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The hydrophobic domains contain aliphatic amino acids with proline variations that provide flexibility and the ability to assemble into higher order structures. Genet. Pediatr. Chem. Chem. Possible role in nucleated assembly. After a period of collaboration with the Elastagen team, US biopharmaceutical giant Allergan acquired Elastagen in 2018 for over $350 million in total deal value. Chem. The hydrophobic domains contain repetitions and variations of Val-Pro-Gly-Val-Gly motifs (Figure 1), resulting in the aforementioned low complexity of sequence (Foster et al., 1973; Gray et al., 1973). Micron 41, 268272. Together, these two properties can be tuned and exploited to give rise to an increasing number of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, which have been recently reviewed elsewhere (Wang et al., 2020; Wen et al., 2020). 260, 32553258. Tropoelastin cannot readily be prepared in quantity from natural sources and this has limited research in several important areas including structure/function relationships and fiber assembly. doi: 10.1267/ahc.10026, Yang, A. S., and Honig, B. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.05.013, Elvin, C. M., Carr, A. G., Huson, M. G., Maxwell, J. M., Pearson, R. D., Vuocolo, T., et al. J. Biol. Molecular model of human tropoelastin and implications of associated mutations. J. doi: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00891.x, Yamauchi, Y., Tsuruga, E., Nakashima, K., Sawa, Y., and Ishikawa, H. (2010). Biochemistry 45, 95189530. J. Biomol. Of most importance, the inability to acquire large quantities of pure tropoelastin historically presented a significant obstacle to experimentally characterizing its structure. Sci. Tropoelastin interacts with microfibril components including fibrillin-1, fibulin-4, and -5, and other associated molecules such as latent transforming growth factor binding protein-4 (Visconti et al., 2003; McLaughlin et al., 2006; Urban et al., 2009; Yamauchi et al., 2010; Noda et al., 2013; Lockhart-Cairns et al., 2020). With this approach, Allergan has built one of the broadest development pipelines in the pharmaceutical industry. Co-author Professor Anthony Weiss from the Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Science explained: "Tropoelastin can repair the heart because it is a precise replica of the body's natural elastic protein,". This product is generally used in vitro as a substrate scaffold to enhance cell attachment, adherence and proliferation. Elastin makes up the majority of elastic fibers and is formed by the hierarchical assembly of its monomer, tropoelastin. Proc. (2006). A cell adhesive peptide from tropoelastin promotes sequential cell attachment and spreading via distinct receptors. Adv. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). (1983). 282, 1248412491. doi: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)83613-x, Miao, M., Bellingham, C. M., Stahl, R. J., Sitarz, E. E., Lane, C. J., and Keeley, F. W. (2003). In addition to its involvement in molecular elasticity, the flexibility of tropoelastin also a key requirement for self-assembly into elastin, with mutations that perturb this having detrimental effects on tissue (Yeo et al., 2016, 2017). Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN), headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a bold, global biopharmaceutical company. Mater. Water structure and elastin-like peptide aggregation. Indeed, cryo-EM was recently reported to have a lower molecular size limit of approximately 50 kDa, however, it has not yet been successfully applied to characterize tropoelastin (Murata and Wolf, 2018). doi: 10.1016/s0934-8832(11)80057-0. (2012). Natl. Pharm. By leveraging the advantages of computational models, such as elastic network models, full-atomistic models and coarse grained models, as depicted in Figure 2, the correlation between the structure, motions, and the functionality of tropoelastin have recently been explored in depth (Yeo et al., 2016; Tarakanova et al., 2018, 2019a). Comparative genomics of elastin: sequence analysis of a highly repetitive protein. On the cell surface, EBP forms a complex with protective protein/cathepsin A (PPCA) and neuraminidase-1 (Neu-1), giving rise to the ERC (Duca et al., 2007). 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Elastin synthesis and fiber assembly. Natl. The hydrophobic domain 26 of human tropoelastin is unstructured in solution. Chem. Communication: coacervation of tropoelastin results in fiber formation. Calorim. Biochemistry of tropoelastin. The lysines of domain 15 and 17 are believed to play key roles in this interaction. Chem. 281, 2375723765. Proc. doi: 10.1096/fj.201801860RR, Schrader, C. U., Heinz, A., Majovsky, P., Karaman Mayack, B., Brinckmann, J., Sippl, W., et al. (2019). This review focuses on recent developments that have shaped our current knowledge of elastin assembly through understanding the relationship between tropoelastins structure and function. Increased cyclic GMP levels lead to a stimulation of elastin production in ligament fibroblasts that is reversed by cyclic AMP. The liquid structure of elastin. 2:e1501145. Am. Visconti, R. P., Barth, J. L., Keeley, F. W., and Little, C. D. (2003). Intracellularly, EBP is associated with tropoelastin after the release of the signal peptide and acts as a chaperone to prevent self-aggregation and proteolysis as it transported to the cell membrane, after which EBP is then recycled and serves as a reusable shuttle protein (Hinek et al., 1995). doi: 10.1073/pnas.1701877114, Reichheld, S. E., Muiznieks, L. D., Lu, R., Sharpe, S., and Keeley, F. W. (2019). Tropoelastin aggregates at physiological temperature due to interactions between hydrophobic domains in a process called coacervation. Tropoelastin undergoes minimal energy loss during extension, similar to other polymers such as rubber and resilin (Elvin et al., 2005; Cordier et al., 2008; Baldock et al., 2011). Fazio, M. J., Olsen, D. R., Kuivaniemi, H., Chu, M. L., Davidson, J. M., Rosenbloom, J., et al. The self-assembly properties and nanostructure of these extra teleost isoforms are yet to be investigated. Matrix Biol. Sequence variants of human tropoelastin affecting assembly, structural characteristics and functional properties of polymeric elastin in health and disease. I thank the Elastagen team for their hard work and dedication in developing our innovative tropoelastin product pipeline and look forward to working with Allergan to take these products to market., Commenting on the transaction, Elastagens founding scientist Prof Anthony Weiss added:Our technology has come a long way from the lab bench at the University of Sydney towards developing products for patients around the world. Genet. LOX and LOXL convert the -amino group of lysine to -aminoadipic acid -semialdehyde (allysine) (Schmelzer et al., 2019), which spontaneously undergo either a Schiff base reaction with a lysine, or two allysines crosslink through aldol condensation, to give rise to bifunctional crosslinks (Franzblau et al., 1969; Lent et al., 1969). The alignment of these three domains indicates that at least two tropoelastin molecules are required to form this tetrafunctional cross-link, thus, giving rise to the head-to-tail model of assembly involving the growth of a linear chain that can assemble laterally to form sheets and eventually form spherules (Baldock et al., 2011). Albert, E. N. (1972). Elastin is the major component of elastic fibers, which are a major component of the tissue that supports the body's joints . Anal. Elastin combines with microfibrils to form elastic fibers that provide stretch and recoil to the skin. Subtle balance of tropoelastin molecular shape and flexibility regulates dynamics and hierarchical assembly. Matrix Biol. The smooth muscle cell. 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By probing mutations in computational studies that resolve the atomistic structure of the molecule, the deduction of mechanisms associated with changes to functional roles of specific domains has become feasible, and a connection between local structures and biological performance can be established (Figure 2; Tarakanova et al., 2018). Tropoelastin is a precursor protein of elastin, and is composed of hydrophilic (lysine, valine and proline) and hydrophobic (glycine, valine and proline) domains. Cell Biol. Human tropoelastin improves rat heart function postmyocardial infarction and could potentially be used to treat heart failure. Conformational transitions of the cross-linking domains of elastin during self-assembly. FEBS J. 68, 411419. On a per-share basis, the Irving, Texas-based company said it had profit of 1 cent. doi: 10.1007/s10973-014-4254-9, Debelle, L., and Tamburro, A. M. (1999). Rev. 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Codistribution analysis of elastin and related fibrillar proteins in early vertebrate development. 1, 2 Elastogenesis, the process of elastin formation, mainly occurs during the fetal and early neonatal development of organs such as blood vessels, lungs, and skin. Overview of the computational and experimental methodologies that have recently contributed to our understanding of elastic fiber assembly. (2018). Proc. . CB gratefully acknowledges BBSRC funding (Ref: BB/R008221/1). Cryo-electron microscopy for structural analysis of dynamic biological macromolecules. The ELN gene provides instructions for making a protein called tropoelastin. Such models could be used in conjunction with the full molecular model of tropoelastin to examine the self-assembly of discrete regions to understand the impacts of amino acid substitutions in disease. Domains 12 to 16 of tropoelastin promote cell attachment and spreading through interactions with glycosaminoglycan and integrins alphaV and alpha5beta1. Coacervation involves the agglomeration of protein molecules, which is an . Tropoelastin is the soluble precursor of elastin that is secreted as a 60-70-kDa monomer by elastogenic cells such as fibroblasts, lung alveolar cells, chondrocytes, and vascular SMCs [16]. J. Struct. 10 Endothelial cells, vascular smooth muscle cells, and adventitial fibroblasts produce tropoelastin during the late J. Biol. (2019). B., Broekelmann, T. J., et al. 286, 35943610. In contrast, higher temperatures allow the breaking of the hydrogen bonds of the ordered water, dissipating the clathrate shells and permitting the association of the hydrophobic domains (Yeo et al., 2011). doi: 10.1021/bi00835a022, Lockhart-Cairns, M. P., Newandee, H., Thomson, J., Weiss, A. S., Baldock, C., and Tarakanova, A. Matrix Biol. J. Biol. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1801205115, Tarakanova, A., Yeo, G. C., Baldock, C., Weiss, A. S., and Buehler, M. J. Cross-linking requires the modification of at least one of the lysine participants by a member of the copper-containing LOX or lysine oxidase-like (LOXL) enzyme families. Additionally, coarse-graining the full-atomistic model has allowed for the examination of mesoscale tropoelastin assembly and, in particular, deciphered the orientation of tropoelastin molecules that occurs during early stage assembly (inset image) (Tarakanova et al., 2019a). FEBS J. Chem. In addition to the RKRK sequence, domain 36 contains tropoelastins sole two cysteines and only disulfide bond. Tropoelastin is encoded by the ELN gene, which is present in all vertebrates except jawless fish (Chung et al., 2006). doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2009.11.003, Urban, Z., Hucthagowder, V., Schrmann, N., Todorovic, V., Zilberberg, L., Choi, J., et al. U.S.A. 84, 56805684. (2008). Nature 437, 9991002. Natl. The compositions include a coalescence-controlling agent in the form of a polysaccharide or polysaccharide derivative, in an amount effective for providing the substance with the properties of flow, enabling injection. Eur. Unlike hydrophobic domains, cross-linking domains in isolation are unable to self-assemble; thus, they have been studied in the context of the cross-linking of elastin-derived biomaterials (Annabi et al., 2017; Yue et al., 2017). 34, 8190. doi: 10.1021/bi0610092, Cordier, P., Tournilhac, F., Souli-Ziakovic, C., and Leibler, L. (2008). Protein Eng. Tropoelastin is a low complexity protein on both primary and secondary sequence levels. Computational approaches have gained popularity in recent decades as their methodologies have been refined to provide accurate atomistic scale insights into molecular structure and movement (Tarakanova et al., 2018). doi: 10.1002/bip.23007, Miao, M., Stahl, R. J., Petersen, L. F., Reintsch, W. E., Davis, E. C., and Keeley, F. W. (2009). Proline and glycine control protein self-organization into elastomeric or amyloid fibrils. Differential expression of two tropoelastin genes in zebrafish. Biotechnol., 25 February 2021, View all The presence of tropoelastin spherules fusing to fibrils has been noted in native tissue, demonstrating marked similarities between in vitro and in vivo coacervation (Haust et al., 1965; Albert, 1972; Kozel et al., 2006). The elastin receptor complex transduces signals through the catalytic activity of its Neu-1 subunit. doi: 10.1161/circimaging.117.007303, Prhashanna, A., Taylor, P. A., Qin, J., Kiick, K. L., and Jayaraman, A. Elastogenesis is the term that collectively describes the hierarchical process of elastic fiber formation, and is comprised of distinct phases: tropoelastin synthesis, coacervation, cross-linking, and deposition. 149, 282289. 293, 1510715119. They are ubiquitous across most vertebrates other than lower vertebrates such as species from the superclass Agnatha (jawless fish) (Debelle and Tamburro, 1999). The process of tropoelastin aggregation is initially reversible, as spherules dissipate if the temperature is lowered (Clarke et al., 2006), however, maintenance of a physiological temperature results in maturation, which is indicated by spherule coalescence and the irreversible formation of fibrillar structures (Cox et al., 1974; Bressan et al., 1983; Mithieux et al., 2005). Computational models have also been leveraged to pinpoint the molecular consequences of synthetic and disease mutations of tropoelastin. Matrix 12, 156162. Elastagen's technology is based on human tropoelastin . The authors wrote and submitted this manuscript in response to an invitation by the Editor. 289, 1005710068. Primary structure of porcine tropoelastin. Tropoelastin: a versatile, bioactive assembly module. Biol. The next stage of elastin assembly involves the deposition of tropoelastin spherules onto the microfibril scaffold of elastic fibers. The N-terminal head caps an extended coil region that consists of domains 218. This suggests a high level of conformational sampling during this phase of coacervation, indicating that the flexibility of tropoelastin plays a key role in assembly that may persist, to some extent, into later stages of assembly (Reichheld et al., 2020). Upon secretion tropoelastin has the propensity to self-aggregate through a process known as coacervation. J. Med. Matrix Biol. (1987). Chem. Pathol. doi: 10.1016/j.matbio.2007.05.005, He, D., Miao, M., Sitarz, E. E., Muiznieks, L. D., Reichheld, S., Stahl, R. J., et al. 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AT acknowledges support from University of Connecticuts Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy Faculty Research Seed Grant. Dominant driving factors of assembly were examined, including water, temperature and domain pair orientations. Tropoelastins sequence and domain arrangement. The resultant bending motion rather than scissors-twist motion that stemmed from this stabilization highlights the mutants diminished flexibility as a key driver of impaired fiber assembly in cutis laxa (Tarakanova et al., 2018). Ltd., which was sold to Allergan, now a division of AbbVie. Tropoelastin. J. Biochem. 16,17 We have previously shown that monomeric TE is utilized as a substrate by dermal fibroblasts in the formation of elastin fibroblasts in vitro, where Acta Histochem. 26, 524540. Model. Interestingly, the location and orientation of different domains that contacted each other during self-assembly was noted to be heterogeneous, resulting in head-to-head, tail-to-tail, head-to-tail, and lateral interactions (Tarakanova et al., 2019a). We are making enrolling in text alerts easier than ever. doi: 10.1203/00006450-199010000-00015, Nonaka, R., Sato, F., and Wachi, H. (2014). Elastin binding protein and FKBP65 modulate in vitro self-assembly of human tropoelastin. Tropoelastin was revealed to be an asymmetric molecule with distinct N- and C-terminal regions that are respectively referred to as the "head" and "foot" of the molecule. Elastin is a critical skin protein consisting of crosslinked tropoelastin. Elastin synthesis in arterial smooth muscle cell culture. For more information, visit Elastagens website atwww.elastagen.com. It's a stretchy protein that resembles a rubber band it can stretch out (extend) and shrink back (recoil). Natl. For example, the highly flexible domains 25 that were noted to generate a twisting motion in N-terminus, were positioned beside domain 6, a relatively immobile region that may assist in stabilizing the subsequent regions. doi: 10.1172/jci115204, Sherratt, M., Wess, T. J., Baldock, C., Ashworth, J., Purslow, P., Shuttleworth, C., et al. J. Mol. Bashir, M. M., Indik, Z., Yeh, H., Ornstein-Goldstein, N., Rosenbloom, J. C., Abrams, W., et al. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b01503, Rauscher, S., Baud, S., Miao, M., Keeley, F. W., and Poms, R. (2006). Shape of tropoelastin, the highly extensible protein that controls human tissue elasticity. (2005). Stages in tropoelastin coalescence during synthetic elastin hydrogel formation. Trends Biotechnol. Modeling has been verified using wet-bench methodologies, forming a robust suite of complementary methodologies that will undoubtedly become more prevalent for exploring the assembly of biological fibers over time. Elastin is extensively cross-linked and difficult to break apart into monomers even under harsh conditions, thus, initial strategies included feeding animals a copper deficient diet to prevent lysyl oxidase (LOX) cross-linking of tropoelastin; however, this proved inefficient and time consuming (Wise and Weiss, 2009; Tarakanova et al., 2018). Closer to the base of the molecule, the flexible hinge region between domains 21 and 23 presented with a scissors-like bending, which is now believed to contribute to elasticity and multimeric assembly through enhanced conformational space sampling (Tarakanova et al., 2019b). doi: 10.1016/s0003-9861(02)00719-1, Muiznieks, L. D., Reichheld, S. E., Sitarz, E. E., Miao, M., and Keeley, F. W. (2015). Tropoelastin massively associates during coacervation to form quantized protein spheres. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812951116, Yue, K., Li, X., Schrobback, K., Sheikhi, A., Annabi, N., Leijten, J., et al. Elastin and other dermal components are gradually lost through aging, sun damage, and following injury, highlighting a need to replace these components to repair the skin. Dissection of human tropoelastin: exon-by-exon chemical synthesis and related conformational studies. Gene 154, 159166. It has been postulated that the interaction between tropoelastin and cell surface proteoglycans is part of the assembly process of elastin before it is deposited on microfibrils. eLife 6:e26526. 270, 1777817783. Lysinonorleucine. Meanwhile, modifications to the full-atomistic model have revealed the mechanisms that contribute to aberrant fiber structure (Tarakanova et al., 2018) that have been hypothesized to predispose patients to diseases such as acquired cutis laxa (Hu et al., 2006). The most commonly investigated isoform contains domain 26A and lacks domain 22, and is predominantly found in elastic tissues (Indik et al., 1987; Vrhovski et al., 1997). The conversion of a single lysine to an allysine results in structural stabilization, which may serve as a checkpoint during self-assembly to ensure that molecules incapable of forming multiple cross-links are not incorporated into the growing chain. A. Attempts to characterize tropoelastins structure have seen a gradual shift from the belief that tropoelastins domains have fixed structures, to understanding that the majority of its domains are capable of transitioning between random coils and transient ordered structures. Tropoelastin spherules assemble at the cell surface before deposition onto the microfibrillar scaffold in cell culture systems at physiological temperature (Kozel et al., 2006). Cytochem. Developing elastic tissue. Allergan Plc, a $15.9b provider of medical aesthetics, biosimilars, and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products will acquire Elastagen Pty Ltd., a provider of advanced tissue repair platform based on tropoelastin (gives tissue its elasticity) for $95m.The acquisition adds proprietary injectable products to Allergan's existing portfolio. Cellular expression of tropoelastin mRNA splice variants. doi: 10.1021/bi400760f, Miao, M., Reichheld, S. E., Muiznieks, L. D., Sitarz, E. E., Sharpe, S., and Keeley, F. W. (2017). Tropoelastin, the soluble precursor to elastin, and the degradation products of fragmented elastic fibers also have important chemical signaling properties. Elastogenesis in human aorta: an electron microscopic study. Unsubstituted models are also critical to understanding self-assembly. Interactions of fibrillin-1 with heparin/heparan sulfate, implications for microfibrillar assembly. 3, 4 Elastin has a very low rate of turnover, so it . N. Y. Acad. Recycling of the 67-kDa elastin binding protein in arterial myocytes is imperative for secretion of tropoelastin. Evidence for the presence of alpha-aminoadipic acid delta-semialdehyde and its aldol condensation product. Sci. Even after being able to produce recombinant tropoelastin at scales suited to characterization studies, traditional techniques have not yet produced an experimentally verified atomistic structure (Martin et al., 1995; Tarakanova and Buehler, 2013). Matrix Biol. Allergan acquired Elastagen primarily for the injectable product portfolio (acne scars/stretch marks aesthetics). Targeted disruption of fibulin-4 abolishes elastogenesis and causes perinatal lethality in mice. doi: 10.1016/s0945-053x(03)00014-3, Vrhovski, B., Jensen, S., and Weiss, A. S. (1997). (2017). Elastases can be in the form of serine- (e.g., Ela-2), cysteine- (e.g., cathepsin I), or matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-2, -7, -9, and -12), and bioactive peptides include the VGVAPG peptide. Domain 26 of tropoelastin plays a dominant role in association by coacervation. Front. Tropoelastins flexibility does not allow it to pack into a crystal lattice and its size renders it too complex to assign atomic interactions using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) on a global level (Tamburro et al., 2003, 2006; Bochicchio et al., 2004; Pepe et al., 2008). (1977). A., and Rucker, R. B. These interactions trigger a wide range of processes including wound healing, elastogenesis and maintenance of stemness (Yeo and Weiss, 2019). Self-healing and thermoreversible rubber from supramolecular assembly. Figure 1. The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research is supported by funding from Wellcome Trust (203128/Z/16/Z). With the acquisition, Allergan will begin developing a new line that incorporates tropoelastin in the injectable's formula. Mutations in LTBP4 cause a syndrome of impaired pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, and dermal development. 252, 351365. 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