INITIAL ADHESION OF HUMAN-FIBROBLASTS IN SERUM-FREE MEDIUM - POSSIBLE ROLE OF SECRETED FIBRONECTIN
INITIAL ADHESION OF HUMAN-FIBROBLASTS IN SERUM-FREE MEDIUM - POSSIBLE ROLE OF SECRETED FIBRONECTIN
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DOI:
10.1016/0092-8674(79)90300-3
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
FELD, MK
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作者:
GRINNELL, F;FELD, MK
The hypothesis that the initial attachment and spreading of human fibroblasts in serum-free medium occurs to cell fibronectin which was secreted and adsorbed on the substratum surface was tested. Human skin fibroblasts attached and spread on tissue culture substrata in serum-free medium in 60 min. When potential protein adsorption sites on the substratum were covered with bovine serum albumin before initial human fibroblast attachment, their subsequent attachment to the substratum was prevented. When substratum adsorption sites were covered immediately after initial attachment, subsequent cell spreading was prevented. The distribution of fibronectin on human fibroblast surfaces during initial attachment and spreading was studied by indirect immunofluorescence using a monospecific anti-cold-insoluble globulin antiserum. The initial appearance (10 min) of fibronectin was in spots over the entire cell surface. Concomitant with human fibroblast spreading, the random distribution of sites disappeared and most fibronectin was subsequently observed in spots at the cell substratum inferface (60 min). A fibrillar pattern of fibronectin appeared later (2-8 h). The sites beneath the cells were visualized as footprints on the substratum following treatment of the attached human fibroblasts with 0.1 M NaOH. A 2nd fluorescence pattern of fibronectin secreted on the substratum was characterized by a diffuse halo around the cells and a very faint, diffuse staining elsewhere on the substratum. Another cell type (baby hamster kidney [BHK] cells) was used to assay for the presence or absence of the factor secreted by human fibroblasts onto the substratum. Human fibroblasts secreted an adhesion factor for BHK cells onto the substratum in a time- and temperature-dependent fashion, and immunological studies indicated that this cross-reacted with cold-insoluble globulin, the plasma form of fibronectin. The conditioning factor secreted by the human fibroblasts was an attachment and spreading factor for human fibroblasts. Substratum-adsorbed cold-insoluble globulin was also an attachment and spreading factor for human fibroblasts. Based upon the timing of appearance of conditioning factors on the substratum and the immunofluorescence patterns, the diffusely organized fibronectin on the substratum probably constitutes the sites to which cells attach. The bright spots of fibronectin that appear beneath the cells may represent fibronectin reorganization during cell spreading.