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Mergelsberg ST, Kim H, Buchko GW, Ginovska B. SAXS of murine amelogenin identifies a persistent dimeric species from pH 5.0 to 8.0. J Struct Biol 2024:108131. [PMID: 39368677 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2024.108131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/07/2024]
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Amelogenin is an intrinsically disordered protein essential to tooth enamel formation in mammals. Using the latest, advanced small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) capabilities at synchrotrons and computational models, we revisited measuring the quaternary structure of murine amelogenin as a function of pH and phosphorylation at Ser-16. The SAXS data shows that at the pH extremes, amelogenin exists as an extended monomer at pH 3.0 (Rg = 38.4 Å) and nanospheres at pH 8.0 (Rg = 84.0 Å), consistent with multiple previous observations. At pH 5.0 and above there was no evidence for a significant population of monomeric species. Instead, at pH 5.0 ∼ 80% of the population is a heterogenous dimeric species that increases to ∼ 100% at pH 5.5. The dimer population was observed at all pH > 5 conditions in dynamic equilibrium with a species in the pentamer range at pH < 6.5 and nanospheres at pH 8.0. At pH 8.0 ∼ 40% of the amelogenin remained in the dimeric state. In general, serine-16 phosphorylation of amelogenin appears to modestly stabilize the population of the dimeric species.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA; School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA.
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Li Y, Chang R, Liu YJ, Chen F, Chen YX. Self-assembled branched polypeptides as amelogenin mimics for enamel repair. J Mater Chem B 2024; 12:6452-6465. [PMID: 38860913 DOI: 10.1039/d3tb02709k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2024]
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The regeneration of demineralized enamel holds great significance in the treatment of dental caries. Amelogenin (Ame), an essential protein for mediating natural enamel growth, is no longer secreted after enamel has fully matured in childhood. Although biomimetic mineralization based on peptides or proteins has made significant progress, easily accessible, low-cost, biocompatible and highly effective Ame mimics are still lacking. Herein, we construct a series of amphiphilic branched polypeptides (CAMPs) by facile coupling of the Ame's C-terminal segment and poly(γ-benzyl-L-glutamate), which serves to simulate the Ame's hydrophobic N-terminal segment. Among them, CAMP15 is the best biomimetic mineralization template with great self-assembly performance to guide the oriented crystallization of hydroxyapatite and is capable of inhibiting the adhesion of Streptococcus mutans and Staphylococcus aureus on the enamel surfaces. This work highlights the potential application of amphiphilic branched polypeptide as Ame mimics in repairing defected enamel, providing a promising strategy for prevention and treatment of dental caries.
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- Yue Li
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Central Laboratory Peking University Hospital of Stomatology, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Central Laboratory Peking University Hospital of Stomatology, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Kawasaki K, Sasagawa I, Mikami M, Nakatomi M, Ishiyama M. Ganoin and acrodin formation on scales and teeth in spotted gar: A vital role of enamelin in the unique process of enamel mineralization. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY. PART B, MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2023; 340:455-468. [PMID: 36464775 PMCID: PMC10239528 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Revised: 11/12/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Gars and bichirs develop scales and teeth with ancient actinopterygian characteristics. Their scale surface and tooth collar are covered with enamel, also known as ganoin, whereas the tooth cap is equipped with an enamel-like tissue, acrodin. Here, we investigated the formation and mineralization of the ganoin and acrodin matrices in spotted gar, and the evolution of the scpp5, ameloblastin (ambn), and enamelin (enam) genes, which encode matrix proteins of ganoin. Results suggest that, in bichirs and gars, all these genes retain structural characteristics of their orthologs in stem actinopterygians, presumably reflecting the presence of ganoin on scales and teeth. During scale formation, Scpp5 and Enam were initially found in the incipient ganoin matrix and the underlying collagen matrix, whereas Ambn was detected mostly in a surface region of the well-developed ganoin matrix. Although collagen is the principal acrodin matrix protein, Scpp5 was detected within the matrix. Similarities in timings of mineralization and the secretion of Scpp5 suggest that acrodin evolved by the loss of the matrix secretory stage of ganoin formation: dentin formation is immediately followed by the maturation stage. The late onset of Ambn secretion during ganoin formation implies that Ambn is not essential for mineral ribbon formation, the hallmark of the enamel matrix. Furthermore, Scpp5 resembles amelogenin that is not important for the initial formation of mineral ribbons in mammals. It is thus likely that the evolution of ENAM was vital to the origin of the unique mineralization process of the enamel matrix.
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- Kazuhiko Kawasaki
- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Advanced Research Center, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata the Nippon Dental University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata the Nippon Dental University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Human, Information and Life Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Histology, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata the Nippon Dental University, Niigata, Japan
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Buchko GW, Zhou M, Vesely CH, Tao J, Shaw WJ, Mehl RA, Cooley RB. High-yield recombinant bacterial expression of 13 C-, 15 N-labeled, serine-16 phosphorylated, murine amelogenin using a modified third generation genetic code expansion protocol. Protein Sci 2023; 32:e4560. [PMID: 36585836 PMCID: PMC9850436 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Amelogenin constitutes ~90% of the enamel matrix in the secretory stage of amelogenesis, a still poorly understood process that results in the formation of the hardest and most mineralized tissue in vertebrates-enamel. Most biophysical research with amelogenin uses recombinant protein expressed in Escherichia coli. In addition to providing copious amounts of protein, recombinant expression allows 13 C- and 15 N-labeling for detailed structural studies using NMR spectroscopy. However, native amelogenin is phosphorylated at one position, Ser-16 in murine amelogenin, and there is mounting evidence that Ser-16 phosphorylation is important. Using a modified genetic code expansion protocol we have expressed and purified uniformly 13 C-, 15 N-labeled murine amelogenin (pS16M179) with ~95% of the protein being correctly phosphorylated. Homogeneous phosphorylation was achieved using commercially available, enriched, 13 C-, 15 N-labeled media, and protein expression was induced with isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside at 310 K. Phosphoserine incorporation was verified from one-dimensional 31 P NMR spectra, comparison of 1 H-15 N HSQC spectra, Phos-tag SDS PAGE, and mass spectrometry. Phosphorus-31 NMR spectra for pS16M179 under conditions known to trigger amelogenin self-assembly into nanospheres confirm nanosphere models with buried N-termini. Lambda phosphatase treatment of these nanospheres results in the dephosphorylation of pS16M179, confirming that smaller oligomers and monomers with exposed N-termini are in equilibrium with nanospheres. Such 13 C-, 15 N-labeling of amelogenin with accurately encoded phosphoserine incorporation will accelerate biomineralization research to understand amelogenesis and stimulate the expanded use of genetic code expansion protocols to introduce phosphorylated amino acids into proteins.
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- Garry W. Buchko
- Earth and Biological Sciences DirectoratePacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWashingtonUSA,School of Molecular BiosciencesWashington State UniversityPullmanWashingtonUSA
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- Earth and Biological Sciences DirectoratePacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWashingtonUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and BiophysicsOregon State UniversityCorvallisOregonUSA
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- Physical and Computational Sciences DirectoratePacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWashingtonUSA
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- Physical and Computational Sciences DirectoratePacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWashingtonUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and BiophysicsOregon State UniversityCorvallisOregonUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and BiophysicsOregon State UniversityCorvallisOregonUSA
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Buchko GW, Mergelsberg ST, Tarasevich BJ, Shaw WJ. Residue-Specific Insights into the Intermolecular Protein–Protein Interfaces Driving Amelogenin Self-Assembly in Solution. Biochemistry 2022; 61:2909-2921. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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- Garry W. Buchko
- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
- School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
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- Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Shaheen J, Mudd AB, Diekwisch TGH, Abramyan J. Pseudogenized Amelogenin Reveals Early Tooth Loss in True Toads (Anura: Bufonidae). Integr Comp Biol 2021; 61:1933-1945. [PMID: 33905504 PMCID: PMC8699095 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icab039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Extant anurans (frogs and toads) exhibit reduced dentition, ranging from a lack of mandibular teeth to complete edentulation, as observed in the true toads of the family Bufonidae. The evolutionary time line of these reductions remains vague due to a poor fossil record. Previous studies have demonstrated an association between the lack of teeth in edentulous vertebrates and the pseudogenization of the major tooth enamel gene amelogenin (AMEL) through accumulation of deleterious mutations and the disruption of its coding sequence. In this study, we have harnessed the pseudogenization of AMEL as a molecular dating tool to correlate loss of dentition with genomic mutation patterns during the rise of the family Bufonidae. Specifically, we have utilized AMEL pseudogenes in three members of the family as a tool to estimate the putative date of edentulation in true toads. Comparison of AMEL sequences from Rhinella marina, Bufo gargarizans and Bufo bufo, with nine extant, dentulous frogs, revealed mutations confirming AMEL inactivation in Bufonidae. AMEL pseudogenes in modern bufonids also exhibited remarkably high 86-93% sequence identity among each other, with only a slight increase in substitution rate and relaxation of selective pressure, in comparison with functional copies in other anurans. Moreover, using selection intensity estimates and synonymous substitution rates, analysis of functional and pseudogenized AMEL resulted in an estimated inactivation window of 46-60 million years ago in the lineage leading to modern true toads, a time line that coincides with the rise of the family Bufonidae.
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- John Shaheen
- Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Center for Craniofacial Research and Diagnosis, Texas A&M University, Dallas, TX 75246, USA
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- Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA
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Amelogenin-Derived Peptides in Bone Regeneration: A Systematic Review. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22179224. [PMID: 34502132 PMCID: PMC8431254 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22179224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Amelogenins are enamel matrix proteins currently used to treat bone defects in periodontal surgery. Recent studies have highlighted the relevance of amelogenin-derived peptides, named LRAP, TRAP, SP, and C11, in bone tissue engineering. Interestingly, these peptides seem to maintain or even improve the biological activity of the full-length protein, which has received attention in the field of bone regeneration. In this article, the authors combined a systematic and a narrative review. The former is focused on the existing scientific evidence on LRAP, TRAP, SP, and C11's ability to induce the production of mineralized extracellular matrix, while the latter is concentrated on the structure and function of amelogenin and amelogenin-derived peptides. Overall, the collected data suggest that LRAP and SP are able to induce stromal stem cell differentiation towards osteoblastic phenotypes; specifically, SP seems to be more reliable in bone regenerative approaches due to its osteoinduction and the absence of immunogenicity. However, even if some evidence is convincing, the limited number of studies and the scarcity of in vivo studies force us to wait for further investigations before drawing a solid final statement on the real potential of amelogenin-derived peptides in bone tissue engineering.
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Kawasaki K, Keating JN, Nakatomi M, Welten M, Mikami M, Sasagawa I, Puttick MN, Donoghue PC, Ishiyama M. Coevolution of enamel, ganoin, enameloid, and their matrix SCPP genes in osteichthyans. iScience 2021; 24:102023. [PMID: 33506188 PMCID: PMC7814152 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.102023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Revised: 11/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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We resolve debate over the evolution of vertebrate hypermineralized tissues through analyses of matrix protein-encoding secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein (SCPP) genes and phylogenetic inference of hypermineralized tissues. Among these genes, AMBN and ENAM are found in both sarcopterygians and actinopterygians, whereas AMEL and SCPP5 are found only in sarcopterygians and actinopterygians, respectively. Actinopterygian AMBN, ENAM, and SCPP5 are expressed during the formation of hypermineralized tissues on scales and teeth: ganoin, acrodin, and collar enamel in gar, and acrodin and collar enameloid in zebrafish. Our phylogenetic analyses indicate the emergence of an ancestral enamel in stem-osteichthyans, whereas ganoin emerged in stem-actinopterygians and true enamel in stem-sarcopterygians. Thus, AMBN and ENAM originated in concert with ancestral enamel, SCPP5 evolved in association with ganoin, and AMEL evolved with true enamel. Shifts in gene expression domain and timing explain the evolution of different hypermineralized tissues. We propose that hypermineralized tissues in osteichthyans coevolved with matrix SCPP genes. Ganoin emerged in actinopterygians; true enamel arose in sarcopterygians Dental enamel, acrodin, and enameloid in actinopterygians are related to ganoin SCPP5 evolved in association with ganoin, whereas AMEL evolved with true enamel Shifts in SCPP gene expression explain the evolution of hypermineralized tissues
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- Kazuhiko Kawasaki
- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Corresponding author
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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- Division of Anatomy, Kyushu Dental University, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 803-8580, Japan
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata, the Nippon Dental University, Niigata, Niigata 951-8580, Japan
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- Advanced Research Center, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata, the Nippon Dental University, Niigata, Niigata 951-8580, Japan
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
- Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
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- Department of Histology, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata, the Nippon Dental University, Niigata, Niigata 951-8580, Japan
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Wang Y, Hu D, Cui J, Zeng Y, Gan X, Chen Z, Ren Q, Zhang L. Unraveling the mechanism for an amelogenin-derived peptide regulated hydroxyapatite mineralization via specific functional domain identification. J Mater Chem B 2020; 8:10373-10383. [PMID: 33112349 DOI: 10.1039/d0tb00949k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Amelogenin and its various derived peptides play important roles in promoting biomimetic mineralization of enamel. Previously, an amelogenin-derived peptide named QP5 was proved to be able to repair demineralized enamel. The objective here was to interpret the mechanism of QP5 by elucidating the specific function of each domain for further sequence and efficacy improvement. Peptide QP5 was separated into domains (QPX)5 and C-tail. (QPX)3 was also synthesized to investigate how QPX repeats affect the mineralization process. Circular dichroism spectroscopy showed that two (QPX) repeats adopted a β-sheet structure, while C-tail exhibited a disordered structure. (QPX)5 showed more absorption in confocal laser scanning microscopy observation and a higher K value in Langmuir adsorption isotherms compared to C-tail, while (QPX)3 with better hydropathy had greater adsorption capability than (QPX)5. Meanwhile, calcium consumption kinetics, transmission electron microscopy and selected area electron diffraction indicated that (QPX)5, C-tail and (QPX)3 had similar inhibitory effects on the spontaneous calcium consumption and the morphology of their nucleation products were alike, while QP5 had a greater inhibitory effect than them and induced elongated plate-like crystals. X-Ray diffraction further showed that both C-tail and (QPX)3 had greater potential in improving the apatite crystal orientation degree. In conclusion, (QPX)5 was the major adsorption region, both (QPX)5 and C-tail inhibited the nucleation, and C-tail contributed more to improve the HAP orientation degree, so QP5 could exert a significant remineralization effect. By reducing two repeats, (QPX)3 showed higher hydropathicity than (QPX)5 and achieved higher binding affinity, and it was more potential in improving the HAP orientation degree with lower economic cost.
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- Yufei Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Centre for Oral Disease, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3 of Renmin Road South, Chengdu, China. and Department of Cariology and Endodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Centre for Oral Disease, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3 of Renmin Road South, Chengdu, China. and Department of Cariology and Endodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Centre for Oral Disease, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3 of Renmin Road South, Chengdu, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Centre for Oral Disease, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3 of Renmin Road South, Chengdu, China. and Department of Cariology and Endodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Centre for Oral Disease, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3 of Renmin Road South, Chengdu, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Centre for Oral Disease, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3 of Renmin Road South, Chengdu, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Centre for Oral Disease, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3 of Renmin Road South, Chengdu, China. and Department of Cariology and Endodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Centre for Oral Disease, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3 of Renmin Road South, Chengdu, China. and Department of Cariology and Endodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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The Evolution of Unusually Small Amelogenin Genes in Cetaceans; Pseudogenization, X-Y Gene Conversion, and Feeding Strategy. J Mol Evol 2019; 88:122-135. [PMID: 31754761 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-019-09917-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Among extant cetaceans, mysticetes are filter feeders that do not possess teeth and use their baleen for feeding, while most odontocetes are considered suction feeders, which capture prey by suction without biting or chewing with teeth. In the present study, we address the functionality of amelogenin (AMEL) genes in cetaceans. AMEL encodes a protein that is specifically involved in dental enamel formation and is located on the sex chromosomes in eutherians. The X-copy AMELX is functional in enamel-bearing eutherians, whereas the Y-copy AMELY appears to have undergone decay and was completely lost in some species. Consistent with these premises, we detected various deleterious mutations and/or non-canonical splice junctions in AMELX of mysticetes and four suction feeding odontocetes, Delphinapterus leucas, Monodon monoceros, Kogia breviceps, and Physeter macrocephalus, and in AMELY of mysticetes and odontocetes. Regardless of the functionality, both AMELX and AMELY are equally and unusually small in cetaceans, and even their functional AMELX genes presumably encode a degenerate core region, which is thought to be essential for enamel matrix assembly and enamel crystal growth. Furthermore, our results suggest that the most recent common ancestors of extant cetaceans had functional AMELX and AMELY, both of which are similar to AMELX of Platanista minor. Similar small AMELX and AMELY in archaic cetaceans can be explained by gene conversion between AMELX and AMELY. We speculate that common ancestors of modern cetaceans employed a degenerate AMELX, transferred from a decaying AMELY by gene conversion, at an early stage of their transition to suction feeders.
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Takahashi A, Morita T, Murata K, Minowa E, Jahan A, Saito M, Tanimura A. Effects of full-length human amelogenin on the differentiation of dental epithelial cells and osteoblastic cells. Arch Oral Biol 2019; 107:104479. [PMID: 31330473 DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2019.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2019] [Accepted: 07/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Amelogenins are major components of extracellular matrix proteins in developing teeth, and regulate the growth of enamel crystals. They also function as signaling molecules in cell differentiation. This study aimed to determine the biological effects of amelogenins on the differentiation of HAT-7 dental epithelial cells and MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblastic cells using full-length recombinant human amelogenin (rh-AMEL). DESIGN rh-AMEL was expressed in a mammalian cell line (Expi293F™) and was purified by DDK agarose beads. Effects of rh-AMEL on differentiation were evaluated by Mineralization and Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity using Alizarin Red S staining and colorimetric substrate p-nitrophenol, respectively. RESULTS Western blotting and silver staining confirmed the successful purification of rh-AMEL. Mineralization and ALP activity in HAT-7 cells were significantly higher after treatment with 4 μg/mL rh-AMEL, but not after treatment with Emdogain® (EMD). In MC3T3-E1 cells, on the other hand, rh-AMEL showed biphasic effects on differentiation. Treatment with low concentrations of rh-AMEL (0.001-0.1 μg/mL) and EMD (0.01-1 μg/mL) increased mineralization and ALP activity in MC3T3-E1 cells, whereas treatment with high concentrations of rh-AMEL (4 μg/mL) and EMD (100 μg/mL) had the opposite effect. CONCLUSION High concentrations of rh-AMEL and EMD decreased the differentiation of MC3T3-E1 cells. By contrast, a high concentration of rh-AMEL, but not that of EMD, promoted the differentiation of HAT-7 cells. This study demonstrates that the effects of rh-AMEL on cell differentiation differ between HAT-7 and MC3T3-E1 cells, and suggests that different regions on AMEL may induce the differentiation of these cell types.
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- Ayumi Takahashi
- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Nippon Dental University, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata, Niigata, 1-8, Hamauracho, Chuo-ku, Niigata-Shi, Niigata, 951-8580, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan.
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Rathsam C, Farahani RM, Hains PG, Valova VA, Charadram N, Zoellner H, Swain M, Hunter N. Characterization of inter-crystallite peptides in human enamel rods reveals contribution by the Y allele of amelogenin. J Struct Biol 2018; 204:26-37. [PMID: 29959991 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2018.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Revised: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Proteins of the inter-rod sheath and peptides within the narrow inter-crystallite space of the rod structure are considered largely responsible for visco-elastic and visco-plastic properties of enamel. The present study was designed to investigate putative peptides of the inter-crystallite space. Entities of 1-6 kDa extracted from enamel rods of erupted permanent teeth were analysed by mass spectrometry (MS) and shown to comprise N-terminal amelogenin (AMEL) peptides either containing or not containing exon 4 product. Other dominant entities consisted of an N-terminal peptide from ameloblastin (AMBN) and a series of the most hydrophobic peptides from serum albumin (ALBN). Amelogenin peptides encoded by the Y-chromosome allele were strongly detected in Enamel from male teeth. Location of N-terminal AMEL peptides as well as AMBN and ALBN, between apatite crystallites, was disclosed by immunogold scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Density plots confirmed the relative abundance of these products including exon 4+ AMEL peptides that have greater capacity for binding to hydroxyapatite. Hydrophilic X and Y peptides encoded in exon 4 differ only in substitution of non-polar isoleucine in Y for polar threonine in X with reduced disruption of the hydrophobic N-terminal structure in the Y form. Despite similarity of X and Y alleles of AMEL the non-coding region upstream from exon 4 shows significant variation with implications for segregation of processing of transcripts from exon 4. Detection of fragments from multiple additional proteins including keratins (KER), fetuin A (FETUA), proteinases and proteinase inhibitors, likely reflect biochemical events during enamel formation.
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- Catherine Rathsam
- Institute of Dental Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research and Centre for Oral Health, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Institute of Dental Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research and Centre for Oral Health, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
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- Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
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- Institute of Dental Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research and Centre for Oral Health, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Faculty of Dentistry, Kuwait University, Kuwait
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- Institute of Dental Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research and Centre for Oral Health, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Buchko GW, Jayasinha Arachchige R, Tao J, Tarasevich BJ, Shaw WJ. Identification of major matrix metalloproteinase-20 proteolytic processing products of murine amelogenin and tyrosine-rich amelogenin peptide using a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy based method. Arch Oral Biol 2018; 93:187-194. [PMID: 29960917 DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2018.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Revised: 05/31/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify major matrix metalloproteinase-20 (MMP20) proteolytic processing products of amelogenin over time and determine if the tyrosine-rich amelogenin peptide (TRAP) was a substrate of MMP20. DESIGN Recombinant15N-labeled murine amelogenin and 13C,15N-labeled TRAP were incubated with MMP20 under conditions where amelogenin self-assembles into nanospheres. Digestion products were fractionated by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography at various time points. Product identification took advantage of the intrinsic disorder property of amelogenin that results in little change to its fingerprint 1H-15N heteronuclear single-quantum coherence nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum in 2% acetic acid upon removing parts of the protein, allowing cleavage site identification by observing which amide cross peaks disappear. RESULTS The primary product in five out of the six major reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography bands generated after a 24 h incubation of murine amelogenin with MMP20 were: S55-L163, P2-L147, P2-E162, P2-A167, and P2-R176. After 72 h these products were replaced with five major reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography bands containing: L46-A170, P2-S152, P2-F151, P2-W45, and short N-terminal peptides. TRAP was completely digested by MMP20 into multiple small peptides with the initial primary site of cleavage between S16 and Y17. CONCLUSIONS Identification of the major MMP20 proteolytic products of amelogenin confirm a dynamic process, with sites towards the C-terminus more rapidly attacked than sites near the N-terminus. This observation is consistent with nanosphere models where the C-terminus is exposed and the N-terminus more protected. One previously reported end-product of the MMP20 proteolytic processing of amelogenin, TRAP, is shown to be an in vitro substrate for MMP20.
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- Garry W Buchko
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA.
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Sanchooli N. Ecological variables determining the presence of lizards in the Sistan region, Eastern Iran. Ecol Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s11284-017-1514-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ikawa T, Kakegawa A, Nagano T, Ando H, Yamakoshi Y, Tanabe T, Simmer JP, Hu CC, Fukae M, Oida S. Porcine Amelogenin is Expressed from the X and Y Chromosomes. J Dent Res 2016; 84:144-8. [PMID: 15668331 DOI: 10.1177/154405910508400207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Amelogenin is the major enamel matrix component in developing teeth. In eutherian mammals, amelogenin is expressed from the X chromosome only, or from both the X and Y chromosomes. Two classes of porcine amelogenin cDNA clones have been characterized, but the chromosomal localization of the gene(s) encoding them is unknown. To determine if there are sex-based differences in the expression of porcine amelogenin, we paired PCR primers for exons 1a, 1b, 7a, and 7b, and amplified enamel organ-derived cDNA separately from porcine males and females. The results show that exons 1a/2a and 7a are always together and can be amplified from both males (XY) and females (XX). Exons 1b/2b and 7b are also always paired, but can be amplified only from females. We conclude that porcine amelogenin is expressed from separate genes on the X and Y chromosomes, and not, as previously proposed, from a single gene with two promoters.
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- T Ikawa
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Dental Medicine, Tsurumi University, 2-1-3 Tsurumi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-8501, Japan
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Margolis HC, Beniash E, Fowler CE. Role of Macromolecular Assembly of Enamel Matrix Proteins in Enamel Formation. J Dent Res 2016; 85:775-93. [PMID: 16931858 DOI: 10.1177/154405910608500902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Unlike other mineralized tissues, mature dental enamel is primarily (> 95% by weight) composed of apatitic crystals and has a unique hierarchical structure. Due to its high mineral content and organized structure, enamel has exceptional functional properties and is the hardest substance in the human body. Enamel formation (amelogenesis) is the result of highly orchestrated extracellular processes that regulate the nucleation, growth, and organization of forming mineral crystals. However, major aspects of the mechanism of enamel formation are not well-understood, although substantial evidence suggests that protein-protein and protein-mineral interactions play crucial roles in this process. The purpose of this review is a critical evaluation of the present state of knowledge regarding the potential role of the assembly of enamel matrix proteins in the regulation of crystal growth and the structural organization of the resulting enamel tissue. This review primarily focuses on the structure and function of amelogenin, the predominant enamel matrix protein. This review also provides a brief description of novel in vitro approaches that have used synthetic macromolecules ( i.e., surfactants and polymers) to regulate the formation of hierarchical inorganic (composite) structures in a fashion analogous to that believed to take place in biological systems, such as enamel. Accordingly, this review illustrates the potential for developing bio-inspired approaches to mineralized tissue repair and regeneration. In conclusion, the authors present a hypothesis, based on the evidence presented, that the full-length amelogenin uniquely regulates proper enamel formation through a process of cooperative mineralization, and not as a pre-formed matrix.
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- H C Margolis
- Department of Biomineralization, The Forsyth Institute, 140 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Sasagawa I, Oka S, Mikami M, Yokosuka H, Ishiyama M, Imai A, Shimokawa H, Uchida T. Immunohistochemical and Western Blotting Analyses of Ganoine in the Ganoid Scales ofLepisosteus oculatus: an Actinopterygian Fish. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2016; 326:193-209. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2015] [Accepted: 04/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Ichiro Sasagawa
- Advanced Research Center; School of Life Dentistry at Niigata; The Nippon Dental University; Niigata Japan
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- Department of Biology; School of Life Dentistry at Niigata; The Nippon Dental University; Niigata Japan
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- Department of Microbiology; School of Life Dentistry at Niigata; The Nippon Dental University; Niigata Japan
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- Department of Histology; School of Life Dentistry at Niigata; The Nippon Dental University; Niigata Japan
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- Department of Histology; School of Life Dentistry at Niigata; The Nippon Dental University; Niigata Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata; The Nippon Dental University; Niigata Japan
- Department of Dental Hygiene, College at Niigata; The Nippon Dental University; Niigata Japan
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- Division of Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Oral Health Sciences, Graduate School; Tokyo Medical and Dental University; Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Oral Biology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Hiroshima University; Hiroshima Japan
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Full-length amelogenin influences the differentiation of human dental pulp stem cells. Stem Cell Res Ther 2016; 7:10. [PMID: 26762641 PMCID: PMC4712507 DOI: 10.1186/s13287-015-0269-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2015] [Revised: 11/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Background Amelogenin is an extracellular matrix protein well known for its role in the organization and mineralization of enamel. Clinically, it is used for periodontal regeneration and, due to its finding also in predentin and intercellular spaces of dental pulp cells, it has recently been suggested for pulp capping procedures. The aim of this study was to analyse in vitro the effect of the recombinant human full-length amelogenin on the growth and differentiation of human dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs). Methods Human DPSCs were treated with a supplement of amelogenin at a concentration of 10 ng/ml, 100 ng/ml and 1000 ng/ml. The groups were compared to the unstimulated control in terms of cell morphology and proliferation, mineralization and gene expression for ALP (alkaline phosphatase), DMP1 (dentin matrix protein-1) and DSPP (dentin sialophosphoprotein). Results Amelogenin affects hDPSCs differently than PDL (periodontal ligament) cells and other cell lines. The proliferation rate at two weeks is significantly reduced in presence of the highest concentration of amelogenin as compared to the unstimulated control. hDPSCs treated with low concentrations present a downregulation of DMP1 and DSPP, which is significant for DSPP (p = 0.011), but not for DMP1 (p = 0.395). Conclusions These finding suggest that the role of full-length amelogenin is not restricted to participation in tooth structure. It influences the differentiation of hDPSC according to various concentrations and this might impair the clinical results of pulp capping.
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Bai C, Li Y, Yan S, Fang H, Sun B, Zhang J, Zhao Z. Identification and characterization of the cDNA sequence encoding amelogenin in rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Gene 2015; 576:770-5. [PMID: 26551300 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2015] [Revised: 09/26/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Amelogenins, the most abundant proteins in tooth enamel extracellular matrix (ECM), are essential for tooth amelogenesis. The nucleotide sequence of amelogenin gene (AMEL) for rabbit, as an important member of mammals and good continuously growing incisor model, is important for comparative and evolutional study. Previous studies about rabbit amelogenin proteins got no consensus yet even as to their existence or size. In this study, with combined usage of in silico and molecular cloning technologies, we identified sequences of two transcripts of rabbit amelogenin, resulting from the alternative splicing of the 45-bp exon 4. The coding regions of the two transcripts are of 567- and 522-bp, encoding 188 and 173 amino acids including a 17-residue signal peptide, respectively. Sequence analysis revealed that rabbit amelogenin features in extremely high GC-content in nucleotide sequence and Alanine content in protein sequence. Detailed comparison of amino acid sequence with other mammals showed that the rabbit amelogenin protein is conserved in the sites and regions important for protein functions. Overall, our results uncovered the mysteries about rabbit amelogenin and revealed its sequence peculiarities.
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- Chunyan Bai
- College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China.
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- College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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Kawasaki K, Amemiya CT. SCPP genes in the coelacanth: tissue mineralization genes shared by sarcopterygians. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2015; 322:390-402. [PMID: 25243252 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The coelacanth is the basal-most extant sarcopterygian that has teeth and tooth-like structures, comprising bone, dentin, and enamel or enameloid. Formation of these tissues involves many members of the secretory calcium-binding protein (SCPP) family. In tetrapods, acidic-residue-rich SCPPs are used in mineralization of bone and dentin, whereas Pro/Gln-rich SCPPs participate in enamel formation. Teleosts also employ many SCPPs for tissue mineralization. Nevertheless, the repertoire of SCPPs is largely different in teleosts and tetrapods; hence, filling this gap would be critical to elucidate early evolution of mineralized tissues in osteichthyans. In the present study, we searched for SCPP genes in the coelacanth genome and identified 11, of which two have clear orthologs in both tetrapods and teleosts, seven only in tetrapods, and two in neither of them. Given the divergence times of these vertebrate lineages, our discovery of this many SCPP genes shared between the coelacanth and tetrapods, but not with teleosts, suggests a complicated evolutionary scheme of SCPP genes in early osteichthyans. Our investigation also revealed both conserved and derived characteristics of SCPPs in the coelacanth and other vertebrates. Notably, acidic SCPPs independently evolved various acidic repeats in different lineages, while maintaining high acidity, presumably important for interactions with calcium. Furthermore, the three Pro/Gln-rich SCPP genes, required for mineralizing enamel matrix and confirmed only in tetrapods, were all identified in the coelacanth, strongly suggesting that enamel is equivalent in the coelacanth and tetrapods. This finding corroborates the previous proposition that true enamel evolved much earlier than the origin of tetrapods.
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Gasse B, Chiari Y, Silvent J, Davit-Béal T, Sire JY. Amelotin: an enamel matrix protein that experienced distinct evolutionary histories in amphibians, sauropsids and mammals. BMC Evol Biol 2015; 15:47. [PMID: 25884299 PMCID: PMC4373244 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0329-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 02/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Background Amelotin (AMTN) is an ameloblast-secreted protein that belongs to the secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein (SCPP) family, which originated in early vertebrates. In rodents, AMTN is expressed during the maturation stage of amelogenesis only. This expression pattern strongly differs from the spatiotemporal expression of other ameloblast-secreted SCPPs, such as the enamel matrix proteins (EMPs). Furthermore, AMTN was characterized in rodents only. In this study, we applied various approaches, including in silico screening of databases, PCRs and transcriptome sequencing to characterize AMTN sequences in sauropsids and amphibians, and compared them to available mammalian and coelacanth sequences. Results We showed that (i) AMTN is tooth (enamel) specific and underwent pseudogenization in toothless turtles and birds, and (ii) the AMTN structure changed during tetrapod evolution. To infer AMTN function, we studied spatiotemporal expression of AMTN during amelogenesis in a salamander and a lizard, and compared the results with available expression data from mouse. We found that AMTN is expressed throughout amelogenesis in non-mammalian tetrapods, in contrast to its expression limited to enamel maturation in rodents. Conclusions Taken together our findings suggest that AMTN was primarily an EMP. Its functions were conserved in amphibians and sauropsids while a change occurred early in the mammalian lineage, modifying its expression pattern during amelogenesis and its gene structure. These changes likely led to a partial loss of AMTN function and could have a link with the emergence of prismatic enamel in mammals. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0329-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Barbara Gasse
- Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Evolution Paris-Seine, Paris, UMR7138, France.
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- Department of Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, 36688, USA.
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- Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Evolution Paris-Seine, Paris, UMR7138, France. .,Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
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- Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Evolution Paris-Seine, Paris, UMR7138, France.
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- Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Evolution Paris-Seine, Paris, UMR7138, France.
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Buchko GW, Shaw WJ. Improved protocol to purify untagged amelogenin - Application to murine amelogenin containing the equivalent P70→T point mutation observed in human amelogenesis imperfecta. Protein Expr Purif 2014; 105:14-22. [PMID: 25306873 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2014.09.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2014] [Accepted: 09/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Amelogenin is the predominant extracellular protein responsible for converting carbonated hydroxyapatite into dental enamel, the hardest and most heavily mineralized tissue in vertebrates. Despite much effort, the precise mechanism by which amelogenin regulates enamel formation is not fully understood. To assist efforts aimed at understanding the biochemical mechanism of enamel formation, more facile protocols to purify recombinantly expressed amelogenin, ideally without any tag to assist affinity purification, are advantageous. Here we describe an improved method to purify milligram quantities of amelogenin that exploits its high solubility in 2% glacial acetic acid under conditions of low ionic strength. The method involves heating the frozen cell pellet for two 15min periods at ∼70°C with 2min of sonication in between, dialysis twice in 2% acetic acid (1:250 v/v), and reverse phase chromatography. A further improvement in yield is obtained by resuspending the frozen cell pellet in 6M guanidine hydrochloride in the first step. The acetic acid heating method is illustrated with a murine amelogenin containing the corresponding P70→T point mutation observed in an human amelogenin associated with amelogenesis imperfecta (P71T), while the guanidine hydrochloride heating method is illustrated with wild type murine amelogenin (M180). The self-assembly properties of P71T were probed by NMR chemical shift perturbation studies as a function of protein (0.1-1.8mM) and NaCl (0-367mM) concentration. Relative to similar studies with wild type murine amelogenin, P71T self-associates at lower protein or salt concentrations with the interactions initiated near the N-terminus.
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- Garry W Buchko
- Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA.
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- Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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Lin K, Wu C, Chang J. Advances in synthesis of calcium phosphate crystals with controlled size and shape. Acta Biomater 2014; 10:4071-102. [PMID: 24954909 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2014] [Revised: 06/06/2014] [Accepted: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Calcium phosphate (CaP) materials have a wide range of applications, including biomaterials, adsorbents, chemical engineering materials, catalysts and catalyst supports and mechanical reinforcements. The size and shape of CaP crystals and aggregates play critical roles in their applications. The main inorganic building blocks of human bones and teeth are nanocrystalline CaPs; recently, much progress has been made in the application of CaP nanocrystals and their composites for clinical repair of damaged bone and tooth. For example, CaPs with special micro- and nanostructures can better imitate the biomimetic features of human bone and tooth, and this offers significantly enhanced biological performances. Therefore, the design of CaP nano-/microcrystals, and the shape and hierarchical structures of CaPs, have great potential to revolutionize the field of hard tissue engineering, starting from bone/tooth repair and augmentation to controlled drug delivery devices. Previously, a number of reviews have reported the synthesis and properties of CaP materials, especially for hydroxyapatite (HAp). However, most of them mainly focused on the characterizations and physicochemical and biological properties of HAp particles. There are few reviews about the control of particle size and size distribution of CaPs, and in particular the control of nano-/microstructures on bulk CaP ceramic surfaces, which is a big challenge technically and may have great potential in tissue engineering applications. This review summarizes the current state of the art for the synthesis of CaP crystals with controlled sizes from the nano- to the macroscale, and the diverse shapes including the zero-dimensional shapes of particles and spheres, the one-dimensional shapes of rods, fibers, wires and whiskers, the two-dimensional shapes of sheets, disks, plates, belts, ribbons and flakes and the three-dimensional (3-D) shapes of porous, hollow, and biomimetic structures similar to biological bone and tooth. In addition, this review will also summarize studies on the controlled formation of nano-/microstructures on the surface of bulk ceramics, and the preparation of macroscopical bone grafts with 3-D architecture nano-/microstructured surfaces. Moreover, the possible directions of future research and development in this field, such as the detailed mechanisms behind the size and shape control in various strategies, the importance of theoretical simulation, self-assembly, biomineralization and sacrificial precursor strategies in the fabrication of biomimetic bone-like and enamel-like CaP materials are proposed.
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- Kaili Lin
- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China.
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Sasagawa I, Ishiyama M, Yokosuka H, Mikami M, Shimokawa H, Uchida T. Immunohistochemical and Western blot analyses of collar enamel in the jaw teeth of gars, Lepisosteus oculatus, an actinopterygian fish. Connect Tissue Res 2014; 55:225-33. [PMID: 24611716 DOI: 10.3109/03008207.2014.902450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Although most fish have no enamel layer in their teeth, those belonging to Lepisosteus (gars), an extant actinopterygian fish genus, do and so can be used to study amelogenesis. In order to examine the collar enamel matrix in gar teeth, we subjected gar teeth to light and electron microscopic immunohistochemical examinations using an antibody against bovine amelogenin (27 kDa) and antiserum against porcine amelogenin (25 kDa), as well as region-specific antibodies and antiserum against the C-terminus and middle region, and N-terminus of porcine amelogenin, respectively. The enamel matrix exhibited intense immunoreactivity to the anti-bovine amelogenin antibody and the anti-porcine amelogenin antiserum in addition to the C-terminal and middle region-specific antibodies, but not to the N-terminal-specific antiserum. These results suggest that the collar enamel matrix of gar teeth contains amelogenin-like proteins and that these proteins possess domains that closely resemble the C-terminal and middle regions of porcine amelogenin. Western blot analyses of the tooth germs of Lepisosteus were also performed. As a result, protein bands with molecular weights of 78 kDa and 65 kDa were clearly stained by the anti-bovine amelogenin antibody as well as the antiserum against porcine amelogenin and the middle-region-specific antibody. It is likely that the amelogenin-like proteins present in Lepisosteus do not correspond to the amelogenins found in mammals, although they do possess domains that are shared with mammalian amelogenins.
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Yonekura T, Homma H, Sakurai A, Moriguchi M, Miake Y, Toyosawa S, Shintani S. Identification, characterization, and expression of dentin matrix protein 1 gene inXenopus laevis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2013; 320:525-37. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2013] [Revised: 07/31/2013] [Accepted: 08/01/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- Tomoko Yonekura
- Department of Pediatric Dentistry; Tokyo Dental College; Mihama-ku Chiba Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Dentistry; Tokyo Dental College; Mihama-ku Chiba Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Dentistry; Tokyo Dental College; Mihama-ku Chiba Japan
- Oral Health Science Center hrc8; Tokyo Dental College; Mihama-ku Chiba Japan
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- Department of Ultrastructural Science; Tokyo Dental College; Mihama-ku Chiba Japan
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- Department of Ultrastructural Science; Tokyo Dental College; Mihama-ku Chiba Japan
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- Department of Oral Pathology; Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry; Suita Osaka Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Dentistry; Tokyo Dental College; Mihama-ku Chiba Japan
- Oral Health Science Center hrc8; Tokyo Dental College; Mihama-ku Chiba Japan
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Buchko GW, Lin G, Tarasevich BJ, Shaw WJ. A solution NMR investigation into the impaired self-assembly properties of two murine amelogenins containing the point mutations T21→I or P41→T. Arch Biochem Biophys 2013; 537:217-24. [PMID: 23896516 PMCID: PMC3788651 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2013.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2013] [Revised: 07/10/2013] [Accepted: 07/12/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Amelogenesis imperfecta describes a group of inherited disorders that results in defective tooth enamel. Two disorders associated with human amelogenesis imperfecta are the point mutations T21→I or P40→T in amelogenin, the dominant protein present during the early stages of enamel biomineralization. The biophysical properties of wildtype murine amelogenin (M180) and two proteins containing the equivalent mutations in murine amelogenin, T21→I (M180-I) and P41→T (M180-T), were probed by NMR spectroscopy. At low protein concentration (0.1mM), M180, M180-I, and M180-T are predominately monomeric at pH 3.0 in 2% acetic acid and neither mutation produces a major structural change. Chemical shift perturbation studies as a function of protein (0.1-1.8mM) or NaCl (0-400mM) concentrations show that the mutations affect the self-association properties by causing self-assembly at lower protein or salt concentrations, relative to wildtype amelogenin, with the largest effect observed for M180-I. Under both conditions, the premature self-assembly is initiated near the N-terminus, providing further evidence for the importance of this region in the self-assembly process. The self-association of M180-I and M180-T at lower protein concentrations and lower ionic strengths than wildtype M180 may account for the clinical phenotypes of these mutations, defective enamel formation.
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- Garry W. Buchko
- Fundamental Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Fundamental Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Fundamental Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Fundamental Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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Wang X, Xing Z, Zhang X, Zhu L, Diekwisch TGH. Alternative Splicing of the Amelogenin Gene in a Caudate Amphibian, Plethodon cinereus. PLoS One 2013; 8:e68965. [PMID: 23840861 PMCID: PMC3694012 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2012] [Accepted: 06/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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As the major enamel matrix protein contributing to tooth development, amelogenin has been demonstrated to play a crucial role in tooth enamel formation. Previous studies have revealed amelogenin alternative splicing as a mechanism for amelogenin heterogeneous expression in mammals. While amelogenin and its splicing forms in mammalian vertebrates have been characterized, splicing variants of amelogenin gene still remains largely unknown in non-mammalian species. Here, using PCR and sequence analysis we discovered two novel amelogenin transcript variants in tooth organ extracts from a caudate amphibian, the salamander Plethodoncinereus. The one was shorter -S- (416 nucleotides including untranslated regions, 5 exons) and the other larger -L- (851 nt, 7 exons) than the previously published “normal” gene in this species -M- (812 nucleotides, 6 exons). This is the first report demonstrating the amelogenin alternative splicing in amphibian, revealing a unique exon 2b and two novel amelogenin gene transcripts in Plethodoncinereus.
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- Xinping Wang
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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CryoTEM study of effects of phosphorylation on the hierarchical assembly of porcine amelogenin and its regulation of mineralization in vitro. J Struct Biol 2013; 183:250-7. [PMID: 23707542 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2013.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2013] [Revised: 04/22/2013] [Accepted: 05/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Amelogenin, the major extracellular enamel matrix protein, plays a critical role in regulating the growth and organization of enamel. Assembly and mineralization of full-length native (P173) and recombinant (rP172) porcine amelogenins were studied by cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy (cryoTEM). The cryoTEM revealed that both native and recombinant porcine amelogenins undergo step-wise self-assembly. Although the overall structural organization of P173 and rP172 oligomers was similar and resembled oligomers of murine recombinant amelogenin rM179, there were subtle differences suggesting that a single phosphorylated serine present in P173 might affect amelogenin self-assembly. Our mineralization studies demonstrated that both P173 and rP172 oligomers stabilize initial mineral clusters. Importantly, however, rP172 regulated the organization of initial mineral clusters into linear chains and guided the formation of parallel arrays of elongated mineral particles, which are the hallmark of enamel structural organization. These results are similar to those obtained previously using full-length recombinant murine amelogenin (Fang et al., 2011a). In contrast to that seen with rP172, phosphorylated P173 strongly inhibits mineralization for extended periods of time. We propose that these differences might be due to the differences in the structural organization and charge distribution between P173 and rP172. Overall our studies indicate that self-assembly of amelogenin and the mechanisms of its control over mineralization might be universal across different mammalian species. Our data also provide new insight into the effect of phosphorylation on amelogenin self-assembly and its regulation of mineralization.
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Teeth and ganoid scales in Polypterus and Lepisosteus, the basic actinopterygian fish: An approach to understand the origin of the tooth enamel. J Oral Biosci 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.job.2013.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Li W, Chakrabarti A, Gunton JD. Self-assembly of a bipolar model of biomacromolecules. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2013; 29:4470-4476. [PMID: 23484544 DOI: 10.1021/la4002994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Extending recent work on a generic bipolar model proposed to study the nanochain formation of amelogenin molecules, we conduct a systematic investigation in this paper on the self-assembly of such a model via sweeping the relative parameter space. The bipolar model consists of a short-range attraction and an off-center Coulomb repulsion for the supermolecule. Through the Brownian dynamics simulation of both translational and rotational motions, we study the kinetics of the self-assembly and the structure of clusters formed within the system for various interaction settings. From the results of structure factor and cluster analysis, we find that the range of the repulsive interaction has a sensitive impact in controlling the cluster size, while the strength of the attractive interaction dominates the cluster morphology such that the greater the attraction among particles, the more elongated the cluster formed.
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- Wei Li
- Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
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Assaraf-Weill N, Gasse B, Al-Hashimi N, Delgado S, Sire JY, Davit-Béal T. Conservation of amelogenin gene expression during tetrapod evolution. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2013; 320:200-9. [PMID: 23508977 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2012] [Revised: 01/31/2013] [Accepted: 02/05/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Well studied in mammals, amelogenesis is less known at the molecular level in reptiles and amphibians. In the course of extensive studies of enamel matrix protein (EMP) evolution in tetrapods, we look for correlation between changes in protein sequences and temporospatial protein gene expression during amelogenesis, using an evo-devo approach. Our target is the major EMP, amelogenin (AMEL) that plays a crucial role in enamel structure. We focused here our attention to an amphibian, the salamander Pleurodeles waltl. RNAs were extracted from the lower jaws of a juvenile P. waltl and the complete AMEL sequence was obtained using PCR and RACE PCR. The alignment of P. waltl AMEL with other tetrapodan (frogs, reptiles and mammals) sequences revealed residue conservation in the N- and C-terminal regions, and a highly variable central region. Using sense and anti-sense probes synthetized from the P. waltl AMEL sequence, we performed in situ hybridization on sections during amelogenesis in larvae, juveniles, and adults. We demonstrated that (i) AMEL expression was always found to be restricted to ameloblasts, (ii) the expression pattern was conserved through ontogeny, even in larvae where enameloid is present in addition to enamel, and (iii) the processes are similar to those described in lizards and mammals. These findings indicate that high variations in the central region of AMEL have not modified its temporospatial expression during amelogenesis for 360 million years of tetrapod evolution.
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- Nathalie Assaraf-Weill
- UMR 7138, Research Group "Evolution and Development of the Skeleton", Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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Ando H, Inage T, Oida S. Amelogenin in Frog Species, Xenopus tropicalis: A Gene Evolutionary Approach. J HARD TISSUE BIOL 2013. [DOI: 10.2485/jhtb.22.189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Wang X, Deng X, Zhang X. Identification of a novel splicing form of amelogenin gene in a reptile, Ctenosaura similis. PLoS One 2012; 7:e45871. [PMID: 23029286 PMCID: PMC3454316 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2012] [Accepted: 08/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Amelogenin, the major enamel matrix protein in tooth development, has been demonstrated to play a significant role in tooth enamel formation. Previous studies have identified the alternative splicing of amelogenin in many mammalian vertebrates as one mechanism for amelogenin heterogeneous expression in teeth. While amelogenin and its splicing forms in mammalian vertebrates have been cloned and sequenced, the amelogenin gene, especially its splicing forms in non-mammalian species, remains largely unknown. To better understand the mechanism underlying amelogenin evolution, we previously cloned and characterized an amelogenin gene sequence from a squamate, the green iguana. In this study, we employed RT-PCR to amplify the amelogenin gene from the black spiny-tailed iguana Ctenosaura similis teeth, and discovered a novel splicing form of the amelogenin gene. The transcript of the newly identified iguana amelogenin gene (named C. Similis-T2L) is 873 nucleotides long encoding an expected polypeptide of 206 amino acids. The C. Similis-T2L contains a unique exon denominated exon X, which is located between exon 5 and exon 6. The C. Similis-T2L contains 7 exons including exon 1, 2, 3, 5, X, 6, and 7. Analysis of the secondary and tertiary structures of T2L amelogenin protein demonstrated that exon X has a dramatic effect on the amelogenin structures. This is the first report to provide definitive evidence for the amelogenin alternative splicing in non-mammalian vertebrates, revealing a unique exon X and the splicing form of the amelogenin gene transcript in Ctenosaura similis.
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- Xinping Wang
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
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Feng J, McDaniel JS, Chuang HH, Huang O, Rakian A, Xu X, Steffensen B, Donly KJ, MacDougall M, Chen S. Binding of amelogenin to MMP-9 and their co-expression in developing mouse teeth. J Mol Histol 2012; 43:473-85. [PMID: 22648084 PMCID: PMC3460178 DOI: 10.1007/s10735-012-9423-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2012] [Accepted: 04/29/2012] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Amelogenin is the most abundant matrix protein in enamel. Proper amelogenin processing by proteinases is necessary for its biological functions during amelogenesis. Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) is responsible for the turnover of matrix components. The relationship between MMP-9 and amelogenin during tooth development remains unknown. We tested the hypothesis that MMP-9 binds to amelogenin and they are co-expressed in ameloblasts during amelogenesis. We evaluated the distribution of both proteins in the mouse teeth using immunohistochemistry and confocal microscopy. At postnatal day 2, the spatial distribution of amelogenin and MMP-9 was co-localized in preameloblasts, secretory ameloblasts, enamel matrix and odontoblasts. At the late stages of mouse tooth development, expression patterns of amelogenin and MMP-9 were similar to that seen in postnatal day 2. Their co-expression was further confirmed by RT-PCR, Western blot and enzymatic zymography analyses in enamel organ epithelial and odontoblast-like cells. Immunoprecipitation assay revealed that MMP-9 binds to amelogenin. The MMP-9 cleavage sites in amelogenin proteins across species were found using bio-informative software program. Analyses of these data suggest that MMP-9 may be involved in controlling amelogenin processing and enamel formation.
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- Junsheng Feng
- Department of Developmental Dentistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
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Amelogenin plays a key role in the formation of the highly mineralized structure of tooth enamel. During the secretory stage, amelogenin is cleaved gradually by a protease, matrix metalloproteinase-20 (MMP-20), releasing hydrophilic C-terminal peptides. In this study, the biophysical properties of synthetic C-terminal peptides (of 28, 17, and 11 residues), mimicking native peptides, were explored in vitro. A sudden decrease was observed in the zeta (ζ)-potential upon the addition of calcium or phosphates, which was also accompanied by an increased aggregation propensity of the peptides. Under most of the experimental conditions, the particle size increased at a pH 2-3 units higher than the isoelectric point (pI) of the peptides, while the peptides existed as smaller particles (<2 nm) near their pI values and in the acidic range. They showed poor affinity for calcium and phosphates, comparable to full-length amelogenin and variants. The secondary structure determination showed that the 11-amino-acid peptide contained defined secondary structure comprising beta-sheets and turns. Atomic force microscopy analysis revealed the presence of thin, disk-like nanostructures of 54.4 nm diameter for the 28-amino-acid peptide and 54.9 nm diameter for the 11-amino acid peptide, whereas no definite structures were observed for the 17-amino-acid peptide. It is concluded that the amelogenin C-terminal peptides are capable of interacting with calcium and phosphate ions, of self-assembly into nanostructures, and may have some secondary structure, and hence may have some role in enamel synthesis.
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- Feroz Khan
- Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, University of California, Parnassus Avenue 707, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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- Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, University of California, Parnassus Avenue 707, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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Fine structural and immunohistochemical detection of collar enamel in the teeth of Polypterus senegalus, an actinopterygian fish. Cell Tissue Res 2012; 347:369-81. [DOI: 10.1007/s00441-011-1305-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2011] [Accepted: 12/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Li W, Liu Y, Perez T, Gunton JD, Sorensen CM, Chakrabarti A. Kinetics of nanochain formation in a simplified model of amelogenin biomacromolecules. Biophys J 2011; 101:2502-6. [PMID: 22098749 PMCID: PMC3218329 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.09.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2011] [Revised: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 09/02/2011] [Indexed: 10/15/2022] Open
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We show that the kinetics of nanochain formation of amelogenin molecules is well described by a combination of translational and rotational diffusion of a simplified anisotropic bipolar model consisting of hydrophobic spherical colloid particles and a point charge located on each particle surface. The colloid particles interact via a standard depletion attraction whereas the point charges interact through a screened Coulomb repulsion. We study the kinetics via a Brownian dynamics simulation of both translational and rotational motions and show that the anisotropy brought in by the charge dramatically affects the kinetic pathway of cluster formation and our simple model captures the main features of the experimental observations.
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- Wei Li
- Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Sire JY, Huang Y, Li W, Delgado S, Goldberg M, Denbesten PK. Evolutionary story of mammalian-specific amelogenin exons 4, "4b", 8, and 9. J Dent Res 2011; 91:84-9. [PMID: 21948850 DOI: 10.1177/0022034511423399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Amelogenin gene organization varies from 6 exons (1,2,3,5,6,7) in amphibians and sauropsids to 10 in rodents. The additional exons are exons 4, 8, 9, and "4b", the latter being as yet unidentified in AMELX transcripts. To learn more about the evolutionary origin of these exons, we used an in silico approach to find them in 39 tetrapod genomes. AMEL organization with 6 exons was the ancestral condition. Exon 4 was created in an ancestral therian (marsupials + placentals), then exon 9 in an ancestral placental, and finally exons "4b" and 8 in rodents, after divergence of the squirrel lineage. These exons were either inactivated in some lineages or remained functional: Exon 4 is functional from artiodactyls onward; exon 9 is known, to date, only in rodents, but could be coding in various mammals; and exon "4b" was probably coding in some rodents. We performed PCR of cDNA isolated from mouse and human tooth buds to identify the presence of these transcripts. A sequence analogous to exon "4b", and to exon 9, could not be amplified from the respective tooth cDNA, indicating that even though sequences similar to these exons are present, they are not transcribed in these species.
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- J-Y Sire
- Evolution & Développement du squelette, UMR 7138, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 7 Quai Saint-Bernard, Paris, France.
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Wang XJ, Huang H, Yang F, Xia LG, Zhang WJ, Jiang XQ, Zhang FQ. Ectopic study of tissue-engineered bone complex with enamel matrix proteins, bone marrow stromal cells in porous calcium phosphate cement scaffolds, in nude mice. Cell Prolif 2011; 44:274-82. [PMID: 21535268 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2184.2011.00750.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the potential of enamel matrix proteins (EMPs) on promoting osteogenic differentiation of porcine bone marrow stromal cells (pBMSCs), as well as new bone formation capabilities, in a tissue-engineered bone complex scaffold of EMPs, pBMSCs and porous calcium phosphate cement (CPC). MATERIALS AND METHODS Effects of EMPs on pBMSCs in vitro was first determined by alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity, von Kossa staining assay and mRNA expression of ALP, bone sialoprotein (BSP) and osteocalcin (OCN) genes. Next, an ectopic new bone formation test was performed in a nude mouse model with four groups: CPC scaffold alone; CPC scaffold + EMPs; CPC scaffold + pBMSCs; and CPC scaffold + EMPs + pBMSCs, for 2 or 4 weeks. RESULTS ALP activity, von Kossa assay and mRNA expressions of ALP, BSP and OCN genes were all significantly higher with 150 μg/ml EMP treatment in vitro. In nude mice, new bone formation was detected only in the CPC scaffold + EMPs + pBMSCs group at 2 weeks. At 4 weeks, in the tissue-engineered construct there was significantly higher bone formation ability than other groups. CONCLUSIONS EMPs promoted osteogenic differentiation of pBMSCs, and the tissue-engineered complex of EMPs, pBMSCs and CPC scaffold may be a valuable alternative to be used in periodontal bone tissue engineering and regeneration.
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- X J Wang
- Department of Prosthodontics, Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China
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Wiedemann-Bidlack FB, Kwak SY, Beniash E, Yamakoshi Y, Simmer JP, Margolis HC. Effects of phosphorylation on the self-assembly of native full-length porcine amelogenin and its regulation of calcium phosphate formation in vitro. J Struct Biol 2010; 173:250-60. [PMID: 21074619 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2010] [Revised: 09/16/2010] [Accepted: 11/04/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The self-assembly of the predominant extracellular enamel matrix protein amelogenin plays an essential role in regulating the growth and organization of enamel mineral during early stages of dental enamel formation. The present study describes the effect of the phosphorylation of a single site on the full-length native porcine amelogenin P173 on self-assembly and on the regulation of spontaneous calcium phosphate formation in vitro. Studies were also conducted using recombinant non-phosphorylated (rP172) porcine amelogenin, along with the most abundant amelogenin cleavage product (P148) and its recombinant form (rP147). Amelogenin self-assembly was assessed using dynamic light scattering (DLS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Using these approaches, we have shown that self-assembly of each amelogenin is very sensitive to pH and appears to be affected by both hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions. Furthermore, our results suggest that the phosphorylation of the full-length porcine amelogenin P173 has a small but potentially important effect on its higher-order self-assembly into chain-like structures under physiological conditions of pH, temperature, and ionic strength. Although phosphorylation has a subtle effect on the higher-order assembly of full-length amelogenin, native phosphorylated P173 was found to stabilize amorphous calcium phosphate for extended periods of time, in sharp contrast to previous findings using non-phosphorylated rP172. The biological relevance of these findings is discussed.
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Lakshminarayanan R, Bromley KM, Lei YP, Snead ML, Moradian-Oldak J. Perturbed amelogenin secondary structure leads to uncontrolled aggregation in amelogenesis imperfecta mutant proteins. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:40593-603. [PMID: 20929860 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.131136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mutations in amelogenin sequence result in defective enamel, and the diverse group of genetically altered conditions is collectively known as amelogenesis imperfecta (AI). Despite numerous studies, the detailed molecular mechanism of defective enamel formation is still unknown. In this study, we have examined the biophysical properties of a recombinant murine amelogenin (rM180) and two point mutations identified from human DNA sequences in two cases of AI (T21I and P41T). At pH 5.8 and 25 °C, wild type (WT) rM180 and mutant P41T existed as monomers, and mutant T21I formed lower order oligomers. CD, dynamic light scattering, and fluorescence studies indicated that rM180 and P41T can be classified as a premolten globule-like subclass protein at 25 °C. Thermal denaturation and refolding monitored by CD ellipticity at 224 nm indicated the presence of a strong hysteresis in mutants compared with WT. Variable temperature tryptophan fluorescence and dynamic light scattering studies showed that WT transformed to a partially folded conformation upon heating and remained stable. The partially folded conformation formed by P41T, however, readily converted into a heterogeneous population of aggregates. T21I existed in an oligomeric state at room temperature and, upon heating, rapidly formed large aggregates over a very narrow temperature range. Thermal denaturation and refolding studies indicated that the mutants are less stable and exhibit poor refolding ability compared with WT rM180. Our results suggest that alterations in self-assembly of amelogenin are a consequence of destabilization of the intrinsic disorder. Therefore, we propose that, like a number of other human diseases, AI appears to be due to the destabilization of the secondary structure as a result of amelogenin mutations.
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- Rajamani Lakshminarayanan
- Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
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Al-Hashimi N, Lafont AG, Delgado S, Kawasaki K, Sire JY. The enamelin genes in lizard, crocodile, and frog and the pseudogene in the chicken provide new insights on enamelin evolution in tetrapods. Mol Biol Evol 2010; 27:2078-94. [PMID: 20403965 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Enamelin (ENAM) has been shown to be a crucial protein for enamel formation and mineralization. Previous molecular analyses have indicated a probable origin early in vertebrate evolution, which is supported by the presence of enamel/enameloid tissues in early vertebrates. In contrast to these hypotheses, ENAM was only characterized in mammals. Our aims were to 1) look for ENAM in representatives of nonmammalian tetrapods, 2) search for a pseudogene in the chicken genome, and 3) see whether the new sequences could bring new information on ENAM evolution. Using in silico approach and polymerase chain reaction, we obtained and characterized the messenger RNA sequences of ENAM in a frog, a lizard, and a crocodile; the genomic DNA sequences of ENAM in a frog and a lizard; and the putative sequence of chicken ENAM pseudogene. The comparison with mammalian ENAM sequences has revealed 1) the presence of an additional coding exon, named exon 8b, in sauropsids and marsupials, 2) a simpler 5'-untranslated region in nonmammalian ENAMs, 3) many sequence variations in the large exons while there are a few conserved regions in small exons, and 4) 25 amino acids that have been conserved during 350 million years of tetrapod evolution and hence of crucial biological importance. The chicken pseudogene was identified in a region that was not expected when considering the gene synteny in mammals. Together with the location of lizard ENAM in a homologous region, this result indicates that enamel genes were probably translocated in an ancestor of the sauropsid lineage. This study supports the origin of ENAM earlier in vertebrate evolution, confirms that tooth loss in modern birds led to the invalidation of enamel genes, and adds information on the important role played by, for example, the phosphorylated serines and the glycosylated asparagines for correct ENAM functions.
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- Nawfal Al-Hashimi
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 7138-Systématique-Adaptation-Evolution, Paris, France
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Buchko GW, Tarasevich BJ, Roberts J, Snead ML, Shaw WJ. A solution NMR investigation into the murine amelogenin splice-variant LRAP (Leucine-Rich Amelogenin Protein). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2010; 1804:1768-74. [PMID: 20304108 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2010.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2009] [Revised: 03/09/2010] [Accepted: 03/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Amelogenins are the dominant proteins present in ameloblasts during the early stages of enamel biomineralization, making up >90% of the matrix protein. Along with the full-length protein there are several splice-variant isoforms of amelogenin present including LRAP (Leucine-Rich Amelogenin Protein), a protein that consists of the first 33 and the last 26 residues of full-length amelogenin. Using solution-state NMR spectroscopy we have assigned the (1)H-(15)N HSQC spectrum of murine LRAP (rp(H)LRAP) in 2% acetic acid at pH 3.0 by making extensive use of previous chemical shift assignments for full-length murine amelogenin (rp(H)M180). This correlation was possible because LRAP, like the full-length protein, is intrinsically disordered under these solution conditions. The major difference between the (1)H-(15)N HSQC spectra of rp(H)M180 and rp(H)LRAP was an additional set of amide resonances for each of the seven non-proline residues between S12 and Y12 near the N-terminus of rp(H)LRAP indicating that the N-terminal region of LRAP exists in two different conformations. Analysis of the proline carbon chemical shifts suggests that the molecular basis for the two states is not a cis-trans isomerization of one or more of the proline residues in the N-terminal region. Starting from 2% acetic acid, where rp(H)LRAP was monomeric in solution, NaCl addition effected residue specific changes in molecular dynamics manifested by the reduction in intensity and disappearance of (1)H-(15)N HSQC cross peaks. As observed for the full-length protein, these perturbations may signal early events governing supramolecular self-assembly of rp(H)LRAP into nanospheres. However, the different patterns of (1)H-(15)N HSQC cross peak perturbation between rp(H)LRAP and rp(H)M180 in high salt suggest that the termini may behave differently in their respective nanospheres, and perhaps, these differences contribute to the cell signaling properties attributable to LRAP but not to the full-length protein.
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- Garry W Buchko
- Biological Science Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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Yang X, Wang L, Qin Y, Sun Z, Henneman ZJ, Moradian-Oldak J, Nancollas GH. How amelogenin orchestrates the organization of hierarchical elongated microstructures of apatite. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:2293-300. [PMID: 20104924 PMCID: PMC2848079 DOI: 10.1021/jp910219s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Amelogenin (Amel) accelerates the nucleation of hydroxyapatite (HAP) in supersaturated solutions of calcium phosphate (Ca-P), shortening the induction time (delay period), under near-physiological conditions of pH, temperature, and ionic strength. Hierarchically organized Amel and amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) nanorod microstructures are formed involving a coassembly of Amel-ACP particles at low supersaturations and low protein concentrations in a slow, well-controlled, constant composition (CC) crystallization system. At the earliest nucleation stages, the CC method allows the capture of prenucleation clusters and intermediate nanoclusers, spherical nanoparticles, and nanochains prior to enamel-like nanorod microstructure formations at later maturation stages. Amel-ACP nanoscaled building blocks are formed spontaneously by synergistic interactions between flexible Amel protein molecules and Ca-P prenucleation clusters, and these spherical nanoparticles evolve by orientated aggregation to form nanochains. Our results suggest that, in vivo, Amel may determine the structure of enamel by controlling prenucleation cluster aggregation at the earliest stages by forming stable Amel-ACP microstructures prior to subsequent crystal growth and mineral maturation.
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- Xiudong Yang
- Department of Chemistry, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14260
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- College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Department of Physics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14260
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- Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033
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- Department of Chemistry, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14260
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- Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033
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- Department of Chemistry, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14260
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Jin T, Ito Y, Luan X, Dangaria S, Walker C, Allen M, Kulkarni A, Gibson C, Braatz R, Liao X, Diekwisch TGH. Elongated polyproline motifs facilitate enamel evolution through matrix subunit compaction. PLoS Biol 2009; 7:e1000262. [PMID: 20027208 PMCID: PMC2787623 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2009] [Accepted: 11/11/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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How does proline-repeat motif length in the proteins of teeth and bones relate to the evolution of vertebrates? Counterintuitively, longer repeat stretches are associated with smaller aggregated subunits within a supramolecular matrix, resulting in enhanced crystal length in mammalian versus amphibian tooth enamel. Vertebrate body designs rely on hydroxyapatite as the principal mineral component of relatively light-weight, articulated endoskeletons and sophisticated tooth-bearing jaws, facilitating rapid movement and efficient predation. Biological mineralization and skeletal growth are frequently accomplished through proteins containing polyproline repeat elements. Through their well-defined yet mobile and flexible structure polyproline-rich proteins control mineral shape and contribute many other biological functions including Alzheimer's amyloid aggregation and prolamine plant storage. In the present study we have hypothesized that polyproline repeat proteins exert their control over biological events such as mineral growth, plaque aggregation, or viscous adhesion by altering the length of their central repeat domain, resulting in dramatic changes in supramolecular assembly dimensions. In order to test our hypothesis, we have used the vertebrate mineralization protein amelogenin as an exemplar and determined the biological effect of the four-fold increased polyproline tandem repeat length in the amphibian/mammalian transition. To study the effect of polyproline repeat length on matrix assembly, protein structure, and apatite crystal growth, we have measured supramolecular assembly dimensions in various vertebrates using atomic force microscopy, tested the effect of protein assemblies on crystal growth by electron microscopy, generated a transgenic mouse model to examine the effect of an abbreviated polyproline sequence on crystal growth, and determined the structure of polyproline repeat elements using 3D NMR. Our study shows that an increase in PXX/PXQ tandem repeat motif length results (i) in a compaction of protein matrix subunit dimensions, (ii) reduced conformational variability, (iii) an increase in polyproline II helices, and (iv) promotion of apatite crystal length. Together, these findings establish a direct relationship between polyproline tandem repeat fragment assemblies and the evolution and the design of vertebrate mineralized tissue microstructures. Our findings reveal that in the greater context of chordate evolution, the biological control of apatite growth by polyproline-based matrix assemblies provides a molecular basis for the evolution of the vertebrate body plan. The microstructure of vertebrate bones and teeth is controlled by polyproline-rich protein matrices (such as amelogenin) that serve as a scaffold to control the assembly of biological apatites. In tooth enamel, amphibians have large amelogenin subunits and thin enamel while mammals have smaller amelogenin subunits in tandem with elongated crystals and complex prismatic organization. Using specific peptides and frog amelogenin overexpressed in mice, we confirmed the effect of the length of the elongated polyproline repeat on reduced matrix subunit dimensions and enhanced apatite crystal length. Three-dimensional structures solved by NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) and surface modeling algorithms indicate that elongated polyproline repeat stretches in amelogenins affect the dimensions of the supramolecular matrix through an increase in polyproline II helices, resulting in a compaction of supramolecular subunit dimensions. We propose that the availability of readily shaped apatites and innovative mechanisms based on amelogenin-repeat motifsthat compartmentalize and shape biological minerals was essential for the rise of early vertebrates, enabling the manufacture of strong teeth and backbones that might have given vertebrates a decisive survival advantage in the competition for food and in the sophistication of locomotion.
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- Tianquan Jin
- Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- National Institutes of Health, Functional Genomics Unit, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Molecules, morphology, and ecology indicate a recent, amphibious ancestry for echidnas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:17089-94. [PMID: 19805098 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904649106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The semiaquatic platypus and terrestrial echidnas (spiny anteaters) are the only living egg-laying mammals (monotremes). The fossil record has provided few clues as to their origins and the evolution of their ecological specializations; however, recent reassignment of the Early Cretaceous Teinolophos and Steropodon to the platypus lineage implies that platypuses and echidnas diverged >112.5 million years ago, reinforcing the notion of monotremes as living fossils. This placement is based primarily on characters related to a single feature, the enlarged mandibular canal, which supplies blood vessels and dense electrosensory receptors to the platypus bill. Our reevaluation of the morphological data instead groups platypus and echidnas to the exclusion of Teinolophos and Steropodon and suggests that an enlarged mandibular canal is ancestral for monotremes (partly reversed in echidnas, in association with general mandibular reduction). A multigene evaluation of the echidna-platypus divergence using both a relaxed molecular clock and direct fossil calibrations reveals a recent split of 19-48 million years ago. Platypus-like monotremes (Monotrematum) predate this divergence, indicating that echidnas had aquatically foraging ancestors that reinvaded terrestrial ecosystems. This ecological shift and the associated radiation of echidnas represent a recent expansion of niche space despite potential competition from marsupials. Monotremes might have survived the invasion of marsupials into Australasia by exploiting ecological niches in which marsupials are restricted by their reproductive mode. Morphology, ecology, and molecular biology together indicate that Teinolophos and Steropodon are basal monotremes rather than platypus relatives, and that living monotremes are a relatively recent radiation.
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Diekwisch TGH, Jin T, Wang X, Ito Y, Schmidt M, Druzinsky R, Yamane A, Luan X. Amelogenin evolution and tetrapod enamel structure. FRONTIERS OF ORAL BIOLOGY 2009; 13:74-79. [PMID: 19828974 DOI: 10.1159/000242395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Amelogenins are the major proteins involved in tooth enamel formation. In the present study, we have cloned and sequenced four novel amelogenins from three amphibian species in order to analyze similarities and differences between mammalian and non-mammalian amelogenins. The newly sequenced amphibian amelogenin sequences were from a red-eyed tree frog (Litoria chloris) and a Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). We identified two amelogenin isoforms in the Eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus). Sequence comparisons confirmed that non-mammalian amelogenins are overall shorter than their mammalian counterparts, contain less proline and less glutamine, and feature shorter polyproline tripeptide repeat stretches than mammalian amelogenins. We propose that unique sequence parameters of mammalian amelogenins might be a pre-requisite for complex mammalian enamel prism architecture.
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Lakshminarayanan R, Yoon I, Hegde BG, Daming F, Du C, Moradian-Oldak J. Analysis of secondary structure and self-assembly of amelogenin by variable temperature circular dichroism and isothermal titration calorimetry. Proteins 2009; 76:560-9. [PMID: 19274734 PMCID: PMC2748104 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Amelogenin is a proline-rich enamel matrix protein known to play an important role in the oriented growth of enamel crystals. Amelogenin self-assembles to form nanospheres and higher order structures mediated by hydrophobic interactions. This study aims to obtain a better insight into the relationship between primary-secondary structure and self-assembly of amelogenin by applying computational and biophysical methods. Variable temperature circular dichroism studies indicated that under physiological pH recombinant full-length porcine amelogenin contains unordered structures in equilibrium with polyproline type II (PPII) structure, the latter being more populated at lower temperatures. Increasing the concentration of rP172 resulted in the promotion of folding to an ordered beta-structured assembly. Isothermal titration calorimetry dilution studies revealed that at all temperatures, self-assembly is entropically driven due to the hydrophobic effect and the molar heat of assembly (DeltaH(A)) decreases with temperature. Using a computational approach, a profile of domains in the amino acid sequence that have a high propensity to assemble and to have PPII structures has been identified. We conclude that the assembly properties of amelogenin are due to complementarity between the hydrophobic and PPII helix prone regions.
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- Rajamani Lakshminarayanan
- Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street CSA 103, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, 607 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Zilka Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street CSA 103, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street CSA 103, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street CSA 103, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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Sasagawa I, Ishiyama M, Yokosuka H, Mikami M, Uchida T. Tooth enamel and enameloid in actinopterygian fish. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s11706-009-0030-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Kawasaki K. The SCPP gene repertoire in bony vertebrates and graded differences in mineralized tissues. Dev Genes Evol 2009; 219:147-57. [PMID: 19255778 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-009-0276-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2008] [Accepted: 02/05/2009] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The vertebrate tooth is covered with enamel in most sarcopterygians or enameloid in chondrichthyans and actinopterygians. The evolutionary relationship among these two tissues, the hardest tissue in the body, and other mineralized tissues has long been controversial. We have recently reported that specific combinations of secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein (SCPP) genes are involved in the mineralization of bone, dentin, enameloid, and enamel. Thus, the early repertoire of SCPP genes would elucidate the evolutionary relationship across these tissues. However, the diversity of SCPP genes in teleosts and tetrapods and the roles of these genes in distinct tissues have remained unclear, mainly because many SCPP genes are lineage-specific. In this study, I show that the repertoire of SCPP genes in the zebrafish, frog, and humans includes many lineage-specific genes and some widely conserved genes that originated in stem osteichthyans or earlier. Expression analysis demonstrates that some frog and zebrafish SCPP genes are used primarily in bone, but also in dentin, while the reverse is true of other genes, similar to some mammalian SCPP genes. Dentin and enameloid initially use shared genes in the matrix, but enameloid is subsequently hypermineralized. Notably, enameloid and enamel use an orthologous SCPP gene in the hypermineralization process. Thus, the hypermineralization machinery ancestral to both enameloid and enamel arose before the actinopterygian-sarcopterygian divergence. However, enamel employs specialized SCPPs as structuring proteins, not used in enameloid, reflecting the divergence of enamel from enameloid. These results show graded differences in mineralized dental tissues and reinforce the hypothesis that bone-dentin-enameloid-enamel constitutes an evolutionary continuum.
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- Kazuhiko Kawasaki
- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 409 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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