Elsevier

Experimental Cell Research

Volume 229, Issue 2, 15 December 1996, Pages 388-397
Experimental Cell Research

Regular Article
A Chondroitin/Dermatan Sulfate Form of CD44 Is a Receptor for Collagen XIV (Undulin)

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Abstract

Collagen XIV, a fibril-associated collagen with interrupted triple helices, is expressed in differentiated soft connective tissues and in cartilage. However, a cellular receptor for this protein has not been identified. Here we show that human placental collagen XIV, isolated by a mild and simple two-step method, serves as adhesive protein for a variety of mesenchymal and some epithelial cells. Cell adhesion could be inhibited by preincubation of the collagen XIV substrate with heparin or with the chondroitin/dermatan sulfate proteoglycan decorin and by pretreatment of cells with chondroitinase ABC or heparinase III, suggesting a cell membrane proteoglycan as receptor. Affinity chromatography of125I-labeled fibroblast cell surface proteins on collagen XIV–Sepharose yielded a chondroitin/dermatan sulfate proteoglycan with a molecular mass of 97–105 kDa after chondroitinase ABC digestion and of 60–70 kDa after further treatment withN-glycosidase F. The eluates contained also some high-molecular-weight material that was susceptible to digestion with heparinase but no detectable integrins. Immunoprecipitation with a specific monoclonal antibody identified the prominent chondroitin/dermatan sulfate proteoglycan as a member of the CD44 family. The interaction between collagen XIV and cells appears to be finely tuned, since matrix-associated glycosaminoglycans, and particularly proteoglycans like decorin, could compete with cells for the binding site(s) on collagen XIV under physiological conditions.

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