Fragments
of osteopontin in human milk have been shown to occur by cleavage with plasmin and cathepsin D [23].
Not exact matches
Nanostructure,
osteopontin, and mechanical properties
of calcitic avian eggshell.
Gil Mor
of the Yale School
of Medicine and his colleagues based the novel screening tool on four proteins: leptin, prolactin,
osteopontin and insulinlike growth factor II.
The most over-expressed gene in adipose tissue
of diabetic co-twins was SPP1 encoding the inflammatory cytokine
osteopontin, which recruits macrophages into adipose tissue and stimulates T - cell proliferation during inflammation (34).
BLASTing the 15 - bp PORE sequence revealed a large cohort
of genes potentially regulated by such a mechanism (although
osteopontin, the one target gene previously known to be regulated by a PORE sequence, was not identified in this analysis).