Abstract
The proteoglycans characterized were those isolated from the calcified matrix of mature bovine bone [Franzén & Heinegård (1984) Biochem. J. 224, 47-58]. The average molecular mass of the bone proteoglycan is 74 600 Da, determined by sedimentation-equilibrium centrifugation in 4M-guanidinium chloride. Its sedimentation coefficient (s0(20),w) is 3.04 S. The apparent Mr of its core protein is 46 000, estimated by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis of the chondroitinase ABC-digested proteoglycan. A more likely molecular mass of the core protein is 30 000 Da, as calculated from the molecular mass and the protein content (40%) of the proteoglycan. The bone proteoglycan contains one or probably two chondroitin sulphate chains each with a molecular mass (weight-average) of 33 700 Da and several oligosaccharides both of the N-glycosidically and the O-glycosidically linked type. Antibodies against the homogeneous bone proteoglycans were raised in rabbits. An e.l.i.s.a. (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) method was developed that allowed specific quantification of bone proteoglycans at nanogram levels. The specificity of the antibodies was tested by using the e.l.i.s.a. method. The bone proteoglycan showed partial cross-reactivity with the small proteoglycan of cartilage. The antibodies were used to localize immunoreactivity of bone proteoglycans by indirect immunofluorescence in frozen sections of foetal bovine epiphysial growth plate. The fluorescence was entirely found in the primary spongiosa, and no fluorescence was found among the hypertrophied chondrocytes or in the region of provisional calcification.
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