Collagen biosynthesis in systemic scleroderma: regulation of posttranslational modifications and synthesis of procollagen in cultured fibroblasts.

Activities of prolyl hydroxylase (PH), lysyl hydroxylase (LH), and the collagen glycosyltransferases and the extent of the posttranslational modification of lysine residues in newly synthesized collagen were studied in fibroblast cultures obtained from 9 scleroderma patients. The rate of procollagen synthesis had increased more than 3-fold in 3 scleroderma fibroblast lines, but had not changed to the same extent in the others, even though these did not differ from the "high-producers" histologically, clinically, or immunohistologically. The activities of PH and LH correlated significantly with the rate of procollagen synthesis in the same cell lines (p less than 0.001), but the glycosyltransferase activities were not elevated in the scleroderma fibroblasts. Further studies nevertheless indicated that the extent of the posttranslational modification of lysine residues had not significantly changed in the procollagen synthesized by any of the scleroderma fibroblasts investigated.

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