Molecular cloning of a phosphatidylinositol-anchored membrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan from human lung fibroblasts.

G David, V Lories, B Decock, P Marynen… - The Journal of cell …, 1990 - rupress.org
G David, V Lories, B Decock, P Marynen, JJ Cassiman, H Van den Berghe
The Journal of cell biology, 1990rupress.org
Two mAbs raised against the 64-kD core protein of a membrane heparan sulfate
proteoglycan from human lung fibroblasts also recognize a nonhydrophobic proteoglycan
which accumulates in the culture medium of the cells. Pulse-chase studies suggest that the
hydrophobic cell-associated forms act as precursors for the nonhydrophobic medium-
released species. The core proteins of the medium-released proteoglycans are slightly
smaller than those of the hydrophobic cell-associated species, but the NH2-terminal amino …
Two mAbs raised against the 64-kD core protein of a membrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan from human lung fibroblasts also recognize a nonhydrophobic proteoglycan which accumulates in the culture medium of the cells. Pulse-chase studies suggest that the hydrophobic cell-associated forms act as precursors for the nonhydrophobic medium-released species. The core proteins of the medium-released proteoglycans are slightly smaller than those of the hydrophobic cell-associated species, but the NH2-terminal amino acid sequences of both forms are identical. The characterization of human lung fibroblast cDNAs that encode the message for these core proteins and the effect of bacterial phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C suggest that the hydrophobic proteoglycan is membrane-anchored through a phospholipid tail. These data identify a novel membrane proteoglycan in human lung fibroblasts and imply that the shedding of this proteoglycan may be related to the presence of the phospholipid anchor.
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