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SUBMITTER: Lund DK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4101619 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lund Dane K DK Mouly Vincent V Cornelison D D W DD
American journal of physiology. Cell physiology 20140604 2
The twenty-five known matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) and their endogenous inhibitors, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteases (TIMPs), mediate cell invasion through the extracellular matrix (ECM). In a comparative three-dimensional assay, we analyzed human and mouse satellite cells' competence to invade an artificial ECM (collagen I). We identified a single MMP that 1) is expressed by human muscle satellite cells; 2) is induced at the mRNA/protein level by adhesion to collagen I; and 3) is necessa ...[more]