PUBLICATION

AMACO Is a Component of the Basement Membrane-Associated Fraser Complex

Authors
Richardson, R.J., Gebauer, J.M., Zhang, J.L., Kobbe, B., Keene, D.R., Karlsen, K.R., Richetti, S., Wohl, A.P., Sengle, G., Neiss, W.F., Paulsson, M., Hammerschmidt, M., and Wagener, R.
ID
ZDB-PUB-140101-12
Date
2014
Source
The Journal of investigative dermatology   134(5): 1313-22 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Hammerschmidt, Matthias, Richardson, Rebecca, Richetti, Stefânia, Zhang, Jinli
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism
  • Animals
  • Basement Membrane/metabolism*
  • Extracellular Matrix/metabolism
  • Extracellular Matrix Proteins/genetics*
  • Extracellular Matrix Proteins/metabolism*
  • Female
  • Fraser Syndrome/genetics
  • Fraser Syndrome/metabolism*
  • Gene Knockdown Techniques
  • Genes, Recessive
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism
  • Peptide Fragments/genetics
  • Peptide Fragments/metabolism
  • Phenotype
  • Zebrafish
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
PubMed
24232570 Full text @ J. Invest. Dermatol.
Abstract

Fraser syndrome (FS) is a phenotypically variable, autosomal recessive disorder characterized by cryptophthalmus, cutaneous syndactyly, and other malformations resulting from mutations in FRAS1, FREM2, and GRIP1. Transient embryonic epidermal blistering causes the characteristic defects of the disorder. Fras1, Frem1, and Frem2 form the extracellular Fraser complex, which is believed to stabilize the basement membrane. However, several cases of FS could not be attributed to mutations in FRAS1, FREM2, or GRIP1, and FS displays high clinical variability, suggesting that there is an additional genetic, possibly modifying contribution to this disorder. An extracellular matrix protein containing VWA-like domains related to those in matrilins and collagens (AMACO), encoded by the VWA2 gene, has a very similar tissue distribution to the Fraser complex proteins in both mouse and zebrafish. Here, we show that AMACO deposition is lost in Fras1-deficient zebrafish and mice and that Fras1 and AMACO interact directly via their chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG) and P2 domains. Knockdown of vwa2, which alone causes no phenotype, enhances the phenotype of hypomorphic Fras1 mutant zebrafish. Together, our data suggest that AMACO represents a member of the Fraser complex.

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