Tenascins in stem cell niches.

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Date publication

juillet 2014

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr OREND Gertraud


Tous les auteurs :
Chiquet-Ehrismann R, Orend G, Chiquet M, Tucker RP, Midwood KS

Résumé

Tenascins are extracellular matrix proteins with distinct spatial and temporal expression during development, tissue homeostasis and disease. Based on their expression patterns and knockout phenotypes an important role of tenascins in tissue formation, cell adhesion modulation, regulation of proliferation and differentiation has been demonstrated. All of these features are of importance in stem cell niches where a precise regulation of growth versus differentiation has to be guaranteed. In this review we summarize the expression and possible functions of tenascins in neural, epithelial and osteogenic stem cell niches during normal development and organ turnover, in the hematopoietic and pro-inflammatory niche as well as in the metastatic niche during cancer progression.

Référence

Matrix Biol. 2014 Jul;37:112-23