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  • Title: Small proteoglycan synthesis by skin fibroblasts cultured from elderly donors and patients with defined defects in types I and III collagen metabolism.
    Author: Vogel KG, Clark PE.
    Journal: Eur J Cell Biol; 1989 Aug; 49(2):236-43. PubMed ID: 2776773.
    Abstract:
    The relative synthesis of two different types of small proteoglycans with potentially distinct roles in tissue function (PGI and PGII) was investigated in human skin fibroblast cultures initiated from donors of increasing age (fetal to 92 y) and from patients with defined defects in type I and type III collagen metabolism. Because these two small proteoglycans are not distinguished by the usual methods of ion-exchange and sieve chromatography, we have separated them using gel electrophoresis and confirmed this by specific immunoprecipitation. Small proteoglycans of the PGII type were the predominant species found in the medium of all cultures from normal donors, regardless of age. Most of the mutant cell lines showed a profile of small proteoglycan synthesis like that of the normal cells (i.e., predominantly PGII) although an increased ratio of PGI/PGII was seen for two cell strains from patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV characterized by intracellular accumulation of type III procollagen. We conclude that mutations affecting collagen primary structure and secretion appear to have little effect on the cells' synthesis and secretion of small proteoglycans. These findings fail to support an hypothesis suggesting that the metabolism of normal cellular synthetic products (proteoglycans) is altered by abnormal cellular processing of a defective product (collagen).
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