V. Pesakova et al., THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT COLLAGENS AND OF PROTEOGLYCAN ON THE RETRACTION OF COLLAGEN LATTICE, Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy, 48(5-6), 1994, pp. 261-266
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy","Medicine, Research & Experimental
The effect of various collagens and proteoglycan on the formation and
retraction of collagen lattices was tested. The most rapid aggregation
of collagen molecules was observed by the use of the least cross-link
ed collagen fractions (ie pepsin-digested calf skin collagen type I).
Lattices formed with more cross-linked collagens (acid soluble collage
n-ASC, type III) contracted slowly and less intensively. Unpurified pe
psinized cartilage extract containing collagen types II, IX and XI, so
me glycoproteins and proteoglycans formed lattices rather well. On the
contrary, purified collagen type II as well as polymeric collagen (so
lubilized by denaturing conditions) did not form lattices at all. The
lattice formation and retraction was intensified by addition of proteo
glycan into the culture medium. The authors suggest that the kinetics
of the lattice formation and retraction depends on the amount of colla
gen cross-links and the concentration of proteoglycan in the culture m
edium.