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. 1985 Feb 15;226(1):207–215. doi: 10.1042/bj2260207

Fibronectin binding to complement subcomponent C1q. Localization of their respective binding sites.

J Sorvillo, I Gigli, E Pearlstein
PMCID: PMC1144694  PMID: 3872121

Abstract

The interaction of purified human plasma fibronectin with the C1q subcomponent of complement was investigated by using a solid-phase radiobinding assay. 125I-fibronectin binding to native C1q, purified collagen domain (C1q-c) or globular domain (C1q-g) was compared. When the purified domains were insolubilized by binding to plastic, the C1q-c exhibited 59% of the binding demonstrated with intact C1q, whereas the C1q-g exhibited 35% of the binding. N-Terminal sequencing of the globular domain showed that a sequence of seven collagen-like amino acids was retained on each chain of the C1q-g fragment. 125I-fibronectin binding to C1q could be inhibited equally well by fluid-phase C1q and C1q-c, but not by fluid-phase C1q-g, implying that the collagen-like region retained on the C1q-g is masked in the fluid phase. In addition, studies were performed to determine which subunit(s) of C1q bind(s) fibronectin. The percentages of fibronectin bound by the A, B, and C chain of C1q were found to be 38, 21 and 41% respectively. Inhibition studies with purified 200-180 kDa, 50 kDa or 29 kDa fragments of fibronectin show that the binding site on fibronectin for C1q is the 50 kDa gelatin-binding domain.

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