CULTURED HUMAN-FIBROBLASTS SYNTHESIZE AND SECRETE THROMBOSPONDIN AND INCORPORATE IT INTO EXTRACELLULAR-MATRIX
CULTURED HUMAN-FIBROBLASTS SYNTHESIZE AND SECRETE THROMBOSPONDIN AND INCORPORATE IT INTO EXTRACELLULAR-MATRIX
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.80.4.998
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
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MOSHER, DF
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JAFFE, EA;RUGGIERO, JT;MOSHER, DF
Thrombospondin, a major glycoprotein released from .alpha. granules of thrombin-stimulated platelets, is a disulfide-bonded trimer of 160-kilodalton subunits. Cultured human foreskin and fetal lung fibroblasts secreted thrombospondin (determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) into the culture medium in a time-dependent manner (15.7 and 5.8 .mu.g/106 cells per 24 h, respectively); secretion was blocked by cycloheximide. [3H]Thrombospondin was isolated from [3H]leucine-labeled fibroblast postculture medium and from cell layers with rabbit polyclonal or mouse monoclonal anti-thrombospondin coupled to staphylococcal protein A-Sepharose. The immunologically isolated [3H]thrombospondin migrated in sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gels with purified marker platelet thrombospondin both with and without reduction. Immunofluorescence microscopy using rabbit polyclonal and mouse monoclonal anti-thrombospondin antibodies localized thrombospondin to the fibrillar extracellular matrix surrounding the cells. Thus, cultured human fibroblasts secrete thrombospondin and incorporate it into the extracellular matrix.