Purification and Functional Characterization of a Shark Cartilage Factor Inhibitory to Angiogenesis.
SCAIF-I, an inhibitor of angiogenesis from shark cartilage was purified to homogeneity. The 4 mol/L guanidinium chloride extract of shark cartilage was fractionally precipitated with 35%-65% acetone, then purified by Resource Q ion exchange chromatography, Sephacryl S-300 gel filtration, and reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography. The pure inhibitor was homogeneous as a single band on a silver-stained 15% sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel. SCAIF-I had an molecular weight of 18 kD. It specifically inhibited proliferation of endothelial cells, and strongly blocked endothelial cell movement and angiogenesis in the chorioallantoic membrane of chick embryos. Systemic administration of SCAIF-I at the dose of 5 mg/kg.d suppressed 87.93% of the growth of Lewis lung carcinoma implanted in C57BL/6 mice.
Naval Medical Research Institute, Shanghai 200433, China. 970240@fudan.edu.cn
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Shen
Dong-Mei
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Ji
Fu-Xing
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Jia
Xin-Xian
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Deng
Jia-Hong
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Xing-Ran
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Da-Ming
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