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JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 140, Issue 3, Pages 445-452Publisher
JAPANESE BIOCHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvj170
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furin; G protein-coupled receptor; LNB-TM7; proteolytic processing; SEA module
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Ig-Hepta/GPR116 is a member of the LNB-TM7 subfamily of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), also termed the adhesion GPCRs, whose members have EGF, cadherin, lectin, thrombospondin, or Ig repeats in their long N-terminus. In this study, we established that Ig-Hepta is processed at multiple sites yielding the following four fragments: (i) presequence (amino acid residues 1-24), (ii) proEGF2 (25-223, alpha-fragment), (iii) Ig repeats (224-993, beta-chain), and (iv) TM7 (994-1349, gamma-chain). The proEGF2 region is converted to EGF2 (52-223) by the processing enzyme furin and remains attached to the beta- and gamma-chains. Expression of some mRNA species was affected by the presence of alpha-fragment. These results suggest that the furin-processed alpha-fragment is involved in cellular signaling.
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