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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 17, 10095-10101, Jun, 1990

The relationship of the biophysical and biochemical characteristics of type VII collagen to the function of anchoring fibrils

HP Bachinger, NP Morris, GP Lunstrum, DR Keene, LM Rosenbaum, LA Compton and RE Burgeson
Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, Portland, Oregon 97201.

Type VII collagen is a major component of anchoring fibrils, which are 800-nm-long centrosymmetrically cross-banded fibrils that are believed to secure the attachment of certain epithelial basement membranes to the underlying stromal matrix. The ultrastructure of the anchoring fibrils is highly variable, suggesting that the fibrils are flexible. Flexibility measurements along the length of the triple-helical domain of type VII procollagen indicate that major flexible sites correlate well with known discontinuities in the (Gly-X-Y)n repeating sequence. Therefore, the helical disruptions may account for the tortuous shapes of anchoring fibrils observed ultrastructurally. The centrosymmetrical banding pattern observed for anchoring fibrils results from the unstaggered lateral packing of antiparallel type VII collagen dimers that form these structures. This antiparallel arrangement is specified by disulfide bonds formed at the margins of a 60-nm overlap of the amino termini. As long as these disulfide bonds remain intact, they protect the amino-terminal overlapping triple helices from collagenase digestion. This disulfide-bonded pair of triple helices is termed C-1. Large nonhelical domains (NC-1) extend from both ends of the anchoring fibrils and are believed to interact with the basement membrane or with anchoring plaques. Rotary shadowing of the NC-1 domains showed trident- like shapes, suggesting that a single alpha-chain contributed the structure of each arm and that the three arms were extended. Biochemical and biophysical analyses of NC-1 domains independently confirm these suggestions and imply that the arms of NC-1 domains are identical and individually capable of interactions with basement membrane components, potentially allowing trivalent interaction of type VII collagen with various macromolecules.
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