title: Structures of thrombospondins.
abstract: Thrombospondins are large secreted, multimodular, calcium-binding glycoproteins that have complex roles in mediating cellular processes. Determination of high-resolution structures of thrombospondins has revealed unique and interesting protein motifs. Here, we review this progress and discuss implications for function. By combining structures of modules from thrombospondins and related extracellular proteins it is now possible to prepare an overall model of the structure of thrombospondin-1 and thrombospondin-2 and discern features of other thrombospondins. (Part of a multi-author Review).
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Carlson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lawler
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Mosher
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D019699:Thrombospondins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D019699:Thrombospondins