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  • Title: Sequence of human syndecan indicates a novel gene family of integral membrane proteoglycans.
    Author: Mali M, Jaakkola P, Arvilommi AM, Jalkanen M.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1990 Apr 25; 265(12):6884-9. PubMed ID: 2324102.
    Abstract:
    The structure of human syndecan, an integral membrane proteoglycan, has been determined by cloning its full-length cDNA, which codes for the entire 310-amino acid-long core protein, including the NH2-terminal signal peptide. Similar to mouse syndecan (Saunders, S., Jalkanen, M., O'Farrell, S., and Bernfield, M. (1989) J. Cell Biol. 108, 1547-1556), the core protein of human syndecan can be divided into three domains: a matrix-interacting ectodomain containing putative glycosaminoglycan attachment sites, a 25-residue hydrophobic membrane-spanning domain, and a 34-residue cytoplasmic domain. Several interesting conserved structures were revealed by comparing the human syndecan sequence to the murine one. (i) Although the ectodomains are only 70% identical, all putative glycosaminoglycan attachment sites are identical (two of them belong to the consensus sequence SGXG and three others to (E/D)GSG(E/D), as are also (ii) the single putative N-glycosylation site and (iii) the proteinase-sensitive dibasic RK site adjacent to the extracellular face of the transmembrane domain. Furthermore, (iv) the transmembrane domain is 96% identical, as the only change in human syndecan was an alteration of an alanine residue to glycine; and finally, (v) the cytoplasmic domain is 100% identical, including 3 identically located tyrosine residues. Comparison of transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains to a third cell-surface proteoglycan, 48K5 from human lung fibroblasts (Marynen, P., Zhang, J., Cassiman, J., Vanden Berghe, H., and David, C. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 7017-7024), indicates that the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains are similar also in this molecule regardless of the presence of a totally nonhomologous ectodomain. Thus, the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains are unique for these cell-surface proteoglycans, which we propose to be members of a novel gene family of syndecans.
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