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Effect of calcipenia on proteoglycan metabolism and aggregation in normal articular cartilage in vitro.


ABSTRACT: Glycosaminoglycan synthesis in normal adult dog knee cartilage cultured in medium containing 0, 0.3 MM- and 0.9 mM-Ca2+ was 52, 67 and 78%, respectively, of that in cartilage from the same joints cultured in a normal concentration of Ca2+, i.e. 1.8 mM. Pulse-chase experiments indicated that the rate of degradiation of glycosaminoglycans in cartilage cultured in the absence of Ca2+ was similar to that of glycosaminoglycans in cartilage cultured in 1.8 mM-Ca2+. Although [35S]sulphate incorporation into glycosaminoglycans was decreased in the presence of calcipenia, [3H]leucine incorporation into protein was unaffected. The average hydrodynamic size of newly synthesized proteoglycan aggregates and purified disaggregated proteoglycans from cartilage cultured in the absence of Ca2+ was similar to that of aggregates and disaggregated proteoglycans from cartilage cultured in 1.8 mM-Ca2+.

SUBMITTER: Palmoski MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1161320 | biostudies-other | 1979 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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