The structure of an intact glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chain of the bikunin proteoglycan (PG) was analyzed using a combined top-down and bottom-up sequencing strategy. PGs are proteins with one or more linear, high-molecular weight, sulfated GAG polysaccharides O-linked to serine or threonine residues. GAGs are often responsible for the biological functions of PGs, and subtle variations in the GAG ...

The family of small interstitial chondroitin/dermatan sulfate proteoglycans consists of at least three different molecular species: biglycan (proteoglycan I), decorin (proteoglycan II), and proteoglycan-100, which has a glycosylated core protein of about 100 kDa. The core protein of decorin has been shown to be responsible for receptor-mediated endocytosis of this proteoglycan species by a vari...

Hybridoma techniques have been used to generate monoclonal antibodies to an antigen concentrated in the basal lamina at the Xenopus laevis neuromuscular junction. The antibodies selectively precipitate a high molecular weight heparan sulfate proteoglycan from conditioned medium of muscle cultures grown in the presence of [35S]methionine or [35S]sulfate. Electron microscope autoradiography of ad...

OBJECTIVES Articular cartilage proteoglycan content is controlled by joint loading. This study aimed to elucidate the role of hydrostatic pressure in this regulation. METHODS Primary cultures of chondrocytes from bovine articular cartilage, grown on coverslips, were subjected to 5, 15, or 30 MPa hydrostatic pressure, applied continuously or cyclically at 0.125 or 0.05 Hz. The Golgi apparatus ...

Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) is a hematopoietic cytokine that stimulates stromal and stem cell growth. It binds to a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored heparan sulfate proteoglycan on human bone marrow (BM) stromal cells. The bFGF-proteoglycan complex is biologically active and is released by addition of exogenous phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C. In this study, w...

Human gliobastomas (five of five), the most malignant astroglialderived tumors, specifically express a chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan that is recognized by monoclonal antibody 9.2.27 and localized to the glioma cell surface, proliferating endothelial cells, and the perivascular extracellular matrix within the tumor bed. In contrast, the expression of this proteoglycan in normal adult neocorte...

A cDNA that encodes a mouse secretory granule proteoglycan peptide core was isolated from a cDNA library prepared from nontransformed mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells (BMMC) using as a probe a 280-base-pair fragment of a rat cDNA that encodes the proteoglycan peptide core of rat basophilic leukemia (RBL)-1 cells. Based on the consensus nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence of ...

Pig articular cartilage was maintained in culture for 3 days with and without porcine interleukin 1. The proteoglycans remaining in the cartilage and those released into the medium were analysed by using radioimmunoassays for the hyaluronate-binding region, link protein and keratan sulphate. In interleukin 1-treated cultures after 3 days there was 38% release of total glycosaminoglycans into th...

A mouse anterior pituitary tumor cell line (AtT-20) that secretes adrenocorticotropin and beta endorphin sorts the proteins it transports to the surface into two exocytotic pathways. AtT-20 cells also synthesize a secretory granule-specific sulfated molecule and secrete it on stimulation (Moore, H.-P., B. Gumbiner, and R. B. Kelly, 1983, J. Cell Biol., 97:810-817). We show here that this molecu...