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Author
Hamasaki, Yoshifumi
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Articular cartilage comprises collagens, proteoglycans, and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) together with water, in hyaline matrixes. Articular cartilage is resistant to proteolytic solubilization for comprehensive GAG analyses partly because of assemblies of collagen fibers with thermolabile hydrogen bonds. In this study, we used the heat-stable protease thermolysin to digest collagen in solid articular cartilage at 70 °C and compared the efficiencies of collagen digestion and GAG extraction to those with collagenase digestion at 50 °C. Overnight digestion with thermolysin completely solubilized cartilage, whereas collagenase with >10-times higher proteolytic activity digested <20% of collagen. Following thermolysin treatments, almost all GAGs were extracted from the cartilage, whereas only 56% of GAGs were extracted after collagenase digestion. Disaccharide analyses of extracted GAG chains revealed >98% extraction efficiencies of several GAG classes from thermolysin-treated cartilage, compared with <60% extraction efficiencies using collagenase, depending on GAG classes. These results indicate that thermolysin allows complete GAG extraction from solid articular cartilage and that complete solubilization is required for accurate and reproducible analyses of cartilage GAGs. Hence, thermolysin offers a tool for complete solubilization of cartilage prior to comprehensive GAGomic analysis, and is likely applicable to other collagen-rich tissues such as ligaments, skin, and blood vessels.
Subject
Thermolysin
Heat-stable protease
Collagen
Hydrogen bond
Cartilage
Glycosaminoglycan
Journal Title
Analytical Biochemistry
Volume
548
Start Page
115
End Page
118
ISSN
0003-2697
Published Date
2018-3-2
DOI
Publisher
Elsevier
NII Type
Journal Article
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PDF
Text Version
著者版
Gyoseki ID
e34002
e35137
OAI-PMH Set
Faculty of Medicine