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  • Title: Chick cartilage chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan core protein. I. Generation and characterization of peptides and specificity for glycosaminoglycan attachment.
    Author: Krueger RC, Fields TA, Hildreth J, Schwartz NB.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1990 Jul 15; 265(20):12075-87. PubMed ID: 2365711.
    Abstract:
    Peptides were derived from the large chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan from chick cartilage by clostripain digestion. Using differential chondroitinase ABC and keratanase treatment and direct carbohydrate analysis, three major peptides of 86, 75, and 27 kDa were shown to bear only chondroitin sulfate chains. Another major peptide of 65 kDa was shown to contain both chondroitin sulfate and keratan sulfate chains, allowing it to be separated from the peptides derived from the chondroitin sulfate domain by DEAE-cellulose chromatography. An additional new peptide (100 kDa) containing keratan sulfate chains was found only in clostripain digests of proteoglycan-hyaluronate-link protein aggregates. Unlike any of the other peptides derived from clostripain digestion of proteoglycan monomer or aggregate, this peptide had the properties of a functional hyaluronate binding region. All of these peptides were purified to apparent homogeneity by preparative electroelution from sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and deglycosylated with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride. Automated Edman degradation of the two largest chondroitin sulfate peptides revealed that they had unique N termini and several unrecognized residues, which were all subsequently revealed to be modified serine residues following deglycosylation. The keratan sulfate-bearing peptide also had a unique N terminus, which contained a single unrecognized residue, even after HF deglycosylation. Finally, the N terminus of the hyaluronate binding region was blocked. These studies allow estimates of core peptide masses in the absence of carbohydrate as well as provide primary amino acid sequence for O-xylosylated serine residues in the multiply substituted proteoglycans.
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