PMID: 18712107Aug 21, 2008Paper

Polyamines and collagenes interaction in different processes of extracellular matrix production and functioning in norm and with pathology

Ukrainskiĭ biokhimicheskiĭ zhurnal
L B Bondarenko, T T Volodina

Abstract

A great file of experimental data on tight interrelations between polyamines and main components of extracellular matrix (collagenes, laminin, fibronectin, etc.) metabolisms has been accumulated in the recent twenty years. Consequences of such tight interaction of collagenes, polyamines, enzymes of their metabolisms during formation and functioning of extracellular matrix are realised not only at a cellular level (proliferation, differentiation, adhesion, apoptosis), but also at the level of the whole organism (immunity, connective tissues and skeleton formation, tumors). Search for the ways of cells behavior modulation via influence on the levels of polyamines and contents of extracellular matrix at present is new direction in pharmacology of antitumor preparations that enables regulation of organism-tumor relationships, inhibition of angiogenesis, tumor growth and metastasing.

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