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. 1980 Feb 15;186(2):551–559. doi: 10.1042/bj1860551

Fibronectin–collagen binding and requirement during cellular adhesion

Leslie I Gold 1, Edward Pearlstein 1
PMCID: PMC1161608  PMID: 7378064

Abstract

Fibronectin isolated from human plasma and from the extracellular matrices of cell monolayers mediates the attachment in vitro and spreading of trypsin-treated cells on a collagen substratum. Fibronectin-dependent kinetics of cellular attachment to collagen were studied for several adherent cell types. It was shown that trypsin-treated human umbilical-cord cells, mouse sarcoma CMT81 cells, endothelial cells, and human fibroblasts from a patient with Glanzmann's disease were completely dependent on fibronectin for their attachment to collagen, whereas guinea-pig and monkey smooth-muscle cells and chick-embryo secondary fibroblasts displayed varying degrees of dependence on fibronectin for their attachment. Radiolabelled human plasma fibronectin possessed similar affinity for collagen types I, II and III from a variety of sources. The fibronectin bound equally well to the collagens with or without prior urea treatment. However, in the fibronectin-mediated adhesion assay using PyBHK fibroblasts, a greater number of cells adhered and more spreading was observed on urea-treated collagen. Fibronectin extracted from the extracellular matrix of chick-embryo fibroblasts and that purified from human plasma demonstrated very similar kinetics of complexing to collagencoated tissue-culture dishes. Fibronectin from both sources bound to collagen in the presence of 0.05–4.0m-NaCl and over the pH range 2.6–10.6. The binding was inhibited when fibronectin was incubated with 40–80% ethylene glycol, the ionic detergents sodium dodecyl sulphate and deoxycholate, and the non-ionic detergents Nonidet P-40, Tween 80 and Triton X-100, all at a concentration of 0.1%. From these results we proposed that fibronectin–collagen complexing is mainly attributable to hydrophobic interactions.

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