Integrin alpha 7

ITGA7
Identifiers
AliasesITGA7, integrin subunit alpha 7
External IDsOMIM: 600536; MGI: 102700; HomoloGene: 37592; GeneCards: ITGA7; OMA:ITGA7 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

3679

16404

Ensembl

ENSG00000135424

ENSMUSG00000025348

UniProt

Q13683

Q61738

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_008398
NM_001330160

RefSeq (protein)

n/a

Location (UCSC)Chr 12: 55.68 – 55.72 MbChr 10: 128.77 – 128.79 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
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Alpha-7 integrin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ITGA7 gene.[5][6] Alpha-7 integrin is critical for modulating cell-matrix interactions. Alpha-7 integrin is highly expressed in cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle and smooth muscle cells, and localizes to Z-disc and costamere structures. Mutations in ITGA7 have been associated with congenital myopathies and noncompaction cardiomyopathy, and altered expression levels of alpha-7 integrin have been identified in various forms of muscular dystrophy.

Structure

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ITGA7 encodes the protein alpha-7 integrin. Alpha-7 integrin is 128.9 kDa in molecular weight and 1181 amino acids in length.[7] Integrins are heterodimeric integral membrane proteins composed of an alpha chain and a beta chain. Alpha-7 integrin undergoes post-translational cleavage within the extracellular domain to yield disulfide-linked light and heavy chains that join with beta 1 to form an integrin that binds to the extracellular matrix protein laminin-1. The primary binding partners of alpha-7 integrin are laminin-1 (alpha1-beta1-gamma1), laminin-2 (alpha2-beta1-gamma1) and laminin-4 (alpha2-beta2-gamma1).[8] Alpha-7/beta-1 is the major integrin complex expressed in differentiated muscle cells.

Splice variants of alpha-7 integrin that differ in both the extracellular and cytoplasmic domains exist in the mouse[9] and are developmentally regulated in mouse and rat muscle tissue.[9][10][11][12][13] The X1/X2 alternative splicing region lies in the extracellular domain and alters the ligand binding site; specifically, the conserved homology repeat domains 3 and 4.[9] The first identified human transcript contains extracellular and cytoplasmic domains corresponding to the mouse X2 and B variants, respectively. A unique extracellular splice variant was also identified in human.[6][14] The differentially spliced variants detected in rodents have also been detected in humans. Major cytoplasmic, developmentally regulated variants, alpha-7A and alpha-7B, as well as extracellular variants, X1 and X2 were identified in humans. Moreover, the D variant, but not the C variant was detected in humans.[15]

Alpha-7 integrin is highly expressed in striated muscle, namely skeletal and cardiac muscle, and functions as the major laminin-binding integrin.[16] It was later shown that alpha-7 integrin is also highly expressed in smooth muscle.[17] The two major splice variants of alpha-7 integrin appear to have developmentally regulated expression; alpha-7A integrin is expressed solely in skeletal muscle, however alpha-7B integrin is expressed more loosely in striated muscle as well as the vasculature.[18]

Function

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The function of alpha-7 integrin, as is the case for most integrins is to mediate cell membrane interactions with extracellular matrix.[19]

The alpha-7/beta-1 integrin complex clearly plays a role in the development of striated muscle and smooth muscle. Alpha-7/beta-1 integrin promotes the adhesion and motility of myoblasts, and is likely important in the recruitment of myogenic precursors during muscle differentiation.[20] It was shown however that beta-1D integrin appears at embryonic day 11 and alpha-7 integrin does not appear until embryonic day 17; thus, beta-1D associates with alternate alpha subunits (alpha-5, alpha-6A) prior to alpha-7.[21] In human skeletal muscle, alpha-7 integrin is also developmentally regulated, being first detected at age 2.[8]

In adult striated muscle cells, alpha-7 integrin (complexed to beta-1 integrin) is localized to Z-discs and costamere structures, bound to the four and one half LIM domain proteins, FHL1 and FHL2.[10][22][23] It has been demonstrated that alpha-7 integrin can be mono-ADP-ribosylated on the cell surface in skeletal muscle cells;[24] however, the functional significance of this modification has not been investigated.

Insights into the function of alpha-7 integrin have come from studies employing mouse transgenesis. A mouse expressing a null allele of the ITGA7 gene are viable, suggesting that alpha-7 integrin is not essential for normal myogenesis; however, these mice develop a phenotype that resembles muscular dystrophy. In soleus muscle, there was a significant disruption of myotendinous junctions, variation in the size of fibers, centrally located nuclei, necrosis, phagocytosis, and elevated serum levels of creatine kinase.[25] It has also been proposed that alpha-7 integrin and gamma-sarcoglycan have overlapping functions in skeletal muscle. In support of this, a double knockout of gamma-sarcoglycan and alpha-7 integrin produced a phenotype that was far worse than either knockout alone. Mice died within 1 month of birth and had severe muscle degeneration, suggesting that the roles of these proteins may overlap to maintain the stability of the sarcolemma.[26] Moreover, the double knockout of dystrophin and alpha-7 integrin produced a Duchenne muscular dystrophy-like phenotype, and demonstrated that alterations in alpha-7 integrin affect the pathological changes observed in dystrophin deficiencies.[27] In support of this notion, AAV overexpression of ITGA7 in skeletal muscle of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) mice showed a significant protective effect against adverse functional parameters associated with DMD, combined with a reversal of these negative features, suggesting that alpha-7 integrin may be a potential therapeutic candidate to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy.[28]

Studies employing mutant alpha-7 integrin constructs have shown that the cytoplasmic tail of alpha-7B integrin is essential for regulation of lamellipodia formation and regulation of cell mobility regulation via laminin-1/E8 and p130(CAS)/Crk complex formation.[29]

Clinical Significance

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Mutations in ITGA7 have been found in patients with unclassified congenital myopathy.[30] Additionally, in patients with severe congenital fiber type disproportion and left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy, a missense mutation, Glu882Lys, was identified in ITGA7 along with a missense mutation in MYH7B, both novel disease genes having a synergistic effect on disease severity.[31]

Alpha-7B integrin expression has been shown to be significantly decreased at sarcolemmal membranes in patients with laminin alpha2 chain-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy. Additionally, in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy, the expression of alpha-7B integrin was enhanced.[8]

Interactions

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ITGA7 has been shown to interact with:

See also

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References

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