Fibromodulin

Fibromodulin

Fibromodulin

Protein

Fibromodulin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FMOD gene.[5][6]

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Fibromodulin is a 42kDa protein of a family of small interstitial leucine-rich repeat proteoglycans (SLRPs). It can have up to four N-linked keratan sulfate chains attached to the core protein within the leucine-rich region. It shares significant sequence homology with biglycan and decorin.[7]

Function

Fibromodulin participates in the assembly of the collagen fibers of the extracellular matrix. It binds to the same site on the collagen type I molecule as lumican.[8] It also inhibits fibrillogenesis of collagen type I and collagen type III in vitro.[9][10] It regulates TGF-beta activities by sequestering TGF-beta into the extracellular matrix.[6]

Clinical significance

There is an age-dependent decline in the synthesis of keratan sulfate chains, so non-glycated forms of fibromodulin can accumulate in tissues such as cartilage.[11]

Fibromodulin is found in the epidermis of human skin and is expressed by skin cells (keratinocytes) in culture. Mice with the gene for fibromodulin knocked out (Fmod-/-) have very fragile skin[12] and abnormal tail and Achilles tendons.[13] The collagen fiber bundles in these tendons are fewer and disorganised and there is less endotenon surrounding the tendon tissue. The levels of lumican, a SLRP with one of the same collagen binding sites as fibromodulin, is increased 4 fold in the tail tendons of Fmod-knockout mice.

References

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    GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000122176 – Ensembl, May 2017
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    GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000041559 – Ensembl, May 2017
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    "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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    "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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    Sztrolovics R, Chen XN, Grover J, Roughley PJ, Korenberg JR (Mar 1995). "Localization of the human fibromodulin gene (FMOD) to chromosome 1q32 and completion of the cDNA sequence". Genomics. 23 (3): 715–7. doi:10.1006/geno.1994.1567. PMID 7851907.
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    "Entrez Gene: FMOD fibromodulin".
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    Antonsson P, Heinegård D, Oldberg A (1993). "Structure and deduced amino acid sequence of the human fibromodulin gene". Biochim Biophys Acta. 1174 (2): 204–6. doi:10.1016/0167-4781(93)90117-V. PMID 8357838.
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    Halper J (2014). "Proteoglycans and Diseases of Soft Tissues". Progress in Heritable Soft Connective Tissue Diseases. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Vol. 802. pp. 49–58. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7893-1_4. ISBN 978-94-007-7892-4. PMID 24443020.
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    Ezura Y, Chakravarti S, Oldberg A, Chervoneva I, Birk DE (2000). "Differential expression of lumican and fibromodulin regulate collagen fibrillogenesis in developing mouse tendons". J. Cell Biol. 151 (4): 779–88. doi:10.1083/jcb.151.4.779. PMC 2169450. PMID 11076963.
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    Kalamajski S, Oldberg A (2007). "Fibromodulin binds collagen type I via Glu-353 and Lys-355 in leucine-rich repeat 11". J Biol Chem. 282 (37): 26740–5. doi:10.1074/jbc.M704026200. PMID 17623650.
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    Roughley PJ, White RJ, Cs-Szabo G, Mort JS (1996). "Changes with age in the structure of fibromodulin in human articular cartilage". Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 4 (3): 153–61. doi:10.1016/s1063-4584(96)80011-2. PMID 8895216.
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    Smith MM, Melrose J (2015). "Proteoglycans in normal and healing skin". Adv Wound Care. 4 (3): 152–73. doi:10.1089/wound.2013.0464. PMC 4352701. PMID 25785238.
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    Juneja SC, Veillette C (2013). "Defects in tendon, ligament, and enthesis in response to genetic alterations in key proteoglycans and glycoproteins: a review". Arthritis. 2013: 1–30. doi:10.1155/2013/154812. PMC 3842050. PMID 24324885.

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