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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 275, Issue 50, Pages 39654-39661Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M006471200
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- NIDCR NIH HHS [DE-03660] Funding Source: Medline
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Amelogenins bind to GlcNAc of the dentine-enamel matrix proteins (Ravindranath, R. M. H., Moradian-Oldak, J., Fincham, A. G. (1999) J. Biol Chem, 274, 2464-2471). The hypothesis that amelogenins may interact with the peptides that mimic GlcNAc is tested. GlcNAc-mimicking peptide (SFGSGFGGGY) but not its variants with single amino acid substitution at serine, tyrosine, or phenylalanine residues inhibited hemagglutination of amelogenins and the terminal, tyrosine-rich amelogenin polypeptide (TRAP). The binding affinity of SFGSGFGGGY to amelogenins was confirmed by dosimetric binding of amelogenins or TRAP with [H-3]peptide, specific binding in varying concentrations of the peptide, Scatchard plot analysis, and competitive inhibition with the unlabeled peptide. The ability of the peptide or GlcNAc to stoichiometrically inhibit TRAP binding of [C-14]GlcNAc or [H-3]peptide indicated that both the peptide and GlcNAc compete for a single binding site. Using different fragments of amelogenins, we have identified the peptide-binding motif in amelogenin to be the same as the GlcNAc-binding amelogenin trityrosyl motif peptide. The GlcNAc-mimicking peptide failed to bind to the amelogenin trityrosyl moth peptide when the tyrosyl residues were substituted with phenylalanine or when the third proline was replaced with threonine, as in some cases of human X-linked amelogenesis imperfecta. This study documents that molecular mimicry may play a role in stability and organization of amelogenin during amelogenesis.
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