Thrombospondin 1

Thrombospondin 1
PDB rendering based on 1lsl.
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 1LSL​, 1UX6​, 1Z78​, 1ZA4​, 2ERF​, 2ES3​, 2OUH​, 2OUJ​, 3R6B​
Identifiers
Symbols	THBS1 ; THBS; THBS-1; TSP; TSP-1; TSP1
External IDs	OMIM: 188060 MGI: 98737 HomoloGene: 31142 GeneCards: THBS1 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • phosphatidylserine binding • glycoprotein binding • fibronectin binding • integrin binding • calcium ion binding • protein binding • heparin binding • fibroblast growth factor binding • low-density lipoprotein particle binding • identical protein binding • laminin binding • proteoglycan binding • transforming growth factor beta binding • fibrinogen binding • collagen V binding Cellular component • extracellular region • fibrinogen complex • extracellular space • endoplasmic reticulum • endoplasmic reticulum lumen • external side of plasma membrane • cell surface • sarcoplasmic reticulum • secretory granule • extracellular matrix • platelet alpha granule • platelet alpha granule lumen • extracellular exosome Biological process • activation of MAPK activity • response to hypoxia • negative regulation of endothelial cell proliferation • negative regulation of cell-matrix adhesion • sprouting angiogenesis • chronic inflammatory response • platelet degranulation • negative regulation of antigen processing and presentation of peptide or polysaccharide antigen via MHC class II • negative regulation of dendritic cell antigen processing and presentation • outflow tract morphogenesis • endocardial cushion development • growth plate cartilage development • protein O-linked glycosylation • inflammatory response • immune response • response to unfolded protein • cell cycle arrest • cell adhesion • blood coagulation • response to glucose • positive regulation of endothelial cell migration • negative regulation of endothelial cell migration • negative regulation of plasma membrane long-chain fatty acid transport • negative regulation of nitric oxide mediated signal transduction • negative regulation of cGMP-mediated signaling • negative regulation of plasminogen activation • positive regulation of macrophage chemotaxis • positive regulation of fibroblast migration • positive regulation of cell-substrate adhesion • cell migration • negative regulation of angiogenesis • peptide cross-linking • platelet activation • positive regulation of blood coagulation • extracellular matrix organization • positive regulation of cell migration • positive regulation of transforming growth factor beta receptor signaling pathway • regulation of cGMP metabolic process • response to magnesium ion • response to progesterone • negative regulation of interleukin-12 production • positive regulation of transforming growth factor beta1 production • cellular response to heat • response to endoplasmic reticulum stress • protein O-linked fucosylation • negative regulation of fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling pathway • positive regulation of phosphorylation • response to drug • positive regulation of tumor necrosis factor biosynthetic process • positive regulation of macrophage activation • negative regulation of apoptotic process • negative regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic process • positive regulation of blood vessel endothelial cell migration • negative regulation of blood vessel endothelial cell migration • engulfment of apoptotic cell • post-translational protein modification • cellular protein metabolic process • positive regulation of translation • positive regulation of angiogenesis • behavioral response to pain • positive regulation of chemotaxis • response to calcium ion • negative regulation of focal adhesion assembly • positive regulation of protein kinase B signaling • negative regulation of fibrinolysis • cellular response to nitric oxide • positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway via death domain receptors • positive regulation of endothelial cell apoptotic process • positive regulation of reactive oxygen species metabolic process • negative regulation of endothelial cell chemotaxis • negative regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	7057	21825
Ensembl	ENSG00000137801	ENSMUSG00000040152
UniProt	P07996	Q3TP59
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_003246	NM_011580
RefSeq (protein)	NP_003237	NP_035710
Location (UCSC)	Chr 15: 39.58 – 39.6 Mb	Chr 2: 118.11 – 118.13 Mb
PubMed search

Thrombospondin 1, also known as THBS1, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the THBS1 gene.^[1][2]

Thrombospondin 1 is a subunit of a disulfide-linked homotrimeric protein. This protein is an adhesive glycoprotein that mediates cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix interactions. This protein can bind to fibrinogen, fibronectin, laminin, type V collagen and integrins alpha-V/beta-1. This protein has been shown to play roles in platelet aggregation, angiogenesis, and tumorigenesis.^[3]

Function

The thrombospondin-1 protein is a member of the thrombospondin family. It is a multi-domain matrix glycoprotein that has been shown to be a natural inhibitor of neovascularization and tumorigenesis in healthy tissue. Both positive and negative modulation of endothelial cell adhesion, motility, and growth have been attributed to TSP1. This should not be surprising considering that TSP1 interacts with at least 12 cell adhesion receptors, including CD36, αv integrins, β1 integrins, syndecan, and integrin-associated protein (IAP or CD47). It also interacts with numerous proteases involved in angiogenesis, including plasminogen, urokinase, matrix metalloproteinase, thrombin, cathepsin, and elastase.^[4]

Thrombospondin-1 binds to the reelin receptors, ApoER2 and VLDLR, thereby affecting neuronal migration in the rostral migratory stream.^[5]

The various functions of the TSRs have been attributed to several recognition motifs. Characterization of these motifs has led to the use of recombinant proteins that contain these motifs; these recombinant proteins are deemed useful in cancer therapy. The TSP-1 3TSR (that is, all three TSRs of the type 1 repeat domain) can activate transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFβ1) and inhibit endothelial cell migration, angiogenesis, and tumor growth.^[6]

Structure

Thrombospondin's activity has been mapped to several domains, in particular the amino-terminal heparin-binding domain, the procollagen domain, the properdin-like type I repeats, and the globular carboxy-terminal domain. The protein also contains type II repeats with epidermal growth factor-like homology and type III repeats that contain an RGD sequence.^[7]

N-terminus

The N-terminal heparin-binding domain of TSP1, when isolated as a 25kDa fragment, has been shown to be a potent inducer of cell migration at high concentrations. However, when the heparin-binding domain of TSP1 is cleaved, the remaining anti-angiogenic domains have been shown to have decreased anti-angiogenic activity at low concentrations where increased endothelial cell (EC) migration occurs. This may be explained in part by the ability of the heparin-binding domain to mediate attachment of TSP1 to cells, allowing the other domains to exert their effects. The separate roles that the heparin-binding region of TSP1 plays at high versus low concentrations may be in part responsible for regulating the two-faced nature of TSP1 and giving it a reputation of being both a positive and negative regulator of angiogenesis.^[8]

Procollagen domain

Both the procollagen domain and the type I repeats of TSP1 have been shown to inhibit neovascularization and EC migration. However, it is unlikely that the mechanisms of action of these fragments are the same. The type I repeats of TSP1 are capable of inhibiting EC migration in a Boyden chamber assay after a 3-4 hour exposure, whereas a 36-48 hour exposure period is necessary for inhibition of EC migration with the procollagen domain.^[8] Whereas the chorioallantroic membrane (CAM) assay shows the type I repeats of TSP1 to be antiangiogenic, it also shows that the procollagen sequence lacks anti-angiogenic activity. This may be in part because the animo-terminal end of TSP1 differs more than the carboxy-terminal end across species, but may also suggest different mechanisms of action.^[9]

TSP1 contains three type I repeats, only the second two of which have been found to inhibit angiogenesis. The type I repeat motif is more effective than the entire protein at inhibiting angiogenesis and contains not one but two regions of activity. The amino-terminal end contains a tryptophan-rich motif that blocks fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2 or bFGF) driven angiogenesis. This region has also been found to prevent FGF-2 binding ECs, suggesting that its mechanism of action may be to sequester FGF-2. The second region of activity, the CD36 binding region of TSP1, can be found on the carboxy-terminal half of the type I repeats.^[9] It has been suggested that activating the CD36 receptor causes an increase in ECs sensitivity to apoptotic signals.^[10][11] Type I repeats have also been shown to bind to heparin, fibronectin, TGF-β, and others, potentially antagonizing the effects of these molecules on ECs.^[12] However, CD36 is generally considered to be the dominant inhibitory signaling receptor for TSP1, and EC expression of CD36 is restricted to microvascular ECs.^[4]

Soluble type I repeats have been shown to decrease EC numbers by inhibiting proliferation and promoting apoptosis. Interestingly, attachment of endothelial cells to fibronectin partially reverses this phenomenon. However this domain is not without a two-faced nature of its own. Bound protein fragments of the type I repeats have been shown to serve as attachment factors for both ECs and melanoma cells.^[13]

C-terminus

The carboxy-terminal domain of TSP1 is believed to mediate cellular attachment and has been found to bind to another important receptor for TSP1, IAP (or CD47).^[14] This receptor is considered necessary for nitric oxide-stimulated TSP1-mediated vascular cell responses and cGMP signaling.^[15] Various domains of and receptors for TSP1 have been shown to have pro-adhesive and chemotactic activities for cancer cells, suggesting that this molecule may have a direct effect on cancer cell biology independent of its anti-angiogenic properties.^[16][17]

Cancer treatment

By blocking TSP1 from binding to its cell surface receptor (CD47) normal tissue becomes nearly immune to cancer radiation therapy and assists in tumor death.^[18]

Interactions

Thrombospondin 1 has been shown to interact with:

• LRP1,^[19][20][21]
• MMP2,^[22] and
• Plasmin.^[23][24]

References

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2. Jaffe E, Bornstein P, Disteche CM (May 1990). "Mapping of the thrombospondin gene to human chromosome 15 and mouse chromosome 2 by in situ hybridization". Genomics 7 (1): 123–6. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(90)90528-3. PMID 2335352.
3. "Entrez Gene: THBS1 thrombospondin 1".
4. Simantov R, Silverstein RL (Sep 2003). "CD36: a critical anti-angiogenic receptor". Frontiers in Bioscience 8 (1-3): s874–82. doi:10.2741/1168. PMID 12957861.
5. Blake SM, Strasser V, Andrade N, Duit S, Hofbauer R, Schneider WJ, Nimpf J (Nov 2008). "Thrombospondin-1 binds to ApoER2 and VLDL receptor and functions in postnatal neuronal migration". The EMBO Journal 27 (22): 3069–80. doi:10.1038/emboj.2008.223. PMC 2585172. PMID 18946489.
6. Lopez-Dee ZP, Chittur SV, Patel B, Stanton R, Wakeley M, Lippert B, Menaker A, Eiche B, Terry R, Gutierrez LS (2012). "Thrombospondin-1 type 1 repeats in a model of inflammatory bowel disease: transcript profile and therapeutic effects". PloS One 7 (4): e34590. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034590. PMC 3318003. PMID 22509329.
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12. Guo N, Zabrenetzky VS, Chandrasekaran L, Sipes JM, Lawler J, Krutzsch HC, Roberts DD (Jul 1998). "Differential roles of protein kinase C and pertussis toxin-sensitive G-binding proteins in modulation of melanoma cell proliferation and motility by thrombospondin 1". Cancer Research 58 (14): 3154–62. PMID 9679984.
13. Prater CA, Plotkin J, Jaye D, Frazier WA (Mar 1991). "The properdin-like type I repeats of human thrombospondin contain a cell attachment site". The Journal of Cell Biology 112 (5): 1031–40. doi:10.1083/jcb.112.5.1031. PMC 2288870. PMID 1999454.
14. Kosfeld MD, Frazier WA (Aug 1992). "Identification of active peptide sequences in the carboxyl-terminal cell binding domain of human thrombospondin-1". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 267 (23): 16230–6. PMID 1644809.
15. Isenberg JS, Ridnour LA, Dimitry J, Frazier WA, Wink DA, Roberts DD (Sep 2006). "CD47 is necessary for inhibition of nitric oxide-stimulated vascular cell responses by thrombospondin-1". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 281 (36): 26069–80. doi:10.1074/jbc.M605040200. PMID 16835222.
16. Chandrasekaran S, Guo NH, Rodrigues RG, Kaiser J, Roberts DD (Apr 1999). "Pro-adhesive and chemotactic activities of thrombospondin-1 for breast carcinoma cells are mediated by alpha3beta1 integrin and regulated by insulin-like growth factor-1 and CD98". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 274 (16): 11408–16. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.16.11408. PMID 10196234.
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18. Maxhimer JB, Soto-Pantoja DR, Ridnour LA, Shih HB, Degraff WG, Tsokos M, Wink DA, Isenberg JS, Roberts DD (Oct 2009). "Radioprotection in normal tissue and delayed tumor growth by blockade of CD47 signaling". Science Translational Medicine 1 (3): 3ra7. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3000139. PMC 2811586. PMID 20161613. Lay summary – sciencedaily.com.
19. Wang S, Herndon ME, Ranganathan S, Godyna S, Lawler J, Argraves WS, Liau G (Mar 2004). "Internalization but not binding of thrombospondin-1 to low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1 requires heparan sulfate proteoglycans". Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 91 (4): 766–76. doi:10.1002/jcb.10781. PMID 14991768.
20. Mikhailenko I, Krylov D, Argraves KM, Roberts DD, Liau G, Strickland DK (Mar 1997). "Cellular internalization and degradation of thrombospondin-1 is mediated by the amino-terminal heparin binding domain (HBD). High affinity interaction of dimeric HBD with the low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 272 (10): 6784–91. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.10.6784. PMID 9045712.
21. Godyna S, Liau G, Popa I, Stefansson S, Argraves WS (Jun 1995). "Identification of the low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP) as an endocytic receptor for thrombospondin-1". The Journal of Cell Biology 129 (5): 1403–10. doi:10.1083/jcb.129.5.1403. PMC 2120467. PMID 7775583.
22. Bein K, Simons M (Oct 2000). "Thrombospondin type 1 repeats interact with matrix metalloproteinase 2. Regulation of metalloproteinase activity". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 275 (41): 32167–73. doi:10.1074/jbc.M003834200. PMID 10900205.
23. Silverstein RL, Leung LL, Harpel PC, Nachman RL (Nov 1984). "Complex formation of platelet thrombospondin with plasminogen. Modulation of activation by tissue activator". The Journal of Clinical Investigation 74 (5): 1625–33. doi:10.1172/JCI111578. PMC 425339. PMID 6438154.
24. DePoli P, Bacon-Baguley T, Kendra-Franczak S, Cederholm MT, Walz DA (Mar 1989). "Thrombospondin interaction with plasminogen. Evidence for binding to a specific region of the kringle structure of plasminogen". Blood 73 (4): 976–82. PMID 2522013.

External links

• Thrombospondin 1 at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)