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  1. Article ; Online: Identification of protein biomarkers associated with congenital diaphragmatic hernia in human amniotic fluid

    Sumit Bhutada / Karin Tran-Lundmark / Benjamin Kramer / Peter Conner / Ashley M. Lowry / Eugene Blackstone / Bjorn Frenckner / Carmen Mesas-Burgos / Suneel S. Apte

    Scientific Reports, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2023  Volume 11

    Abstract: Abstract Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a severe birth defect frequently associated with pulmonary hypoplasia, pulmonary hypertension, and heart failure. Since amniotic fluid comprises proteins of both fetal and maternal origin, its analysis ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a severe birth defect frequently associated with pulmonary hypoplasia, pulmonary hypertension, and heart failure. Since amniotic fluid comprises proteins of both fetal and maternal origin, its analysis could provide insights on mechanisms underlying CDH and provide biomarkers for early diagnosis, severity of pulmonary changes and treatment response. The study objective was to identify proteomic changes in amniotic fluid consistently associated with CDH. Amniotic fluid was obtained at term (37–39 weeks) from women with normal pregnancies (n = 5) or carrying fetuses with CDH (n = 5). After immuno-depletion of the highest abundance proteins, off-line fractionation and high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry were performed and quantitative differences between the proteomes of the groups were determined. Of 1036 proteins identified, 218 were differentially abundant. Bioinformatics analysis showed significant changes in GP6 signaling, in the MSP–RON signaling in macrophages pathway and in networks associated with cardiovascular system development and function, connective tissue disorders and dermatological conditions. Differences in selected proteins, namely pulmonary surfactant protein B, osteopontin, kallikrein 5 and galectin-3 were validated by orthogonal testing using ELISA in larger cohorts and showed statistically significant differences aiding in the diagnosis and prediction of CDH. The findings provide potential tools for clinical management of CDH.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
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  2. Article ; Online: ADAMTS9-Mediated Extracellular Matrix Dynamics Regulates Umbilical Cord Vascular Smooth Muscle Differentiation and Rotation

    Sumeda Nandadasa / Courtney M. Nelson / Suneel S. Apte

    Cell Reports, Vol 11, Iss 10, Pp 1519-

    2015  Volume 1528

    Abstract: Despite the significance for fetal nourishment in mammals, mechanisms of umbilical cord vascular growth remain poorly understood. Here, the secreted metalloprotease ADAMTS9 is shown to be necessary for murine umbilical cord vascular development. ... ...

    Abstract Despite the significance for fetal nourishment in mammals, mechanisms of umbilical cord vascular growth remain poorly understood. Here, the secreted metalloprotease ADAMTS9 is shown to be necessary for murine umbilical cord vascular development. Restricting it to the cell surface using a gene trap allele, Adamts9Gt, impaired umbilical vessel elongation and radial growth via reduced versican proteolysis and accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM). Both Adamts9Gt and conditional Adamts9 deletion revealed that ADAMTS9 produced by mesenchymal cells acted non-autonomously to regulate smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation, differentiation, and orthogonal reorientation during growth of the umbilical vasculature. In Adamts9Gt/Gt, we observed interference with PDGFRβ signaling via the mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MAPK/ERK) pathway, which regulates cytoskeletal dynamics during SMC rotation. In addition, we observed disrupted Shh signaling and perturbed orientation of the mesenchymal primary cilium. Thus, ECM dynamics is a major influence on umbilical vascular SMC fate, with ADAMTS9 acting as its principal mediator.
    Keywords Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 571
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
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  3. Article ; Online: Proteolysis of fibrillin-2 microfibrils is essential for normal skeletal development

    Timothy J Mead / Daniel R Martin / Lauren W Wang / Stuart A Cain / Cagri Gulec / Elisabeth Cahill / Joseph Mauch / Dieter Reinhardt / Cecilia Lo / Clair Baldock / Suneel S Apte

    eLife, Vol

    2022  Volume 11

    Abstract: The embryonic extracellular matrix (ECM) undergoes transition to mature ECM as development progresses, yet few mechanisms ensuring ECM proteostasis during this period are known. Fibrillin microfibrils are macromolecular ECM complexes serving structural ... ...

    Abstract The embryonic extracellular matrix (ECM) undergoes transition to mature ECM as development progresses, yet few mechanisms ensuring ECM proteostasis during this period are known. Fibrillin microfibrils are macromolecular ECM complexes serving structural and regulatory roles. In mice, Fbn1 and Fbn2, encoding the major microfibrillar components, are strongly expressed during embryogenesis, but fibrillin-1 is the major component observed in adult tissue microfibrils. Here, analysis of Adamts6 and Adamts10 mutant mouse embryos, lacking these homologous secreted metalloproteases individually and in combination, along with in vitro analysis of microfibrils, measurement of ADAMTS6-fibrillin affinities and N-terminomics discovery of ADAMTS6-cleaved sites, identifies a proteostatic mechanism contributing to postnatal fibrillin-2 reduction and fibrillin-1 dominance. The lack of ADAMTS6, alone and in combination with ADAMTS10 led to excess fibrillin-2 in perichondrium, with impaired skeletal development defined by a drastic reduction of aggrecan and cartilage link protein, impaired BMP signaling in cartilage, and increased GDF5 sequestration in fibrillin-2-rich tissue. Although ADAMTS6 cleaves fibrillin-1 and fibrillin-2 as well as fibronectin, which provides the initial scaffold for microfibril assembly, primacy of the protease-substrate relationship between ADAMTS6 and fibrillin-2 was unequivocally established by reversal of the defects in Adamts6-/- embryos by genetic reduction of Fbn2, but not Fbn1.
    Keywords extracellular matrix ; Protease ; ADAMTS ; proteolysis ; fibrillin ; skeletal development ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 572
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
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  4. Article ; Online: Exosites in Hypervariable Loops of ADAMTS Spacer Domains control Substrate Recognition and Proteolysis

    Salvatore Santamaria / Kazuhiro Yamamoto / Adrienn Teraz-Orosz / Christopher Koch / Suneel S. Apte / Rens de Groot / David A. Lane / Josefin Ahnström

    Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2019  Volume 12

    Abstract: Abstract ADAMTS (A Disintegrin-like and Metalloproteinase domain with Thrombospondin type 1 Motif)-1, -4 and -5 share the abilities to cleave large aggregating proteoglycans including versican and aggrecan. These activities are highly relevant to ... ...

    Abstract Abstract ADAMTS (A Disintegrin-like and Metalloproteinase domain with Thrombospondin type 1 Motif)-1, -4 and -5 share the abilities to cleave large aggregating proteoglycans including versican and aggrecan. These activities are highly relevant to cardiovascular disease and osteoarthritis and during development. Here, using purified recombinant ADAMTS-1, -4 and -5, we quantify, compare, and define the molecular basis of their versicanase activity. A novel sandwich-ELISA detecting the major versican cleavage fragment was used to determine, for the first time, kinetic constants for versican proteolysis. ADAMTS-5 (k cat/K m 35 × 105 M−1 s−1) is a more potent (~18-fold) versicanase than ADAMTS-4 (k cat/K m 1.86 × 105 M−1 sec−1), whereas ADAMTS-1 versicanase activity is comparatively low. Deletion of the spacer domain reduced versicanase activity of ADAMTS-5 19-fold and that of ADAMTS-4 167-fold. Co-deletion of the ADAMTS-5 cysteine-rich domain further reduced versicanase activity to a total 153-fold reduction. Substitution of two hypervariable loops in the spacer domain of ADAMTS-5 (residues 739–744 and 837–844) and ADAMTS-4 (residues 717–724 and 788–795) with those of ADAMTS-13, which does not cleave proteoglycans, caused spacer-dependent reductions in versicanase activities. Our results demonstrate that these loops contain exosites critical for interaction with and processing of versican. The hypervariable loops of ADAMTS-5 are shown to be important also for its aggrecanase activity. Together with previous work on ADAMTS-13 our results suggest that the spacer domain hypervariable loops may exercise significant control of ADAMTS proteolytic activity as a general principle. Identification of specific exosites also provides targets for selective inhibitors.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 572
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
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  5. Article ; Online: A new mouse mutant with cleavage-resistant versican and isoform-specific versican mutants demonstrate that proteolysis at the Glu441-Ala442 peptide bond in the V1 isoform is essential for interdigital web regression

    Sumeda Nandadasa / Cyril Burin des Roziers / Christopher Koch / Karin Tran-Lundmark / María T. Dours-Zimmermann / Dieter R. Zimmermann / Sophie Valleix / Suneel S. Apte

    Matrix Biology Plus, Vol 10, Iss , Pp 100064- (2021)

    2021  

    Abstract: Two inherent challenges in the mechanistic interpretation of protease-deficient phenotypes are defining the specific substrate cleavages whose reduction generates the phenotypes and determining whether the phenotypes result from loss of substrate ... ...

    Abstract Two inherent challenges in the mechanistic interpretation of protease-deficient phenotypes are defining the specific substrate cleavages whose reduction generates the phenotypes and determining whether the phenotypes result from loss of substrate function, substrate accumulation, or loss of a function(s) embodied in the substrate fragments. Hence, recapitulation of a protease-deficient phenotype by a cleavage-resistant substrate would stringently validate the importance of a proteolytic event and clarify the underlying mechanisms. Versican is a large proteoglycan required for development of the circulatory system and proper limb development, and is cleaved by ADAMTS proteases at the Glu441-Ala442 peptide bond located in its alternatively spliced GAGβ domain. Specific ADAMTS protease mutants have impaired interdigit web regression leading to soft tissue syndactyly that is associated with reduced versican proteolysis. Versikine, the N-terminal proteolytic fragment generated by this cleavage, restores interdigit apoptosis in ADAMTS mutant webs. Here, we report a new mouse transgene, VcanAA, with validated mutations in the GAGβ domain that specifically abolish this proteolytic event. VcanAA/AA mice have partially penetrant hindlimb soft tissue syndactyly. However, Adamts20 inactivation in VcanAA/AA mice leads to fully penetrant, more severe syndactyly affecting all limbs, suggesting that ADAMTS20 cleavage of versican at other sites or of other substrates is an additional requirement for web regression. Indeed, immunostaining with a neoepitope antibody against a cleavage site in the versican GAGα domain demonstrated reduced staining in the absence of ADAMTS20. Significantly, mice with deletion of Vcan exon 8, encoding the GAGβ domain, consistently developed soft tissue syndactyly, whereas mice unable to include exon 7, encoding the GAGα domain in Vcan transcripts, consistently had fully separated digits. These findings suggest that versican is cleaved within each GAG-bearing domain during web regression, and affirms that proteolysis in the GAGβ domain, via generation of versikine, has an essential role in interdigital web regression.
    Keywords Extracellular matrix ; Metalloprotease ; Proteoglycan ; ADAMTS ; Limb development ; Syndactyly ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 572
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
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  6. Article ; Online: The secreted protease Adamts18 links hormone action to activation of the mammary stem cell niche

    Dalya Ataca / Patrick Aouad / Céline Constantin / Csaba Laszlo / Manfred Beleut / Marie Shamseddin / Renuga Devi Rajaram / Rachel Jeitziner / Timothy J. Mead / Marian Caikovski / Philipp Bucher / Giovanna Ambrosini / Suneel S. Apte / Cathrin Brisken

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 16

    Abstract: How hormonal signaling in the mammary epithelium controls the surrounding extracellular matrix is unclear. Here, the authors show that a secreted protease, Adamts18, induced by upstream estrogen-progesterone activated Wnt4 in myoepithelial cells, ... ...

    Abstract How hormonal signaling in the mammary epithelium controls the surrounding extracellular matrix is unclear. Here, the authors show that a secreted protease, Adamts18, induced by upstream estrogen-progesterone activated Wnt4 in myoepithelial cells, remodels the basement membrane and contributes to mammary epithelial stemness.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
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  7. Article ; Online: The secreted protease Adamts18 links hormone action to activation of the mammary stem cell niche

    Dalya Ataca / Patrick Aouad / Céline Constantin / Csaba Laszlo / Manfred Beleut / Marie Shamseddin / Renuga Devi Rajaram / Rachel Jeitziner / Timothy J. Mead / Marian Caikovski / Philipp Bucher / Giovanna Ambrosini / Suneel S. Apte / Cathrin Brisken

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 16

    Abstract: How hormonal signaling in the mammary epithelium controls the surrounding extracellular matrix is unclear. Here, the authors show that a secreted protease, Adamts18, induced by upstream estrogen-progesterone activated Wnt4 in myoepithelial cells, ... ...

    Abstract How hormonal signaling in the mammary epithelium controls the surrounding extracellular matrix is unclear. Here, the authors show that a secreted protease, Adamts18, induced by upstream estrogen-progesterone activated Wnt4 in myoepithelial cells, remodels the basement membrane and contributes to mammary epithelial stemness.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
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  8. Article ; Online: The extracellular matrix glycoprotein ADAMTSL2 is increased in heart failure and inhibits TGFβ signalling in cardiac fibroblasts

    Karoline B. Rypdal / Pugazendhi M. Erusappan / A. Olav Melleby / Deborah E. Seifert / Sheryl Palmero / Mari E. Strand / Theis Tønnessen / Christen P. Dahl / Vibeke Almaas / Dirk Hubmacher / Suneel S. Apte / Geir Christensen / Ida G. Lunde

    Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2021  Volume 15

    Abstract: Abstract Fibrosis accompanies most heart diseases and is associated with adverse patient outcomes. Transforming growth factor (TGF)β drives extracellular matrix remodelling and fibrosis in the failing heart. Some members of the ADAMTSL (a disintegrin- ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Fibrosis accompanies most heart diseases and is associated with adverse patient outcomes. Transforming growth factor (TGF)β drives extracellular matrix remodelling and fibrosis in the failing heart. Some members of the ADAMTSL (a disintegrin-like and metalloproteinase domain with thrombospondin type 1 motifs-like) family of secreted glycoproteins bind to matrix microfibrils, and although their function in the heart remains largely unknown, they are suggested to regulate TGFβ activity. The aims of this study were to determine ADAMTSL2 levels in failing hearts, and to elucidate the role of ADAMTSL2 in fibrosis using cultured human cardiac fibroblasts (CFBs). Cardiac ADAMTSL2 mRNA was robustly increased in human and experimental heart failure, and mainly expressed by fibroblasts. Over-expression and treatment with extracellular ADAMTSL2 in human CFBs led to reduced TGFβ production and signalling. Increased ADAMTSL2 attenuated myofibroblast differentiation, with reduced expression of the signature molecules α-smooth muscle actin and osteopontin. Finally, ADAMTSL2 mitigated the pro-fibrotic CFB phenotypes, proliferation, migration and contractility. In conclusion, the extracellular matrix-localized glycoprotein ADAMTSL2 was upregulated in fibrotic and failing hearts of patients and mice. We identified ADAMTSL2 as a negative regulator of TGFβ in human cardiac fibroblasts, inhibiting myofibroblast differentiation and pro-fibrotic properties.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 572
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
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  9. Article ; Online: Adamtsl2 deletion results in bronchial fibrillin microfibril accumulation and bronchial epithelial dysplasia – a novel mouse model providing insights into geleophysic dysplasia

    Dirk Hubmacher / Lauren W. Wang / Robert P. Mecham / Dieter P. Reinhardt / Suneel S. Apte

    Disease Models & Mechanisms, Vol 8, Iss 5, Pp 487-

    2015  Volume 499

    Abstract: Mutations in the secreted glycoprotein ADAMTSL2 cause recessive geleophysic dysplasia (GD) in humans and Musladin–Lueke syndrome (MLS) in dogs. GD is a severe, often lethal, condition presenting with short stature, brachydactyly, stiff skin, joint ... ...

    Abstract Mutations in the secreted glycoprotein ADAMTSL2 cause recessive geleophysic dysplasia (GD) in humans and Musladin–Lueke syndrome (MLS) in dogs. GD is a severe, often lethal, condition presenting with short stature, brachydactyly, stiff skin, joint contractures, tracheal-bronchial stenosis and cardiac valve anomalies, whereas MLS is non-lethal and characterized by short stature and severe skin fibrosis. Although most mutations in fibrillin-1 (FBN1) cause Marfan syndrome (MFS), a microfibril disorder leading to transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) dysregulation, domain-specific FBN1 mutations result in dominant GD. ADAMTSL2 has been previously shown to bind FBN1 and latent TGFβ-binding protein-1 (LTBP1). Here, we investigated mice with targeted Adamtsl2 inactivation as a new model for GD (Adamtsl2−/− mice). An intragenic lacZ reporter in these mice showed that ADAMTSL2 was produced exclusively by bronchial smooth muscle cells during embryonic lung development. Adamtsl2−/− mice, which died at birth, had severe bronchial epithelial dysplasia with abnormal glycogen-rich inclusions in bronchial epithelium resembling the cellular anomalies described previously in GD. An increase in microfibrils in the bronchial wall was associated with increased FBN2 and microfibril-associated glycoprotein-1 (MAGP1) staining, whereas LTBP1 staining was increased in bronchial epithelium. ADAMTSL2 was shown to bind directly to FBN2 with an affinity comparable to FBN1. The observed extracellular matrix (ECM) alterations were associated with increased bronchial epithelial TGFβ signaling at 17.5 days of gestation; however, treatment with TGFβ-neutralizing antibody did not correct the epithelial dysplasia. These investigations reveal a new function of ADAMTSL2 in modulating microfibril formation, and a previously unsuspected association with FBN2. Our studies suggest that the bronchial epithelial dysplasia accompanying microfibril dysregulation in Adamtsl2−/− mice cannot be reversed by TGFβ neutralization, and thus might be mediated by other ...
    Keywords ADAMTS-like protein ; Connective tissue disorder ; Extracellular matrix ; Fibrillin microfibril ; Lung development ; Medicine ; R ; Pathology ; RB1-214
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher The Company of Biologists
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  10. Article ; Online: Secreted metalloproteases ADAMTS9 and ADAMTS20 have a non-canonical role in ciliary vesicle growth during ciliogenesis

    Sumeda Nandadasa / Caroline M. Kraft / Lauren W. Wang / Anna O’Donnell / Rushabh Patel / Heon Yung Gee / Kay Grobe / Timothy C. Cox / Friedhelm Hildebrandt / Suneel S. Apte

    Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2019  Volume 19

    Abstract: Ciliogenesis is a complex process requiring hundreds of molecules, although few secreted proteins have been implicated. Here, the authors show that the secreted metalloproteases ADAMTS9 and ADAMTS20 intracellularly regulate ciliogenesis from unique ... ...

    Abstract Ciliogenesis is a complex process requiring hundreds of molecules, although few secreted proteins have been implicated. Here, the authors show that the secreted metalloproteases ADAMTS9 and ADAMTS20 intracellularly regulate ciliogenesis from unique periciliary vesicles with proteolytic activity.
    Keywords Science ; Q
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    Publishing date 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
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