title: Oligosaccharide mapping of proteoglycan-bound and xyloside-initiated dermatan sulfate from fibroblasts.
abstract: The copolymeric structure of dermatan sulfate chains synthesized by skin fibroblasts has been examined. Chains initiated onto exogeneous p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-xylopyranoside or attached to protein in a large proteoglycan, PG-L, and two small proteoglycans, PG-S1 and PG-S2, have been compared by using high resolution electrophoresis and gel chromatography of oligosaccharides generated by specific enzymatic or chemical degradations. The results confirm that chains attached to PG-L are glucuronate-rich, whereas novel findings indicate that chains attached to either of the two PG-S variants yield closely similar oligosaccharide maps, have approximately equal glucuronate and iduronate content and contain over 90% 4-sulfated disaccharide repeating units. Dermatan sulfate chains built onto xyloside at concentrations of 50 microM and below have a copolymeric structure similar to that of chains from the two PG-S variants. These findings indicate that the polymer-modifying machinery can generate chains with extended iduronate-containing repeats also when the xylose primer is not linked to core protein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Fransson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schmidtchen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cöster
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malmström
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002808:Chondroitin Lyases; D003871:Dermatan Sulfate / Q000737:chemistry*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry*; D011509:Proteoglycans / Q000737:chemistry*; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009844:Oligosaccharides; D011509:Proteoglycans; D014867:Water; D003871:Dermatan Sulfate; D002808:Chondroitin Lyases