CDNA AND AMINO-ACID-SEQUENCES OF THE CELL-ADHESION PROTEIN-RECEPTOR RECOGNIZING VITRONECTIN REVEAL A TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN AND HOMOLOGIES WITH OTHER ADHESION PROTEIN RECEPTORS
CDNA AND AMINO-ACID-SEQUENCES OF THE CELL-ADHESION PROTEIN-RECEPTOR RECOGNIZING VITRONECTIN REVEAL A TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN AND HOMOLOGIES WITH OTHER ADHESION PROTEIN RECEPTORS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.83.22.8614
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发表时间:
1986-11-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
RUOSLAHTI, E
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作者:
SUZUKI, S;ARGRAVES, WS;RUOSLAHTI, E
Cells adhere to vitronectin substrates through a cell surface receptor that recognizes an Arg.cntdot.Gly.cntdot.Asp sequence in vitronectin. The receptor is a glycoprotein composed of a 150-kDa .alpha. and a 115-kDa .beta. subunit. The .alpha. subunit consists of two disulfide-bonded chains of 125 kDa and 25 kDa. cDNA clones were isolated for the .alpha. subunit of the vitronectin receptor from a phage .lambda.g11 expression library made with RNA from a human fibroblast cell line. IMR-90. The identity of the clones that had been selected from the library based on immunological criteria was verified by comparison of DNA and protein sequences. NH2-terminal sequences were obtained for each of the .alpha.-subunit chains. The sequence of the 25-kDa chain of the .alpha. subunit was found in a cDNA clone, and the amino acid sequence deduced from the cDNA establishes the complete amino acid sequence of the 25-kDa chain. The chain contains a membrane-spanning domain as well as a putative intracytoplasmic region that is 32 amino acids long and consists mostly of polar amino acids. Comparison of the cDNA and protein sequences shows that the 25-kDa chain is generated by proteolytic cleavage of an .alpha.-subunit precursor, the partial sequence of which is contained in the cDNA clones. These clones contain 1910 base pairs of open reading frame and a 3'' untranslated sequence. RNA blot hybridization detected one transcript of about 7 kilobases in RNA from fibroblasts and epithelial cells. Together, the cDNA clones cover 4442 bases of this RNA. The .alpha.-subunit sequence showed strong homology with the sequence of the .alpha. subunit of fibronectin receptor. Moreover, the NH2-terminal protein sequence of the 125-kDa chain was homologous with the NH2-terminal sequences of two other cell surface proteins, lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1) and macrophage antigen 1 (Mac-1), which have been implicated as receptors for adhesion proteins of leukocytes. These results establish several of the structural features in the vitronectin receptor and suggest the existence of a superfamily of receptors for cell adhesion proteins.