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The recognition of collagen and triple-helical toolkit peptides by MMP-13: sequence specificity for binding and cleavage. [PDF]

, 2014
Remodeling of collagen by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) is crucial to tissue homeostasis and repair. MMP-13 is a collagenase with a substrate preference for collagen II over collagens I and III.
Bihan, Dominique, Farndale, Richard W, Hamaia, Samir W, Howes, Joanna-Marie, Knauper, Vera, Packman, Len C, Slatter, David A, Visse, Robert   +7 more
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A 3D Bioprinted Spheroid‐Laden dECM‐Enriched Osteosarcoma Model for Enhanced Drug Testing and Therapeutic Discovery

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A 3D biomimetic OS model was developed by bioprinting an OS‐cell‐derived dECM‐enriched bioink with OS spheroids incorporated. The model showed upregulation of known OS prognostic markers and increased resistance to doxorubicin, compared to 2D cultures and scaffold‐free spheroids, making this a more clinically relevant platform for drug discovery ...
Margarida F. Domingues, Maria Catarina Carreira, Mafalda S. Santos, Daniela Pacheco, Frederico Castelo Ferreira, Paola Sanjuan‐Alberte, João Carlos Silva   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient‐Derived 3D Bioprinted Cardiac Organoid Constructs Reveal Key Pathological Features of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Patient‐derived cardiac organoids reveal key features of Duchenne muscular dystrophy cardiomyopathy, including apoptosis, oxidative stress, calcium handling defects, and mechanical remodeling. By integrating organoids into alginate–gelatin bioprinted constructs, disease phenotypes are organized into scalable 3D cardiac tissues displaying extracellular ...
Vittoria Marini, Margalida Campaner Socias, Andreas Dimopoulos, Lorenza Rinvenuto, Enrico Pozzo, Diana Stalkopf, Angelo Serafini, Sara Morri, Ashley Wang, Rita La Rovere, Yoke Chin Chai, Sveva Bollini, Geert Bultynck, H. Llewelyn Roderick, Ioannis Papantoniou, Maurilio Sampaolesi   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gene expression of bacterial collagenolytic proteases in root caries

Journal of Oral Microbiology, 2018
Objective: It is unknown whether bacteria play a role in the collagen matrix degradation that occurs during caries progression. Our aim was to characterize the expression level of genes involved in bacterial collagenolytic proteases in root biofilms with
Nailê Damé-Teixeira, Clarissa Cavalcanti Fatturi Parolo, Marisa Maltz, Ariel Goulart Rup, Deirdre Ann Devine, Thuy Do   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prognostic relevance of MMP-2 (72-kD collagenase IV) in gastric cancer [PDF]

, 1998
The association of MMP-2 (matrix metalloproteinase 2, 72-kD collagenase IV) with invasive and metastatic capacity of tumor cells has implicated a potential role in the prognosis for cancer patients.
Allgayer, Heike, Babic, Rudolf, Beyer, Bianca C. M., Grützner, Klaus-Uwe, Heiss, Markus Maria, Schildberg, Friedrich Wilhelm, Tarabichi, Anwar   +6 more
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Paracrine Factor Local Gradient‐Generating System for Engineering Perfusable Vascularized Hepatocyte Tissues with Perfusion‐Induced Proliferation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A paracrine factor local gradient (PFLG)‐generating system enables microvessel penetration across 3D hepatocyte tissues. The resulting vascularized constructs recapitulate hepatic sinusoidal hepatocyte—endothelial contact architecture and enhance hepatic functions in vitro.
Yen‐Hsiang Huang, Tadahiro Yamashita, Ryo Sudo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The C‐terminal segment of collagenase in Grimontia hollisae binds collagen to enhance collagenolysis

FEBS Open Bio, 2018
The collagenase secreted by Grimontia hollisae strain 1706B is a 74 kDa protein that consists of two parts: the catalytic module and a C‐terminal segment that includes the bacterial pre‐peptidase C‐terminal domain.
Keisuke Tanaka, Naoko Teramura, Osamu Hayashida, Katsumasa Iijima, Teru Okitsu, Shunji Hattori   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Three‐Dimensional Ovary Model to Improve and Study Murine Follicle Growth

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
To develop new methods for fertility preservation in women, novel culture systems for small follicles need to be established. In this work, a poly(ethylene glycol) based scaffold, with appropriate mechanical and bioactive features to support mouse follicle and ovary cell growth is developed, and the formed cell‐follicle interactions are visualized ...
Mira Jacobs, Valon Gllareva, Lukas Moser, Silvia Pravato, Eric Mora Pimentel, Brigitte Leeners, Martin Ehrbar   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exact Solutions of Burnt-Bridge Models for Molecular Motor Transport [PDF]

, 2006
Transport of molecular motors, stimulated by interactions with specific links between consecutive binding sites (called ``bridges''), is investigated theoretically by analyzing discrete-state stochastic ``burnt-bridge'' models. When an unbiased diffusing
Artyomov, Maxim N., Kolomeisky, Anatoly B., Morozov, Alexander Yu., Pronina, Ekaterina   +3 more
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Start, Stop, Rewind, Repeat—Cyclic Exposure of Adipose Stromal Cells‐derived Cartilage Organoids to Chondrogenic and Proliferative Cues to Achieve Scaled‐up and Customizable Bone Formation by Endochondral Ossification

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study exploits the plasticity of ASCs‐derived cartilage organoids which generate a perichondrial layer of MSCs when exposed to cyclic chondrogenic/proliferative cues. Using these organoids as building blocks, we develop (i) Phalange Shaped Tissue Engineered Cartilage (Pa‐TECs), recapitulating endochondral ossification suitable for the treatment of
Pablo Pfister, Emilien Lhospice, Andrés García‐García, Robert Paillaud, Sebastian Jung, Romain Schaller, Elisabeth A. Kappos, Claude Jaquiéry, Tarek Ismail, Dirk J. Schaefer, Michael de Wild, Ivan Martin, Alexandre Kaempfen, Arnaud Scherberich, Adrien Moya   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source