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. 1983 Aug 1;213(2):355–362. doi: 10.1042/bj2130355

Isolation and characterization of high-buoyant-density proteoglycans from bovine femoral-head cartilage.

M Lyon, J Greenwood, J K Sheehan, I A Nieduszynski
PMCID: PMC1152135  PMID: 6615440

Abstract

Proteoglycans were extracted from bovine (15-18 months old) femoral-head cartilage. The heterogeneity of the A1D1 proteoglycan fraction was examined by gel chromatography, sedimentation velocity, sucrose rate-zonal centrifugation and CS2SO4 isopycnic centrifugation. In all cases polydisperse but unimodal distributions were obtained. Chemical analysis of the preparation yielded a galactosamine/glucosamine molar ratio of 7:1, and 13C n.m.r. spectroscopy showed that the chondroitin sulphate comprised equal proportions of the 4- and 6-sulphate isomers. Gel chromatography of a papain and Pronase digest of the proteoglycan indicated that the chondroitin sulphate chains had a Mn of approx. 10500. The mean buoyant density of the proteoglycan in pure CS2SO4 was 1.46 g/ml. Physical characterization of the proteoglycan preparation in 4M-guanidine hydrochloride, pH 7.4, by using conventional light-scattering gave a radius of gyration of 42 nm and a Mw of 0.96 X 10(6). Quasi-elastic light-scattering in the same solvent yielded a translational diffusion coefficient, D020, of 5.41 X 10(-8) cm2 X S-1, and ultracentrifugation gave a sedimentation coefficient, S020, of 12.0S. Thus from sedimentation-diffusion studies a Mw of 1.36 X 10(6) was calculated. The possible origins for the differences in the two molecular-weight estimates are discussed. It is concluded that the high-buoyant-density proteoglycans from bovine articular cartilage are significantly smaller than those from bovine nasal septum, and that this is largely due to the smaller size of their chondroitin sulphate chains.

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