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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2022

Analysis of Human Hyaluronan Synthase Gene Transcriptional Regulation and Downstream Hyaluronan Cell Surface Receptor Mobility in Myofibroblast Differentiation.

Adam C Midgley, Timothy Bowen

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Adam C MidgleyKey Laboratory of Bioactive Materials for the Ministry of Education, Rongxiang Xu Center for Regenerative Life Science, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Timothy BowenWales Kidney Research Unit, Division of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. BowenT@cardiff.ac.uk.

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Abstract

The ubiquitous extracellular glycosaminoglycan hyaluronan (HA) is a polymer composed of repeated disaccharide units of alternating D-glucuronic acid and D-N-acetylglucosamine residues linked via alternating β-1,4 and β-1,3 glycosidic bonds. Emerging data continue to reveal functions attributable to HA in a variety of physiological and pathological contexts. Defining the mechanisms regulating expression of the human hyaluronan synthase (HAS) genes that encode the corresponding HA-synthesizing HAS enzymes is therefore important in the context of HA biology in health and disease. We describe here methods to analyze transcriptional regulation of the HAS and HAS2-antisense RNA 1 genes. Elucidation of mechanisms of HA interaction with receptors such as the cell surface molecule CD44 is also key to understanding HA function. To this end, we provide protocols for fluorescent recovery after photobleaching analysis of CD44 membrane dynamics in the process of fibroblast to myofibroblast differentiation, a phenotypic transition that is common to the pathology of fibrosis of large organs such as the liver and kidney.

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Cell DifferentiationGene Expression RegulationMyofibroblastsGlucuronosyltransferaseHumansHyaluronan ReceptorsHyaluronan SynthasesHyaluronic AcidGlucuronosyltransferaseHyaluronan ReceptorsHyaluronan SynthasesHyaluronic AcidCD44FibroblastFluorescence recovery after photobleachingHyaluronanHyaluronan synthaseTranscriptional regulation

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