Corrigendum to 'Chondroitin sulfate is involved in the hypercalcification of the organic matrix of bovine peritubular dentin' [Archives of Oral Biology 62 (2016) 93–100]

Apatitic mineral of dentin forms within the collagenous matrix (intertubular dentin, ITD) secreted from the odontoblastic processes (OP). Highly calcified mineral (peritubular dentin, PTD) is deposited at the interface between the ITD and each process membrane, creating a tubular system penetrating the dentin that extends from the dentino-enamel junction to the predentin-dentin junction. We focus on determining the composition of the PTD both with regard to its organic matrix and the inorganic phase. A laser capture technique has been adapted for isolation of the mineralized PTD free of the ITD, and for the analysis of the PTD by SEM, TEM, and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS), and comparison with similar analyses of intact dentin slices containing ITD bounded-PTD annuli. Elemental line scans clearly marked the boundaries between ITD, PTD, and OP components, and revealed differences in composition, and topographical surface roughness. The organic matrix of the PTD was shown to be sulfur rich, and further antibody labeling showed the sulfated organic component to be chondroitin sulfate B. In this organic matrix the Ca/P ratio was distinctly higher than in the ITD and intact PTD, indicating that polysaccharide bound S supplies the anionic counterion facilitating the formation of the apatitic PTD mineral.