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- Title
Importance of phosphorylation for osteopontin regulation of biomineralization.
- Authors
Gericke, A.; Qin, C.; Spevak, L.; Fujimoto, Y.; Butler, W. T.; Sørensen, E. S.; Boskey, A. L.; Sørensen, E S
- Abstract
Previous in vitro and in vivo studies demonstrated that osteopontin (OPN) is an inhibitor of the formation and growth of hydroxyapatite (HA) and other biominerals. The present study tests the hypotheses that the interaction of OPN with HA is determined by the extent of protein phosphorylation and that this interaction regulates the mineralization process. Bone OPN as previously reported inhibited HA formation and HA-seeded growth in a gelatin-gel system. A transglutaminase-linked OPN polymer had similar effects. Recombinant, nonphosphorylated OPN and chemically dephosphorylated OPN, had no effect on HA formation or growth in this system. In contrast, highly phosphorylated milk OPN (mOPN) promoted HA formation. The mOPN stabilized the conversion of amorphous calcium phosphate (a non-crystalline constituent of milk) to HA, whereas bone OPN had a lesser effect on this conversion. Mixtures of OPN and osteocalcin known to form a complex in vitro, unexpectedly promoted HA formation. To test the hypothesis that small alterations in protein conformation caused by phosphorylation account for the differences in the observed ability of OPN to interact with HA, the conformation of bone OPN and mOPN in the presence and absence of crystalline HA was determined by attenuated total reflection (ATR) infrared (IR) spectroscopy. Both proteins exhibited a predominantly random coil structure, which was unaffected by the addition of Ca(2+). Binding to HA did not alter the secondary structure of bone OPN, but induced a small increase of beta-sheet (few percent) in mOPN. These data taken together suggest that the phosphorylation of OPN is an important factor in regulating the OPN-mediated mineralization process.
- Subjects
PHOSPHORYLATION; CHEMICAL reactions; OSTEOPONTIN; CELL adhesion molecules; BIOMINERALIZATION; HYDROXYAPATITE; TRANSGLUTAMINASES; ANIMAL experimentation; BONE growth; COMPARATIVE studies; GLYCOPROTEINS; MATHEMATICS; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; MINERALS; PHOSPHATES; PROTEINS; RATS; RECOMBINANT proteins; RESEARCH; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Calcified Tissue International, 2005, Vol 77, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0171-967X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00223-004-1288-1