PMID- 9046103 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19970326 LR - 20161124 IS - 1065-6995 (Print) IS - 1065-6995 (Linking) VI - 21 IP - 1 DP - 1997 Jan TI - Osteoblastic cells from rat long bone. II: Adhesion to substrata and integrin expression in primary and propagated cultures. PG - 7-16 AB - Propagation in vitro of rat tibial osteoblasts (ROB) is accompanied by increased expression of the early osteogenic marker alkaline phosphatase (AP) and maturation of the osteogenic phenotype. In order to establish the pattern of the integrin expressed in ROB during progression to the mature osteoblastic phenotype, we have used biosynthetic, immunoblotting and immunohistochemical assays. We immunoprecipitated from osteoblasts, expanded for 1.5- and 7.5-doubling, alpha 5 beta 1, alpha v beta 3, alpha 3 beta 1, alpha 6 beta 1 and alpha 1 beta 1 integrin heterodimers; furthermore beta 5, alpha 2 and alpha 4 chains were detected by immunoblots and indirect immunofluorescence. alpha v, alpha 1, alpha 6 subunits in most cells, and beta 3 and beta 1 subunits in a minority, were found to be associated with adhesion plaques in osteoblasts of 1.5-, 4.5- and 7.5-doubling grown in the presence of FCS, while all other subunits stained diffusely all the cells. Adhesion to fibronectin (FN), laminin (LN), collagen type I (COL I) and III(COL III) by ROB at different doubling (1.5-11) was dependent on substratum concentration, and after 2.5 h at 55 nM 60% of the cells adhered to all substrata. Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser (RGDS) containing peptides inhibited adhesion of cells differentially, according to substratum; no dependence on extent of progation in vitro was observed. In conclusion, ROB cultured in vitro for 1.5- to 11-doubling had an unchanged pattern of expression of integrin subunits, heterodimer association and cellular distribution. Adhesion specificity and affinity were also unchanged. These results suggest that the phenotypic maturation, detected as an increase in AP expression, is not accompanied by major changes in the potential for cell-matrix interactions, and does not correspond to changes in the type of integrin subunits expressed by osteoblasts. FAU - Castoldi, M AU - Castoldi M AD - Istituto di Fisiologia, Universita di Genova, Italy. FAU - Pistone, M AU - Pistone M FAU - Caruso, C AU - Caruso C FAU - Puddu, A AU - Puddu A FAU - Filanti, C AU - Filanti C FAU - Piccini, D AU - Piccini D FAU - Tacchetti, C AU - Tacchetti C FAU - Manduca, P AU - Manduca P LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Cell Biol Int JT - Cell biology international JID - 9307129 RN - 0 (Fibronectins) RN - 0 (Integrins) RN - 0 (Laminin) RN - 0 (Oligopeptides) RN - 9001-32-5 (Fibrinogen) RN - 9007-34-5 (Collagen) RN - AC6UDA2MFC (arginyl-glycyl-aspartyl-serine) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Adhesion/drug effects/physiology MH - Cell Differentiation/physiology MH - Cell Division/physiology MH - Cells, Cultured/chemistry/cytology/metabolism MH - Collagen/pharmacology MH - Extracellular Matrix/chemistry MH - Fibrinogen/pharmacology MH - Fibronectins/pharmacology MH - Fluorescent Antibody Technique MH - Immunoblotting MH - Integrins/analysis/*biosynthesis/genetics MH - Laminin/pharmacology MH - Oligopeptides/pharmacology MH - Osteoblasts/*chemistry/*cytology MH - Phenotype MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Tibia/*cytology EDAT- 1997/01/01 00:00 MHDA- 1997/01/01 00:01 CRDT- 1997/01/01 00:00 PHST- 1997/01/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1997/01/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1997/01/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - S1065-6995(96)90110-9 [pii] AID - 10.1006/cbir.1996.0110 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell Biol Int. 1997 Jan;21(1):7-16. doi: 10.1006/cbir.1996.0110.