Abstract
An antiserum was generated from synthetic peptides highly conserved between different mammalian species to immunolocalise the small leucine-rich proteoglycan osteoadherin (OSAD) in murine teeth. In 19-day-old embryos of rats and mice, a positive staining was found in incisor predentin and alveolar bone surrounding developing incisors and molars. In newborns, OSAD was detected at the tip of the first molar cusp where it accumulated in predentin concomitantly with odontoblast differentiation. In 2-day-old rats and mice, in the first molar, immunostaining revealed positive predentin, enamel matrix close to the apical pole of ameloblasts and a strong signal in dentin. At this stage, OSAD was detected in predentin in the second molar. Ultrastructural immunocytochemistry showed gold particles associated with collagen fibres in predentin and in foci at the dentin mineralisation front. Gold particles were also detected near the secretory pole of ameloblasts where enamel crystallites elongate. No staining was detected in pulp tissue and dental follicle. Restriction of OSAD expression to the extracellular matrix of bone, dentin and enamel suggests a role of this proteoglycan in the organisation of mineralised tissues.
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This work was supported by the Institut Français pour la Recherche Odontologique (IFRO), the European cost action B23 and the Ministère Français de l’Education, de la Recherche et de la Technologie. Immunoelectron microscopy was performed at the Centre Commun d’imagerie (CeCIL), IFR 62, Lyon.
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Couble, ML., Bleicher, F., Farges, JC. et al. Immunodetection of osteoadherin in murine tooth extracellular matrices. Histochem Cell Biol 121, 47–53 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00418-003-0608-2
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