Association of Sonic Hedgehog with the Extracellular Matrix Requires its Putative Zinc-Peptidase Activity
Jaegers, C.; Roelink, H.
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Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) has a catalytic cleft characteristic for zinc metallopeptidases and has significant sequence similarities with some bacterial peptidoglycan metallopeptidases defining a subgroup within the M15A family that, besides having the characteristic zinc coordination domain, can bind two calcium ions. Extracellular matrix (ECM) components in animals include heparan-sulfate proteoglycans, which are analogs of bacterial peptidoglycan and thus potentially involved in the extracellular distribution of Shh. We found that the zinc-coordination fold of Shh is required for its association with ECM as well as for non-cell autonomous signaling. Association with the ECM requires the presence of at least 0.1 M zinc and is prevented by mutations affecting critical conserved catalytical residues as well as extracellular calcium. Our results demonstrate that the zinc-coordination fold is required for ECM-association and suggest that the putative intrinsic peptidase activity of Shh is required for non-cell autonomous signaling.
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