title: Construction of a divalent cell adhesive lysozyme by introducing the Arg-Gly-Asp sequence at two sites.
abstract: To increase the cell adhesion activity of 74RGD4, an RGDS-inserted mutant between Val74 and Asn75 of human lysozyme, one more site for the RGD introduction was investigated in the lysozyme molecule. We found that 47RGD4 with RGDS in place of AGDR (residues 47 to 50) in a beta-turn region possesses the same level of adhesion activity as that of 74RGD4. The acceptance of the RGD introduction in the beta-turn region of human lysozyme is in good agreement with recent studies on the functional conformation of RGD. We constructed (47,74)RGD4, a mutant containing RGD at two sites, by combining the N-terminal domain of 47RGD4 and the C-terminal domain of 74RGD4. The (47,74)RGD4 lysozyme, with two functional RGD sequences, exhibits even higher cell adhesion activity than that of 74RGD4 or 47RGD4.
authors.affiliation: Protein Engineering Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shimada
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Uyeda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D002460:Cell Line; D006224:Cricetinae; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D017931:DNA Primers; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009113:Muramidase / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; D017931:DNA Primers; D009842:Oligopeptides; C047981:arginyl-glycyl-aspartic acid; D009113:Muramidase