| Literature DB >> 8316234 |
R Asokan1, R Puvanakrishnan, L V Ravichandran, V Kokila, G K Reddy, S C Dhar.
Abstract
The distribution of various collagen types was studied in rat fibrosarcoma. Collagens extracted from fibrosarcoma tissue were characterized by the criteria of solubility in NaCl, SDS-PAGE, ion exchange chromatography, CNBr peptide mapping and amino acid analysis. Fibrosarcoma was found to produce excess amount of type V, type I trimer and type III collagens; comparatively, type I collagen and total collagen content were noticed to decrease in fibrosarcoma. We observe that the increase in type V collagen content in fibrosarcoma might be due to the enhanced transcription of type V collagen gene. Increased type I trimer collagen in fibrosarcoma might be attributed to the differential expression of alpha 1(I) and alpha 2(I) gene and might also be due to the expression of a different gene for type I trimer collagen.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8316234 DOI: 10.1007/bf00925968
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Cell Biochem ISSN: 0300-8177 Impact factor: 3.396