Peptide inhibitors of fibronectin, laminin, and other adhesion molecules: Unique and shared features
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cellular Physiology
- Vol. 130 (1), 21-28
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.1041300105
Abstract
Synthetic peptides can specifically inhibit the function of certain adhesive glycoproteins in vitro and in vivo. We have compared the relative activities of a set of six variant synthetic peptides based on the sequence of fibronectin in terms of their ability to inhibit the interactions of fibroblasts with fibronectin, spreading factor/vitronectin, laminin, and native collagen gels. BHK (baby hamster kidney) and chick embryo fibroblasts spreading on these adhesive molecules displayed distinctive patterns of sensitivity to inhibition by this panel of peptides, which depended on the adhesive molecule rather than the cell type. For fibronectin, Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser was considerably more active than Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser, whereas these two peptides displayed little difference in activity in inhibiting cell adhesion to spreading factor. For both proteins, the inverted peptide sequence Ser-Asp-Gly-Arg was also moderately active, whereas closely related peptides containing a transposition, a deletion, or a single, conserved amino acid substitution were much less active. For inhibiting interactions with laminin or native type I collagen gels, Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser was only weakly active, but the inverted peptide Ser-Asp-Gly-Arg unexpectedly continued to display inhibitory activity for both attachment proteins in both cell types. Our results indicate that different adhesive processes depend on distinct peptide recognition events by a cell. However, there may be a possible common denominator among attachment proteins in a moderate sensitivity to Ser-Asp-Gly-Arg. Our study also underscores the importance of examining a full set of peptide analogs when these novel inhibitors are used to characterize biological processes.This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
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