Nidogen Is Nonessential and Not Required for Normal Type IV Collagen Localization in Caenorhabditis elegans

AUTOR(ES)

Kang, Seong Hoon

FONTE

The American Society for Cell Biology

RESUMO

Nidogen (entactin) can form a ternary complex with type IV collagen and laminin and is thought to play a critical role in basement membrane assembly. We show that the Caenorhabditis elegans nidogen homologue nid-1 generates three isoforms that differ in numbers of rod domain endothelial growth factor repeats and are differentially expressed during development. NID-1 appears at the start of embryonic morphogenesis associated with muscle cells and subsequently accumulates on pharyngeal, intestinal, and gonad primordia. In larvae and adults NID-1 is detected in most basement membranes but accumulates most strongly around the nerve ring and developing gonad. NID-1 is concentrated under dense bodies, at the edges of muscle quadrants, and on the sublateral nerves that run under muscles. Two deletions in nid-1 were isolated: cg119 is a molecular null, whereas cg118 produces truncated NID-1 missing the G2 collagen IV binding domain. Neither deletion causes overt abnormal phenotypes, except for mildly reduced fecundity. Truncated cg118 NID-1 shows wild-type localization, demonstrating that the G2 domain is not necessary for nidogen assembly. Both nid-1 mutants assemble type IV collagen in a completely wild-type pattern, demonstrating that nidogen is not essential for type IV collagen assembly into basement membranes.

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