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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M404746200 on September 22, 2004
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 49, 50799-50809, December 3, 2004
Structural and Functional Characterization of Oversulfated Chondroitin Sulfate/Dermatan Sulfate Hybrid Chains from the Notochord of Hagfish
NEURITOGENIC AND BINDING ACTIVITIES FOR GROWTH FACTORS AND NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS*
Chilkunda D. Nandini ,
Tadahisa Mikami ,
Mitsuhiro Ohta ,
Nobuyuki Itoh¶,
Fumiko Akiyama-Nambu||**, and
Kazuyuki Sugahara 
From the
Departments of Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan, the ¶Department of Genetic Biochemistry, Kyoto University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan, and the ||Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
Oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (CS)/dermatan sulfate (DS) hybrid chains were purified from the notochord of hagfish. The chains (previously named CS-H for hagfish) have an average molecular mass of 18 kDa. Composition analysis using various chondroitinases demonstrated a variety of D-glucuronic acid (GlcUA)- and L-iduronic acid (IdoUA)-containing disaccharides variably sulfated with a higher proportion of GlcUA/IdoUA-GalNAc 4,6-O-disulfate, revealing complex CS/DS hybrid features. The hybrid chains showed neurite outgrowth-promoting activity of an axonic nature, which resembled the activity of squid cartilage CS-E and which was abolished fully by chondroitinase ABC digestion and partially by chondroitinase AC-I or B digestion, suggesting the involvement of both GlcUA and IdoUA in neuritogenic activity. Purified CS-H exhibited interactions in a BIAcore system with various heparin-binding proteins and neurotrophic factors (viz. fibroblast growth factor-2, -10, -16, and -18; midkine; pleiotrophin; heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor; vascular endothelial growth factor; brain-derived neurotrophic factor; and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor), most of which are expressed in the brain, although fibroblast growth factor-1 and ciliary neurotrophic factor showed no binding. Kinetic analysis revealed high affinity binding of these growth factors and, for the first time, of the neurotrophic factors. Competitive inhibition revealed the involvement of both IdoUA and GlcUA in the binding of these growth factors, suggesting the importance of the hybrid nature of CS-H for the efficient binding of these growth factors. These findings, together with those from the recent analysis of brain CS/DS chains from neonatal mouse and embryonic pig (Bao, X., Nishimura, S., Mikami, T., Yamada, S., Itoh, N., and Sugahara, K. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 97659776), suggest physiological roles of the hybrid chains in the development of the brain.
Received for publication, April 28, 2004
, and in revised form, September 15, 2004.
* This work was supported in part by the Science Research Promotion Fund of the Japan Private School Promotion Foundation and Grant-in-aid for Exploratory Research 15659021 and the National Project on Functional Glycoconjugate Research Aimed at Developing New Industry of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
This article is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Nobuko Seno.
** Present address: School of Health Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kita-Kyushu 807-8555, Japan.
 To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Biochemistry, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, 4-19-1 Motoyamakita-machi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan. Tel.: 81-78-441-7570; Fax: 81-78-441-7569; E-mail: k-sugar{at}kobepharma-u.ac.jp.

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