Mouse testican-2. Expression, glycosylation, and effects on neurite outgrowth.

Mouse testican-2 was cloned, sequenced, and shown to be a proteoglycan with a multidomain structure closely similar to that of the human ortholog, previously described as a calcium binding extracellular matrix molecule of the BM-40/SPARC/osteonectin family (Vannahme, C., Schübel, S., Herud, M.