PUBLICATION

Murine tenascin-W: a novel mammalian tenascin expressed in kidney and at sites of bone and smooth muscle development

Authors
Scherberich, A., Tucker, R.P., Samandari, E., Brown-Luedi, M., Martin, D., and Chiquet-Ehrismann, R.
ID
ZDB-PUB-040109-8
Date
2004
Source
Journal of Cell Science   117(4): 1-581 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Recombinant Proteins/genetics
  • Recombinant Proteins/isolation & purification
  • Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
  • DNA, Complementary/genetics
  • DNA, Complementary/isolation & purification
  • Kidney/embryology
  • Kidney/metabolism*
  • Muscle, Smooth/embryology
  • Muscle, Smooth/metabolism*
  • Phylogeny
  • Cell Adhesion/physiology
  • Organ Specificity
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Bone and Bones/embryology
  • Bone and Bones/metabolism*
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Zebrafish
  • Tenascin/analogs & derivatives
  • Tenascin/biosynthesis
  • Tenascin/genetics*
  • Tenascin/isolation & purification
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
  • Cells, Cultured
  • In Situ Hybridization
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
PubMed
14709716 Full text @ J. Cell Sci.
Abstract
We cloned and characterized a novel member of the tenascin family of extracellular matrix proteins - the murine orthologue of zebrafish tenascin-W. Full-length recombinant tenascin-W was expressed and purified from mammalian cell cultures. Rotary shadowing followed by electron microscopy showed that tenascin-W forms hexabrachions. We studied its expression during development and in the adult by immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization and immunoblotting. Tenascin-W is expressed during palate formation, osteogenesis and smooth muscle development. In the adult, tenascin-W is found in the kidney, cardiac semilunar valves, corneal limbus and periosteum. Tenascin-W and tenascin-C expression overlap in many of these areas. Bone-morphogenic-protein-2 treated C2C12 cells secrete tenascin-W and are able to adhere to and to extend actin-rich processes on a tenascin-W substratum. In vitro, cells bind to tenascin-W in an RGD-dependent manner. This adhesion is increased by transfection of alpha8 integrin, which localizes with tenascin-W in the periosteum and kidney.
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Human Disease / Model
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