The role of ADAM 9/15 in mouse retinal development
Z Yang, F Pfister, F vom Hagen, J Tatsios, Y Feng, Y Wang, C Blobel, J Lin, HP Hammes · Diabetologie und Stoffwechsel · 2007 · Heft 08
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Background: ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloprotease) family is important in diverse biologic processes such as cell adhesion and proteolytic shedding of cell surface receptors. Human ADAM15 (named metargidin) is the only one that has an argininel-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) integrin-binding motif. However, the mouse and rat orthologues of ADAM15 lack an RGD sequence, but mouse ADAM15 can bind integrin α9β1. ADAM15 is strongly expressed in endothelial cell. Over expression ADAM15 showed to enhance cell-cell interaction and reduce cell migration. ADAM15-/- mice showed a 64% reduced neovascularization in an oxygen…
