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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
1971-1-11
pubmed:abstractText
Our previous studies have indicated the presence of a macromolecular inhibitor of in vitro mineral growth, as well as a mineral nucleational agent in extracellular matrix fluid aspirated by micropuncture methods from epiphyseal hypertrophic cell cartilage. In this report, new miniaturized methods were used to extract proteinpolysaccharide complexes (PPC) from cartilage, to isolate a light fraction (PPL-C), and further, to separate it into R1, R2, and SR2 subfractions. These methods were applied to PPL-C complexes separated from microdissected epiphyseal cartilages and to cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) precipitates of extracellular matrix fluid aspirated from similar cartilages. Most of all of the inhibitory action on an in vitro system of mineral growth shown by whole cartilage PPL-C and by cartilage fluid PPC obtained from noncalcifying sites was contained in the R2 fraction which represented (1/4)-[unk] of the total hexuronate. The R2 fraction was diminished or absent from calcified cartilage fluids and from whole calcified epiphyseal septa. The ratio R1 + R2: SR2 ranged from 0.37 to 0.71 in the fluids and whole tissue samples of noncalcified cartilages. The R2 fraction was distinguished from SR2 by a 2- to 3-fold higher protein: hexuronate ratio. These data are interpreted to indicate that the inhibitory R2 fraction was degraded or otherwise inactivated at the zone of provisional calcification and that this inhibitor participates in the physiological mechanism that regulates endochondral calcification.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0021-9738
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2188-97
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1970
pubmed:articleTitle
Evidence for a role of proteinpolysaccharides in regulation of mineral phase separation in calcifying cartilage.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro