Studies on the effect of 3,4-dehydroproline on collagen metabolism in carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatic fibrosis. |
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Authors: | S S Kerwar A L Oronsky D Choe B Alvarez |
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Affiliation: | Departments of Microbiology, Human Genetics and Development and Neurology, Columbia University and the Neurological Institute, New York, New York 10032 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The lectin from Euonymus europeus seeds was purified by adsorption onto insoluble polyleucyl hog A + H blood group substance and subsequent elution with lactose. The isolated lectin formed three lines in immunoelectrophoresis against rabbit antisera to the crude seed extract and showed three components on electrophoresis in acrylamide gel at pH 9.4. In analytical isoelectric focusing the purified lectin had six closely spaced bands with pI from 4.3 to 4.7. It sedimented as two peaks: a big symmetrical peak with s20,w0 of 7.8 and another small, diffuse moving peak. The intrinsic viscosity was 0.057 dl/g and the Mr calculated from the sedimentation coefficients, intrinsic viscosity, and V? of 0.71 was about 166,000. In sodium dodecyl sulfate, it gives subunits of Mr 17,000 and 35,000; 20% of the 35,000 subunit resists reduction by dithiothreitol in 7 m guanidine-HCl. The Euonymus lectin is a glycoprotein containing 4.8% d-galactose, 2.9% d-glucose, and 2.8% N-acetyl-d-glucosamine. The purified lectin precipitated well with B and H blood group substances and with the P1 fraction of blood group B substance but not with A1 substances. It precipitated poorly with Lea and Leb and precursor I blood group substances. Inhibition of precipitation with milk and blood group oligosaccharides showed the lectin to be most specific for blood group B oligosaccharides having the structure: dGalα1 → 3[lFucα1 → 2]dGalβ1 → 3 or 4dGlcNAcβ→. It is also inhibited by blood group H oligosaccharides but to a lesser degree. For 50% inhibition of precipitation, 3.5, 850, and 290,000 nmol of B and H oligosaccharides and lactose, respectively are required. The B and H specificities are an intrinsic property of a single lectin site since absorption and elution from an H immunoadsorbent gave material with B as well as H specificity. Millipore-filtered crude extracts of Euonymus europeus preserved with 0.02% sodium azide are stable in the refrigerator for many months and can be used for quantitative precipitin and for quantitative inhibition assays, results being the same as with purified lectin. |
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Keywords: | Send correspondence to Dr. Kerwar at his present address: Metabolic Disease Therapy Research Section Lederle Laboratories Pearl River New York 10965. |
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