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Human perlecan is a heparan sulfate proteoglycan with a large core protein of 467 kDa to which three glycosaminoglycan side chains are attached. It belongs to the heparan sulfate proteoglycan family which has been implicated in strong interactions between developing hematopoietic cells and their microenvironment in the bone marrow. Here we report that perlecan is highly expressed in the human bone...