title: The influence of high ambient glucose level on the production of pericellular glycosaminoglycans by cultured endothelial cells.
abstract: The 14C-acetate metabolic labeling of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) was used to investigate the effect of high glucose level on the production of hyaluronic acid (HA), heparan sulphate (HS), chondroitin sulphate (CS) and dermatan sulphate (DS) by human immortalized umbilical vein endothelial cells. It is demonstrated that 30 mM glucose decreased the accumulation of HS and increased the accumulation of CS and DS in the cell layer, pericellular matrix and conditioned medium in 48 h of incubation. The modulation of the overall metabolism of sulphated GAGs by high glucose is in contrast to the observed redistribution of HA from the conditioned medium to the pericellular matrix of endothelial cells. The preincubation at 30 mM glucose increased also the attachment of hyaluronidase-treated endothelial cells to HA-coated surface and had no effect on the cell attachment to poly-D-lysine, indicating the alterations of CD44 binding to immobilized HA. The treatment of endothelial cells with p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-xylopyranoside, which inhibits the coupling of CS to the core protein, attenuated high glucose-induced pericellular HA accumulation and decreased cell attachment to HA-coated surface. It is supposed the implication of CD44-related CS in the accumulation of pericellular HA by endothelial cells exposed to high glucose level.
authors.affiliation: Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.
authors.forename: N Yu
authors.initials: NY
authors.lastname: Yevdokimova
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Komisarenko
mesh_terms: D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D002809:Chondroitin Sulfates / Q000378:metabolism; D003470:Culture Media; D003871:Dermatan Sulfate / Q000378:metabolism; D042783:Endothelial Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006025:Glycosaminoglycans / Q000378:metabolism*; D006497:Heparan Sulfate / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006820:Hyaluronic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D014471:Umbilical Veins / Q000166:cytology
chemical_list: D002809:Chondroitin Sulfates; D003470:Culture Media; D003871:Dermatan Sulfate; D005947:Glucose; D006025:Glycosaminoglycans; D006497:Heparan Sulfate; D006820:Hyaluronic Acid; C020341:glucosaminoglycans