Figure 1

Hlp peptides corresponding to the C-terminal domain bind heparan sulfate. (A) Microtiter-plate wells coated with 50 μL of 0.1 μM Hlp or 50 μL of 0.65 μM individual 30-mer synthetic peptides covering the entire sequence of Hlp were incubated with biotinylated heparan sulfate in phosphate buffer 10 mM, pH 7.2. Heparan sulfate binding was measured by adding streptavidin peroxidase to the wells and expressed in absorbency units at 490 nm. The data are expressed as mean ± SD of a representative experiment from five independent ones performed in duplicate. (B) Microtiter-plate wells were coated with Hlp or peptides p31–60, p136–165, and p151–180 and biotinylated heparan sulfate was added in the presence of increasing concentrations of NaCl. Heparan sulfate binding was quantified as above.