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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 284, 期 23, 页码 15668-15675出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M109.003673
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- Marie Curie Fellowships program
- Royal Society
- Trinity College, Oxford, UK
Fibronectin (FN) is a large extracellular matrix glycoprotein important for development and wound healing in vertebrates. Recent work has focused on the ability of FN fragments and embryonic or tumorigenic splicing variants to stimulate fibroblast migration into collagen gels. This activity has been localized to specific sites and is not exhibited by full-length FN. Here we show that an N-terminal FN fragment, spanning the migration stimulation sites and including the first three type III FN domains, also lacks this activity. A screen for interdomain interactions by solution-state NMR spectroscopy revealed specific contacts between the Fn N terminus and two of the type III domains. A single amino acid substitution, R222A, disrupts the strongest interaction, between domains (4-5)FnI and (3)FnIII, and restores motogenic activity to the FN N-terminal fragment. Anastellin, which promotes fibril formation, destabilizes 3FnIII and disrupts the observed (4-5)FnI-(3)FnIII interaction. We discuss these findings in the context of the control of cellular activity through exposure of masked sites.
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