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Provides infrastructure for further development and following approval to commercialize Elastagens products, SYDNEY February 7th: Elastagen Pty Limited, a clinical stage company developing medical device products based on recombinant tropoelastin, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement under which Allergan, a leading global biopharmaceutical company, has agreed to acquire Elastagen for an upfront payment of US$95M plus contingent, commercial payments.. doi: 10.1002/chem.200305661. II. J. Biol. doi: 10.1021/bi060289i, Tarakanova, A., and Buehler, M. J. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.04.050, Keywords: elastin, elastic fibers, tropoelastin, computational modeling, assembly, Citation: Ozsvar J, Yang C, Cain SA, Baldock C, Tarakanova A and Weiss AS (2021) Tropoelastin and Elastin Assembly. Biochimie 86, 173178. J. Biol. Lyophilized Powder. Adv. 589(19 Pt A), 24772486. For more information, visit Allergans website atwww.Allergan.com. Biopolymers 20, 12471260. (2014). Assembly proceeds from a nucleation event and undergoes elongation in a step-wise manner to form a multimer which can occur in a head-to-tail fashion (Wise et al., 2014). Free energy determinants of secondary structure formation: I. alpha-Helices. Chem. These ordered structures can include -helices and -structures (Vrhovski et al., 1997), which depend on the amino acid content and arrangement of domains (He et al., 2012; Reichheld et al., 2014, 2017; Muiznieks et al., 2015) and the choice of solvent (Reiersen and Rees, 2000; Muiznieks et al., 2015). 3, 28322844. doi: 10.1021/bi400760f, Miao, M., Reichheld, S. E., Muiznieks, L. D., Sitarz, E. E., Sharpe, S., and Keeley, F. W. (2017). Mater. Dermatol. Furthermore, the SAXS/SANS structure has been mapped to an elastic network model with tunable stiffness to probe the role of tropoelastins flexibility in fiber assembly (Yeo et al., 2016). Powered by Madgex Job Board Software. 249, 997998. 1862, 324334. The presence of tropoelastin spherules fusing to fibrils has been noted in native tissue, demonstrating marked similarities between in vitro and in vivo coacervation (Haust et al., 1965; Albert, 1972; Kozel et al., 2006). Nature 246, 461466. J. Biol. Macromol. 286, 35943610. Further down the molecule, the cell-interactive C-terminus was noted to be highly flexible, indicating that high conformational sampling could be conducive to tropoelastins interactions between cell-surface receptors and elastic fiber-associated proteins. This acquisition and the development of a next generation of injectables based on this technology will ensure Allergan offers innovative filler products for years to come., Robert Daniels, Elastagen CEO, noted: Partnering with Allergan, a leader in medical aesthetics, is incredibly exciting. Biochim. (2007). FEBS J. In addition to the RKRK sequence, domain 36 contains tropoelastins sole two cysteines and only disulfide bond. Biomacromolecules 18, 599609. 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This model revealed that tropoelastin maintains a canonical or average structure based on the distribution of its possible conformations in spite of its flexible nature (Figure 2), as well as the possible roles that local structures play in biological processes, specifically, elastogenesis (Tarakanova et al., 2019b). doi: 10.7554/eLife.26526. doi: 10.1016/s0934-8832(11)80057-0. Tropoelastin has 2 alternating domains: (1) hydrophilic, cross-linked, domains rich in Lys and Ala; and (2) hydrophobic domains (responsible for elasticity) rich in Val, Pro, and Gly, which often occur in repeats of VPGVG or VGGVG. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320340115, Indik, Z., Yeh, H., Ornstein-Goldstein, N., Sheppard, P., Anderson, N., Rosenbloom, J. C., et al. Res. Chem. . doi: 10.1016/s0003-9861(02)00719-1, Muiznieks, L. D., Reichheld, S. E., Sitarz, E. E., Miao, M., and Keeley, F. W. (2015). Chem. While tropoelastin is a flexible molecule, a combination of optical and structural analyses has defined key regions of the molecule that directly contribute to the elastomeric properties and control the cell interactions of the protein. Matrix Biol. Tropoelastin is encoded by the ELN gene, which is present in all vertebrates except jawless fish (Chung et al., 2006). Elastin binding protein and FKBP65 modulate in vitro self-assembly of human tropoelastin. 278, 4855348562. Elastin is highly hydrophobic, extensively cross-linked, and is assembled into elastic fibers in a dynamic process involving cells, cell surface receptors, and numerous elastic fiber . The first successful experiments to define the 3D envelope of tropoelastin utilized small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) (Baldock et al., 2011). 26, 17001709. Studies on the reduction of elastin. Fluor: Q4 Earnings Snapshot. Molecular modeling of protein materials: case study of elastin. J. 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Co-author Professor Anthony Weiss from the Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Science explained: "Tropoelastin can repair the heart because it is a precise replica of the body's natural elastic protein,". Although there is no 3D structure for porcine tropoelastin, porcine tropoelastin differs from that of humans (Sandberg et al., 1977), leaving it unclear as to whether these domains align as expected in human tissue. This content is for members only. Soluble matrix protein is a potent modulator of mesenchymal stem cell performance. Elastases can be in the form of serine- (e.g., Ela-2), cysteine- (e.g., cathepsin I), or matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-2, -7, -9, and -12), and bioactive peptides include the VGVAPG peptide. Elastic fibers are eventually formed after extensive cross-linking through a process termed maturation (Yeo et al., 2016). 19:e1800250. doi: 10.1038/nature04085. FEBS J. 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It has recently been suggested that fibrillins are capable of stabilizing tropoelastin, possibly for the purpose of selecting conformations that are favorable for elastin assembly (Lockhart-Cairns et al., 2020). The flexibility of the mid-region of the molecule was proposed to drive the overall elasticity of the resultant fibers. doi: 10.1016/0005-2795(73)90368-1, Franzblau, C., Faris, B., and Papaioannou, R. (1969). J. Biochem. Ltd., which was sold to Allergan, now a division of AbbVie. This suggests a high level of conformational sampling during this phase of coacervation, indicating that the flexibility of tropoelastin plays a key role in assembly that may persist, to some extent, into later stages of assembly (Reichheld et al., 2020). Biol. Allysine modifications perturb tropoelastin structure and mobility on a local and global scale. Indeed, studies examining the consequences of domain insertions and deletions note changes in the intrinsic functionality of tropoelastin, corroborating the hypothesis that domain insertions and deletions result in altered tissue mechanics (Jensen et al., 2000; Kozel et al., 2003; Yeo et al., 2016; Miao et al., 2017). (1973). EBP plays two roles in the assembly of elastin. Elastagen has received investment from an international syndicate of venture groups including AmorePacific Ventures, Brandon Capital, Cell Innovation Partners, Cicada Innovations, GBS Ventures, Korea Investment Partners and the Wellcome Trust. (1983). (2006). Chem. Proc. Non-polar residues are a major contributor to protein folding, as their unfavorable interactions with water drive them to bury into the protein core, however, as tropoelastin is comprised of numerous hydrophobic domains, it has been demonstrated that many of these domains will be at least partially solvent exposed (Dyksterhuis et al., 2007). doi: 10.1016/j.matbio.2006.10.002, Dyksterhuis, L. B., and Weiss, A. S. (2010). Engineering a highly elastic human protein-based sealant for surgical applications. More recently, the computational model of tropoelastin has been leveraged to characterize higher-order structures and probe self-assembly (Tarakanova et al., 2019a). Molecular docking studies utilizing tropoelastin and the 3D structure of LOX1 (Vallet et al., 2018) may assist in our understanding as to whether the enzyme has a preference for modifying particular tropoelastin residues. 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