Secreted Protein Acidic And Cysteine Rich
BM-40
ONT
ON
Secreted Protein Acidic And Rich In Cysteine
Basement-Membrane Protein 40
Osteonectin
Secreted Protein, Acidic, Cysteine-Rich (Osteonectin)
Cysteine-Rich Protein
SPARC
OI17
This gene encodes a cysteine-rich acidic matrix-associated protein. The encoded protein is required for the collagen in bone to become calcified but is also involved in extracellular matrix synthesis and promotion of changes to cell shape. The gene product has been associated with tumor suppression but has also been correlated with metastasis based on changes to cell shape which can promote tumor cell invasion. Three transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2015]
Forensic Context
A study in rats demonstrated that mRNA levels of the SPARC, a marker for osteogenic differentiation, in differentiated osteogenic cells from adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) were not significantly different between burned and non-burned animals, indicating that the osteogenic differentiation potential of ASCs was unaffected by severe burn injury [Prasai et al. DOI:10.007/s12015-017-9721-9].