Human skin collagenase in recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Purification of a mutant enzyme from fibroblast cultures.

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  • G P Stricklin
  • H G Welgus
  • E A Bauer
چکیده

Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a genodermatosis characterized by dermolytic blister formation in response to minor trauma, is characterized by an incresaed collagenase synthesis by skin fibroblasts in culture. Since preliminary studies of partially purified recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa collagenase suggested that the protein itself was aberrant, efforts were made to purify this enzyme to homogeneity, so that detailed biochemical and immunologic comparisons could be made with normal human skin fibroblast collagenase. Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa skin fibroblasts obtained from a patient documented to have increased synthesis of the enzyme were grown in large scale tissue culture and both serum-free and serum-containing medium collected as a source of collagenase. The recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa collagenase was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity using a combination of salt precipitation, ion-exchange, and gel-filtration chromatography. In contrast to the normal enzyme, the recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa collagenase bound to carboxymethyl-cellulose at Ca(2+) concentrations at least 10 times higher than those used with the normal enzyme. Additionally, this enzyme was significantly more labile to chromatographic manipulations, particularly when serum-free medium was used. However, rapid purification from serum-containing medium yielded a preparation enzymatically equivalent to normal human skin collagenase. Like the normal enzyme, the recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa collagenase was secreted as a set of two closely related zymogens of approximately 60,000 and approximately 55,000 daltons that could be activated by trypsin to form enzymically active species of approximately 50,000 and approximately 45,000 daltons, respectively. Amino acid analysis suggested slight variations between the normal and recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa collagenases. Cyanogen bromide digests demonstrated peptides unique to the enzyme from each source. The recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa proenzyme was significantly more thermolabile at 60 degrees C than the normal, a finding that correlated with an approximate fourfold decrease in the affinity of the mutant enzyme for Ca(2+), a known activator and stabilizer of human skin collagenase. Aside from the altered affinity for this metal cofactor, kinetic analysis of the structurally altered recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa collagenase revealed that its reaction rates and substrate specificity for human collagen types I-V were identical to those for the normal enzyme. Likewise, enzymes from both sources displayed identical energies of activation and deuterium isotope effects. Antisera were raised to the normal and putatively mutant procollagenases respectively, and, although they displayed a reaction of identity in double diffusion analysis, immunologic differences were present in enzyme inhibition and quantitative precipitation studies. These studies indicate that recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa is characterized by the increased synthesis of an enzymically normal, but structurally aberrant, collagenase.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of clinical investigation

دوره 69 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1982