A current view of perlecan in physiology and pathology: a mosaic of functions

MA Gubbiotti, T Neill, RV Iozzo - Matrix biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Perlecan, a large basement membrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan, is expressed in a
wide array of tissues where it regulates diverse cellular processes including bone formation …

Novel interactions of perlecan: unraveling perlecan's role in angiogenesis

G Bix, RV Iozzo - Microscopy research and technique, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Perlecan, a highly conserved and ubiquitous basement membrane heparan sulfate
proteoglycan, is essential for life, inasmuch as its absence results in embryonic lethality in …

Diverse cell signaling events modulated by perlecan

JM Whitelock, J Melrose, RV Iozzo - Biochemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
Perlecan is a ubiquitous pericellular proteoglycan ideally placed to mediate cell signaling
events controlling migration, proliferation, and differentiation. Its control of growth factor …

Perlecan protein core interacts with extracellular matrix protein 1 (ECM1), a glycoprotein involved in bone formation and angiogenesis

M Mongiat, J Fu, R Oldershaw, R Greenhalgh… - Journal of Biological …, 2003 - ASBMB
The goal of this study was to discover novel partners for perlecan, a major heparan sulfate
proteoglycan of basement membranes, and to examine new interactions through which …

Developmental expression of perlecan during murine embryogenesis

M Handler, PD Yurchenco… - … dynamics: an official …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Perlecan is a modular heparan sulfate proteoglycan that is an intrinsic constituent of all
basement membranes and extracellular matrices. Because of its strategic position and …

Perlecan—a multifunctional extracellular proteoglycan scaffold

MC Farach-Carson, DD Carson - Glycobiology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Perlecan is a large multidomain heparan sulfate proteoglycan of the extracellular matrix.
Expression of this proteoglycan changes dynamically during embryo implantation and …

Perlecan maintains the integrity of cartilage and some basement membranes

M Costell, E Gustafsson, A Aszódi, M Mörgelin… - The Journal of cell …, 1999 - rupress.org
Perlecan is a heparan sulfate proteoglycan that is expressed in all basement membranes
(BMs), in cartilage, and several other mesenchymal tissues during development. Perlecan …

Perlecan: a gem of a proteoglycan

RV Iozzo - Matrix Biology, 1994 - Elsevier
Perlecan, the main proteoglycan of basement membranes and pericellular spaces, is one of
the largest single-chain polypeptides of vertebrate animals. The five modules of perlecan …

The biology of perlecan: the multifaceted heparan sulphate proteoglycan of basement membranes and pericellular matrices.

RV Iozzo, IR Cohen, S Grässel, AD Murdoch - Biochemical Journal, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the pre-molecular era of biochemistry, scientists assigned rather unprepossessing
physiological roles to proteoglycans: they merely provided an inert scaffolding upon which …

The role of perlecan and endorepellin in the control of tumor angiogenesis and endothelial cell autophagy

S Douglass, A Goyal, RV Iozzo - Connective tissue research, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
During tumor growth and angiogenesis there is a dynamic remodeling of tissue architecture
often accompanied by the release of extracellular matrix constituents full of biological …