ECM Flashcards
What are the functions of ECM
- Provides support for cells and cell layers (anchors cells to underlying stromal CT)
- Acts as a barrier: impedes the passage of cells
- acts as passive selective molecular seieve bet tissue compartments
- acts as a solid phase reg of cell attachment, growth and diff
- Modulates the mineralization process
What components can ECM be divided into
- fibers
- amourphous ground substance
- basement membrane
What are filaments
threadlike structure; smallest in diameter; typically a single molecule or linear chain of molecules
What are microfibrils
an aggregate of filaments
what are fibrils
aggregate of microfibrils; first thing we can see on EM
what are fibers
an aggregate of fibrils
What can fibers be divided into
- Elastic
2. collagen
what is ground substance made of
glycoproteins, glycosaminoglycans, proteoglycans
Proteoglycans are in a bunch of diff ____and in diff ____-
tissues; amounts
The types of cells that secrete ECM are:
fibroblasts
Enamel is the only ECM that is secreted by an ____type of cell
epithelial
What are specialized CT’s:
- cartilage: chondroblasts
- bone: osteoblasts
- dentin: odontobasts
- enamel: ameloblasts
- Basement membrane: epithelia, muscle, fat, Schwann cells
______is the most abundant protein of the body
collagen; skin has the most, (75%), then cartilage (50%) then coricol bone (25%)
Collagen facts:
- Left -handed helix; not a true alpha helix!
- Proline ring structure adds rigidity
- no Trp or Cys in mature form, not nutritious.
- high content of OH-pro/OH-lys is useful for quantifying collagen content
What is the structure of collagen
- 3 helical strands wrap around each other = TROPOCOLLAGEN
- Tropocollagen fibrils arrange themselves in staggered array of parallel bundles.
- alignment of every 4th molecule causes striations, visible by EM
- Crosslinks via lysinonorleucine!
Lysinonorleucine is a _____aa and requires the enzyme ____ ____ ____ which requires Vitamin ___ as a cofactor
nonstandard; lysyl amino oxidase; Vitamin B6
What are the classifications of collagen
- Some form typical fibers
- Some just form microfibrils that dont assemble into fibers.
- Each collagen molecule consists of three alpha chains
- 34 diff alpha chains known: collagen family
What are the 5 types of collagens
- Fibrillar: form long fibers with high tensile strength.
- Non fibrillar:
- Basement membrane collagens (network forming)
- Fibril-associated collagen with interrupted triple helix (FACIT)
- Multiplexins
- Microfibrillar colalgen
How are collagen families grouped
Group chains into 28 diff subfamilies based on ability to interact to form triple helices.
-Diff members of subfamily denoted by subscript
What are the fibril forming collagens
I, II, III, V, and XI; they assemble into bundles.
WHat is type I collagen
the most abundant; found in most CT and is a major component of :
- bone
- tendon
- skin
- dentin
- ligament
- fascia
- arteries
- uterus
Where is type II collagen found
component of hyaline cartilage and is found in articular surfaces
Where is type III collagen found
Made up of reticular fibers and is found in skin, arteries, uterus, prominent in periodontal ligament and there is a very low level in bone.
What is Type IV basement membrane collagen
Found in lens of eye and is the most abundant structural component of basement membranes
What are FACIT collagens
- Large multidomain molecules
- have two or more very short helical rods sep by small non triple helical domains
- Have large N-terminal non collagen helix domain
What are two types of FACIT collagens
- Type IX: cartilage and certain embryonic tissue
2. Type XII: similar distribution to type 1 collagen (many CT)
Describe Type VI microfibrillar collagen
dumbell shaped molecule with short helical domain and large globular domain at each end. Its ubiquitously distributed in CT and especially abundant in CORNEA
Describe Type VII microfibrillar collagen
- Longest triple helix of the collagens
- Found in anchoring fibrils of BM underlying stratified epithelia
- N-terminals of each chain folded into arms and contain vWF and fibronectin repeat domains
- C-terminal has small globular domain involved in microfibril assembly