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These included the obvious - MCAM (melanoma cell adhesion molecule) - but also ATP1B2 (ATPase, Na +/K +transporting, beta 2 polypeptide, which is believed to function in neuron-astrocyte adhesion [ 29, 30]), THBS (thrombospondin, an adhesion molecule involved in blood clotting), OPN (osteopontin, which promotes osteoclast adhesion [ 31]) and OSF2 (osteoblast-specific factor 2, a human homolog of the insect protein fasciclin thought to have a role in bone adhesion [ 32]).
Interestingly, the CD36-like 1 antigen (alias thrombospondin receptor-like 1 - CD36L1) clustered tightly with LPL and LDLR and shared with these genes terms such as 'lipoprotein', 'lipid' or 'cholesterol' (Figure 6a).
endostatin, angiostatin, thrombospondin) differ in their angiostatic activity from synthetic inhibitors, since they appear to also block endothelial cell proliferation and/or migration.
In murine pre-adipocytes, it is transcriptionally up regulated by long chain free FAs via a PPARα-mediated process [ 66 ] . Approaches using antisense technology, null mice, transgenic mice, and microarrays revealed important additional roles of CD36 protein as a receptor for thrombospondin, collagen type I, and oxidized LDL on macrophages [ 67 ] . The up regulation of Cd36 with FISH, and antagonism in presence of FUNG, merits further study.
All of the transcripts listed in Table 1were included among the 27 most significant, with the exception of thrombospondin (ranked 50 th).