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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 159, Issue 4, Pages 1313-1321Publisher
AMER SOC INVESTIGATIVE PATHOLOGY, INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)62518-7
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK51711, R01 DK055001, DK55001] Funding Source: Medline
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Type IV collagen is a major component of basement membranes and it provides structural and functional support to various cell types. Type IV collagen exists in a highly complex suprastructure form and recent studies implicate that protomer (the trimeric building unit of type IV collagen) assembly is mediated by the NC1 domain present in the C-terminus of each collagen alpha -chain polypeptide. Here we show that type IV collagen contributes to the maintenance of the epithelial phenotype of proximal tubular epithelial. cells, whereas type I collagen promotes epidielial-to-mesenchymal transdifferentiation (EMT). in addition, the recombinant human alpha 1NC1 domain inhibits assembly of type IV collagen NC1 hexamers and potentially disrupts the deposition of type IV collagen, facilitating EMT in vitro. Inhibition of type W collagen assembly by the alpha 1NC1 domain up-regulates the production of transforming growth factor-beta (1) in proximal tubular epithelial cells, an inducer of EMT. These results strongly suggest that basement membrane architecture is pivotal for the maintenance of epithelial phenotype and that changes in basement membrane architecture potentially lead to up-regulation of transforming growth factor-beta (1), which contributes to EMT during renal fibrosis.
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