Elastic fiber homeostasis requires lysyl oxidase-like 1 protein.
Xiao-Qing Liu,Yun Zhao,Jiangang Gao,Basil S. Pawlyk,Barry Starcher,Jeffrey A. Spencer,Hiromi Yanagisawa,J. Zuo,Tiansen Li +8 more
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It is shown that mice lacking the protein lysyl oxidase–like 1 (LOXL1) do not deposit normal elastic fibers in the uterine tract post partum and develop pelvic organ prolapse, enlarged airspaces of the lung, loose skin and vascular abnormalities with concomitant tropoelastin accumulation.Abstract:
Elastic fibers are components of the extracellular matrix and confer resilience1. Once laid down, they are thought to remain stable2, except in the uterine tract where cycles of active remodeling occur3. Loss of elastic fibers underlies connective tissue aging and important diseases including emphysema4,5,6,7. Failure to maintain elastic fibers is explained by a theory of antielastase-elastase imbalance8, but little is known about the role of renewal. Here we show that mice lacking the protein lysyl oxidase–like 1 (LOXL1) do not deposit normal elastic fibers in the uterine tract post partum and develop pelvic organ prolapse, enlarged airspaces of the lung, loose skin and vascular abnormalities with concomitant tropoelastin accumulation. Distinct from the prototypic lysyl oxidase (LOX), LOXL1 localizes specifically to sites of elastogenesis and interacts with fibulin-5. Thus elastin polymer deposition is a crucial aspect of elastic fiber maintenance and is dependent on LOXL1, which serves both as a cross-linking enzyme and an element of the scaffold to ensure spatially defined deposition of elastin.read more
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Analysis of dermal elastic fibers in the absence of fibulin-5 reveals potential roles for fibulin-5 in elastic fiber assembly.
TL;DR: Results suggest two previously unrecognized functions for fibulin-5 in elastogenesis; first, to limit the extent of aggregation of tropoelastin monomers and/or coacervates and aid in the incorporation of elastin into the microfibril bundles, and second, to potentially assist in the activation of LOXL-1.
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Lysyl oxidase is associated with the epithelial-mesenchymal transition of gastric cancer cells in hypoxia
Hiroaki Kasashima,Masakazu Yashiro,Haruhito Kinoshita,Tatsunari Fukuoka,Tamami Morisaki,Go Masuda,Katsunobu Sakurai,Naoshi Kubo,Masaichi Ohira,Kosei Hirakawa +9 more
TL;DR: Multivariable analysis revealed that LOX was an independent parameter for overall survival and LOX expression is a useful prognostic factor for patients with gastric cancer.
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Advances in progenitor cell therapy using scaffolding constructs for central nervous system injury.
Peter A. Walker,Kevin Aroom,Fernando Jimenez,Shinil K. Shah,Matthew T. Harting,Brijesh S. Gill,Charles S. Cox +6 more
TL;DR: The focus of this review is to explore the current state of the art as it relates to current and novel progenitor cell delivery methods.
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A Tissue-specific Variant of the Human Lysyl Oxidase-like Protein 3 (LOXL3) Functions as an Amine Oxidase with Substrate Specificity
TL;DR: The human lysyl oxidase-like 3 (LOXL3) encodes a member of the emerging family of LOX that functions as a copper-dependent amine oxidase as discussed by the authors.
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Ocular and systemic manifestations of exfoliation syndrome.
TL;DR: The discovery in 2007 of nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms in the LOXL1 (lysyl oxidase-like 1) gene are expected to make a major impact not only in understanding exfoliation syndrome, but in leading to new avenues of therapy.
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Requirement for Macrophage Elastase for Cigarette Smoke-Induced Emphysema in Mice
TL;DR: Smoke-exposed MME-/- mice that received monthly intratracheal instillations of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 showed accumulation of alveolar macrophages but did not develop air space enlargement, indicating that macrophage elastase is probably sufficient for the development of emphysema that results from chronic inhalation of cigarette smoke.
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Lysyl oxidase: Properties, specificity, and biological roles inside and outside of the cell
TL;DR: Although the three‐dimensional structure of LO has yet to be determined, the present treatise offers hypotheses based upon its primary sequence, which may underlie the prominent electrostatic component of its unusual substrate specificity as well as the catalysis‐suppressing function of the propeptide domain of prolysyl oxidase.
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Fibulin-5/DANCE is essential for elastogenesis in vivo
Tomoyuki Nakamura,Pilar Ruiz Lozano,Yasuhiro Ikeda,Yoshitaka Iwanaga,Aleksander Hinek,Susumu Minamisawa,Ching-Feng Cheng,Kazuhiro Kobuke,Nancy D. Dalton,Yoshikazu Takada,Kei Tashiro,John Ross,Tasuku Honjo,Kenneth R. Chien +13 more
TL;DR: It is reported that fibulin-5 (also known as DANCE), a recently discovered integrin ligand, is an essential determinant of elastic fibre organization and may provide anchorage of elastic fibres to cells, thereby acting to stabilize and organize elastic fibre in the skin, lung and vasculature.
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Effect of vaginal delivery on the pelvic floor: A 5‐year follow‐up
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Fibulin-5 is an elastin-binding protein essential for elastic fibre development in vivo
Hiromi Yanagisawa,Elaine C. Davis,Barry Starcher,Takashi Ouchi,Masashi Yanagisawa,James A. Richardson,Eric N. Olson +6 more
TL;DR: Fibulin-5-/- mice develop marked elastinopathy owing to the disorganization of elastic fibres, with resulting loose skin, vascular abnormalities and emphysematous lung, which resembles the cutis laxa syndrome in humans.
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