Propolypeptide and mature portions of von Willebrand factor of bovine origin recognize different sites on type-I collagen obtained from bovine tendon. |
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Authors: | T Usui T Fujisawa J Takagi Y Saito |
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Institution: | Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. |
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Abstract: | We compared the binding of propolypeptide and mature portions of von Willebrand factor of bovine origin to fibrillar type-I collagen obtained from bovine tendon. The propolypeptide (pp-vWF) and the mature portion (m-vWF) of human origin consist of 741 and 2050 amino acids, respectively, and are rather large proteins. The collagen-binding properties of the two proteins of bovine origin were similar in that both bound more avidly to native collagen than to heat-denatured collagen. Bindings was affected similarly by ionic strength but was not modified either by divalent cations or a synthetic peptide containing Arg-Gly-Asp. However, the binding sites in the fibrillar type-I collagen molecule for pp-vWF and m-vWF seem to be different: the two proteins did not effectively compete with each other for binding to collagen. Furthermore, pepsin treatment of fibrillar type-I collagen resulted in a drastic decrease in the binding of pp-vWF, while only a moderate decrease in the binding of m-vWF was observed after the treatment. |
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