title: Development of a capillary electrophoresis method for the characterization of collagens in cartilage tissue.
abstract: The use of capillary electrophoresis (CE) for the separation of peptides specific to type I and type II collagen is evaluated. The aim of this work is to develop a method to characterize cartilage, cartilage repair tissue, and tissue engineered cartilage. The analysis is dependent on the cleavage of collagen into constituent peptides by cyanogen bromide. A number of these peptides are specific to the collagen type. CE is evaluated for the separation of these specific peptides using uncoated and coated capillaries over a wide range of pH and buffer concentrations. Separation of peptides specific to type I and type II collagen is achieved using a Supelco CElect N capillary and a 100mM phosphate buffer at pH 6. Meniscal cartilage is characterized using this method. The proportion of type I collagen to type II collagen corresponds well with that reported by others and indicates the potential of this method for the characterization of cartilage.
authors.affiliation: Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, UMIST, Manchester, U.K.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chalmers
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huckle
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Cotton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002021:Buffers; D002356:Cartilage / Q000737:chemistry*; D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000737:chemistry*; D002417:Cattle; D003094:Collagen / Q000032:analysis*; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D002021:Buffers; D003094:Collagen; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide