Assembly of Basement Membrane in Vitro by Cooperation between Alveolar Epithelial Cells and Pulmonary Fibroblasts.
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To investigate basement membrane formation by cooperation between pneumocytes and pulmonary fibroblasts, we cultured type II alveolar epithelial cells obtained from rats transfected with SV40-large T antigen gene (SV40-T2 cells) on type I collagen matrices. On fibroblasts-embedded gel (T2-Fgel), SV40-T2 cells ultrastructurallly formed a continuous and thin layer of lamina densa, while on collagen gel without fibroblasts (T2-gel) SV40-T2 cells produced only discontinuous and diffuse deposits. Stripping SV40-T2 cells off the tissues by H2O2 treatment revealed a continuous and plane surface of lamina densa assembled on the T2-Fgel tissue, whereas only amorphous deposits appeared on the T2-gel tissue. Immunolocalization of major basement membrane components showed that type IV collagen, laminin, perlecan and entactin (nidogen) were continuously integrated on the lamina densa in T2-Fgel. In T2-gel, all these components were discontinuously distributed beneath SV40-T2 cells. The contribution of pulmonary fibroblasts to the assembly of basement membrane through reorganization of collagen matrix and/or soluble factors was examined by the cultured of SV40-T2 cells on the freeze-thawed fibroblast-tissue and/or with the fibroblast-conditioned medium. Both SV40-T2 cells on the freeze-thawed fibroblast-tissue and SV40-T2 cells in T2-gel in the fibroblast-conditioned medium failed to produce a lamina densa. SV40-T2 cells could assemble a lamina densa only on the freeze-thawed fibroblast-tissue in the fibroblast-conditioned medium. These results show that the basement membrane components are assembled to a lamina densa by combination of the reorganization of collagen matrix and the supply of soluble factors by pulmonary fibroblasts.
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