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Keratan sulfate

About: Keratan sulfate is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1253 publications have been published within this topic receiving 57984 citations. The topic is also known as: keratan sulfate & KS.


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TL;DR: Experimental evidence indicates that the keratan sulfate proteoglycans are involved in the regulation of collagen fibril diameter, and dermatan sulfATE proteoglycan participates in the control of interfibrillar spacing and in the lamellar adhesion properties of corneal collagens.
Abstract: The cornea is a curved and transparent structure that provides the initial focusing of a light image into the eye. It consists of a central stroma that constitutes 90% of the corneal depth, covered anteriorly with epithelium and posteriorly with endothelium. Its transparency is the result of the regular spacing of collagen fibers with remarkably uniform diameter and interfibrillar space. Corneal collagen is composed of heterotypic fibrils consisting of type I and type V collagen molecules. The cornea also contains unusually high amounts of type VI collagen, which form microfibrillar structures, FACIT collagens (XII and XIV), and other nonfibrillar collagens (XIII and XVIII). FACIT collagens and other molecules, such as leucine-rich repeat proteoglycans, play important roles in modifying the structure and function of collagen fibrils.Proteoglycans are macromolecules composed of a protein core with covalently linked glycosaminoglycan side chains. Four leucine-rich repeat proteoglycans are present in the extracellular matrix of corneal stroma: decorin, lumican, mimecan and keratocan. The first is a dermatan sulfate proteoglycan, and the other three are keratan sulfate proteoglycans. Experimental evidence indicates that the keratan sulfate proteoglycans are involved in the regulation of collagen fibril diameter, and dermatan sulfate proteoglycan participates in the control of interfibrillar spacing and in the lamellar adhesion properties of corneal collagens. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans are minor components of the cornea, and are synthesized mainly by epithelial cells. The effect of injuries on proteoglycan synthesis is discussed.

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TL;DR: The results emphasize the similarity of the newly synthesized proteoglycans secreted by cells grown in alginate beads to those synthesized by the neonate disc, and demonstrate the usefulness of this method as a microculture technique for disc cells.

219 citations

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TL;DR: Heparin and HS accelerate the inactivation of thrombin and Xa by At-III, and may in this respect differ from the anticoagulant activity of heparin and HS.

219 citations

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TL;DR: Two classes of oligosaccharides were identified in alkaline borohydride digests of monomer proteoglycans from the Swarm rat chondrosarcoma, which suggest that they are related to the linkage region between keratan sulfate chains and the core protein of cartilage proteoglyCans.

218 citations

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TL;DR: Funderburgh et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that the keratan sulfate-containing proteoglycans of bovine corneal stroma contain three unique core proteins designated 37A, 37B, and 25.

213 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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202310
202222
20217
20209
201912
201812