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It was found that significant precipitation occurred immediately after calcium, at a concentration as low as 2 mM, was added to a desalted solution of EDTA extract of adult bovine femur. The maximal yield of the precipitates was observed at a calcium concentration of 30 mM. These precipitates were dissolved in 0.5 M EDTA, desalted, and characterized by Sepharose CL-6B gel filtration chromatography and high performance gelexclusion chromatography. Results revealed that the precipitates were enriched in a 40 K protein and a higher molecular weight fraction as compared with the original extract of bone proteins. The 40 K fraction was isolated and identified as osteonectin, as judged from amino acid analysis, electrophoresis, and immunodetection. The supernatant after calcium-induced precipitation predominantly contained osteocalcin and a 50 K protein that was tentatively identified as α2HS protein. Osteonectin was purified from the calcium-induced precipitates from the EDTA extract of bovine bone. By calcium titration using fluorescence spectrometry, the isolated osteonectin showed high affinity to calcium ions with an apparent dissociation constant (K0.5) of 8×10−7 M. Thus, the use of calcium to separate bone proteins, especially osteonectin, was proved to be a useful technique. In addition, calcium-induced precipitation of osteonectin suggested a possiblein vivo mechanism via which osteonectin might interact with calcium ions and participate in the initial immobilization of calcium to induce the nucleation of calcification in bone tissue.
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Kuboki, Y., Takita, H., Komori, T. et al. Separation of bone matrix proteins by calcium-induced precipitation. Calcif Tissue Int 44, 269–277 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02553761
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