Properties of extracellular adhesion-mediating particles in myoblast clone and its adhesion-deficient variant.
Open Access
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 94 (1), 108-114
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.94.1.108
Abstract
Both the [murine] skeletal muscle myoblast cell line L6 and an adhesion-deficient variant of L6 released glycoprotein complexes, termed adherons, into their culture medium. The adherons from the variant, M3A, differed from those of L6 in a number of properties. M3A adherons were much less effective in promoting the cell-substratum and cell-cell adhesion of myoblasts than L6 particles. The adherons from the 2 cell lines also differed in their relative sedimentation velocities in sucrose gradients and had different chemical compositions. The M3A particle lacked chondroitin and contained relatively less collagen and fibronectin than the L6 adheron. Both L6 and M3A particles adhered to plastic surfaces and cells equally well in the absence of Ca ions. Neither cell-cell adhesion nor particle aggregation occurred in Ca-free medium. In the presence of Ca, the L6 adherons aggregated completely and M3A particles aggregated poorly. At least 2 sets of interactions are required for adheron-mediated adhesion: a Ca-independent binding of the adheron to the cell and a Ca-dependent interaction between particles that is directly responsible for adhesion. The M3A variant is blocked at the Ca-dependent step, resulting in an adhesion deficiency.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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