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Human Molecular Genetics, Vol 7, 2039-2044, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press

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Evidence for furin-type activity-mediated C-terminal processing of profibrillin-1 and interference in the processing by certain mutations

L Lonnqvist, D Reinhardt, L Sakai and L Peltonen
Department of Human Molecular Genetics, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN-00300 Helsinki, Finland.

Fibrillin-1 is a major component of the 10 nm microfibrils of the extracellular matrix (ECM). It is synthesized as an approximately 350 kDa precursor molecule, profibrillin-1, which is proteolytically processed into its biologically active approximately 320 kDa form. Furin, a calcium-dependent endoprotease of the subtilisin family, which is known to be the processing enzyme for a variety of proproteins, is believed to be responsible for the N-terminal proteolytic cleavage of profibrillin-1. In this article we provide several lines of evidence that the C-terminal trimming of profibrillin-1 also occurs via a furin- type activity. Edman degradation of a small recombinant C-terminal subdomain of fibrillin-1 revealed complete processing of the peptide immediately after the tribasic recognition sequence (R-X-K/R-R) for furin. In vitro expression experiments using another recombinant construct consisting of the C-terminal half of fibrillin-1 indicated that disruption of the putative recognition sequence for furin by site- directed mutagenesis drastically impairs proteolytic processing of the propeptide. In addition, our results suggest that the N-terminal half of fibrillin-1 is necessary for its incorporation into the ECM.
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