• Product name

  Human Biglycan peptide
  See all Biglycan proteins and peptides

• Purity

  70 - 90% by HPLC.
  
  

• Animal free

  No

• Nature

  Synthetic

• • Species

    Human

• Alternative names

  • BGN
  • Biglycan
  • Biglycan proteoglycan

  • Bone/cartilage proteoglycan I
  • Dermatan sulphate proteoglycan I
  • DSPG1
  • PG S1
  • PG-S1
  • PGI
  • PGS1_HUMAN
  • SEMDX
  • SLRR1A
  • Small leucine rich protein 1A

  see all

• Function

  May be involved in collagen fiber assembly.

• Tissue specificity

  Found in several connective tissues, especially in articular cartilages.

• Sequence similarities

  Belongs to the small leucine-rich proteoglycan (SLRP) family. SLRP class I subfamily.
  Contains 12 LRR (leucine-rich) repeats.

• Post-translational
  modifications

  The two attached glycosaminoglycan chains can be either chondroitin sulfate or dermatan sulfate.

• Cellular localization

  Secreted > extracellular space > extracellular matrix.

• Target information above from: UniProt accession P21810 The UniProt Consortium
  The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2010
  Nucleic Acids Res. 38:D142-D148 (2010) .

  Information by UniProt