Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
Ficolin-1 , and also commonly termed M-ficolin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FCN1 gene .[ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Proteins of the ficolin family consist of a leader peptide , a short N-terminal segment , followed by a collagen-like domain, and a C-terminal fibrinogen -like domain. The name of ficolin was derived from the latter two domains. The collagen-like and the fibrinogen-like domains are also found in other proteins such as tenascins , while the former is also found in complement protein C1q and collectins , which include mannose-binding lectin and lung surfactant proteins . Ficolins selectively recognize acetylated compounds . M-ficolin encoded by FCN1 is predominantly expressed in the peripheral blood leukocytes , and has been postulated to function as a plasma protein with elastin-binding activity. Several SNPs have been described in the FCN1 gene with impact on serum concentrations of M-ficolin and the ligand binding ability. M-ficolin levels reflect disease activity and predict remission in early rheumatoid arthritis.
References
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^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000026835 – Ensembl , May 2017
^ "Human PubMed Reference:" . National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine .
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^ "Entrez Gene: FCN1 ficolin (collagen/fibrinogen domain containing) 1" .
Further reading
Lu J, Le Y (1999). "Ficolins and the fibrinogen-like domain". Immunobiology . 199 (2): 190– 9. doi :10.1016/s0171-2985(98)80026-0 . PMID 9777405 .
Ichijo H, Hellman U, Wernstedt C, et al. (1993). "Molecular cloning and characterization of ficolin, a multimeric protein with fibrinogen- and collagen-like domains" . J. Biol. Chem . 268 (19): 14505– 13. doi :10.1016/S0021-9258(19)85267-5 . PMID 7686157 .
Matsushita M, Endo Y, Taira S, et al. (1996). "A novel human serum lectin with collagen- and fibrinogen-like domains that functions as an opsonin" . J. Biol. Chem . 271 (5): 2448– 54. doi :10.1074/jbc.271.5.2448 . PMID 8576206 .
Harumiya S, Takeda K, Sugiura T, et al. (1997). "Characterization of ficolins as novel elastin-binding proteins and molecular cloning of human ficolin-1". J. Biochem . 120 (4): 745– 51. doi :10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021474 . PMID 8947836 .
Le Y, Tan SM, Lee SH, et al. (1997). "Purification and binding properties of a human ficolin-like protein". J. Immunol. Methods . 204 (1): 43– 9. doi :10.1016/S0022-1759(97)00029-X . PMID 9202708 .
Matsushita M, Endo Y, Fujita T (2000). "Cutting edge: complement-activating complex of ficolin and mannose-binding lectin-associated serine protease" . J. Immunol . 164 (5): 2281– 4. doi :10.4049/jimmunol.164.5.2281 . PMID 10679061 .
Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences" . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A . 99 (26): 16899– 903. Bibcode :2002PNAS...9916899M . doi :10.1073/pnas.242603899 . PMC 139241 . PMID 12477932 .
Zeng L, Dai J, Ying K, et al. (2003). "Identification of a novel human angiopoietin-like gene expressed mainly in heart" . J. Hum. Genet . 48 (3): 159– 62. doi :10.1007/s100380300025 . PMID 12624729 .
Gregory LA, Thielens NM, Matsushita M, et al. (2004). "The X-ray structure of human mannan-binding lectin-associated protein 19 (MAp19) and its interaction site with mannan-binding lectin and L-ficolin" . J. Biol. Chem . 279 (28): 29391– 7. doi :10.1074/jbc.M402687200 . PMID 15117939 .
Zhang Z, Henzel WJ (2005). "Signal peptide prediction based on analysis of experimentally verified cleavage sites" . Protein Sci . 13 (10): 2819– 24. doi :10.1110/ps.04682504 . PMC 2286551 . PMID 15340161 .
Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)" . Genome Res . 14 (10B): 2121– 7. doi :10.1101/gr.2596504 . PMC 528928 . PMID 15489334 .
Frederiksen PD, Thiel S, Larsen CB, Jensenius JC (2006). "M-ficolin, an innate immune defence molecule, binds patterns of acetyl groups and activates complement" . Scand. J. Immunol . 62 (5): 462– 73. doi :10.1111/j.1365-3083.2005.01685.x . PMID 16305643 . S2CID 35639359 .
Tanio M, Kondo S, Sugio S, Kohno T (2007). "Trivalent recognition unit of innate immunity system: crystal structure of trimeric human M-ficolin fibrinogen-like domain" . J. Biol. Chem . 282 (6): 3889– 95. doi :10.1074/jbc.M608627200 . PMID 17148457 .
Arthritis Rheum. 2013 Dec;65(12):3045-50. doi: 10.1002/art.38179.
M-ficolin levels reflect disease activity and predict remission in early rheumatoid arthritis.
Ammitzbøll CG1, Thiel S, Jensenius JC, Ellingsen T, Hørslev-Petersen K, Hetland ML, Junker P, Krogh NS, Østergaard M, Stengaard-Pedersen K.