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ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications2015

Tooth enamel protein amelogenin binds to ameloblast cell membrane-mimicking vesicles via its N-terminus.

Sowmya Bekshe Lokappa, Karthik Balakrishna Chandrababu, Janet Moradian-Oldak

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Article in Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Ameloblastin and its multifunctionality in amelogenesis: A review.Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sowmya Bekshe LokappaCenter for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
Karthik Balakrishna ChandrababuCenter for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
Janet Moradian-OldakCenter for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. Electronic address: joldak@usc.edu.
University of Southern California · US

Funding

MATRIX-BASED MINERAL (MBM) ENAMEL BIOMIMETICSR01DE013414 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Janet Oldak · 2001 to 2026
$8.6M
INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS IN BIOMINERALIZATIONR01DE020099 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI OLDAK, JANET · 2009 to 2013
$2.0M
MATRIX BASED MINERAL ENAMEL-BIOMIMETICSR56DE013414 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI OLDAK, JANET · 2018 to 2018
$387k
NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE013414NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE-020099NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE020099NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE-13414NIDCR NIH HHS R56 DE013414
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have recently reported that the extracellular enamel protein amelogenin has affinity to interact with phospholipids and proposed that such interactions may play key roles in enamel biomineralization as well as reported amelogenin signaling activities. Here, in order to identify the liposome-interacting domains of amelogenin we designed four different amelogenin mutants containing only a single tryptophan at positions 25, 45, 112 and 161. Circular dichroism studies of the mutants confirmed that they are structurally similar to the wild-type amelogenin. Utilizing the intrinsic fluorescence of single tryptophan residue and fluorescence resonance energy transfer [FRET], we analyzed the accessibility and strength of their binding with an ameloblast cell membrane-mimicking model membrane (ACML) and a negatively charged liposome used as a membrane model. We found that amelogenin has membrane-binding ability mainly via its N-terminal, close to residues W25 and W45. Significant blue shift was also observed in the fluorescence of a N-terminal peptide following addition of liposomes. We suggest that, among other mechanisms, enamel malformation in cases of Amelogenesis Imperfecta (AI) with mutations at the N-terminal may be the result of defective amelogenin-cell interactions.

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AmeloblastsAmelogenesis ImperfectaAmelogeninAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCell MembraneCircular DichroismFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationLiposomesMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesis, Site-DirectedPhosphatidylglycerolsSpectrometry, FluorescenceSwineTryptophan1-palmitoyl-2-oleoylglycero-3-phosphoglycerolAmelogeninLiposomesPhosphatidylglycerolsTryptophanAmeloblastsAmelogeninEnamelIntrinsic florescence spectroscopyLiposomes

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PMCPMC4532586
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