Proteoglycans of Guinea‐Pig Costal Cartilage
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- 1 September 1975
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 57 (2), 549-559
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1975.tb02330.x
Abstract
Proteoglycans were extracted, in a yield of about 90%, from costal cartilage of young, growing guinea-pigs. Three solvents were used in sequence: 0.4 M guanidine · HCl, pH 5.8, 4 M guanidine · HCl, pH 5.8, and 4 M guanidine · HCl/0.1 M EDTA, pH 5.8. The proteoglycans were purified and fractionated by cesium chloride density gradient ultracentrifugation under associative and dissociative conditions. Gel chromatography on Sepharose 2 B of proteoglycan fractions from associative centrifugations showed the presence of both aggregated and monomer proteoglycans. The ratio of aggregates to monomers was higher in the second extract than in the other two extracts. Dissociative gradient centrifugation gave a similar distribution for proteoglycans from all three extracts. Thus, with decreasing buoyant density there were decreasing ratios of polysaccharide to protein, and of chondroitin sulfate to keratan sulfate. In addition, there was with decreasing density an increasing ratio of chondroitin 4-sulfate to chondroitin 6-sulfate. Amino acid analyses of dissociative fractions were in accordance with previously published results. On comparing proteoglycan monomers of the three extracts, significant differences were found. Proteoglycans, extracted at low ionic strength, contained lower proportions of protein, keratan sulfate, chondroitin 6-sulfate and basic amino acids than those of the second extract. The proteoglycans of the third extract also differed from those of the other extracts. The results indicate that the proteoglycans of guinea-pig costal cartilage exist as a very polydisperse and heterogenous population of molecules, exhibiting variations in aggregation capacity, molecular size, composition of protein core, degree of substitution of the protein core, as well as variability in the type of polysaccharides substituted.Keywords
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