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FBN-1, a fibrillin-related protein, is required for resistance of the epidermis to mechanical deformation during C. elegans embryogenesis

eLife, 2015
During development, biomechanical forces contour the body and provide shape to internal organs. Using genetic and molecular approaches in combination with a FRET-based tension sensor, we characterized a pulling force exerted by the elongating pharynx ...
Melissa Kelley, John Yochem, Michael Krieg, Andrea Calixto, Maxwell G Heiman, Aleksandra Kuzmanov, Vijaykumar Meli, Martin Chalfie, Miriam B Goodman, Shai Shaham, Alison Frand, David S Fay   +11 more
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Elastin is Localised to the Interfascicular Matrix of Energy Storing Tendons and Becomes Increasingly Disorganised With Ageing [PDF]

, 2017
Tendon is composed of fascicles bound together by the interfascicular matrix (IFM). Energy storing tendons are more elastic and extensible than positional tendons; behaviour provided by specialisation of the IFM to enable repeated interfascicular sliding
A Heinz, AJ Viera, B Vrhovski, C Thorpe, C Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, D Bedell-Hogan, EL Batson, F Ramirez, H Birch, H Oxlund, H Tempfer, HL Birch, IM Braverman, J Fallon, JA Foster, JA Foster, JA Pierce, JE Wagenseil, JF Innes, K Kubo, KD Smith, L Nimeskern, L Robert, L Robert, M Akagawa, M Benjamin, M Luisetti, MJ Sherratt, P Berens, P Kannus, PPY Lui, R Alexander, R Ker, SA Fenwick, SE Greenwald, SG Dakin, T Watanabe, TB Csóka, TC Lee, TM Grant, TM Grant, Z Gunja-Smith, Z Liu   +48 more
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Fibrillin microfibrils in bone physiology [PDF]

Matrix Biology, 2016
The severe skeletal abnormalities associated with Marfan syndrome (MFS) and congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA) underscore the notion that fibrillin assemblies (microfibrils and elastic fibers) play a critical role in bone formation and function in spite of representing a low abundance component of skeletal matrices.
Silvia, Smaldone, Francesco, Ramirez
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Fibrillines et fibrillinopathies [PDF]

médecine/sciences, 1996
Microfibrils contain a variety of proteins, the most prominent of which are the two fibrillins. Fibrillins are large glycoproteins (320 kDa) ubiquitously distributed in connective tissues. Together with amorphous elastin, fibrillin-containing microfibrils form the elastic fibers.
Collod-Beroud, Gwenaëlle, Boileau, Catherine   +1 more
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Assembly of Epithelial Cell Fibrillins [PDF]

Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2001
Fibrillins are large structural macromolecules that are components of connective tissue microfibrils. Fibrillin microfibrils have been found in association with basement membranes, where microfibrils appear to insert directly into the lamina densa.
Karaman-Jurukovska, Nevena, Simon, Marcia, Sakai, Lynn Y., Dzamba, Bette J., Keene, Douglas R., Isogai, Zenzo, Charbonneau, Noe L.   +6 more
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Colony formation in Phaeocystis antarctica: connecting molecular mechanisms with iron biogeochemistry [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2018
Phaeocystis antarctica is an important phytoplankter of the Ross Sea where it dominates the early season bloom after sea ice retreat and is a major contributor to carbon export.
S. J. Bender, S. J. Bender, D. M. Moran, M. R. McIlvin, H. Zheng, J. P. McCrow, J. Badger, J. Badger, G. R. DiTullio, A. E. Allen, A. E. Allen, M. A. Saito   +11 more
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Dual role for the latent transforming growth factor-beta binding protein in storage of latent TGF-beta in the extracellular matrix and as a structural matrix protein [PDF]

, 1995
The role of the latent TGF-beta binding protein (LTBP) is unclear. In cultures of fetal rat calvarial cells, which form mineralized bonelike nodules, both LTBP and the TGF-beta 1 precursor localized to large fibrillar structures in the extracellular ...
Bonewald, L.F., Dallas, S.L., Miyazono, K., Mundy, G.R., Skerry, T.M.   +4 more
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A tandem duplication within the fibrillin 1 gene is associated with the mouse tight skin mutation. [PDF]

, 1996
Mice carrying the Tight skin (Tsk) mutation have thickened skin and visceral fibrosis resulting from an accumulation of extracellular matrix molecules.
Buchberg, Arthur M., Christner, Paul J., Jimenez, Sergio A., Ma, Qing, Manne, Jayanthi, McGrath, Rodney, Moskow, John J., Siracusa, Linda D.   +7 more
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Fibrillin-1 mutations causing Weill-Marchesani syndrome and acromicric and geleophysic dysplasias disrupt heparan sulfate interactions.

PLoS ONE, 2012
The extracellular glycoprotein fibrillin-1 forms microfibrils that act as the template for elastic fibers. Most mutations in fibrillin-1 cause Marfan syndrome with severe cardiovascular and ocular symptoms, and tall stature.
Stuart A Cain, Amanda McGovern, Andrew K Baldwin, Clair Baldock, Cay M Kielty   +4 more
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The evolution of metazoan extracellular matrix [PDF]

, 2011
The modular domain structure of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and their genes has allowed extensive exon/domain shuffling during evolution to generate hundreds of ECM proteins.
Adams, Aouacheria, Ball, Barros, Bentley, Bergmeier, Boute, Chapman, Chiquet-Ehrismann, Couchman, Dehal, Engel, Ewan, Exposito, Exposito, Fahey, Gazave, Heino, Hohenester, Huhtala, Hutter, Huxley-Jones, Hynes, Hynes, Hynes, Hynes, King, King, Knack, Martindale, Merline, Myllyharju, Naba, Ozbek, Patthy, Philippe, Philippe, Pick, Putnam, Putnam, Ricard-Blum, Richard O. Hynes, Robertson, Sadler, Schaefer, Schierwater, Sebé-Pedrós, Shalchian-Tabrizi, Srivastava, Srivastava, Tucker, Wada, Whittaker, Whittaker, Yurchenco, Zhang   +55 more
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