Heitor Gobbi Sebinelli, Luiz Henrique Silva Andrilli, Bruno Zoccaratto Favarin, Marcos Aantonio Eufrasio Cruz, Maytê Bolean, Michele Fiore, Carolina Chieffo, David Magne, Andrea Magrini, Ana Paula Ramos, José Luis Millán, Saida Mebarek, Rene Buchet, Massimo Bottini, Pietro Ciancaglini
Matrix vesicles (MVs) contain the whole machinery necessary to initiate apatite formation in their lumen. We suspected that, in addition to tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP), Na,K,-ATPase (NKA) could be involved in supplying phopshate (Pi ) in the early stages of MV-mediated mineralization. MVs were extracted from the growth plate cartilage of chicken embryos. Their average mean diameters were determined by Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) (212 ± 19 nm) and by Atomic Force Microcopy (AFM) (180 ± 85 nm)...
December 1, 2022: International Journal of Molecular Sciences