Glycoprotein biosynthesis by organ cultures of hamster trachea |
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Authors: | Peter F. Daniel George Wolf |
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Affiliation: | Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Conditions have been developed for maintaining hamster tracheas in organ culture for at least 10 days. Secreted glycoproteins labelled with [14C]glucosamine and [3H]fucose were isolated from the spent medium and digested with papain, and the digest was fractionated on DEAE-Sephadex by stepwise elution with NaCl. The fractions eluted by 0.1 and 0.2 M NaCl and some of the products eluted with 0.4 M NaCl were shown to be derived from epithelial glycoproteins. Glycosaminoglycans were eluted by 0.4 M and by 1.25 M NaCl. Glycopeptides isolated from the epithelium by homogenization, ethanol precipitation and papain digestion, and defined as “intracellular”, gave a very similar profile on DEAE-Sephadex. The 0.1 M glycopeptide peak was the major fraction of epithelial origin from both secreted and “intracellular” material; it labelled extensively with both glucosamine and fucose and had a molecular weight of approx. 5000 (as judged by its elution from Sephadex G-75). This fraction was purified further by chromatography on Sephadex G-75 and DEAE-Sephadex; its amino acid and carbohydrate compositions were determined. |
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