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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 113, Issue 5 849-858, Copyright © 2000 by Company of Biologists
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P Pujuguet, M Simian, J Liaw, R Timpl, Z Werb and MJ Bissell
Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 83/101, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Nidogen-1 (entactin) acts as a bridge between the extracellular matrix molecules laminin-1 and type IV collagen, and thus participates in the assembly of basement membranes. To investigate the role of nidogen-1 in regulating cell-type-specific gene expression in mammary epithelium, we designed a culture microecosystem in which each component, including epithelial cells, mesenchymal cells, lactogenic hormones and extracellular matrix, could be controlled. We found that primary and established mesenchymal and myoepithelial cells synthesized and secreted nidogen-1, whereas expression was absent in primary and established epithelial cells. In an epithelial cell line containing mesenchymal cells, nidogen-1 was produced by the mesenchymal cells but deposited between the epithelial cells. In this mixed culture, mammary epithelial cells express (beta)-casein in the presence of lactogenic hormones. Addition of either laminin-1 plus nidogen-1, or laminin-1 alone, to mammary epithelial cells induced (beta)-casein production. We asked whether recombinant nidogen-1 alone could signal directly for (beta)-casein. Nidogen-1 did not induce (beta)-casein synthesis in epithelial cells, but it augmented the inductive capacity of laminin-1. These data suggest that nidogen-1 can cooperate with laminin-1 to regulate (beta)-casein expression. Addition of full-length nidogen-1 to the mixed cultures had no effect on (beta)-casein gene expression; however, a nidogen-1 fragment containing the laminin-1 binding domain, but lacking the type IV collagen-binding domain, had a dominant negative effect on (beta)-casein expression. These data point to a physiological role for nidogen-1 in the basement membrane-induced gene expression by epithelial cells.
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