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TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A
卷 17, 期 1-2, 页码 139-150出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0199
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- NSF ERC Georgia Tech/Emory Tissue Engineering Center (GTEC) [EEC-9731643]
- NSF ERC [EEC-9731643]
- [T32-GM008433]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [T32GM008433] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
The extracellular matrix (ECM) provides important cues for directing cell phenotype. Cells interact with underlying ECM through cell-surface receptors known as integrins, which bind to specific sequences on their ligands. During tissue development, repair, and regeneration of epithelial tissues, cells must interact with an interstitial fibronectin (Fn)-rich matrix, which has been shown to direct a more migratory/repair phenotype, presumably through interaction with Fn's cell binding domain comprised of both synergy Pro-His-Ser-Arg-Asn (PHSRN) and Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) sequences. We hypothesized that the Fn synergy site is critical to the regulation of epithelial cell phenotype by directing integrin specificity. Epithelial cells were cultured on Fn fragments displaying stabilized synergy and RGD (FnIII9'10), or RGD alone (FnIII10) and cell phenotype analyzed by cytoskeleton changes, epithelial cell-cell contacts, changes in gene expression of epithelial and mesenchymal markers, and wound healing assay. Data indicate that epithelial cells engage RGD only with alpha v integrins and display a significant shift toward a mesenchymal phenotype due, in part, to enhanced transforming growth factor-beta activation and/or signaling compared with cells on the synergy containing FnIII9'10. These studies demonstrate the importance of synergy in regulating epithelial cell phenotype relevant to tissue engineering as well as the utility of engineered integrin-specific ECM fragments in guiding cell phenotype.
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