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Aspartic acid racemization reveals a high turnover state in knee compared with hip osteoarthritic cartilage

Aspartic acid racemization reveals a high turnover state in knee compared with hip osteoarthritic cartilage Aspartic acid racemization reveals a high turnover state in knee compared with hip osteoarthritic cartilage
Aspartic acid racemization reveals a high turnover state in knee compared with hip osteoarthritic cartilage Aspartic acid racemization reveals a high turnover state in knee compared with hip osteoarthritic cartilage

We investigated tissue turnover in healthy and osteoarthritic cartilage. 

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Key take away

Aspartic acid racemization (AAR) is one of the vital types of non-enzymatic covalent modification that escorts an age-dependent accumulation of abnormal protein human tissues frequently. An anabolic response was revealed by the knee osteoarthritis cartilage which was not existing in the hip osteoarthritis cartilage.

Background

We investigated tissue turnover in healthy and osteoarthritic cartilage. We challenge long held views that osteoarthritis (OA) is dominated by a similar turnover process in all joints and present evidence that hip and knee cartilage respond very differently to OA.

Method

d-and l-Aspartate (Asp) were quantified for whole cartilage, collagen and non-collagenous components of cartilage obtained at the time of joint replacement. We computed the Asp racemization ratio (Asp-RR = d/d + l Asp), reflecting the proportion of old to total protein, for each component.

Result

Compared with hip OA, knee OA collagen fibrils (P < 0.0001), collagen (P = 0.007), and non-collagenous proteins (P = 0.0003) had significantly lower age-adjusted mean Asp-RRs consistent with elevated protein synthesis in knee OA. Knee OA collagen had a mean hydroxyproline/proline (H/P) ratio of 1.2 consistent with the presence of type III collagen whereas hip OA collagen had a mean H/P ratio of 0.99 consistent with type II collagen. Based on Asp-RR, the relative age was significantly different in knee and hip OA (P < 0.0005); on average OA knees were estimated to be 30yrs ‘younger’, and OA hips 10yrs ‘older’ than non-OA.

Conclusion

The metabolic response to OA was strikingly different by joint site. Knee OA cartilage evinced an anabolic response that appeared to be absent in hip OA cartilage. These results challenge the long held view that OA cartilage is capable of only minimal repair and that collagen loss is irreversible.

Source:

Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2016 Feb;24(2):374-81

Article:

Aspartic acid racemization reveals a high turnover state in knee compared with hip osteoarthritic cartilage

Authors:

J.B. Catterall et al.

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