title: Dermatan sulphate proteoglycans of human articular cartilage. The properties of dermatan sulphate proteoglycans I and II.
abstract: Dermatan sulphate proteoglycans were purified from juvenile human articular cartilage, with a yield of about 2 mg/g wet wt. of cartilage. Both dermatan sulphate proteoglycan I (DS-PGI) and dermatan sulphate proteoglycan II (DS-PGII) were identified and the former was present in greater abundance. The two proteoglycans could not be resolved by agarose/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis, but could be resolved by SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis, which indicated average Mr values of 200,000 and 98,000 for DS-PGI and DS-PGII respectively. After digestion with chondroitin ABC lyase the Mr values of the core proteins were 44,000 for DS-PGI and 43,000 and 47,000 for DS-PGII, with the smaller core protein being predominant in DS-PGII. Sequence analysis of the N-terminal 20 amino acid residues reveals the presence of a single site for the potential substitution of dermatan sulphate at residue 4 of DS-PGII and two such sites at residues 5 and 10 for DS-PGI.
authors.affiliation: Joint Diseases Laboratory, Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Roughley
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000032:analysis*; D011508:Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans / Q000032:analysis*; D003871:Dermatan Sulfate; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011509:Proteoglycans / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D011508:Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans; D011509:Proteoglycans; C032649:dermatan sulfate proteoglycan; D003871:Dermatan Sulfate