ASSESSMENT OF PROCOLLAGEN PROCESSING DEFECTS BY FIBROBLASTS CULTURED IN THE PRESENCE OF DEXTRAN SULFATE
ASSESSMENT OF PROCOLLAGEN PROCESSING DEFECTS BY FIBROBLASTS CULTURED IN THE PRESENCE OF DEXTRAN SULFATE
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DOI:
10.1042/bj2670573
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发表时间:
1990-05-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
GOLUB, SB
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作者:
BATEMAN, JF;GOLUB, SB
The culture of skin fibroblasts in the presence of 0.01% (w/v) dextran sulphate results in complete proteolytic processing of procollagen to collagen. Processing occurs predominantly via a pN-intermediate, suggesting that C-propeptide cleavage occurs early during the processing pathway. The processed collagen is associated with the cell-layer fraction. This method of inducing procollagen processing was evaluated for use in detecting procollagen processing abnormalities in heritable connective-tissue diseases. Abnormal type I procollagen processing was clearly demonstrated in two cases with known defects of pN-propeptide cleavage. In one, the cleavage deficiency was due to diminished N-proteinase activity (dermatosparaxis) and in the other casee (Ehler''s-Danlos syndrome type VIIA) the cleavage site was deleted. In a case of osteogenesis imperfecta (Type II) the slow electrophoretic migration of type I collagen .alpha.-chains due to over-modification of lysine was readily demonstrated. Inefficient procollagen processing was also evident in this patient, as had been previously reported [de Wet, Pihlanjaniemi, Myers, Kelly and Prockop (1983) J. Biol. Chem. 258, 7721-7728]. Thus this method of culture in the presence of dextran sulphate provides a simple and rapid procedure of the detection of procollagen processing defects and electrophoretic abnormalities.