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:During the emergence of multicellular organisms, molecular mechanisms evolved to allow maintenance of anatomical integrity and self-recognition. We propose that carbohydrates from proteoglycans, as the most peripheral cell surface, and matrix molecules might have provided these key adhesion and recognition functions. If so, the Porifera as the simplest metazoans alive today should retain, at least in part, proteoglycan adhesion and recognition mechanisms. Early work on cell adhesion of dissociated marine sponge cells provided important phenomenological evidence for cell sorting. Here is reviewed recent work on molecular mechanisms of cell recognition and adhesion mediated by cell surface proteoglycans purified from three marine sponge species, Microciona prolifera, Halichondria panicea, and Cliona celata. Biochemical characterization of isolated proteoglycans showed that each species expressed a unique type of primordial molecule named glyconectins. These proteoglycans displayed species-specific self-recognition and adhesion in color-coded bead, cell, and blotting assays. The specificity of homophilic proteoglycan to proteoglycan interactions in the Porifera approaches the binding selectivity of the evolutionarily advanced immunoglobulin superfamily system. Such xeno-selectivity may be a new paradigm for the molecular self-recognition, which was a fundamental requirement in the self/non-self discrimination during the emergence of multicellularity and further divergence of species. We have used atomic force microscopy (AFM) technology to directly measure intermolecular binding strength between individual pairs of ligand and receptor molecules in physiological solution. Homophilic glyconectin interactions were investigated by AFM after covalent attachment of the protein core to the sensor tip and to a flat surface, leaving the carbohydrates unmodified. AFM measurements of the binding strength between glyconectins indicated that one pair of molecules could theoretically hold the weight of 1,600 cells in physiological solution. These results provided the first essential and quantitative evidence that proteoglycan-proteoglycan binding can perform the adhesion function that we have assigned to it. Our investigations with purified proteoglycans from the marine sponge M. prolifera (glyconectin 1) using bead and cell adhesion assays have provided evidence that a new molecular mechanism of polyvalent and specific glycan-glycan binding between proteoglycans can mediate cell recognition and adhesion. Partial sequencing of the glycans has revealed two new cell adhesion carbohydrate structures: (3)GlcNAc(3OSO3)beta1-3Fuc and Pyr4,6Galbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta1-3Fuc.
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Misevic GNdoi
10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19990215)44:4<304::AID-JEMkeywords:
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1999-02-15 00:00:00pages
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