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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/1997//295 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 139, Number 1, , 1997 295-307

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Modulation of Cell-adhesive Activity of Fibronectin by the Alternatively Spliced EDA Segment



Ri-ichiroh Manabe, Naoko Oh-e, Toshinaga Maeda, Tomohiko Fukuda, and Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi

Research Institute, Osaka Medical Center for Maternal and Child Health, Izumi, Osaka 590-02, Japan

Fibronectin (FN) has a complex pattern of alternative splicing at the mRNA level. One of the alternatively spliced segments, EDA, is prominently expressed during biological processes involving substantial cell migration and proliferation, such as embryonic development, malignant transformation, and wound healing. To examine the function of the EDA segment, we overexpressed recombinant FN isoforms with or without EDA in CHO cells and compared their cell-adhesive activities using purified proteins. EDA+ FN was significantly more potent than EDA– FN in promoting cell spreading and cell migration, irrespective of the presence or absence of a second alternatively spliced segment, EDB. The cell spreading activity of EDA+ FN was not affected by antibodies recognizing the EDA segment but was abolished by antibodies against integrin {alpha}5 and β1 subunits and by Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser-Pro peptide, indicating that the EDA segment enhanced the cell-adhesive activity of FN by potentiating the interaction of FN with integrin {alpha}5β1. In support of this conclusion, purified integrin {alpha}5β1 bound more avidly to EDA+ FN than to EDA– FN. Augmentation of integrin binding by the EDA segment was, however, observed only in the context of the intact FN molecule, since the difference in integrin-binding activity between EDA+ FN and EDA– FN was abolished after limited proteolysis with thermolysin. Consistent with this observation, binding of integrin {alpha}5β1 to a recombinant FN fragment, consisting of the central cell-binding domain and the adjacent heparin-binding domain Hep2, was not affected by insertion of the EDA segment. Since the insertion of an extra type III module such as EDA into an array of repeated type III modules is expected to rotate the polypeptide up to 180° at the position of the insertion, the conformation of the FN molecule may be globally altered upon insertion of the EDA segment, resulting in an increased exposure of the RGD motif in III10 module and/or local unfolding of the module. Our results suggest that alternative splicing at the EDA exon is a novel mechanism for up-regulating integrin-binding affinity of FN operating when enhanced migration and proliferation of cells are required.

Abbreviations used in this paper: CCBD, central cell-binding domain; FN, fibronectin; GST, glutathione-S-transferase; MBP, maltose-binding protein; RGD, Arg-Gly-Asp.

Address all correspondence to Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi, Research Institute, Osaka Medical Center for Maternal and Child Health, 840 Murodo, Izumi, Osaka 590-2, Japan. Tel.: (81) 725-56-1220 (ext. 5401). Fax: (81) 725-57-3021. e-mail: j61639{at}center.osaka-u.ac.jp


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