Proteoglycans : structure, biology, and molecular interactions / edited by Renato V. Iozzo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductory remarks and overview / Renato V. Iozzo -- Structure and biosynthesis of chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronan / Anthony Calabro [and others] -- Heparan sulfate: molecular structure and interactions with growth factors and morphogens / John T. Gallagher and Malcolm Lyon -- Hyaluronan / Bryan P. Toole -- Catabolism of proteoglycans / Peter J. Roughley and John S. Mort -- Syndecans / Peter Jaakkola, Varpu Kainulainen, Markku T. Jalkanen -- Signaling through the syndecan proteoglycans / John R. Couchman and Anne Woods -- Glypicans / Jorge Filmus and Howard H. Song -- Serglycin proteoglycans: the family of proteoglycans stored in the secretory granules of cetain effector cells of the immune system / Richard L. Stevens, Donald E. Humphries, and Guang W. Wong -- Small leucine-rich proteoglycans / Peter J. Neame and Christopher J. Kay -- Corneal proteoglycans / James L. Funderburgh -- Heparan sulfate proteoglycans in basement membranes: perlecan, agrin, and collagen XVIII / Jane R. Dunlevy and John R. Hassell -- Versican / Dieter R. Zimmermann -- Aggrecan / Barbara M. Vertel and Anthony Ratcliffe -- Chrondroitin sulfate proteoglycans in the nervous system / Yu Yamaguchi.

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A comprehensive review of the structure, biology and molecular interactions of proteoglycans, consolidating research using molecular, cellular and animal systems. It details the role of heparan sulfate in modulating growth factors and morphogens.

English.

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