Patterson, Margaret L, Atkinson, Susan J., Knauper, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3965-9924 and Murphy, Gillian
2001.
Specific collagenolysis by gelatinase A, MMP-2, is determined by the hemopexin domain and not the fibronectin-like domain.
FEBS Letters
503
(2-3)
, pp. 158-162.
10.1016/S0014-5793(01)02723-5
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Abstract
In view of the essential role of the hemopexin domain of the traditional interstitial collagenases, MMP-1, -8, -13 and MT1-MMP (MMP-14), in determining specific collagen cleavage we have studied the function of this domain in MMP-2, relative to that of the fibronectin-like domain that promotes gelatinolysis. Although the fibronectin-like domain promotes avid binding to collagen, our data demonstrate that the catalytic and hemopexin domains of MMP-2 are sufficient to effect the critical step in cleavage of rat type I collagen into 3/4 and 1/4 fragments. The mechanism of MMP-2 cleavage of collagen proceeds in two phases, the first resembling that of the interstitial collagenases, followed by gelatinolysis, promoted by the fibronectin-like domain.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Dentistry |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| ISSN: | 1873-3468 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 19 July 2001 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2023 14:34 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/161631 |
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