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SUBMITTER: Klees RF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2268764 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Klees Robert F RF Salasznyk Roman M RM Ward Donald F DF Crone Donna E DE Williams William A WA Harris Mark P MP Boskey Adele A Quaranta Vito V Plopper George E GE
Experimental cell research 20080122 4
The overall mechanisms governing the role of laminins during osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) are poorly understood. We previously reported that laminin-332 induces an osteogenic phenotype in hMSC and does so through a focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK) dependent pathway. We hypothesized that this is a result of integrin-ECM binding, and that it occurs via the known alpha3 LG3 integrin binding domain of laminin-332. To test ...[more]