BIOCHEMICAL, STRUCTURAL, AND TRANSGLUTAMINASE SUBSTRATE PROPERTIES OF HUMAN LORICRIN, THE MAJOR EPIDERMAL CORNIFIED CELL-ENVELOPE PROTEIN
BIOCHEMICAL, STRUCTURAL, AND TRANSGLUTAMINASE SUBSTRATE PROPERTIES OF HUMAN LORICRIN, THE MAJOR EPIDERMAL CORNIFIED CELL-ENVELOPE PROTEIN
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DOI:
10.1074/jbc.270.44.26382
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发表时间:
1995-11-03
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
STEINERT, PM
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作者:
CANDI, E;MELINO, G;STEINERT, PM
Loricrin is the major protein of the cornified cell envelope of terminally differentiated epidermal keratinocytes which functions as a physical barrier, In order to understand its properties and role in cornified cell envelope, we have expressed human loricrin from a full-length cDNA clone in bacteria and purified it to homogeneity. We have also isolated loricrin from newborn mouse epidermis. By circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopy, the in vivo mouse and bacterially expressed human loricrins possess no alpha or beta structure but have some organized structure in solution associated with their multiple tyrosines and can be reversibly denatured by either guanidine hydrochloride or temperature. The transglutaminase (TGase) 1, 2, and 3 enzymes expressed during epidermal differentiation utilized loricrin in vitro as a complete substrate, but the types of cross-linking were different. The TGase 3 reaction favored certain lysines and glutamines by forming mostly intrachain cross-links, whereas TGase 1 formed mostly large oligomeric complexes by interchain crosslinks involving different lysines and glutamines. Together, the glutamines and lysines used in vitro are almost identical to those seen in vivo. The data support a hypothesis for the essential and complementary roles of both TGase 1 and TGase 3 in cross-linking of loricrin in vivo. Failure to cross-link loricrin by TGase 1 may explain the phenotype of lamellar ichthyosis, a disease caused by mutations in the TGase 1 gene.