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Recent advances in research on fibronectin and other cell attachment proteins
Author(s) -
Yamada Kenneth M.,
Akiyama Steven K.,
Hasegawa Takayuki,
Hasegawa Etsuko,
Humphries Martin J.,
Kennedy Dorothy W.,
Nagata Kazuhiro,
Urushihara Hideko,
Olden Kenneth,
Chen WenTien
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of cellular biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 165
eISSN - 1097-4644
pISSN - 0730-2312
DOI - 10.1002/jcb.240280202
Subject(s) - fibronectin , extracellular matrix , computational biology , focus (optics) , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , cell , cognitive science , chemistry , biochemistry , psychology , physics , optics
Fibronectin and other cell attachment proteins provide molecular models for beginning to unravel the complex interactions of the cell surface with the extracellular matrix. This area has been reviewed in considerable detail previously [1–10]. Our brief review will therefore be selective rather than comprehensive, and it will focus on some recent generalizations about this class of proteins, as well as on recent advances in the molecular analysis of the functions of these proteins and their receptors. we shall also present various popular or provocative hypotheses and speculations about future work in the field.