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The extra domain-A (EDA), present in fibronectin (FN) molecules arising from alternatively spliced transcripts, appears only during specific biological and pathogenic processes. However, its function is poorly understood. To define the physiologic role of this domain in joint connective tissue, the biological effects on rabbit cartilage explants, chondrocytes, and synovial cells were studied. A recombinant EDA protein (rEDA) increased proteoglycan release (3.6-fold) in cartilage explant cultures and markedly induced production of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1 in chondrocytes. In addition, rEDA induced MMP-1, MMP-3, and MMP-9 in synovial cells. These effects were elicited only by rEDA, while its neighboring type III repeats, III11 or III12, scarcely had any such effects. Interestingly, reorganization of F-actin stress fibers accompanied in synovial cells rEDA, of of and induced by rEDA in is by the of production by The of EDA on production by type III on the or of EDA and by on of of the or of EDA domain by the In from and the from the induced the EDA in of and role in matrix in joint connective The extra domain-A (EDA), present in fibronectin (FN) molecules arising from alternatively spliced transcripts, appears only during specific biological and pathogenic processes. However, its function is poorly understood. To define the physiologic role of this domain in joint connective tissue, the biological effects on rabbit cartilage explants, chondrocytes, and synovial cells were studied. A recombinant EDA protein (rEDA) increased proteoglycan release (3.6-fold) in cartilage explant cultures and markedly induced production of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1 in chondrocytes. In addition, rEDA induced MMP-1, MMP-3, and MMP-9 in synovial cells. These effects were elicited only by rEDA, while its neighboring type III repeats, III11 or III12, scarcely had any such effects. 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