Molecular Cloning and Tissue Distribution of Keratocan
| Autor: | James L. Funderburgh, George S. Bottomley, Sujatha Prakash, Gary W. Conrad, Lolita M. Corpuz, Martha L. Funderburgh |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
chemistry.chemical_classification
biology Lumican Keratan sulfate Cartilage Cell Biology Biochemistry Molecular biology eye diseases Amino acid chemistry.chemical_compound medicine.anatomical_structure Proteoglycan chemistry biology.protein medicine sense organs Glycoprotein Molecular Biology Peptide sequence Keratocan |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271:9759-9763 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9258 |
| DOI: | 10.1074/jbc.271.16.9759 |
| Popis: | Previous studies showed that the keratan sulfate-containing proteoglycans of bovine corneal stroma contain three unique core proteins designated 37A, 37B, and 25 (Funderburgh, J. L., Funderburgh, M. L., Mann, M. M., and Conrad, G. W.(1991) J. Biol. Chem. 266, 14226-14231). Degenerate oligonucleotides designed from amino acid sequences of the 37A protein were used to screen a cDNA expression library from cultured bovine keratocytes. A cDNA clone coding for keratocan, a 37A protein, was isolated and sequenced. The deduced keratocan amino acid sequence is unique but related to two other keratan sulfate-containing proteins, lumican (the 37B core protein) and fibromodulin. These three proteins share approximately 35% amino acid identity and a number of conserved structural features. Northern hybridization and immunoblotting of tissue extracts found keratocan distribution to be more limited than that of lumican or fibromodulin. Keratocan is abundant in cornea and sclera and detected in much lesser amounts in skin, ligament, cartilage, artery, and striated muscles. Only in cornea was keratocan found to contain large, sulfated keratan sulfate chains. Keratocan, like lumican, is a core protein of a major corneal proteoglycan but is present in non-corneal tissues primarily as a non-sulfated glycoprotein. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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