Preparative Electrophoresis on Agarose Submerged Gels of Two Aggregating Proteoglycan Monomers from Articular Cartilage

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Analytical electrophoresis on polyacrylamide-agarose gels of aggregating proteoglycan monomers from baboon articular cartilage produces two distinct bands2-5, corresponding to two different aggregating monomer populations3, 8. A preparative electrophoresis procedure is described for isolating the two monomers. Proteoglycans were extracted from young baboon articular cartilage in 4 M guanidinium chloride containing proteolysis inhibitors and aggregated after hyaluronic acid addition. The aggregates were separated from non-aggregated proteoglycans by isopycnic centrifugation, followed by gel chromatography on Sepharose CL-2B. The monomers of the aggregates were obtained by isopycnic centrifugation under dissociative conditions. Two monomers were separated by preparative electrophoresis on 0.8 % agarose submerged gels. Approximately 60 % of the proteoglycans were recovered from the gel using a freeze-squeeze procedure. Aliquots of the separated monomers gave single bands when submitted to analytical polyacrylaraide-agarose gel electrophoresis. Their migration and appearance were similar to that of the two bands present in the non separated preparation of monomers.

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