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Wang Z, Xu H, Zhang J, Jin H, Wei P. Basic fibroblast growth factor blockade enhances lung cancer cell invasion by activating the AKT/MMP-2/VEGF pathway. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol 2020; 126:43-50. [PMID: 31314153 DOI: 10.1111/bcpt.13290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) can stimulate cancer cell growth and invasion; however, the influence of bFGF blockade remains unclear. Therefore, we aimed to explore the effects of bFGF blockade on the growth and invasion in A549 (high bFGF expression) and H2122 (low bFGF expression) lung cancer cells. We found that the blocking of bFGF by a neutralizing monoclonal antibody suppressed the growth of A549 cells but not of H2122 cells, as well as strongly induced the invasiveness of A549 cancer cells. Furthermore, bFGF blockade activated the AKT pathway and enhanced the expression levels of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in A549 cells. These responses could be reversed by treatment with AKT inhibitor and siMMP-2, thus indicating the involvement of the AKT/MMP-2/VEGF-positive feedback loop. Finally, we confirmed that the anti-bFGF-induced invasion of cancer cells could be rescued by inhibiting the AKT/MMP-2/VEGF loop. Our results revealed that bFGF blockade suppresses cell growth but promotes cell invasion in lung cancer cells with high bFGF expression levels. Our data further reinforced the importance of the AKT/MMP-2/VEGF loop in regulating anti-bFGF-induced tumour cell invasion and suggested the limitations of the bFGF-targeting strategy in lung cancer treatment.
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- Zhiyong Wang
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China.,Department of Immunology, Zhuhai Campus of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China
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Ashikari-Hada S, Habuchi H, Sugaya N, Kobayashi T, Kimata K. Specific inhibition of FGF-2 signaling with 2-O-sulfated octasaccharides of heparan sulfate. Glycobiology 2009; 19:644-54. [PMID: 19254961 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwp031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-2 signaling, the formation of a ternary complex of FGF-2, tyrosine-kinase fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR)-1, and cell surface heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycan is known to be critical for the activation of FGFR-1 and downstream signal transduction. Exogenous heparin polymer and some octasaccharides inhibited FGF-2-induced phosphorylation both of FGFR-1 and of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2) in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO)-K1 cells transfected with FGFR-1, which present HS on their cell surface. The inhibitory effect of octasaccharide was dependent on the number of 2-O-sulfate groups within a molecule but independent of the number of 6-O-sulfate groups. Sulfation at the 2-O-position was a prerequisite not only for the binding of HS to FGF-2 but also for regulation of FGF-2 signaling and competitive inhibition with endogenous HS. Interestingly, FGF-4-induced phosphorylation was impeded only by specific octasaccharides containing both 2-O- and 6-O-sulfated groups, which were necessary for binding FGF-4. In CHO-677 cells deficient in HS biosynthesis, heparin enhanced FGF-2-induced phosphorylation of ERK1/2. On the other hand, an FGF-2-binding octasaccharide inhibited the phosphorylation. Our data suggest that the activity of particular heparin-binding factors can be inhibited by distinctive oligosaccharides that can bind the factors but cannot form functional signaling complexes irrespective of whether cells have a normal complement of HS or lack HS.
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- Satoko Ashikari-Hada
- Institute for Molecular Science of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Yazako, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan
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Tatai J, Fügedi P. Synthesis of the putative minimal FGF binding motif heparan sulfate trisaccharides by an orthogonal protecting group strategy. Tetrahedron 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2008.08.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Simon PM. Section Review: Biologicals & Immunologicals: Complex carbohydrates in development as human pharmaceuticals. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2008. [DOI: 10.1517/13543784.3.3.223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Demoliou-Mason CD. Overview: Cardiovascular & Renal: Inhibition of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation. Expert Opin Ther Pat 2008. [DOI: 10.1517/13543776.4.7.813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Seed MP. Section Review Oncologic, Endocrine & Metabolic: Angiogenesis inhibition as a drug target for disease: an update. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2008. [DOI: 10.1517/13543784.5.12.1617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Mellor P, Harvey JR, Murphy KJ, Pye D, O'Boyle G, Lennard TWJ, Kirby JA, Ali S. Modulatory effects of heparin and short-length oligosaccharides of heparin on the metastasis and growth of LMD MDA-MB 231 breast cancer cells in vivo. Br J Cancer 2007; 97:761-8. [PMID: 17726466 PMCID: PMC2360379 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Expression of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 allows breast cancer cells to migrate towards specific metastatic target sites which constitutively express CXCL12. In this study, we determined whether this interaction could be disrupted using short-chain length heparin oligosaccharides. Radioligand competition binding assays were performed using a range of heparin oligosaccharides to compete with polymeric heparin or heparan sulphate binding to I(125) CXCL12. Heparin dodecasaccharides were found to be the minimal chain length required to efficiently bind CXCL12 (71% inhibition; P<0.001). These oligosaccharides also significantly inhibited CXCL12-induced migration of CXCR4-expressing LMD MDA-MB 231 breast cancer cells. In addition, heparin dodecasaccharides were found to have less anticoagulant activity than either a smaller quantity of polymeric heparin or a similar amount of the low molecular weight heparin pharmaceutical product, Tinzaparin. When given subcutaneously in a SCID mouse model of human breast cancer, heparin dodecasaccharides had no effect on the number of lung metastases, but did however inhibit (P<0.05) tumour growth (lesion area) compared to control groups. In contrast, polymeric heparin significantly inhibited both the number (P<0.001) and area of metastases, suggesting a differing mechanism for the action of polymeric and heparin-derived oligosaccharides in the inhibition of tumour growth and metastases.
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- P Mellor
- Breast Cancer Research Group, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Breast Cancer Research Group, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK
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- Breast Cancer Research Group, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Breast Cancer Research Group, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Breast Cancer Research Group, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
- School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, 3rd Floor William Leech Building, Framlington Place, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, UK. E-mail:
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- Breast Cancer Research Group, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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Westman J, Nilsson M, Ornitz DM, Svahn CM. Synthesis and Fibroblast Growth Factor Binding of Oligosaccharides Related to Heparin and Heparan Sulphate. J Carbohydr Chem 2006. [DOI: 10.1080/07328309508006439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Hasan J, Shnyder SD, Clamp AR, McGown AT, Bicknell R, Presta M, Bibby M, Double J, Craig S, Leeming D, Stevenson K, Gallagher JT, Jayson GC. Heparin Octasaccharides Inhibit AngiogenesisIn vivo. Clin Cancer Res 2005; 11:8172-9. [PMID: 16299249 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-05-0452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND In previous experiments, we showed that heparin oligosaccharides inhibit the angiogenic cytokine fibroblast growth factor-2. Here, we present the first in vivo study of size-fractionated heparin oligosaccharides in four models of angiogenesis that are progressively less dependent on fibroblast growth factor-2. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Heparin oligosaccharides were prepared using size-exclusion gel filtration chromatography and characterized through depolymerization and strong anion exchange high-performance liquid chromatography. Size-defined oligosaccharides (20 mg/kg/d) were given to mice bearing s.c. sponges that were injected with fibroblast growth factor-2 (100 ng/d). After 14 days, octasaccharides and decasaccharides reduced the microvessel density to levels below control. In a second experiment, HEC-FGF2 human endometrial cancer cells that overexpress fibroblast growth factor-2 were implanted in a hollow fiber placed s.c. in vivo. Oligosaccharides were given at 20 mg/kg/d for 2 weeks and the data again showed that octasaccharides significantly reduced microvessel density around the fiber (P = 0.03). In a more complex model, where angiogenesis was induced by a broad spectrum of growth factors, including vascular endothelial growth factor, we implanted H460 lung carcinoma cells in hollow fibers and treated the animals with oligosaccharides at 20 mg/kg/d over 3 weeks. Octasaccharides reduced the microvessel density to that of control. Preliminary investigation of 6-O-desulfated heparins showed that these also had antiangiogenic activity. RESULTS Finally, we examined the inhibitory potential of hexasaccharides and octasaccharides given at 20 mg/kg/d and these inhibited the growth of H460 lung carcinoma in vivo. At clinically attainable concentrations, significant anticoagulation (activated partial thromboplastin time, anti-factor Xa, and anti-factor IIa) was not observed in vitro unless species containing > or =16 saccharide residues were investigated. CONCLUSIONS Thus, our preclinical data show that heparin octasaccharides represent novel antiangiogenic compounds that can be given without the anticoagulant effects of low molecular weight heparin.
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- Jurjees Hasan
- Cancer Research UK, Department of Medical Oncology, Manchester, UK
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Strategies involving vasculature have widely been acknowledged to have therapeutic potential in the management of cancer and other diseases. Based on a large body of evidence from preclinical studies and early clinical trials there is considerable optimism that anti-angiogenesis and vascular targeting will be a major clinical therapy. This review considers some 30 anti-angiogenic and vascular targeting agents that are currently in cancer clinical trials and highlights specific problems relating to the assessment of the activity of these agents in patients, trial design, potential toxicities and resistance mechanisms.
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- H T Zhang
- Molecular Oncology Laboratories, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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Nagayasu T, Miyata S, Hayashi N, Takano R, Kariya Y, Kamei K. Heparin structures in FGF-2-dependent morphological transformation of astrocytes. J Biomed Mater Res A 2005; 74:374-80. [PMID: 15973728 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.30338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) participates in the morphological transformation of astrocytes (stellation) during the formation of glial scars in injured brains. In the current study, we used quantitative morphometric analysis to investigate the structural requirements for heparin's enhancement of FGF-2-induced stellation of cultured cortical astrocytes. Native heparin significantly promoted FGF-2-dependent astrocytic stellation, whereas heparin hexasaccharide inhibited FGF-2-dependent stellation. Furthermore, 2-O-, 6-O-, and N-desulfated heparins were unable to promote FGF-2-dependent stellation. The stellation induced by FGF-2 or by a combination of FGF-2 and native heparin was inhibited by SU5402, an FGF receptor inhibitor. These results demonstrate that the length and sulfated position of heparin are important for its enhancement of FGF-2-dependent astrocyte stellation. In addition, our findings show that heparin oligosaccharides are useful for regulating the FGF-2-dependent astrocytic transformation.
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- Toshie Nagayasu
- Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
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Dimitrellos V, Lamari FN, Militsopoulou M, Kanakis I, Karamanos NK. Capillary electrophoresis and enzyme solid phase assay for examining the purity of a synthetic heparin proteoglycan-like conjugate and identifying binding to basic fibroblast growth factor. Biomed Chromatogr 2003; 17:42-7. [PMID: 12583005 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Interaction of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) with heparin/heparan sulfate proteoglycans protects the growth factor against proteolytic degradation and is essential for its cellular activity. Although the structural requirements of heparin and heparan sulfate for the high-affinity binding to bFGF have been extensively examined, studies on intact heparin proteoglycans are limited. In this report, the purity and the binding ability of a heparin proteoglycan-like molecule-the heparin-bovine serum albumin (heparin-BSA) conjugate-was examined using capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE). Furthermore, the affinity of bFGF binding to the heparin-BSA conjugate was studied using an enzyme solid-phase assay. Chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate, hyaluronan, heparan sulfate and variously sulfated disaccharides derived from heparin and heparan sulfate were also studied for their ability to compete with the binding of bFGF to heparin. Heparin-BSA conjugate was synthesized by reductive amination and, following precipitation with 1.5 vols of ethanol-sodium acetate, it was obtained free of contaminating heparin. Heparin-BSA-bFGF conjugate was obtained following incubation of heparin-BSA with bFGF for 2 h at 37 degrees C. Intact heparin, heparin-BSA and heparin-BSA-bFGF conjugates were completely resolved by CZE using 50 mM phosphate, pH 3.5, as operating buffer, reversed polarity (30 kV) and detection at 232 nm. Competitive solid phase assay showed that, among the glycosaminoglycans tested, heparin exhibits the highest affinity binding to bFGF (IC(50) = 6.4 nM). Heparan sulfate showed a lower affinity as compared with that of heparin, whereas all other glycosaminoglycans and heparin/heparan sulfate-derived disaccharides tested showed minute effects. The developed CZE method is rapid and accurate and can be easily used to identify bFGF-interacting heparin preparations of biopharmaceutical importance.
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- V Dimitrellos
- Department of Chemistry, Section of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Natural Products, Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Patras, 261 10 Patras, Greece
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Casu B, Lindahl U. Structure and biological interactions of heparin and heparan sulfate. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 2002; 57:159-206. [PMID: 11836942 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2318(01)57017-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 284] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- B Casu
- G. Ronzoni Institute for Chemical and Biochemical Research, Milan, Italy
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Takagaki K, Munakata H, Kakizaki I, Iwafune M, Itabashi T, Endo M. Domain structure of chondroitin sulfate E octasaccharides binding to type V collagen. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:8882-9. [PMID: 11751896 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m106479200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We demonstrated previously that chondroitin sulfate E (ChS-E) binds to type V collagen (Munakata, H., Takagaki, K., Majima, M., and Endo, M. (1999) Glycobiology 9, 1023--1027). In this study, we investigated the structure and binding of ChS-E oligosaccharides. Eleven oligosaccharides were isolated from ChS-E by gel filtration chromatography and anion-exchange high performance liquid chromatography after hydrolysis with testicular hyaluronidase. Separately, seven oligosaccharides were custom synthesized using the transglycosylation reaction of testicular hyaluronidase. Structural analysis was performed by enzymatic digestions in conjunction with high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. This library of 18 oligosaccharides was used as a source of model molecules to clarify the structural requirements for binding to type V collagen. Binding was analyzed by a biosensor based on surface plasmon resonance. The results indicated that to bind to type V collagen the oligosaccharides must have the following carbohydrate structures: 1) octasaccharide or larger in size; 2) a continuous sequence of three GlcAbeta1--3GalNAc(4S,6S) units; 3) a GlcAbeta1--3GalNAc(4S,6S) unit, GlcAbeta1--3GalNAc(4S) unit or GlcAbeta1--3GalNAc(6S) unit at the reducing terminal; 4) a GlcAbeta1--3GalNAc(4S,6S) unit at the nonreducing terminal. It is likely that these characteristic oligosaccharide sequences play key roles in cell adhesion and extracellular matrix assembly.
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- Keiichi Takagaki
- Department of Biochemistry, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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Krishna NR, Agrawal PK. Molecular structure of the carbohydrate-protein linkage region fragments from connective-tissue proteoglycans. Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem 2001; 56:201-34. [PMID: 11039112 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2318(01)56005-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- N R Krishna
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294-2041, USA
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Asthagiri D, Schure MR, Lenhoff AM. Calculation of Hydration Effects in the Binding of Anionic Ligands to Basic Proteins. J Phys Chem B 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/jp001458q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Fannon M, Forsten KE, Nugent MA. Potentiation and inhibition of bFGF binding by heparin: a model for regulation of cellular response. Biochemistry 2000; 39:1434-45. [PMID: 10684625 DOI: 10.1021/bi991895z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) binds to cell surface tyrosine kinase receptor proteins and to heparan sulfate proteoglycans. The interaction of bFGF with heparan sulfate on the cell surface has been demonstrated to impact receptor binding and biological activity. bFGF receptor binding affinity is reduced on cells that do not express heparan sulfate. The addition of soluble heparin or heparan sulfate has been demonstrated to rescue the bFGF receptor binding affinity on heparan sulfate deficient cells yet has also been shown to inhibit binding under some conditions. While the chemical requirements of the heparin-bFGF-receptor interactions have been studied in detail, the possibility that heparin enhances bFGF binding in part by physically associating with the cell surface has not been fully evaluated. In the study presented here, we have investigated the possibility that heparin binding to the cell surface might play a role in modulating bFGF receptor binding and activity. Balb/c3T3 cells were treated with various concentrations of sodium chlorate, so as to express a range of endogenous heparan sulfate sites, and [(125)I]bFGF binding was assessed in the presence of a range of heparin concentrations. Low concentrations of heparin (0.1-30 nM) enhanced bFGF receptor binding to an extent that was inversely proportional to the amount of endogenous heparan sulfate sites present. At high concentrations (10 microM), heparin inhibited bFGF receptor binding in cells under all conditions. The ability of heparin to stimulate and inhibit bFGF-receptor binding correlated with altered bFGF-stimulated tyrosine kinase activity and cell proliferation. Under control and chlorate-treated conditions, [(125) I]heparin was observed to bind with a high affinity to a large number of binding sites on the cells (K(d) = 57 and 50 nM with 3.5 x 10(6) and 3.6 x 10(6) sites/cell for control and chlorate-treated cells, respectively). A mathematical model of this process revealed that the dual functions of heparin in bFGF binding were accurately represented by heparin cell binding-mediated stimulation and soluble heparin-mediated inhibition of bFGF receptor binding.
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- M Fannon
- Departments of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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Page C. The role of proteoglycans in the regulation of airways inflammation and airways remodelling. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2000; 105:S518-21. [PMID: 10669535 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-6749(00)90054-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- C Page
- Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Division of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, GKT School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Fernig DG, Chen HL, Rahmoune H, Descamps S, Boilly B, Hondermarck H. Differential regulation of FGF-1 and -2 mitogenic activity is related to their kinetics of binding to heparan sulfate in MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 267:770-6. [PMID: 10673367 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.2028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The growth of the malignant human mammary MDA-MB-231 cells is stimulated by fibroblast growth factor-1 (FGF-1) but not by FGF-2. When these cells are cultured in the presence of chlorate, an inhibitor of heparan sulfate (HS) sulfation, their proliferation is stimulated by both FGF-1 and FGF-2. We analyzed the interactions of FGF-1 and FGF-2 with HS purified from the cell layer and the culture medium of control and chlorate-treated MDA-MB-231 cells. The HS from the cell layer bound FGF-1 with faster association kinetics than the HS from the culture medium, and so had a higher affinity for FGF-1. Chlorate treatment had no significant effect on the FGF-1 binding kinetics of the HS. In contrast to FGF-1, chlorate treatment of the cells significantly altered the FGF-2 binding kinetics. The HS from untreated cells possessed two binding sites for FGF-2, one with fast association kinetics (k(ass) 470,000 to 610,000 M(-1) s(-1)) and a high affinity (K(d) 46 to 70 nM) and one with slower association kinetics (k(ass) 74,000 to 100,000 M(-1) s(-1)) and a lower affinity (K(d) 290 to 400 nM). HS from chlorate-treated cells possessed just a single binding site for FGF-2 with fast association kinetics (k(ass) 270,000 to 290,000 M(-1) s(-1)) and a high affinity (K(d) 41 to 57 nM). These results show that there is a relationship between the binding kinetics of FGFs and their ability to stimulate cell growth.
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- D G Fernig
- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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Mikhailov D, Young HC, Linhardt RJ, Mayo KH. Heparin dodecasaccharide binding to platelet factor-4 and growth-related protein-alpha. Induction of a partially folded state and implications for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:25317-29. [PMID: 10464257 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.36.25317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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alpha-Chemokines are known heparin-binding proteins. Here, a heparin dodecasaccharide (H12) was purified and used in NMR studies to investigate binding to growth-related protein-alpha (Gro-alpha) and to platelet factor-4-M2 (PF4-M2), an N-terminal chimera of PF4. Pulsed field gradient NMR was used to derive diffusion coefficients as the protein (monomer):H12 ratio was varied. In the absence of H12, both PF4-M2 and Gro-alpha give diffusion coefficients consistent with the presence of mostly dimers. As the PF4-M2:H12 ratio is increased from 1:6 to 2:1, the diffusion coefficient increases, indicating dissociation to the monomer state. On addition of H12 to either protein, (15)N/(1)H heteronuclear single quantum coherence NMR data demonstrate loss of (1)H resonance dispersion and intensity, particularly at protein:H12 ratios of 2:1 to 4:1, indicating significant perturbation to native structures. For Gro-alpha in particular, (1)H resonance dispersion appears random coil-like. At these same ratios, circular dichroism (CD) data show general retention of secondary structure elements with a slight shift to additional helix formation. Random coil NMR resonance dispersion suggests a shift to a less compact, partially folded, and/or more flexible state. Further addition of H12 causes resonance intensity and dispersion to return making NMR spectra appear native-like. At low PF4-M2:H12 ratios, loss of resonance intensity for residues proximal to Arg-20 and Arg-22 in three-dimensional NMR HCCH-TOCSY spectra suggests that the Arg-20-Arg-22 loop either interacts most strongly with H12 and/or that binding at this site is heterogeneous. This domain was previously shown to be crucial to heparin binding. Of particular interest to the biology of PF4-heparin complex formation, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia antibody binding occurs at about the same PF4-M2:H12 ratio as does this transition to a partially folded PF4-M2 state, strongly suggesting that heparin-induced thrombocytopenia antibody recognizes a less folded, lower aggregate state of the protein.
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- D Mikhailov
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering Center, University of Minnesota Health Science Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Tabeur C, Mallet JM, Bono F, Herbert JM, Petitou M, Sinaÿ P. Oligosaccharides corresponding to the regular sequence of heparin: chemical synthesis and interaction with FGF-2. Bioorg Med Chem 1999; 7:2003-12. [PMID: 10530949 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(99)00113-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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It has been proposed that oligosaccharides corresponding to the so-called regular region of heparin/heparan sulfate (HS) bind to fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2). In order to explore the molecular basis of FGF/HS interaction, we describe here the chemical synthesis of a tetra and a hexasaccharide, prepared as methyl glycosides, corresponding to the regular sequence of heparin. The strategy relies on the efficient preparation of three building blocks: a seeding block, an elongating block and a capping block. The hexasaccharide inhibited the binding of FGF-2 on its receptor on human aorta vascular smooth muscle cells with an IC50 value (16+/-1.2 microg/mL) close to that of standard heparin (14.8+/-0.5 microg/mL) whereas the tetrasaccharide was much less potent (IC50 = 127+/-10.5 microg/mL). The hexasaccharide and heparin, inhibited in a dose-dependent manner FGF-2 (30 nM) induced proliferation (IC50 = 23.7+/-1.6 and 30.1+/-1.3 microg/mL, respectively). Under the same experimental conditions, the tetrasaccharide only slightly inhibited the mitogenic effect of FGF-2 (IC50 > 100 microg/mL).
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- C Tabeur
- Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département de Chimie, Associé au CNRS, Paris, France
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Bittoun P, Bagheri-Yarmand R, Chaubet F, Crépin M, Jozefonvicz J, Fermandjian S. Effects of the binding of a dextran derivative on fibroblast growth factor 2: secondary structure and receptor-binding studies. Biochem Pharmacol 1999; 57:1399-406. [PMID: 10353261 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(99)00051-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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CMDB (carboxymethyldextran-benzylamide) are dextrans statistically substituted with carboxymethyl and benzylamide groups which can mimick some of the biological properties of heparin. It has previously been shown that CMDB inhibit autocrine growth of breast tumor cells (Bagheri-Yarmand et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 239: 424-428, 1997) and selectively displace fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) from its receptor. Here, we used circular dichroism and fluorescence anisotropy measurements to show that the conformation of FGF-2 was significantly altered upon its binding to CMDB and to short CMDB fragments prepared within this study. CMDB and fragments formed a stable 1:1 complex with FGF-2, with affinities being estimated as 20+/-10 nM from fluorescence anisotropy analysis. No such a complex was formed with insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) or epidermal growth factor (EGF). CMDB competed with the FGF-2 receptor for binding to FGF-2 but did not disturb the binding of IGF-1 and EGF to their receptors. Thus, our results highlight the selectivity of CMDB and their fragments towards FGF-2. Heparin, however, competes with CMDB and their fragments for binding to FGF-2. The carboxymethyl and benzylamide groups of these molecules likely interact directly with a heparin-binding region of FGF-2. The resulting change in conformation disturbs the binding of FGF-2 to its receptor and consecutively its mitogenic activity.
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- P Bittoun
- Département de Biologie Structurale, CNRS-UMR 1772, Villejuif, France
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Tyrrell DJ, Horne AP, Holme KR, Preuss JM, Page CP. Heparin in inflammation: potential therapeutic applications beyond anticoagulation. ADVANCES IN PHARMACOLOGY (SAN DIEGO, CALIF.) 1999; 46:151-208. [PMID: 10332503 DOI: 10.1016/s1054-3589(08)60471-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In this chapter we have described anti-inflammatory functions of heparin distinct from its traditional anticoagulant activity. We have presented in vivo data showing heparin's beneficial effects in various preclinical models of inflammatory disease as well as discussed some clinical studies showing that the anti-inflammatory activities of heparin may translate into therapeutic uses. In vivo models that use low-anticoagulant heparins indicate that the anticoagulant activity can be distinguished from heparin's anti-inflammatory properties. In certain cases such as hypovolemic shock, the efficacy of a low-anticoagulant heparin derivative (GM1892) exceeds heparin. Data also suggest that nonconventional delivery of heparin, specifically via inhalation, has therapeutic potential in improving drug pharmacokinetics (as determined by measuring blood coagulation parameters) and in reducing the persistent concerns of systemic hemorrhagic complications. Results from larger clinical trials with heparin and LMW heparins are eagerly anticipated and will allow us to assess our predictions on the effectiveness of this drug class to treat a variety of human inflammatory diseases.
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- D J Tyrrell
- Glycomed Incorporated, Alameda, California 94501, USA
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Williams WJ, Shoemaker LR, Schurman SJ, Welch TR, Bergstrom WH. Conjunctive effects of fibroblast growth factor and glycosaminoglycan on bone metabolism in neonatal bartter syndrome. Pediatr Res 1999; 45:726-32. [PMID: 10231872 DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199905010-00020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The calciotropic activity of urine from a subject with neonatal Bartter syndrome (NBS) has been partially purified using ion-exchange and gel chromatographic techniques. A bioassay using bone disks from rat calvaria was used to estimate calciotropic activity, which in the urine of the subject with NBS appears to be due to basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) bound to a glycosaminoglycan susceptible to heparitinase digestion. The calciotropic activity is eluted from DEAE-Sephacel and Sepharose CL-6B in a narrow band in association with metachromatic material and is destroyed by heparitinase and blocked by an antibody to bFGF. After treatment of purified preparations with heparitinase, a component that is inactive alone but develops calciotropic activity in association with heparin can be isolated by affinity chromatography on heparin-Sepharose columns. This component is recovered from the column at NaCl concentrations expected to elute bFGF and is inactivated by antibodies to bFGF. No calciotropic activity can be shown in glycosaminoglycan-containing fractions from urine from a normal boy or a normal man, but such fractions exhibit calciotropic activity if bFGF is added to the assay system. When bFGF is added to urine from either normal subject followed by ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephacel, calciotropic activity is eluted at NaCl concentrations closely similar to those found to elute calciotropic activity from the urine of the NBS subject. It appears that the abnormal findings in NBS urine are due to excess bFGF, although they could be due to some abnormality of the glycosaminoglycan component.
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- W J Williams
- Department of Pediatrics, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse 13210, USA
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Turnbull JE, Hopwood JJ, Gallagher JT. A strategy for rapid sequencing of heparan sulfate and heparin saccharides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:2698-703. [PMID: 10077574 PMCID: PMC15832 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.6.2698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear polysaccharides of repeating disaccharide sequences on which are superimposed highly complex and variable patterns of sulfation, especially in heparan sulfate (HS). HS and the structurally related heparin exert important biological functions, primarily by interacting with proteins and regulating their activities. Evidence is accumulating that these interactions depend on specific saccharide sequences, but the lack of simple, direct techniques for sequencing GAG saccharides has been a major obstacle to progress. We describe how HS and heparin saccharides can be sequenced rapidly by using an integrated strategy with chemical and enzymic steps. Attachment of a reducing-end fluorescent tag establishes a reading frame. Partial selective chemical cleavage at internal N-sulfoglucosamine residues with nitrous acid then creates a set of fragments of defined sizes. Subsequent digestion of these fragments with combinations of exosulfatases and exoglycosidases permits the selective removal of specific sulfates and monosaccharides from their nonreducing ends. PAGE of the products yields a pattern of fluorescent bands from which the saccharide sequence can be read directly. Data are presented on sequencing of heparin tetrasaccharides and hexasaccharides of known structure; these data show the accuracy and versatility of this sequencing strategy. Data also are presented on the application of the strategy to the sequencing of an HS decasaccharide of unknown structure. Application and further development of this sequencing strategy, called integral glycan sequencing, will accelerate progress in defining the structure-activity relationships of these complex GAGs and lead to important insights into their biological functions.
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- J E Turnbull
- School of Biochemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England.
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Jones A, Fujiyama C. Angiogenesis in urological malignancy: prognostic indicator and therapeutic target. BJU Int 1999; 83:535-55; quiz 555-6. [PMID: 10210606 DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.00018.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- A Jones
- Department of Urology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
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Hasan M, Najjam S, Gordon MY, Gibbs RV, Rider CC. IL-12 Is a Heparin-Binding Cytokine. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.2.1064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Using an ELISA approach, we demonstrate that recombinant human IL-12 (rhIL-12) binds strongly to an immobilized heparin-BSA complex. This binding is completely displaceable with soluble heparin, IC50∼ 0.1 μg/ml, corresponding to ∼ 10 nM. By interpolation with our previous findings, this indicates an affinity for heparin greater than that of antithrombin III and comparable with that of FGF-2, two high-affinity heparin-binding proteins. Recombinant murine IL-12 also binds strongly to heparin. The binding of rhIL-12 to heparin shows specificity because chondroitin sulfates A and C fail to compete, whereas chondroitin B inhibits weakly. A highly sulfated heparan sulfate is a strong competitor, whereas other heparan sulfates show weak or no activity. Small heparin fragments inhibit binding, although activity decreases with size. An octasaccharide pool derived by cleavage of heparin with nitrous acid is a significantly stronger inhibitor than its heparinase I-derived counterpart, further indicating structural specificity in the interaction between rhIL-12 and heparin. The binding of recombinant p40 to heparin appears indistinguishable from that of the IL-12 heterodimer, implying that the heparin binding site is largely if not solely located in this subunit. These results show for the first time that IL-12 is a heparin-binding cytokine, a property common to the other Th1-response-inducing cytokines, IFN-γ and IL-2. Our findings strongly suggest that IL-12 will tend to be retained close to its sites of secretion in the tissues by binding to heparin-like glycosaminoglycans, thus favoring a paracrine role for IL-12.
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- Maemunah Hasan
- *Division of Biochemistry, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- *Division of Biochemistry, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- †Department of Haematology, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom; and
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- ‡School of Pharmacy, Biomedical and Physical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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- *Division of Biochemistry, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Giraux JL, Matou S, Bros A, Tapon-Bretaudière J, Letourneur D, Fischer AM. Modulation of human endothelial cell proliferation and migration by fucoidan and heparin. Eur J Cell Biol 1998; 77:352-9. [PMID: 9930660 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-9335(98)80094-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Fucoidan is a sulfated polysaccharide extracted from brown seaweeds. It has anticoagulant and antithrombotic properties and inhibits, as well as heparin, vascular smooth muscle cell growth. In this study, we investigated, in the presence of serum and human recombinant growth factors, the effects of fucoidan and heparin on the growth and migration of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) in culture. We found that fucoidan stimulated fetal bovine serum-induced HUVEC proliferation, whereas heparin inhibited it. In the presence of fibroblast growth factor-1 (FGF-1), both fucoidan and heparin potentiated HUVEC growth. In contrast, fucoidan and heparin inhibited HUVEC proliferation induced by FGF-2, but did not influence the mitogenic activity of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). In the in vitro migration assay from a denuded area of confluent cells, the two sulfated polysaccharides markedly enhanced the migration of endothelial cells in the presence of FGF-1. Finally, a weak inhibitory effect on cell migration was found only with the two polysaccharides at high concentrations (> or = 100 micro/ml) in presence of serum or combined with FGF-2. All together, the results indicated that heparin and fucoidan can be used as tools to further investigate the cellular mechanisms regulating the proliferation and migration of human vascular cells. Moreover, the data already suggest a potential role of fucoidan as a new therapeutic agent of vegetal origin in the vascular endothelium wound repair.
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- J L Giraux
- Laboratoire d'Hématologie, Tour Pasteur, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris V, France
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Rhomberg AJ, Ernst S, Sasisekharan R, Biemann K. Mass spectrometric and capillary electrophoretic investigation of the enzymatic degradation of heparin-like glycosaminoglycans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:4176-81. [PMID: 9539709 PMCID: PMC22461 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.8.4176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/29/1998] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Difficulties in determining composition and sequence of glycosaminoglycans, such as those related to heparin, have limited the investigation of these biologically important molecules. Here, we report methodology, based on matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization MS and capillary electrophoresis, to follow the time course of the enzymatic degradation of heparin-like glycosaminoglycans through the intermediate stages to the end products. MS allows the determination of the molecular weights of the sulfated carbohydrate intermediates and their approximate relative abundances at different time points of the experiment. Capillary electrophoresis subsequently is used to follow more accurately the abundance of the components and also to measure sulfated disaccharides for which MS is not well applicable. For those substrates that produce identical or isomeric intermediates, the reducing end of the carbohydrate chain was converted to the semicarbazone. This conversion increases the molecular weight of all products retaining the reducing terminus by the "mass tag" (in this case 56 Da) and thus distinguishes them from other products. A few picomoles of heparin-derived, sulfated hexa- to decasaccharides of known structure were subjected to heparinase I digestion and analyzed. The results indicate that the enzyme acts primarily exolytically and in a processive mode. The methodology described should be equally useful for other enzymes, including those modified by site-directed mutagenesis, and may lead to the development of an approach to the sequencing of complex glycosaminoglycans.
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- A J Rhomberg
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Rahmoune H, Chen HL, Gallagher JT, Rudland PS, Fernig DG. Interaction of heparan sulfate from mammary cells with acidic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and basic FGF. Regulation of the activity of basic FGF by high and low affinity binding sites in heparan sulfate. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:7303-10. [PMID: 9516424 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.13.7303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We have determined the relationship between the binding sites for acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF) and basic FGF (bFGF) in heparan sulfate (HS) prepared from a panel of mammary cell lines and the ability of the HS to activate aFGF and bFGF in DNA synthesis assays. The ka of the HS for aFGF fell into three groups, whereas the kd (0.0015-0.016 s-1) and the Kd (0.4-8.6 microM) formed a continuum. bFGF possessed a high affinity binding site (Kd 22-30 nM) with a fast ka (320,000-550,000 M-1 s-1), termed "fast/high," and a lower affinity site (Kd 47-320 nM) with a slower ka (35,000-150,000 M-1 s-1), termed "slow/low." Most of the species of HS possessed the latter binding site, which was able to activate bFGF in HS-deficient fibroblasts. However, the HS from the culture medium of the mammary fibroblasts and the myoepithelial-like cells possessed both a fast/high and a slow/low binding site and could not activate bFGF, although it could potentiate the growth-stimulatory activity of aFGF. Treatment of the HS possessing two binding sites for bFGF with heparitinase 1 released oligosaccharides that were able to restore the activity of bFGF in HS-deficient fibroblasts.
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- H Rahmoune
- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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Williams PD, Ye H, Cheng FC, Fugedi P, Tressler R. Comparative effects of heparin and the sulfatoid GM1474 on coagulation parameters in plasma and blood from various species. GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY 1998; 30:337-41. [PMID: 9510083 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-3623(97)00092-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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1. The discovery and development of novel carbohydrate molecules based on heparin biology and pharmacology requires consideration of coagulation effects in evaluating the therapeutic potential of these agents. A novel sulfatoid compound, GM1474, possessing potent antiproliferative and antiangiogenic properties similar to those of heparin, was evaluated for comparative coagulation effects. 2. In vitro and in vivo effects of GM1474 on plasma-activated partial prothromboplastin time (aPTT) and whole-blood clotting time (WBCT) were monitored in plasma and blood from various species and compared with those of heparin. GM1474 possessed approximately 21.7% of the in vitro aPTT and 4.3% of the in vitro WBCT effects relative to heparin, utilizing human plasma and blood. 3. Similar differences between GM1474 and heparin were observed in plasma and blood from mice, rats, dogs and nonhuman primates. The concentrations of GM1474 producing a two-fold increase in aPTT and WBCT in vitro in the various species ranged from 2.95 to 11.4 times the concentrations of heparin producing similar effects. 4. In in vivo evaluations in mice, the intravenous doses of GM1474 producing 50% of the maximal elevation in plasma aPTT and bleeding time (IC50s) were 2.1 and 12.0 mg/kg, respectively. These doses represented approximately 6.4- and 27.9-fold the in vivo IC50, doses of heparin causing elevations in aPTT and bleeding times, respectively. 5. The results of this study demonstrate that GM1474 possesses significantly reduced effects on coagulation relative to heparin, as determined by in vitro and in vivo testing. 6. Species differences in sensitivity to GM1474 and heparin were also observed in in vitro profiling. The order of species sensitivity to GM1474 and heparin was similar (mice>human beings>rats>non-human primates>dogs) and indicates that the mouse may be the most predictive species with respect to coagulation effects in human beings.
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Larraín J, Alvarez J, Hassell JR, Brandan E. Expression of perlecan, a proteoglycan that binds myogenic inhibitory basic fibroblast growth factor, is down regulated during skeletal muscle differentiation. Exp Cell Res 1997; 234:405-12. [PMID: 9260911 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG) have been shown to be involved in the activation of tyrosine kinase receptors by basic fibroblasts growth factor (bFGF), a strong inhibitor of skeletal muscle differentiation. Skeletal muscle fibers contact extracellular matrix (ECM) that surrounds individual fibers (endomysium) and bundles of several fibers (perimysium). Perlecan is a HSPG present in the majority of basement membranes. In this study we evaluated the expression and localization of perlecan during differentiation of C2C12 skeletal muscle cells. C2C12 myoblasts incubated with [35S]Na2SO4 synthesize a HSPG that can be specifically immunoprecipitated with antibodies against murine perlecan. The immunoprecipitated HSPG eluted from a Sepharose CL-4B with a Kav of 0.44. Analysis of the core protein of the HSPG immunoprecipitated from [35S]methionine-labeled C2C12 after treatment with heparitinase revealed two polypeptides of 170 and over 300 kDa. The amount of polypeptides immunoprecipitated decreased with muscle differentiation. Immunocytolocalization studies indicate that perlecan is localized on the myoblast surface and by immunogold staining we have demonstrated that it is associated with patches of incipient extracellular matrix. The expression of perlecan mRNA decreased substantially during skeletal muscle differentiation, in contrast to the increase in transcripts for specific skeletal muscle proteins such as myogenin and creatine kinase. By immunofluorescence microscopy almost no perlecan staining associated with the surface of myotubes was observed. All these results suggests that perlecan, a HSPG that binds myogenic inhibitory bFGF, normally associated with basement membranes in adult tissues is present on the surface of myoblasts and its expression is down regulated during skeletal muscle differentiation.
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- J Larraín
- Unidad de Neurobiología Molecular, Departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, P. Universidad Católicade Chile, Casilla, Santiago
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Schriever C, Breithardt G, Schmidt A. Undersulfation of proteoheparan sulfate stimulates the expression of basic fibroblast growth factor and protein synthesis but suppresses replication of coronary smooth muscle cells. Biol Chem 1997; 378:701-6. [PMID: 9278150 DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1997.378.7.701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Heparan sulfate proteoglycans are obligatory for receptor binding and mitogenic activity of the basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). In the present study the influence of undersulfated heparan sulfate on the expression of basic fibroblast growth factor and coronary smooth muscle cell (cSMC) proliferation was investigated. Chlorate, known to be an inhibitor of ATP-sulfurylase, was used as a tool to suppress sulfation of heparan sulfate. When cultured cSMC were treated with 10 mM sodium chlorate in sulfate-depleted medium, the cell number and [3H]thymidine incorporation decreased by 76% and 66% respectively, while the protein content per cell was doubled. At the same time the [35S]sulfate incorporation into cell-associated proteoglycans was reduced by 90%. The remaining minimal amount of available [35S]radioactivity was preferably incorporated into heparan sulfate. Under the same conditions the [6-(3)H]glucosamine incorporation into glycosaminoglycans was not impaired. The chlorate-induced increase of cell protein content includes an overexpression of bFGF, which increased from 6-8 ng to 18-22 ng/mg cell protein. However, no changes in the distribution of bFGF between the intracellular and pericellular compartment could be observed. Cell cycle analysis by FACS revealed a G1 arrest of the cell cycle with increase of the G1/S ratio from 2.9 (control) to 6.1 (chlorate) but the DNA content per cell corresponded to normal diploid cells both in control and chlorate-treated cells. The chlorate effect can be abolished by addition of 5 mM sodium sulfate to the cultures. Our results demonstrate an inverse association between the sulfation of heparan sulfate and the expression of bFGF. They suggest that chlorate blocks the cell cycle in the late G1-phage and that mitogenesis of cSMC requires fully sulfated cell-associated proteoheparan sulfate.
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- C Schriever
- Institute for Arteriosclerosis Research, Division of Molecular Cardiology, University of Münster, Germany
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Wang H, Toida T, Kim YS, Capila I, Hileman RE, Bernfield M, Linhardt RJ. Glycosaminoglycans can influence fibroblast growth factor-2 mitogenicity without significant growth factor binding. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 235:369-73. [PMID: 9199199 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Fibroblast growth factors are important heparin binding, mitogenic proteins. The binding site in heparin and heparan sulfate for fibroblast growth factor-2 (basic fibroblast growth factor) has been described as rich in glucosamine-2-sulfate 1-->4 linked to iduronic acid-2-sulfate. The glucosamine residue in the heparin binding site is also 6-sulfated. A new glycosaminoglycan, acharan sulfate, has been chemically modified to prepare a polysaccharide, N-sulfoacharan sulfate, consisting of glucosamine-2-sulfate 1-->4 linked to iduronic acid-2-sulfate. Acharan sulfate binds very weakly to fibroblast growth factor-2 while N-sulfoacharan sulfate binds with nearly the same affinity as heparin. Mitogenicity studies were performed using heparan sulfate-free cells stably transfected with fibroblast growth factor receptor-1. Acharan sulfate inhibits heparin's enhancement of fibroblast growth factor-2 mitogenic activity, without affecting cell viability, while N-sulfoacharan sulfate shows heparin-like activity but at a greatly reduced level. These results suggest additional mechanisms not requiring high affinity glycosaminoglycan binding to fibroblast growth factor-2 may be important in its mitogenic activity.
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- H Wang
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Kobayashi M, Habuchi H, Yoneda M, Habuchi O, Kimata K. Molecular cloning and expression of Chinese hamster ovary cell heparan-sulfate 2-sulfotransferase. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:13980-5. [PMID: 9153262 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.21.13980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Heparan-sulfate 2-sulfotransferase (HS2ST), which catalyzes the transfer of sulfate from 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate to L-iduronic acid at position 2 in heparan sulfate, was purified from cultured Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells to apparent homogeneity (Kobayashi, M., Habuchi, H., Habuchi, O., Saito, M., and Kimata, K. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 7645-7653). The internal amino acid sequences were obtained from the peptides after digestion of the purified protein with a combination of endoproteinases. Mixed oligonucleotides based on the peptide sequences were used as primers to obtain a probe fragment by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction using CHO cell poly(A)+ RNA as template. The clone obtained from a CHO cDNA library by screening with the probe is 2.2 kilobases in size and contains an open reading frame of 1068 bases encoding a new protein composed of 356 amino acid residues. The protein predicts a type II transmembrane topology similar to other Golgi membrane proteins. Messages of 5.0 and 3.0 kilobases were observed in Northern analysis. Evidence that the cDNA clone corresponds to the purified HS2ST protein is as follows. (a) The predicted amino acid sequence contains all five peptides obtained after endoproteinase digestion of the purified protein; (b) the characteristics of the predicted protein fit those of the purified protein in terms of molecular mass, membrane localization, and N-glycosylation; and (c) when the cDNA containing the entire coding sequence of the enzyme in a eukaryotic expression vector was transfected into COS-7 cells, the HS2ST activity increased 2.6-fold over controls, and the FLAG-HS2ST fusion protein purified by affinity chromatography showed the HS2ST activity alone.
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- M Kobayashi
- Institute for Molecular Science of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi 480-11, Japan
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Delehedde M, Deudon E, Boilly B, Hondermarck H. Production of sulfated proteoglycans by human breast cancer cell lines: Binding to fibroblast growth factor-2. J Cell Biochem 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19970315)64:4<605::aid-jcb9>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Mammary stem cells in normal development and cancer. Stem Cells 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-012563455-7/50008-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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The immune system consists of various types of cells and molecules that specifically interact with each other to initiate the host defense mechanism. Recent studies have shown that carbohydrates and lectins (carbohydrate-binding proteins) play an essential role in mediating such interactions. Both lectins and carbohydrates are widely distributed in the mammalian tissues as well as in microorganisms. Carbohydrates, due to their chemical nature, can potentially form structures that are more variable than proteins and nucleic acids. Lectins can exist in either soluble or cell-associated form, and although overall structures vary, invariably possess carbohydrate-recognition domains (CRD) with various specificities. The interaction between lectins and carbohydrates have been shown to be involved in such activities as opsonization of microorganisms, phagocytosis, cell adhesion and migration, cell activation and differentiation, and apoptosis. The number of lectins identified in the immune system is increasing at a rapid pace. The development in this area has opened a new aspect in studying the immune system, and at the same time, provided new therapeutic routes for the treatment and prevention of disease.
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- Y Ni
- Glycobiology Laboratory, Carrington Laboratories Inc., College Station, TX 77845, USA
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Mulloy B. High-field NMR as a technique for the determination of polysaccharide structures. Mol Biotechnol 1996; 6:241-65. [PMID: 9067973 DOI: 10.1007/bf02761706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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NMR spectroscopy has played a developing role in the study of polysaccharide structures for over 30 years. Many new bacterial polysaccharide repeat unit structures have recently been published as a result of the application of modern NMR techniques. NMR can also be used to elucidate the structures of both regular and heterogeneous polysaccharides from fungal and plant sources, as well as complex glycosaminoglycans of animal origin. In addition to covalent structure, conformation and dynamics of polysaccharides are susceptible to NMR analysis, both in solution and in the solid state. Improvements in NMR technology with potential applications to polysaccharide studies hold promise for the future.
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- B Mulloy
- Laboratory for Molecular Structure, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Hertfordshire, UK
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Bai X, Esko JD. An animal cell mutant defective in heparan sulfate hexuronic acid 2-O-sulfation. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:17711-7. [PMID: 8663454 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.30.17711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The interaction of heparan sulfate with protein ligands depends on unique oligosaccharide sequences containing iduronic acid (IdUA), N-sulfated glucosamine residues, and O-sulfated sugars. To study the role of O-sulfation in greater detail, we isolated a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant defective in 2-O-sulfation of iduronic acid. The mutant, pgsF-17, was identified by a colony blotting assay in which colonies of mutagen-treated cells were replica plated to two disks of polyester cloth. One disk was blotted with 125I-labeled basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) to measure binding to cell surface proteoglycans. The other disk was incubated with 35SO4 to measure proteoglycan biosynthesis. Autoradiography revealed a colony that did not bind 125I-bFGF, but incorporated 35SO4 normally (mutant pgsF-17). Complete deaminative cleavage of heparan sulfate revealed that material from pgsF-17 lacked IdUA(2OSO3)-GlcNSO3 and IdUA(2OSO3)-GlcNSO3(6OSO3), but contained a higher proportion of glucuronic acid GlcUA-GlcNSO3(6OSO3) and IdUA-GlcNSO3(6OSO3). Assay of the 2-O-sulfotransferase that acts on IdUA residues showed that mutant 17 lacked enzyme activity. Interestingly, the alteration resulted in accumulation of GlcNSO3 groups, suggesting that under normal conditions 2-O-sulfation decreases GlcNAc N-deacetylation/N-sulfation, and that the reactions occur simultaneously. The formation of IdUA and 6-O-sulfated glucosaminyl residues appears to be independent of 2-O-sulfation. pgsF-17 also lacks 2-O-sulfated GlcUA residues, suggesting that the same enzyme is responsible for 2-O-sulfation of IdUA and GlcUA residues. Mutant 17 provides a useful tool for studying the regulation of heparan sulfate biosynthesis and the relationship of heparan sulfate fine structure to its biological function.
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- X Bai
- Department of Biochemistry, Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
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Heldin CH, Ostman A. Ligand-induced dimerization of growth factor receptors: variations on the theme. Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 1996; 7:3-10. [PMID: 8864349 DOI: 10.1016/1359-6101(96)00002-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Growth, differentiation, apoptosis and movement of cells are regulated, in part, by polypeptide growth factors, or cytokines, which exert their effects by binding to cell surface receptors on the target cells. Recent observations have indicated that a common mechanism of activation of several classes of such receptors is ligand-induced dimerization or oligomerization of the receptors.
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- C H Heldin
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Biomedical Center, Uppsala, Sweden
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Whitfield DM, Lamba D, Tang TH, Csizmadia IG. Binding properties of carbohydrate sulfamates based on ab initio 6–31 + G∗∗ calculations on N-methyl and N-ethyl sulfamate anions. Carbohydr Res 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0008-6215(96)00032-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Whitelock JM, Murdoch AD, Iozzo RV, Underwood PA. The degradation of human endothelial cell-derived perlecan and release of bound basic fibroblast growth factor by stromelysin, collagenase, plasmin, and heparanases. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:10079-86. [PMID: 8626565 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.17.10079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 446] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Perlecan is a modular heparan sulfate proteoglycan that is localized to cell surfaces and within basement membranes. Its ability to interact with basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) suggests a central role in angiogenesis during development, wound healing, and tumor invasion. In the present study we investigated, using domain specific anti-perlecan monoclonal antibodies, the binding site of bFGF on human endothelial perlecan and its cleavage by proteolytic and glycolytic enzymes. The heparan sulfate was removed from perlecan by heparitinase treatment, and the approximately 450-kDa protein core was digested with various proteases. Plasmin digestion resulted in a large fragment of approximately 300 kDa, whereas stromelysin and rat collagenase cleaved the protein core into smaller fragments. All three proteases removed immunoreactivity toward the anti-domain I antibody. We showed also that perlecan bound bFGF specifically by the heparan sulfate chains located on the amino-terminal domain I. Once bound, the growth factor was released very efficiently by stromelysin, rat collagenase, plasmin, heparitinase I, platelet extract, and heparin. Interestingly, heparinase I, an enzyme with a substrate specificity for regions of heparan sulfate similar to those that bind bFGF, released only small amounts of bFGF. Our findings provide direct evidence that bFGF binds to heparan sulfate sequences attached to domain I and support the hypothesis that perlecan represents a major storage site for this growth factor in the blood vessel wall. Moreover, the concerted action of proteases that degrade the protein core and heparanases that remove the heparan sulfate may modulate the bioavailability of the growth factor.
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- J M Whitelock
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Biomolecular Engineering, P.O. Box 184, North Ryde, Sydney, New South Wales 2114, Australia
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Rusnati M, Presta M. Interaction of angiogenic basic fibroblast growth factor with endothelial cell heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Biological implications in neovascularization. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL & LABORATORY RESEARCH 1996; 26:15-23. [PMID: 8739851 DOI: 10.1007/bf02644769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Basic fibroblast growth factor is an angiogenic molecule involved in several physiological and pathological processes, including wound repair, embryonic development, and tumor growth. In vitro, basic fibroblast growth factor induces an "angiogenic phenotype" in endothelial cells, which includes chemotaxis, mitogenesis, protease production, beta-integrin expression, and tube formation in three-dimensional gels. It acts by binding to specific tyrosine kinase receptors and to cell-associated heparan sulfate proteoglycans. The physiological significance of the interaction with cell-associated and soluble heparan sulfate proteoglycans is manyfold. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans protect basic fibroblast growth factor from inactivation in the extracellular environment and modulate its bioavailability. At the cell surface, soluble and cell-associated heparan sulfate proteoglycans may play different roles in modulating the dimerization of the growth factor and its interaction with tyrosine kinase receptors. Finally, they affect the internalization and the intracellular fate of basic fibroblast growth factor, suggesting that growth factor slash proteoglycan complexes are involved in intracellular delivery. The bioavailability and the biological activity of basic fibroblast growth factor on endothelial cells strictly depend on the glycosaminoglycan milieu of the extracellular environment. Hence the angiogenic activity of the growth factor in vivo might be modulated by using exogenous glycosaminoglycans. The capacity of glycosaminoglycans to bind to and to influence the biological activity of basic fibroblast growth factor depends on size, degree of sulfation, and disaccharide composition. In the present paper we discuss the physiological significance and the biochemical bases of the interaction of the growth factor with heparan sulfate proteoglycans and exogenous glycosaminoglycans with a view to the possible therapeutic use of heparin-related oligosaccharides as basic fibroblast growth factor agonists or antagonists in angiogenesis-dependent diseases.
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- M Rusnati
- Department of Biomedical Science and Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy
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The potential roles of members of the fibroblast growth factor family in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis and their mechanisms of release from cells are discussed. Furthermore, we review methods of therapeutic targeting of these polypeptides. In particular, we focus on the possibility to inhibit fibroblast growth factors with drugs that mimic heparin-like cellular binding sites and thus can interfere with growth factor receptor recognition. In addition, we discuss antibodies, antisense oligodeoxynucleotides, and ribozymes as approaches to inhibit production and activity of these growth factors.
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- A Wellstein
- Department of Pharmacology, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 20007, USA
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Xu G, Forstner GG, Forstner JF. Interaction of heparin with synthetic peptides corresponding to the C-terminal domain of intestinal mucins. Glycoconj J 1996; 13:81-90. [PMID: 8785492 DOI: 10.1007/bf01049683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Unlike most other mucins described to date, two intestinal mucins, rat MLP (rat Muc 2) and human MUC2 have a C-terminal tail that is enriched in cationic amino acids. The distribution of charge in each case resembles that of several well known heparin binding proteins. Peptides designated E20-14 and F13-15, corresponding to the C-terminal 14 amino acids of the two mucins, were synthesized and shown to bind 3 H-labelled heparin by a process that was saturable and mediated by strong electrostatic interactions, giving Kd values of 10 (-7) to 10 (-8) M. Using turbidometric analyses and native gel electrophoresis, we observed that peptide-heparin mixtures formed polydisperse aggregates that dissociated with a progressive increase in the concentration of heparin. Under certain conditions heparin protected the peptide from proteolysis by trypsin. Both heparin and dextran sulfate, the latter a highly sulfated synthetic polysaccharide, were potent inhibitors of 3 H-heparin binding to peptide E20-14, while less sulfated glycosaminoglycans were poorly- or non-inhibitory. Mucin in tissue dispersions and homogenates, or purified from rat intestine, did not bind to heparin, and failed to interact with an antibody specific for the peptide E20-14. Both mucin samples however, reacted with antibodies that recognize regions upstream of the C-terminal 14 amino acids. Immunofluorescent localization of E20-14 was confined to the basal perinuclear regions of goblet cells, whereas localization of an antibody to a flanking sequence on the N-terminal side of the C-tail, localized to mature mucin storage granules. These findings suggest that the heparin -binding C-tail of the mucin may be removed at an early stage of biosynthesis. Heparin-mucin complexes, if they form in vivo, are thus likely to be confined to the ER and/or Golgi compartments.
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- G Xu
- Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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Kinnunen T, Raulo E, Nolo R, Maccarana M, Lindahl U, Rauvala H. Neurite outgrowth in brain neurons induced by heparin-binding growth-associated molecule (HB-GAM) depends on the specific interaction of HB-GAM with heparan sulfate at the cell surface. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:2243-8. [PMID: 8567685 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.4.2243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Heparin-binding growth-associated molecule (HB-GAM) is a cell-surface- and extracellular matrix-associated protein that lines developing axons in vivo and promotes neurite outgrowth in vitro. Because N-syndecan (syndecan-3) was found to function as a receptor in HB-GAM-induced neurite outgrowth, we have now studied whether the heparan sulfate side chains of N-syndecan play a role in HB-GAM-neuron interactions. N-Syndecan from postnatal rat brain was found to inhibit HB-GAM-induced but not laminin-induced neurite outgrowth when added to the assay media. The inhibitory activity was abolished by treating N-syndecan with heparitinase, but it was retained in N-syndecan-derived free glycosaminoglycan chains, suggesting that N-syndecan heparan sulfate at the cell surface is involved in HB-GAM-induced neurite outgrowth. Binding to HB-GAM and inhibition of neurite outgrowth was observed with heparin-related polysaccharides only; galactosaminoglycans were inactive. Significant inhibition of neurite outgrowth was induced by heparin and by N-syndecan heparan sulfate but not by heparan sulfates from other sources. A minimum of 10 monosaccharide residues were required for HB-GAM-induced neurite outgrowth. Experiments with selectively desulfated heparins indicated that 2-O-sulfated iduronic acid units, in particular, are of importance to the interaction with HB-GAM, were implicated to a lesser extent. Structural analysis of N-syndecan from 6-day-old rat brain indicated that the heparan sulfate chains contain sequences of contiguous, N-sulfated disaccharide units with an unusually high proportion (82%) of 2-O-sulfated iduronic acid residues. We suggest that this property of N-syndecan heparan sulfate is essential for HB-GAM binding and induction of neurite outgrowth.
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- T Kinnunen
- Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Hoffman R, Paper DH, Donaldson J, Alban S, Franz G. Characterisation of a laminarin sulphate which inhibits basic fibroblast growth factor binding and endothelial cell proliferation. J Cell Sci 1995; 108 ( Pt 11):3591-8. [PMID: 8586670 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.108.11.3591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have evaluated a series of laminarin sulphates with different degrees of sulphation (0.3-2.3) as antagonists of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and as inhibitors of the bFGF-dependent endothelial cell line FBHE. Inhibition of binding of bFGF by the laminarin sulphates increased with increasing degree of sulphation. Binding of bFGF to low affinity sites on BHK cells was inhibited more strongly than binding to high affinity sites. IC50 values for inhibition of binding to low and high affinity sites by the most highly sulphated laminarin sulphate (LAM S5; degree of sulphation 2.31) were 12 +/- 8 micrograms/ml and 69 +/- 66 micrograms/ml, respectively. LAM S5 dissociated bFGF from low affinity sites on BHK cells but not from high affinity sites. LAM S5 increased the electrophoretic mobility of bFGF indicating that LAM S5 binds directly to bFGF. LAM S5 reduced uptake of bFGF by FBHE cells by 67%. Increasing the degree of sulphation of laminarin sulphates increased the inhibition of bFGF-stimulated DNA synthesis of the endothelial cell line FBHE (IC50 for LAM S5 approx. 1 microgram/ml). There was no inhibition of DNA synthesis of FBHE cells by LAM S5 in the presence of 1 microgram/ml bFGF indicating that bFGF antagonism is involved in the anti-proliferative activity of this compound. LAM S5 may be of value against diseases associated with bFGF-dependent cell proliferation.
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- R Hoffman
- Clinical Oncology and Radiotherapeutics Unit, MRC Centre, Cambridge, UK
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Brickman YG, Ford MD, Small DH, Bartlett PF, Nurcombe V. Heparan sulfates mediate the binding of basic fibroblast growth factor to a specific receptor on neural precursor cells. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:24941-8. [PMID: 7559620 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.42.24941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Heparan sulfate proteoglycans are thought to be obligatory for receptor binding and subsequent mitogenic activity of basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2). In a previous study (Nurcombe V., Ford, M. D., Wildschut, J., Bartlett, P. F. (1993) Science 260, 103-106) we have shown that primary cultures of mouse neuroepithelial cells and a cell line derived from then, 2.3D, secrete a heparan sulfate proteoglycan with a high affinity for FGF-2. In this study, a combination of affinity chromatography and gel chromatography was used to further isolate heparan sulfate side chains with high affinity for FGF-2. These active chains had an average molecular weight of 18,000-20,000. In order to determine whether heparan sulfate chains with specificity for FGF-2 also displayed selectivity for the different FGF receptors, peptides designed to the heparin-binding region of the receptors were used in competitive inhibition studies. The structure of the predicted heparin-binding domain of the FGF receptor 1 was modeled on the basis of its presumed secondary and tertiary structure homology with immunoglobulin loops. These results suggested that many of the basic residues within the second immunoglobulin loop of the FGF receptor 1 form a basic domain in the molecule and therefore form part of a heparin-binding site. Peptides homologous to this region of FGF receptor 1 were shown to inhibit mitogenesis in 2.3D cells, while those to FGF receptor types 2, 3, and 4 did not. A reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay designed to detect expression of the four FGF receptors types demonstrated that FGF receptors 1 and 3 were present on the 2.3D cell line but that receptors 2 and 4 were not. These findings indicate that unique heparan sulfate domains interact with specific cell-surface receptors to direct cellular responses.
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- Y G Brickman
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Melbourne, Australia
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