Fibronectin-mediated cellular adhesion to vascular subendothelial matrices.
Fibronectin-mediated cellular adhesion to vascular subendothelial matrices.
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纤连蛋白介导的细胞粘附至血管内皮下基质。
DOI:
10.1016/0014-4827(81)90473-0
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Hoffstein,ST
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作者:
Pearlstein,E;Hoffstein,ST
Although fibronectin has been well established as a mediator of cell adherence in vitro and has therefore been presumed to play a role as such in vivo, the ability of fibronectin, laid down in vivo, to mediate cell attachment, has not been demonstrated. We have therefore developed a method for quantitating the attachment of cells to vascular endothelium and subendothelial matrix and have used it to assess the role of fibronectin in promoting the attachment of a fibronectin-deficient transformed cell to this site. Whereas only 10% of cells adhered to intact endothelial linings, this attachment increased 8–10-fold when the lining cells were removed by procedures which permitted the retention of subendothelial fibronectin. When lining cells were removed by more drastic procedures which also removed subendothelial fibronectin, adherence of transformed cells was decreased to 6%. Adherence of transformed cells to the basal lamina was not, however, exclusively dependent upon fibronectin. Treatment with antifibronectin antiserum which completely inhibited adherence of these cells to the extracellular matrices of endothelial cells or fibroblasts grown in vitro could inhibit attachment to basal lamina by only 60%. The data suggest that cellular adhesion to microexudates produced by cells in culture may not be an adequate model with which to study cell adhesion in vivo. The method we describe here may provide a more realistic model and could be used to study a variety of cell-substrate interactions.