Ischemic injury to the kidney, a major cause of acute renal failure, leads to the detachment and loss of numerous tubular epithelial cells. Integrin-laminin interactions may promote regeneration of the damaged epithelium by influencing kidney epithelial cell adhesion and differentiation. Laminins are major structural components of basement membranes. Of the various laminin isoforms, laminin-5 i...

The locomotion of murine myoblasts over the extracellular matrix components laminin and fibronectin was analyzed using quantitative videomicroscopy, and the organization of the cytoskeleton was observed in parallel immunofluorescence studies. Cells plated on the laminin-nidogen complex locomoted twice as fast as on laminin alone. The main form of translocation on laminin was a jerky cycle of pr...

Laminin α5 is required for kidney glomerular basement membrane (GBM) assembly, and mice with targeted deletions of the Lama5 gene fail to form glomeruli. As a tool to begin to understand factors regulating the expression of the LAMA5 gene, we generated transgenic mice carrying the human LAMA5 locus in a bacterial artificial chromosome. These mice deposited human laminin α5 protein into basement...

INTRODUCTION Laminin is a glycoprotein with diverse functions in carcinogenesis including cell proliferation, invasion, metastases and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). In breast cancer (BC) laminin expression is speculated to be associated with unfavourable clinicopathological and molecular characteristics. We hypothesize that laminin expression would contributed to the aggressive natur...

The a5 chain-containing laminin isoforms, laminins-10 and -11 (laminin-10/11), are the major components of the basement membrane, having potent cell-adhesive activity. We examined the cell-adhesive and integrin-mediated signaling activities of laminin-10/11 in comparison to fibronectin, the best characterized extracellular adhesive ligand. We found that laminin-10/11 are more active than fibron...

The 67-kDa laminin receptor (67LR) is a high-affinity laminin-binding protein that is overexpressed on the tumor cell surface in a variety of cancers. We report here that the 67LR molecule also functions in the proteolytic cleavage of laminin-1, a relevant event in basement membrane degradation and tumor dissemination. In the presence of a synthetic peptide (peptide G) corresponding to the 67LR...

Laminin is a heterotrimeric glycoprotein that plays a central role in promoting neutrophil chemotaxis, motility, and attachment to basement membrane. Rabbit peritoneal exudate neutrophils stain positively for laminin, which is presumed to be of exogenous origin and bound to laminin receptors on the cell surface. We examined 32Dc13 cells, a murine neutrophil precursor cell line, by immunoprecipi...

Laminin is a large glycoprotein of basement membranes. The best described laminin from a mouse tumor contains three polypeptide chains (A, B1 and B2), but there is recent evidence that some cell types produce laminin isoforms lacking the A chain. We have here studied the occurrence of the isoforms during mouse organogenesis. In all tissues studied, the A chain mRNA and polypeptide were more wea...

The ability of hemagglutinating and poorly hemagglutinating strains of the gastroduodenal pathogen Helicobacter pylori to bind 125I-radiolabelled laminin was quantitated in a liquid phase assay. Although all strains bound laminin, some hemagglutinating strains were good binders of laminin (maximum of 31% binding), whereas poorly hemagglutinating strains bound intermediate to small amounts of la...

The expression patterns of laminin alpha1 and beta1 genes were examined by In situ hybridization of their mRNAs in the early chick embryo from the blastoderm at stage X (morula) to the 10-somite stage. The laminin alpha1 and beta1 transcripts were found in abundance in the chick blastoderm at stage X before initiation of synthesis of the protein. Laminin polypeptides were detected shortly there...