RT Journal
A1 Hampton T
T1 FAt stem cells
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2011
FD August 3
VO 306
IS 5
SP 480
OP 480
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.1088
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1088
AB 
Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston isolated a peptide that specifically homes to ASCs and used it to purify the corresponding ASC surface receptor. They found this to be a fragment of decorin, a protein regulating cell adhesion, proliferation, and migration. A search for proteins that bind to this fragment led them to resistin, a protein secreted by fat cells and a key regulator of metabolism, for which the receptor has been unknown.