Leukemia inhibitory factor induces multi-lineage differentiation of adult stem-like cells in kidney via kidney-specific cadherin 16

Keiichi Hishikawa, Takeshi Marumo, Shigeki Miura, Asato Nakanishi, Yumi Matsuzaki, Katsunori Shibata, Hiroko Kohike, Takuya Komori, Matsuhiko Hayashi, Toshio Nakaki, Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Hideyuki Okano, Toshiro Fujita

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Side population (SP) is reported to be a stem cell-rich population. In the presence of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), cultured kidney SP cells differentiated into multi-lineage in collagen gel but not in synthesized polymer that has no cell adhesion factor. In cultured kidney SP cells, gene expression of kidney-specific cadherin 16 was specifically upregulated in collagen gel but not in synthesized polymer. Moreover, decreasing cadherin 16 expression using siRNA abolished LIF-induced multi-lineage differentiation of kidney SP in collagen gel. These results indicated that LIF induced multi-lineage differentiation of adult stem-like cells in kidney via cadherin 16.

本文言語English
ページ(範囲)288-291
ページ数4
ジャーナルBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
328
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DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2005 3月 4

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 生物理学
  • 生化学
  • 分子生物学
  • 細胞生物学

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