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Departments of Anatomy and Stomatology, Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
During invasion and metastasis, tumor cells use a variety of surface adhesion receptors to attach to and invade basement membranes and interstitial stroma. We examined the role of the cell surface integrin-like complex in the attachment of the invasive murine B16–BL6 melanoma cell line to basement membrane. Polyclonal antibodies prepared against integrin-related complexes isolated from hamster BHK cells (anti-ECMR) or mouse erythroleukemia cells (anti-mouse FnR) inhibited the attachment of B16 cells to complex basement membrane matrices and to substrates coated with purified extracellular matrix components (fibronectin, laminin, and type IV collagen). The expression of integrin-like receptors on the surface of B16 cells was confirmed by selective immunoprecipitation of radiolabeled and solubilized membrane proteins with the antibodies. Both antibodies also reacted with an integrin-related fibronectin-binding receptor complex purified by ligand affinity chromatography on fibronectin-Sepharose columns. The anti-integrin antibodies failed to react with the Mr 68,000 laminin-binding protein, suggesting that their inhibition of cell attachment to laminin and complex basement membrane was not due to contaminating antibodies against the Mr 68,000 laminin receptor. The results indicate that the integrin receptor complexes on B16–BL6 cells either interact directly with a diverse set of extracellular-matrix-associated components or somehow modulate the activity and function of other receptors. Thus integrins may have an important role in tumor cell invasion of tissue barriers.
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Received 6/ 3/88. Revised 9/16/88. Accepted 9/28/88.
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