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JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY
Volume 124, Issue 5, Pages 906-913Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-202X.2005.23740.x
Keywords
cell migration; fibroblast; fibronectin; heparan sulfate; syndecan-4; wounds
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR 42987] Funding Source: Medline
- NIA NIH HHS [AG 101143] Funding Source: Medline
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Fibroblast migration from the peri-wound collagenous stroma into the fibrin-laden wound is critical for granulation tissue formation and subsequent healing. Previously we found that fibroblast transmigration from a collagen matrix into a fibrin matrix required fibronectin (FN). Integrins alpha 4 beta 1, alpha 5 beta 1, and alpha v beta 3 and dermatan sulfate CD44 were required for this invasive migration. Here we demonstrated that syndecan-4, a transmembrane heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycan, known to bind FN, is also required for fibroblast invasive migration of a fibrin/FN gel. This conclusion was based on fibroblast migration using two independent means of disrupting syndecan-4: heparinase degradation of HS glycosaminoglycans or suppression of syndecan-4 core protein with antisense oligodeoxynucleotides. Isolated syndecan-4 from these fibroblasts bound Hep II recombinant constructs FN III12-V15 > FN III12-15 > FN III12-14 but did not bind the IIICS (V) domain. Furthermore, platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), which is required to stimulate fibroblast migration, markedly increased cell levels of syndecan-4 core protein in a time and concentration-dependent fashion. PDGF also induced upregulation of syndecan-4 at transcriptional level as determined by RT-PCR. These results demonstrate that syndecan-4 is essential for fibroblast invasive migration into fibrin clot and that PDGF, the stimulus for migration, induces increased syndecan-4 core protein expression.
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