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ArticleGlycoconjugate journal2009

Pseudoproteoglycan (pseudoPG) probes that simulate PG macromolecular structure for screening and isolation of PG-binding proteins.

Keiko Nakagawa, Kosuke Nakamura, Yuji Haishima, Makiko Yamagami, Kana Saito, Hiromi Sakagami, Haruko Ogawa

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Article in Glycoconjugate journal, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Keiko NakagawaGraduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan.
Kosuke Nakamura
Yuji Haishima
Makiko Yamagami
Kana Saito
Hiromi Sakagami
Haruko Ogawa
Ochanomizu University · JPOtsuka (Japan) · JPNational Institute of Health Sciences · JP

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Abstract

A proteoglycan (PG) monomer is a macromolecule consisting of one or more glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains attached to a core protein. PGs have signaling roles and modulatory functions in the extracellular matrix and at the cell surface. To elucidate the functions of higher-order PG structures, pseudoPGs that imitate the PG structure were prepared to develop probes and affinity adsorbents. Poly-L: -lysine (PLL) or polyacrylamide (PAA) was coupled with various GAGs, then biotinylated, and the remaining amino groups were blocked to obtain the pseudoPG probes, biotinyl PLL (BPL)- or PAA (BPA)-GAGs. Lactoferrin exhibited 30-times higher affinity toward BPL-heparin than the conventional single-strand probe, biotin-hydrazide-heparin. Heparin-PLL was immobilized on a formyl-Sepharose and compared with the Hep-Sepharose in which heparin was directly immobilized to amino-Sepharose. Screening for ligands in normal rat brain revealed several proteins that specifically bound to either of the two adsorbents, indicating that the heparin-binding proteins exhibit specific recognition depending on the higher-order structure of the PG.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsBiotinChromatography, AffinityChromatography, GelKineticsLightMembranes, ArtificialMolecular ProbesMolecular Sequence DataProtein BindingProteinsProteoglycansRatsScattering, RadiationSepharoseBiotinMembranes, ArtificialMolecular ProbesProteinsProteoglycansSepharose

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PMID19234786
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