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Matrix Metalloproteinases and Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases in Echinoderms: Structure and Possible Functions

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CELLS
卷 10, 期 9, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells10092331

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echinoderms; matrix metalloproteinase; tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases; tensilin; development; regeneration; evolution

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  1. RUSSIAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION [21-74-30004]
  2. Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [121-21500052-9]
  3. Russian Science Foundation [21-74-30004] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation

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Echinoderms, an ancient group of invertebrates, have a wide variety of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) in their genomes. Phylogenetic analysis shows that MMPs and TIMPs underwent duplication and divergence after the separation of Echinoderms and Chordata. The MMPs of echinoderms have lytic activity towards collagen type I and gelatin, playing important roles in development, asexual reproduction, and regeneration.
Echinoderms are one of the most ancient groups of invertebrates. The study of their genomes has made it possible to conclude that these animals have a wide variety of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs). The phylogenetic analysis shows that the MMPs and TIMPs underwent repeated duplication and active divergence after the separation of Ambulacraria (Echinodermata+Hemichordata) from the Chordata. In this regard the homology of the proteinases and their inhibitors between these groups of animals cannot be established. However, the MMPs of echinoderms and vertebrates have a similar domain structure. Echinoderm proteinases can be structurally divided into three groups-archetypal MMPs, matrilysins, and furin-activatable MMPs. Gelatinases homologous to those of vertebrates were not found in genomes of studied species and are probably absent in echinoderms. The MMPs of echinoderms possess lytic activity toward collagen type I and gelatin and play an important role in the mechanisms of development, asexual reproduction and regeneration. Echinoderms have a large number of genes encoding TIMPs and TIMP-like proteins. TIMPs of these animals, with a few exceptions, have a structure typical for this class of proteins. They contain an NTR domain and 10-12 conservatively located cysteine residues. Repeated duplication and divergence of TIMP genes of echinoderms was probably associated with an increase in the functional importance of the proteins encoded by them in the physiology of the animals.

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