Matrix Gla Protein Inhibits Ectopic Calcification by a Direct Interaction with Hydroxyapatite Crystals

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• 作者：Jason O鈥橸oung ; Yinyin Liao ; Yizhi Xiao ; Jari Jalkanen ; Gilles Lajoie ; Mikko Karttunen ; Harvey A. Goldberg ; Graeme K. Hunter
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：November 16, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：133
• 期：45
• 页码：18406-18412
• 全文大小：992K
• 年卷期：v.133,no.45(November 16, 2011)
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Mice lacking the gene encoding matrix gla protein (MGP) exhibit massive mineral deposition in blood vessels and die soon after birth. We hypothesize that MGP prevents arterial calcification by adsorbing to growing hydroxyapatite (HA) crystals. To test this, we have used a combined experimental鈥揷omputational approach. We synthesized peptides covering the entire sequence of human MGP, which contains three sites of serine phosphorylation and five sites of 纬-carboxylation, and studied their effects on HA crystal growth using a constant-composition autotitration assay. In parallel studies, the interactions of these sequences with the {100} and {001} faces of HA were analyzed using atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. YGlapS (amino acids 1鈥?4 of human MGP) and SK-Gla (MGP43鈥?6) adsorbed rapidly to the {100} and {001} faces and strongly inhibited HA growth (IC₅₀ = 2.96 渭g/mL and 4.96 渭g/mL, respectively). QR-Gla (MGP29鈥?2) adsorbed more slowly and was a moderate growth inhibitor, while the remaining three (nonpost-translationally modified) peptides had little or no effect in either analysis. Substitution of gla with glutamic acid reduced the adsorption and inhibition activities of SK-Gla and (to a lesser extent) QR-Gla but not YGlapS; substitution of phosphoserine with serine reduced the inhibitory potency of YGlapS. These studies suggest that MGP prevents arterial calcification by a direct interaction with HA crystals that involves both phosphate groups and gla residues of the protein. The strong correlation between simulated adsorption and measured growth inhibition indicates that MD provides a powerful tool to predict the effects of proteins and peptides on crystal formation.