scholarly journals Laminin potentiates differentiation of PCC4uva embryonal carcinoma into neurons

1990 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
T.M. Sweeney ◽  
R.C. Ogle ◽  
C.D. Little

The embryonal carcinoma PCC4uva differentiates into neurons in response to treatment with retinoic acid and dbcAMP. We used this in vitro model system to study the effects of laminin on early neural differentiation. Laminin substrata markedly potentiate neural differentiation of retinoic acid and dbcAMP-treated cultures. Only laminin induced more rapid neural cell body clustering, neurite growth and neurite fasciculation as compared to type IV collagen, type I collagen, and fibronectin substrata. Exogenous laminin substrata promoted greater cell attachment, cellular spreading and growth to confluence than type IV collagen, type I collagen, fibronectin and glass substrata. Laminin-induced effects were inhibited by addition of laminin antibodies or the synthetic laminin-derived peptide Ile-Gly-Ser-Arg-NH2 (YIGSR-NH2). Treatment with YIGSR-NH2 also inhibited neural differentiation in the absence of exogenous laminin substrata, whereas synthetic peptides containing the RGD sequence and a control peptide YIGSK-NH2 showed no inhibitory effects. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that specific interactions between an early differentiating cell population(s) and extracellular laminin are required during neural differentiation.

1989 ◽  
Vol 224 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles D. Little ◽  
Dominique M. Piquet ◽  
Lynn A. Davis ◽  
Luanne Walters ◽  
Christopher J. Drake

1995 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 1227-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.F. Marshall ◽  
D.C. Rutherford ◽  
A.C. McCartney ◽  
F. Mitjans ◽  
S.L. Goodman ◽  
...  

We have shown previously that VUP was the only line out of ten human melanoma lines that failed to express the vitronectin receptor alpha v beta 3, but instead expressed alpha v beta 1. Levels of alpha v beta 1 expression were low on parental VUP cells so that iterative sorting by FACS, using an anti-alpha v antibody (13C2), was utilised to derive sublines with 8- to 10-fold higher amounts of cell surface alpha v beta 1. There was little difference between low (V-) and high (V+) alpha v beta 1-expressing sublines with regard to adherence to collagen type I, collagen type IV or laminin substrata. However, adherence to vitronectin and fibrinogen correlated closely with alpha v beta 1 expression (35-42% adhesion for V(+) lines versus 6–8% adhesion for V- lines on vitronectin, for example). Utilising a high alpha v beta 1-expressing subline (V + B2) we have shown that binding to vitronectin and fibrinogen was inhibited specifically by function-blocking antibodies to alpha v (17E6 and 14D9) and beta 1 (A11B2). V(+) sublines spread more compared with V(-) sublines on both vitronectin and fibronectin. However, neither alpha 5- nor alpha v-blocking antibodies had any effect on attachment or spreading of V + B2 on fibronectin whereas the combination of alpha 5 (PID6)- and alpha v(17E6)-blocking antibodies abrogated binding to fibronectin almost completely. This is the first report of an alpha v beta 1 integrin able to recognize vitronectin and fibrinogen, and also cooperate with alpha 5 beta 1 to mediate attachment to and spreading on fibronectin.


1995 ◽  
Vol 309 (1) ◽  
pp. 299-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Allan ◽  
A J P Docherty ◽  
P J Barker ◽  
N S Huskisson ◽  
J J Reynolds ◽  
...  

Matrix sequestration of matrix metalloproteinases may be important for the facilitation of remodelling events and the migration of cells through the extracellular matrix. Using an ELISA technique we studied the ability of pro and active forms of gelatinases A and B (GLA and GLB) to bind to matrix components and the contribution made by the different enzyme domains. Pro and active forms of GLA and GLB bound to type-I and type-IV collagens, gelatin and laminin films. Binding to collagens occurred exclusively via the N-terminal portion of the molecule in both of the gelatinases; deletion of the fibronectin-like domain in GLA abolished binding. Fibronectin was shown to compete with GLA, confirming that binding occurs through this domain. GLA and GLB competed for binding to collagen type I, whereas collagenase and stromelysin bound to different sites and could be co-localized with the gelatinases. We conclude that gelatinases have different binding specificities from those previously documented for stromelysin and collagenase, which bind through their C-terminal domains to collagen fibrils.


1992 ◽  
Vol 286 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Mörike ◽  
R E Brenner ◽  
G B Bushart ◽  
W M Teller ◽  
U Vetter

Collagen produced in vitro by bone cells isolated from 19 patients with different forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) was analysed. Clinically, four patients were classified as OI type I, 10 patients as OI type III and five patients as OI type IV. Bone cells of 12 of the 19 OI patients produced structurally abnormal type I collagen. Electrophoretically uniformly slower migrating collagen type I alpha-chains were found in one case of OI type I, in seven cases of OI type III and in one case of OI type IV; two cultures of OI type III produced two different populations of collagen type I alpha-chains, and one culture of OI type IV showed reduction-sensitive dimer formation of alpha 1(I) chains, resulting from the inadequate incorporation of a cysteine residue into the triple helical domain of alpha 1(I). Quantitative analysis of collagen metabolism led to the distinction of two groups of cultured OI osteoblasts. In osteoblasts of OI type I, mainly production of collagen was decreased, whereas secretion, processing and pericellular accumulation of (pro)collagen type I was similar to that in control osteoblasts. In contrast, in osteoblasts of OI types III and IV, production as well as secretion, processing and pericellular accumulation of (pro)collagen type I were significantly decreased. Low levels of type I collagen were found irrespective of the presence or absence of structural abnormalities of collagen type I in all OI types.


1999 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-177
Author(s):  
Toshihiko Hayashi ◽  
Kazunori Mizuno ◽  
Motohiro Hirose ◽  
Koichi Nakazato ◽  
Eijiro Adachi ◽  
...  

1989 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-161
Author(s):  
M. Edward ◽  
J.A. Gold ◽  
R.M. MacKie

The effect of retinoic acid pretreatment on metastatic B16 melanoma cell adhesion in serum-free medium to tissue culture plastic precoated with fibronectin, laminin/nidogen, type I and type IV collagen was examined. Both control cells grown to subconfluence and cells treated with 10(−6) M-retinoic acid adhered and spread rapidly on fibronectin (greater than 75% following 1 h of incubation) but adhered poorly to type I collagen (less than 15%). Control cells adhered to laminin/nidogen (greater than 35%), type IV collagen (greater than 58%) and type IV collagen plus laminin/nidogen (greater than 80%), while retinoic acid-treated cells showed a reduced ability to attach and spread on these substrata, the number of adherent cells being reduced by 61% on laminin/nidogen, by 19% on type IV collagen, and by 41% on type IV collagen plus laminin/nidogen following 1 h of incubation. The minimum concentration of retinoic acid required to yield an effective reduction in adhesion was 10(−7) M for type IV collagen and 10(−10) M for laminin/nidogen. Melanoma cells harvested at low density showed a reduced adhesion to laminin/nidogen and type IV collagen compared to that of subconfluent control cultures, but also showed a reduced adhesion to fibronectin. The effect of retinoic acid on cell adhesion was not, however, due to reduced cell density, as the cells were seeded so that control and retinoic acid-treated cultures were of a similar density when harvested.


ChemInform ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (30) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
Toshihiko Hayashi ◽  
Kazunori Mizuno ◽  
Motohiro Hirose ◽  
Koichi Nakazato ◽  
Eijiro Adachi ◽  
...  

1991 ◽  
Vol 274 (2) ◽  
pp. 615-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Kern ◽  
M Menasche ◽  
L Robert

The biosynthesis of type I, type V and type VI collagens was studied by incubation of calf corneas in vitro with [3H]proline as a marker. Pepsin-solubilized collagen types were isolated by salt fractionation and quantified by SDS/PAGE. Expressed as proportions of the total hydroxyproline solubilized, corneal stroma comprised 75% type I, 8% type V and 17% type VI collagen. The rates of [3H]proline incorporation, linear up to 24 h for each collagen type, were highest for type VI collagen and lowest for type I collagen. From pulse-chase experiments, the calculated apparent half-lives for types I, V and VI collagens were 36 h, 10 h and 6 h respectively.


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