scholarly journals Identification of a hyaluronic acid-binding protein that interferes with the preparation of high-buoyant-density proteoglycan aggregates from adult human articular cartilage

1985 ◽  
Vol 231 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
P J Roughley ◽  
R J White ◽  
A R Poole

Adult human articular cartilage contains a hyaluronic acid-binding protein of Mr 60 000-75 000, which contains disulphide bonds essential for this interaction. The molecule can compete with proteoglycan subunits for binding sites on hyaluronic acid, and can also displace proteoglycan subunits from hyaluronic acid if their interaction is not stabilized by the presence of link proteins. The abundance of this protein in the adult accounts for the reported inability to prepare high-buoyant-density proteoglycan aggregates from extracts of adult human cartilage [Roughley, White, Poole & Mort (1984) Biochem. J. 221, 637-644], whereas the deficiency of the protein in newborn human cartilage allows the normal recovery of proteoglycan aggregates from this tissue. The protein shares many common features with a hyaluronic acid-binding region derived by proteolytic treatment of a proteoglycan aggregate preparation, and this may also represent its origin in the cartilage, with its production increasing during tissue maturation.

1985 ◽  
Vol 232 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
M T Bayliss ◽  
P J Roughley

Proteoglycan was extracted from adult human articular cartilage from both the knee and the hip, and A1 preparations were prepared by CsCl-density-gradient centrifugation at starting densities of 1.69 and 1.5 g/ml. Irrespective of whether the cartilage was diced to 1 mm cubes or sectioned to 20 micron slices there was always a lower proportion of both protein and proteoglycan aggregate in the A1 preparation prepared at 1.69 g/ml. Furthermore, the addition of exogenous hyaluronic acid to the extracts before centrifugation did not improve the yield of aggregate at 1.69 g/ml. These results were not affected by the presence of proteinase inhibitors in the extraction medium. It appears that adult human articular cartilage contains a high proportion of low-density proteoglycan subunits and hyaluronic acid-binding proteins that make most of the re-formed proteoglycan aggregates of a lower density than is usually encountered with younger human and mammalian hyaline cartilages.


1984 ◽  
Vol 221 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
P J Roughley ◽  
R J White ◽  
A R Poole ◽  
J S Mort

High-buoyant-density proteoglycan aggregates could not be prepared from extracts of adult human cartilage by associative CsCl-density-gradient centrifugation with a starting density of 1.68 g/ml, even though proteoglycan subunits, hyaluronic acid and link proteins were all present. In contrast, aggregates could be prepared when extracts of neonatal human cartilage or bovine nasal cartilage were subjected to the same procedure. This phenomenon did not appear to be due to a defect within the hyaluronic acid-binding region of the adult proteoglycan subunit, but rather to an interference in the stability of the interaction between the proteoglycan subunit and hyaluronic acid towards centrifugation. The factor responsible for this instability was shown to reside within the low-density cartilage protein preparation obtained by direct dissociative CsCl-density-gradient centrifugation of the adult cartilage extract.


1978 ◽  
Vol 176 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
M T Bayliss ◽  
S Y Ali

1. Analysis of the purified proteoglycans extracted from normal human articular cartilage with 4M-guanidinium chloride showed that there was an age-related increase in their content of protein and keratan sulphate. 2. The hydrodynamic size of the dissociated proteoglycans also decreased with advancing age, but there was little change in the proportion that could aggregate. 3. Results suggested that some extracts of aged-human cartilage had an increased content of hyaluronic acid compared with specimens from younger patients. 4. Dissociated proteoglycans, from cartilage of all age groups, bind to hyaluronic acid and form aggregates in direct proportion to the hyaluronic acid concentration. 5. Electrophoretic heterogeneity of the dissociated proteoglycans was demonstrated on polyacrylamide/agarose gels. The number of proteoglycan species observed was also dependent on the age of the patient.


2009 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 382-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Bo Chen ◽  
Chuan-Tao Jiang ◽  
Guo-Qiang Zhang ◽  
Jin-Song Wang ◽  
Da Pang

Gene ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 190 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satarupa Das ◽  
Tushar Baran Deb ◽  
Rajeev Kumar ◽  
Kasturi Datta

Tumor Biology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 597-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajeev K Boregowda ◽  
Hitesh N. Appaiah ◽  
Mortha Karunakumar ◽  
Shivanna Parameshwariah ◽  
Geetha Avadani ◽  
...  

1981 ◽  
Vol 199 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Wieslander ◽  
D Heinegård

Antibodies directed against whole bovine nasal-cartilage proteoglycan and against the hyaluronic acid-binding region and chondroitin sulphate peptides from the same molecule were used in immunodiffusion and immunoelectromigration experiments. Proteoglycans from bovine nasal and tracheal cartilage showed immunological identity, with all three antisera. Proteoglycans from pig hip articular cartilage, dog hip articular cartilage, human tarsal articular cartilage and rat chondrosarcoma reacted with all the antisera and showed immunological identity with the corresponding structures isolated from bovine nasal-cartilage proteoglycans. In contrast, proteoglycans from rabbit articular cartilage, rabbit nasal cartilage and cultured chick limb buds did not react with the antibodies directed against the hyaluronic acid-binding region, though reacting with antibodies raised against whole proteoglycan monomer and against chondroitin sulphate peptides. All the proteoglycans gave two precipitation lines with the anti-(chondroitin sulphate peptide) antibodies. Similarly, the proteoglycans reacting with the anti-(hyaluronic acid-binding region) antibodies gave two precipitation lines. The results indicate the presence of at least two populations of aggregating proteoglycan monomers in cartilage. The relative affinity of the antibodies for cartilage proteoglycans and proteoglycan substructures from various species was determined by radioimmunoassay. The affinity of the anti-(hyaluronic acid-binding region) antibodies for the proteoglycans decreased in the order bovine, dog, human and pig cartilage. Rat sternal-cartilage and rabbit articular-cartilage proteoglycans reacted weakly, whereas chick limb-bud and chick sternal-cartilage proteoglycans did not react. In contrast, the affinity of antibodies to chondroitin sulphate peptides for proteoglycans increased in the order bovine cartilage, chick limb bud and chick sternal cartilage, dog cartilage, rat chondrosarcoma, human cartilage, pig cartilage, rat sternal cartilage and rabbit cartilage.


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