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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 112, Issue 22 4163-4171, Copyright © 1999 by Company of Biologists
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JL Ashworth, V Kelly, MJ Rock, CA Shuttleworth and CM Kielty
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, School of Biological Sciences and Department of Medicine, University of Manchester M13 9PT, UK.
The molecular mechanisms of fibrillin assembly into microfibrils are poorly understood. In this study, we investigated human fibrillin-1 carboxy-terminal processing and assembly using a recombinant approach. Processing of carboxy-terminal fibrillin-1 was strongly influenced by N-glycosylation at the site immediately downstream of the furin site, and by association with calreticulin. The carboxy terminus of fibrillin-2 underwent less efficient processing than carboxy-terminal fibrillin-1 under identical conditions. Size fractionation of the amino-terminal region of fibrillin-1, and of unprocessed and furin-processed carboxy-terminal region of fibrillin-1, revealed that the amino terminus formed abundant disulphide-bonded aggregates. Some association of unprocessed carboxy-terminal fibrillin-1 was also apparent, but processed carboxy-terminal sequences remained monomeric unless amino-terminal sequences encoded by exons 12-15 were present. These data indicate the presence of fibrillin-1 molecular recognition sequences within the amino terminus and the extreme carboxy-terminal sequence downstream of the furin site, and a specific amino- and carboxy-terminal association which could drive overlapping linear accretion of furin-processed fibrillin molecules in the extracellular space. Differences in processing of the two fibrillin isoforms may reflect differential abilities to assemble in the extracellular space.
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