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Osteoblast tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase antagonizes and regulates PC-1.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Oct 2000
Johnson K A, Hessle L, Vaingankar S, Wennberg C, Mauro S, Narisawa S, Goding J W, Sano K, Millan J L, Terkeltaub R
Abstract excerpt
Tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP) is essential for bone matrix mineralization, but the central mechanism for TNAP action remains undefined. We observed that ATP-dependent (45)Ca precipitation was decreased in calvarial osteoblast matrix vesicle (MV) fractions from TNAP-/- mice, a model of infantile hypophosphatasia. Because TNAP hydrolyzes the mineralization inhibitor inorganic pyrophosphate (PP(i)),...
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