“…This interaction is critical for a variety of biological processes, including cell adhesion, migration, survival, proliferation, and differentiation. Cell culture studies have shown that collagen IV is the binding substrate for a large number of cell types including platelets (Santoro, 1986;Staatz et al, 1990), hepatocytes (Rubin et al, 1981), keratinocytes (Murray et al, 1979), endothelial (Cheng and Kramer, 1989;Herbst et al, 1988), mesangial (Setty et al, 1998), pancreatic (Kaido et al, 2004), and tumor cells such as breast and prostate carcinoma (Abecassis et al, 1987;Dedhar et al, 1993), melanoma (Chelberg et al, 1989), fibrosarcoma, and glioma (Aumailley and Timpl, 1986;Knight et al, 2000). Cell attachment to collagen IV is mediated by multiple binding sites within both triple-helical and NC1 domains, suggesting involvement of several adhesion receptors (Chelberg et al, 1989;Herbst et al, 1988;Wayner and Carter, 1987).…”