containing fibrillins and microfibril-associated glycoproteins (MAGPs). To investigate the interaction of MAGP-1 with tropoelastin and fibrillin-1, we expressed human MAGP-1 as a T7-tag fusion protein in Escherichia coli. Refolding of the purified protein produced a soluble form of MAGP-1 that displayed saturable binding to tropoelastin. Fragments of tropoelastin corresponding to the N-terminal, C-terminal, and central regions of the molecule were used to characterize the MAGP-1 binding site. Cleavage of tropoelastin with kallikrein, which cleaves after Arg(515) in the central region of the molecule, disrupted the interaction, suggesting that the separated N- and C-terminal fragments were insufficient to determine MAGP-1 binding to intact tropoelastin. In addition, no evidence of an interaction was observed between MAGP-1 and a tropoelastin construct consisting of domains 17-27 that brackets the kallikrein cleavage site, suggesting a complex mechanism of interaction between the two molecules. Binding of MAGP-1 was also tested with overlapping recombinant fibrillin-1 fragments. MAGP-1 bound to a region at the N terminus of fibrillin-1 in a calcium-dependent manner. In summary, these results suggest a model for the interaction of elastin with the microfibrillar scaffold.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
26
pubmed:volume
276
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
39661-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Protein interaction studies of MAGP-1 with tropoelastin and fibrillin-1.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry G08, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't