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Development ePress online publication date 24 Aug 2005
doi: 10.1242/dev.02007

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Fibulin-1C and Fibulin-1D splice variants have distinct functions and assemble in a hemicentin-dependent manner


Joaquin M. Muriel, Chun Dong, Harald Hutter, and Bruce E. Vogel*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: vogel{at}umbi.umd.edu)

Fibulins are a family of extracellular glycoproteins associated with basement membranes and elastic fibers in vertebrates. Conservation of the fibulin-1 gene throughout metazoan evolution includes fibulin-1C and fibulin-1D alternate splice variants, although little is known about variant specific functions that would justify this striking structural conservation. We have therefore investigated the structure, localization and loss-of-function phenotype specific to both fibulin-1 variants in C. elegans. We find that fibulin-1C has specific roles during pharynx, intestine, gonad and muscle morphogenesis, being required to regulate cell shape and adhesion, whereas fibulin-1D assembles in flexible polymers that connect the pharynx and body-wall-muscle basement membranes. The assembly of fibulin-1C and fibulin-1D in multiple locations is dependent upon the presence of hemicentin, a recently described extracellular member of the immunoglobulin superfamily. We suggest that the distinct developmental roles and hemicentin-dependent assembly for fibulin-1 splice variants demonstrated here may be relevant to fibulin-1 and possibly other fibulin family members in non-nematode species.


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