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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 506, Issue 1, Pages 58-65Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2010.10.025
Keywords
Proteoglycan; Aggrecan; Core protein; Amino acid; Glycosaminoglycan
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [19570119]
- Fund for Cooperation for Innovative Technology and Advanced Research in Evolution Area (City Area)
- Hirosaki University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19570119] Funding Source: KAKEN
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There has been no structural information about the core protein of salmon nasal cartilage proteoglycan although its physiological activities have been investigated. Internal amino acid sequencing using nano-LC/MS/MS revealed that the salmon proteoglycan was aggrecan. Primer walk sequencing based on the amino acid information determined that the salmon aggrecan cDNA is comprised of 4207 bp nucleotides predicted to encode 1324 amino acids with a molecular mass of 143,276. It exhibited significant similarities to predicted pufferfish aggrecan, zebrafish similar to aggrecan, zebrafish aggrecan, bovine aggrecan and human aggrecan isoform 2 precursor; whose amino acid identities were 56%, 55%, 49%, 31% and 30%, respectively. Salmon cartilage aggrecan had globular domains G1, G2 and G3 as in mammalian aggrecans. Neither the putative keratan sulfate attachment domain enriched with serine, glutamic acid and proline, nor the putative chondroitin sulfate attachment domain with repeating amino acid sequence containing serine-glycine, found in mammalian aggrecans were observed in salmon, however, random serine-glycine (or glycine-serine) sequences predicted to the sugar chain attachment sites were observed. Based on cDNA analysis and amino acid analysis after beta-elimination, the ratio of serine attached to sugar chains was calculated to be approximately 37.7% of total serine, that is, 46 of 123 serine residues. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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