Osteomodulin Explained

Osteomodulin (also called osteoadherin or osteoadherin proteoglycan) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OMD gene.^[1]

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S . Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides. . Gene . 138 . 1–2 . 171–4 . 1994 . 8125298 . 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8 .
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, etal . Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library . Gene . 200 . 1–2 . 149–56 . 1997 . 9373149 . 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3 .
• Wendel M, Sommarin Y, Heinegård D . Bone matrix proteins: isolation and characterization of a novel cell-binding keratan sulfate proteoglycan (osteoadherin) from bovine bone . J. Cell Biol. . 141 . 3 . 839–47 . 1998 . 9566981 . 10.1083/jcb.141.3.839 . 2132750 .
• Buchaille R, Couble ML, Magloire H, Bleicher F . Expression of the small leucine-rich proteoglycan osteoadherin/osteomodulin in human dental pulp and developing rat teeth . Bone . 27 . 2 . 265–70 . 2000 . 10913920 . 10.1016/S8756-3282(00)00310-0 .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .
• Lucchini M, Romeas A, Couble ML, etal . TGF beta 1 signaling and stimulation of osteoadherin in human odontoblasts in vitro . Connect. Tissue Res. . 43 . 2–3 . 345–53 . 2003 . 12489179 . 10.1080/713713482 .
• Clark HF, Gurney AL, Abaya E, etal . The secreted protein discovery initiative (SPDI), a large-scale effort to identify novel human secreted and transmembrane proteins: a bioinformatics assessment . Genome Res. . 13 . 10 . 2265–70 . 2003 . 12975309 . 10.1101/gr.1293003 . 403697 .
• Couble ML, Bleicher F, Farges JC, etal . Immunodetection of osteoadherin in murine tooth extracellular matrices . Histochem. Cell Biol. . 121 . 1 . 47–53 . 2004 . 14673660 . 10.1007/s00418-003-0608-2 . 8160119 .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Entrez Gene: OMD osteomodulin.