Open AccessChondroitin proteoglycans from squid skin
Author(s) -
KARAMANOS Nikos K.,
ALETRAS Alexis J.,
ANTONOPOULOS Christos A.,
HJERPE Anders,
TSIGANOS Constantine P.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
european journal of biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1432-1033
pISSN - 0014-2956
DOI - 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb19191.x
Subject(s) - squid , chondroitin , chemistry , anatomy , medicine , biology , glycosaminoglycan , fishery
Two populations of proteochondroitins were isolated from 4 M guanidine hydrochloride extracts of squid skin by a combination of ion exchange, gel chromatography and density gradient centrifugation. The proteoglycans, M r 4.8 × 10 5 and 2.8 × 10 5 , contained four and two chondroitine chains respectively and unusual oligosaccharides with uronic acid and sulphate groups, and had different amino acid and neutral sugar composition. The chondroitin chains isolated after alkaline borohydride treatment contained varying amounts of glucose, galactose, mannose, fucose and xylose, most likely as branches. Both proteoglycans were antigenic to the rabbit and showed considerable cross‐reactivity as assessed by competition experiments using the ELISA technique. The proteoglycans reacted neither with exogenous hyaluronic acid nor with each other to form aggregates.