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Glycosaminoglycans of normal and malignant cultured human mammary cells.
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Cancer research [Cancer Res] 1979 Mar; Vol. 39 (3), pp. 870-80. - Publication Year :
- 1979
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Abstract
- Glycosaminoglycans have been characterized from a normal human breast cell line (HBL-100) and two different cell lines from human breast carcinoma (MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7). The glycosaminoglycans were labeled by exposure of cell cultures to [3H]glucosamine and [35S]sulfate and then isolated from both spent media and cells by pronase digestion and cetylpyridinium chloride fractionation. They were further characterized by (a) hexosamine composition, (b) controlled-pore glass exclusion chromatography, (c) reactivity with specific enzymes (hyaluronidase chondroitinase, heparitinase, and heparinase), (d) nitrous acid degradation, and (e) DEAD-Sephadex chromatography. The results indicate that the HBL-100 line synthesizes mainly hyaluronic acid, most of which is secreted into the medium. Chondroitin sulfate and heparan sulfate are the predominant glycosaminoglycans synthesized by the cancer lines; both are found mainly in the spent medium, but the hyaluronic acid synthesized by the MDA-MB-231 line remains cell associated. The cell-associated heparan sulfate had a molecular weight in excess of 13,000 and may contain linkages susceptible to testicular hyaluronidase. The MCF-7 cells produce significantly lower amounts of glycosaminoglycans than do the other two lines.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0008-5472
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Cancer research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 427776