| First Author | Scherberich A | Year | 2004 |
| Journal | J Cell Sci | Volume | 117 |
| Issue | Pt 4 | Pages | 571-81 |
| PubMed ID | 14709716 | Mgi Jnum | J:87910 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:3028459 | Doi | 10.1242/jcs.00867 |
| Citation | Scherberich A, et al. (2004) Murine tenascin-W: a novel mammalian tenascin expressed in kidney and at sites of bone and smooth muscle development. J Cell Sci 117(Pt 4):571-81 |
| abstractText | 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. |
