Abstract
Two naturally occurring peptides that induce chondrogenesis in culture have been purified to apparent homogeneity. These cartilage-inducing factors (CIF-A and CIF-B) were isolated from bovine demineralized bone by dissociative extraction, gel filtration, cation-exchange chromatography, and reversed-phase HPLC. CIF-A and CIF-B at concentrations of 1-10 ng/ml each induce embryonic rat mesenchymal cells in culture to assume a cartilage morphology and synthesize cartilage-specific proteoglycan and type II collagen. The amino acid compositions of CIF-A and CIF-B are similar but not identical. Both factors have an apparent Mr of 26,000, as determined by NaDodSO4/PAGE. In the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol, both are converted to species of about one-half that Mr, indicating that they are dimers of identical or very similar chains.
Dates
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Created | 19 years, 3 months ago (May 31, 2006, 5:55 a.m.) |
Deposited | 3 years, 4 months ago (April 13, 2022, 12:11 p.m.) |
Indexed | 3 months, 2 weeks ago (May 19, 2025, 7:45 a.m.) |
Issued | 40 years, 5 months ago (April 1, 1985) |
Published | 40 years, 5 months ago (April 1, 1985) |
Published Online | 40 years, 5 months ago (April 1, 1985) |
Published Print | 40 years, 5 months ago (April 1, 1985) |
@article{Seyedin_1985, title={Purification and characterization of two cartilage-inducing factors from bovine demineralized bone.}, volume={82}, ISSN={1091-6490}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.82.8.2267}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.82.8.2267}, number={8}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, author={Seyedin, S M and Thomas, T C and Thompson, A Y and Rosen, D M and Piez, K A}, year={1985}, month=apr, pages={2267–2271} }