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- Lohmander, Stefan, et al.
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Formation of proteoglycan aggregates in rat chondrosarcoma chondrocyte cultures treated with tunicamycin
- 1983
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Ingår i: Journal of Biological Chemistry. - 0021-9258. ; 258:20, s. 12280-12286
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Proteoglycan monomer and link protein isolated from the Swarm rat chondrosarcoma both contain glycosylamine-linked oligosaccharides. In monomer, these N-linked oligosaccharides are concentrated in a region of the protein core which interacts specifically with both hyaluronate and link protein to form proteoglycan aggregates present in the cartilage matrix. Chondrocyte cultures were treated with tunicamycin to inhibit synthesis of the N-linked oligosaccharides, and the ability of the deficient proteoglycan and link protein to form aggregates was studied. Cultures were pretreated with tunicamycin for 3 h and then labeled with either [3H]mannose, [3H]glucosamine, [3H]serine, or with [35S]sulfate for 6 h in the presence of tunicamycin. Formation of link protein-stabilized proteoglycan aggregates in the culture medium was inhibited by up to 40% when the cells were treated with 3 μg of tunicamycin/ml, a concentration which inhibited 3H incorporation with mannose as a precursor by about 90%, but by only 15% with glucosamine as a precursor. When exogenous proteoglycan aggregate was added to the culture medium, however, it was found that both endogenous monomer and link protein synthesized in the presence of tunicamycin were fully able to form link-stabilized aggregates. This suggests that glycosylamine-linked oligosaccharides on monomer and on link protein are not necessary for their specific interactions with hyaluronate and with each other. Further, although tunicamycin did not inhibit net synthesis of hyaluronate, transfer of hyaluronate from the cell layer to the culture medium was retarded. This phenomenon accounted for most if not all of the decrease in the amount of proteoglycan which formed aggregates in the medium of cultures treated with tunicamycin.
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- Nakazawa, K., et al.
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Defective processing of keratan sulfate in Macular corneal dystrophy
- 1984
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Ingår i: Journal of Biological Chemistry. - 0021-9258. ; 259:22, s. 13751-13757
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- macular corneal dystrophy is a human genetic disorder characterized by corneal opacities that arise, in part, from a failure to synthesize mature keratan sulfate proteoglycans. The macromolecules in macular corneas and in keratoconus corneas, an abnormality not involving proteoglycans, were biosynthetically labeled with [3H]mannose and [14C]glucosamine in organ culture, and the keratan sulfate proteoglycans were immunoprecipitated with antibodies against the protein core of monkey keratan sulfate proteoglycan. The chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans, which did not react with the antibody, were oversulfated in corneas from patients with macular corneal dystrophy. Characterization of the immunoprecipitates showed that macular corneas did not make keratan sulfate proteoglycan but did synthesize an immunoreactive glycoprotein in nearly equal amounts as keratan sulfate proteoglycan was synthesized by the keratoconus cornea. The oligosaccharides on the immunoprecipitated macular glycoprotein appeared to be normal. However, the macromolecules contained an unsulfated glycoconjugate that was nearly as large as the normal keratan sulfate chains isolated from the keratoconus keratan sulfate-proteoglycan and contained the same relative proportions of labeled glucosamine, mannose, and fucose. This glycoconjugate was resistant to digestion with keratanase. These observations indicate that macular corneal dystropy is caused by an error in the synthesis of keratan sulfate, possibly involving the specific sulfotransferases involved in sulfation of the lactosaminoglycan backbone of the chains.
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- Persson, Bengt L., et al.
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Energy-linked nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase : Properties of proton-translocating mitochondrial transhydrogenase from beef heart purified by fast protein liquid chromatography
- 1984
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Ingår i: Journal of Biological Chemistry. - 0021-9258 .- 1083-351X. ; 259, s. 8626-8632
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mitochondrial nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenasefrom beef heart was purified by a novel procedureinvolving fast protein liquid chromatography andcharacterized with respect to molecular and catalyticproperties. The method is reproducible, gives highlypure transhydrogenase as judged by silver staining,and can be modified to produce large amounts of puretranshydrogenase protein suitable for e.g. sequencingand other protein chemical studies.Transhydrogenase purified by fast protein liquidchromatography is reconstitutively active and pumpsprotons as indicated by an extensive quenching of 9-aminoacridine fluorescence. Under conditions whichgenerate a proton gradient in the absence of a membranepotential the activity of reconstituted transhydrogenaseis close to zero indicating a complete andproper incorporation in the membrane and a preferentialregulation of the enzyme by a proton gradientrather than a membrane potential.Treatment of reconstituted transhydrogenase withN,N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide results in an inhibitionof proton pump activity without an effect on uncoupledcatalytic activity, suggestingt hat proton translocationand catalytic activities are not obligatory linked orthat this agent separates proton pumping from thecatalytic activity.
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- Thonar, E. J M A, et al.
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Biosynthesis of O-linked oligosaccharides on proteoglycans by chondrocytes from the swarm rat chondrosarcoma
- 1983
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Ingår i: Journal of Biological Chemistry. - 0021-9258. ; 258:19, s. 11564-11570
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The core protein of proteoglycans from cartilage is substituted with glycosaminoglycans as well as N- and O-glycosidically linked oligosaccharides. We have taken advantage of the long intracellular half-life of the core protein precursor to the rat chondrosarcma proteoglycan to study the temporal relationship between the addition of the chondroitin sulfate chains and the O-linked oligosaccharides onto the core protein during the formation of the completed proteoglycan molecule. Chondrocyte cultures were pulsed on day 2 with [6-3H]glucosamine for times ranging from 30-420 min. Media and corresponding 4% zwittergent, 4 M guanidine HCl extracts were then pooled and subjected to dissociative density gradient ultracentrifugation to yield purified proteoglycan monomers which were then subjected to alkaline borohydride treatment. The released chondroitin sulfate chains were then purified by precipitation with 50% (v/v) ethanol. The O-linked oligosaccharide-alditols in the supernatant fractions were purified by molecular sieve chromatography on Bio-Gel P-6, and analyzed after digestion with α-neuraminidase and subsequent chromatography on Bio-Gel P-2. The different O-linked oligosaccharide-alditols were identified from their hexosamine and hexosaminitol contents. The kinetics of entry of 3H label into N-acetylgalactosamine of chondroitin sulfate was indistinguishable from that into either N-acetylglucosamine or N-acetylgalactosaminitol residues of the oligosaccharide-alditols, with half-times to linear incorporation of 10-17 min. These results show that initiation as well as completion of the O-linked oligosaccharides on the core protein occurs essentially at the same time that chondroitin sulfate chains are added. The results suggest that these biosynthetic processes occur in the Golgi apparatus during the last few minutes of the total intracellular dwell time (half-time of about 90 min) of the core protein acceptor.
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- Wieloch, T., et al.
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Product activation of pancreatic lipase. Lipolytic enzymes as probes for lipid/water interfaces
- 1982
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Ingår i: Journal of Biological Chemistry. - 0021-9258. ; 257:19, s. 11523-11528
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the action of pancreatic lipase and colipase on racemic 1,2-didodecanoylglycerol monolayers in the absence of bile salts, biphasic kinetics was observed under conditions of high lipid packing. Similar kinetics has earlier been reported using phospholipid-emulsified triolein droplets. These kinetics are characterized by a lag time τ(d), dependent on products accumulation at the substrate/water interface. This lag time is differentiated from the previously described enzyme concentration independent lag time τ(i) in systems of low lipid packing. Both τ(i) and τ(d) reflect a rate-limiting step due to the slow enzyme penetration into the substrate interface. The variation of τ(d) under different conditions (change in pH and concentration of Ca2+, enzyme, bovine serum albumin, and lipolytic products) lead us to propose a model for the product activation during lipolysis. We will discuss the use of the pancreatic lipase-colipase system to probe the lipid packing of emulsified triglyceride particles and lipoproteins using τ(d) as a reference value.
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- Ångström, Jonas, 1950, et al.
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Chemical characterization of penta-, hexa-, hepta-, octa-, and nonaglycosylceramides of rat small intestine having a globoside-like terminus.
- 1982
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Ingår i: The Journal of biological chemistry. - 0021-9258. ; 257:2, s. 682-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A novel series of glycosphingolipids has been isolated from the nonepithelial part of rat small intestine. A mixed fraction containing 3 major components corresponding to glycolipids with 5, 6, and 7 sugars and 2 minor components with 8 and 9 sugars was characterized. The structure of the major components was deduced by mass spectrometry and proton NMR spectroscopy of nondegraded permethylated and permethylated-reduced (LiAlH4) derivatives and gas-liquid chromatography of degradation products of native, permethylated, and permethylated-reduced glycolipids. The structures of the penta-, hexa-, and hepta-glycosylceramides were found to be GalNAcp beta 1 leads to (3Galp alpha 1 leads to)2-44Galp beta 1 leads to 4Glcp beta 1 leads to 1Cer. By analogy reasoning, supported by mass spectrometry, the octa- and nonaglycosylceramides were concluded to have 1 and 2 additional internal leads to 3Galp alpha 1 leads to 3 structures, respectively. A pentaglycosylceramide fraction from another rat strain was also isolated. The NMR spectra were in agreement with 2 isomeric structures of which 1 had the internal alpha 1 leads to 4 linkage replaced by an alpha 1 leads to 3 linkage. The fatty acids of all components were nonhydroxy 16:0 to 24:0 acids with the 18:0 homologue as dominating species. The major base was sphingosine and possibly monohydroxy 18:1 base in the larger glycolipids. This is a novel series of structures with a terminal saccharide identical with isoglobotetraoxylceramide (cytolipin R). The glycosyltransferase for the terminal GalNAc beta 1 leads to 3 of cytolipin R may possibly be identical with the enzyme adding the terminal sugar of this novel series. This is supported by the presence in the same tissue of probable precursor glycolipids with 4 to 8 hexoses.
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