scholarly journals Characterisation of antibodies to Migration Stimulating Factor (MSF). Detection of MSF isoforms.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Schor ◽  
◽  
Katerina Kankova ◽  
Anne-Marie Woolston ◽  
Borivoj Vojtesek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Migration Stimulating Factor ◽  
Stimulating Factor

scholarly journals The Role of the Fibronectin IGD Motif in Stimulating Fibroblast Migration

2007 ◽  
Vol 282 (49) ◽  
pp. 35530-35535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Millard ◽  
Ian R. Ellis ◽  
Andrew R. Pickford ◽  
Ana M. Schor ◽  
Seth L. Schor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fibroblast Migration ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Migration Stimulating Factor ◽  
Function Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Stimulating Factor ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Stimulation Of

The motogenic activity of migration-stimulating factor, a truncated isoform of fibronectin (FN), has been attributed to the IGD motifs present in its FN type 1 modules. The structure-function relationship of various recombinant IGD-containing FN fragments is now investigated. Their structure is assessed by solution state NMR and their motogenic ability tested on fibroblasts. Even conservative mutations in the IGD motif are inactive or have severely reduced potency, while the structure remains essentially the same. A fragment with two IGD motifs is 100 times more active than a fragment with one and up to 106 times more than synthetic tetrapeptides. The wide range of potency in different contexts is discussed in terms of cryptic FN sites and cooperativity. These results give new insight into the stimulation of fibroblast migration by IGD motifs in FN.

Migration-stimulating factor as a novel biomarker in salivary gland tumours

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 747-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lateef E. Aljorani ◽  
Agnes Bankfalvi ◽  
Frank A. Carey ◽  
Koji Harada ◽  
Go Ohe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Salivary Gland Tumours ◽  
Migration Stimulating Factor ◽  
Stimulating Factor

scholarly journals Foetal and cancer patient fibroblasts produce an autocrine migration-stimulating factor not made by normal adult cells

1988 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.L. Schor ◽  
A.M. Schor ◽  
A.M. Grey ◽  
G. Rushton
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patient ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Conditioned Media ◽  
Normal Adult ◽  
Biochemical Basis ◽  
Migration Stimulating Factor ◽  
Stimulating Factor ◽  
Adult Fibroblasts ◽  
Adult Cells

We have previously reported that (1) the migration of foetal and adult fibroblasts into three-dimensional collagen matrices is differentially affected by cell density, and (2) skin fibroblasts from cancer patients commonly display a foetal-like mode of migratory behaviour. Data presented here indicate that differences in the migration of these cell types are particularly apparent in cultures plated at high density (i.e. at cell confluence); under these conditions, foetal fibroblasts and the foetal-like fibroblasts of cancer patients migrate into the three-dimensional collagen matrix to a significantly greater extent than do normal adult cells. In this initial study concerned with the biochemical basis of these observations, we report that medium conditioned by either foetal or cancer patient fibroblasts stimulates the migration of confluent adult cells. This stimulation of migration is specific to confluent cells, as the migration of subconfluent adult fibroblasts is unaffected by these conditioned media. Gel filtration chromatography of foetal fibroblast-conditioned medium indicates that migration-stimulating activity is recovered in a single peak with an apparent molecular mass in the range of 50–60 (X 10(3]. The active migration stimulating factor (MSF) in both foetal and cancer patient fibroblast-conditioned media appears to be a protein stable at acid pH, but inactivated by heat, alkaline pH and reductive alkylation. MSF produced by foetal and cancer patient fibroblasts is presumably responsible for the characteristically elevated levels of migration displayed by these cells in confluent culture, thereby suggesting an autocrine mode of action for this factor.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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