Fibulin 2 Proteins (FBLN2)

Human Fibulin 2 (FBLN2) interaction partners

1. Using in vitro approaches and cultured breast cancer cell lines authors demonstrate that Fibulin-2 is a better substrate for ADAMTS-5 than it is for ADAMTS-4. Fibulin-2 degradation is associated to an enhancement of the invasive potential of T47D, MCF-7 and SK-BR-3 cells.

2. levels of fibulin 2 dramatically increased in the retinal pigment epithelium following retinal detachment, suggesting a direct role for fibulin 2 in the re-attachment of the retina to the retinal pigment epithelium.

3. Study identified and validated a novel bona fide target of miR-1, Fibullin-2 (Fbln2), a secreted protein implicated in extracellular matrix remodeling.

4. Two variants in the fibulin2 gene are associated with lower systolic blood pressure and decreased risk of hypertension.

5. Data provide evidence that FBLN2 short isoform (FBLN2S) has an important tumor-suppressive and anti-angiogenic role in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).

6. fibulin-1 and -2 respond differentially to single and repeated damaging noxae, and their expression is differently present in liver cells

Mouse (Murine) Fibulin 2 (FBLN2) interaction partners

1. Fibulin 2 localized to the RPE, choroid, and Bruch's membrane. Knockout mice had a significantly reduced scotopic A response by 1 month of age, when compared to their wild-type counterparts, which remained throughout life and only declined as a result of normal aging. The functional decline was associated with reduced number of photoreceptor cells.

2. Our study indicates that Ang II cannot induce TGF-beta activation without fibulin-2 and that fibulin-2 has an essential role in Ang II-induced TGF-beta signaling and subsequent myocardial fibrosis. Fibulin-2 can be considered as a critical regulator of TGF-beta that induces myocardial fibrosis.

3. These findings demonstrate a prominent role for alpha3beta1 in immortalized/transformed keratinocytes in regulating fibulin-2 and other genes that promote matrix remodeling and invasion.

4. FBLN2 and VCAN were both preferentially expressed in the mammary gland during times of epithelial expansion in TEB-enriched tissue and co-localised specifically in cap cell.

5. integrin alpha3beta1 has a role in basement membrane stability through fibulin-2 induction, both in neonatal skin and in adult wounds

6. levels of fibulin 2 dramatically increased in the retinal pigment epithelium following retinal detachment, suggesting a direct role for fibulin 2 in the re-attachment of the retina to the retinal pigment epithelium.

7. Data conclude that fibulin-2 is a driver of malignant progression in lung adenocarcinoma and plays an unexpected role in collagen cross-linking and tumor cell adherence to collagen.

8. Fibulin-2 is essential for angiotensin II-induced transforming growth factor-beta-mediated cardiac hypertrophy via enhanced TGF-beta activation.

9. absence of fibulin-2 results in decreased up-regulation of TGF-beta signaling after MI and protects against ventricular dysfunction.

10. Fibulin-2 and fibulin-5 cooperatively function to form the internal elastic lamina during postnatal development by directing the assembly of elastic fibers, and are responsible for maintenance of the adult vessel wall after injury

11. short arm region of laminin-5 gamma2 chain: structure, mechanism of processing and binding to heparin, nidogen-1, fibulin-1 and fibulin-2

12. The alterations in elastogenesis associated with increased fibulin-2 in hypodermal connective tissues and decreased fibulin-5 at the hypodermal M-CT interface suggest that these proteins mediate the effect of Tsk-fibrillin-1 on elastogenesis.

13. fibulin-2 is not required for mouse development and elastic fiber formation and suggest possible functional redundancy between fibulin-1 and fibulin-2.