DILUTE-SOLUTION PROPERTIES OF PROTEOGLYCAN FRACTIONS FROM BOVINE NASAL CARTILAGE
DILUTE-SOLUTION PROPERTIES OF PROTEOGLYCAN FRACTIONS FROM BOVINE NASAL CARTILAGE
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DOI:
10.1002/bip.1978.360170316
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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2.9
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CLELAND, RL
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作者:
KITCHEN, RG;CLELAND, RL
Fresh proteoglycans (adult bovine nasal cartilage) isolated from the densest portion of a dissociative density gradient had a weight-average MW of about 106 in 4 M guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) by light scattering. Fractions of such material obtained by elution with 4 M GdnHCl from 2% agarose gel, both normal and cross-linked, had proteoglycan subunit MW ranging from 0.8 to 2.6 .times. 106 and root-mean-square radii ranging 35-52 nm in the same solvent. The protein MW per proteoglycan subunit was about 1.2 .times. 105 and that of keratan sulfate about 1.8 .times. 105, both independent of total molecular weight. A random-flight graft copolymer model having uniform side chains of chondroitin sulfate (40 disaccharides) and keratan sulfate (15 disaccharides) and a random-coil polypeptide backbone was used to estimate the unperturbed radius, which was about 19 nm for a MW of 1.5 .times. 106. Experimental light-scattering data for fractions were fitted very well by theoretical curves for the particle scattering factor for both linear and appropriate branched polymers. Examination of coil expansion on the basis of perturbation calculations for branched polymer models suggested that expansion did not account for the experimentally observed radii in terms of unperturbed radii calculated from the model. A possible explanation is that substantial local stiffening of the polypeptide chain due to substitution of side-chain clusters increases the unperturbed radii. The intrinsic viscosity [.eta.] is 4 M GdnHCl ranged 120-180 ml/g, and could be interpreted in terms of the equivalent sphere model; the Flory number has approximately its normal value for flexible linear polymers. The treatment of the sedimentation coefficient by this model is less successful, since the Mandelkern-Flory parameter .beta. apparently increases with increasing MW; average values are similar to those for flexible linear polymers, but the variation in .beta. makes this method useful only for rough estimation of MW of proteoglycans. MW of purified proteoglycans are the same in 0.2 M NaCl as in 4 M GdnHCl, while crude preparations gave higher MW in 0.2 M NaCl, probably because of association due to incomplete removal of linking proteins.