Effect of nucleoside-5'-phosphates on collagen-induced in vitro mineralization.
Indian J Exp Biol
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2004 Aug; 42(8): 844-6
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ABSTRACT
Nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs) at 4-10 microM concentrations were found to inhibit the rates of collagen-induced in vitro mineralization and ion exchange reactions. The sequential removal of the terminal phosphate groups caused a step-wise decrease in their inhibitory potency. The results suggest that NTPs inhibit the rates of ion uptake and exchange reactions at concentrations much lower than their intracellular physiological concentrations. Thus NTPs may be involved in the control of biological mineralization and the tissues which mineralize under physiological conditions develop a system to locally convert NTPs to NDPs and NMPs.
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Main subject:
Kinetics
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Collagen
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Ion Transport
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Minerals
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Nucleotides
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian J Exp Biol
Year:
2004
Type:
Article
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