Bessho K, Tagawa T, Murata M
Department of Oral Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Mie University, Japan.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1989 Dec 15;165(2):595-601. doi: 10.1016/s0006-291x(89)80008-7.
Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) was extracted from the bovine bone matrix and purified by liquid chromatography. The molecular weight of the BMP was 18 kDa by SDS-PAGE, and its pI value was 4.9. Amino acid analysis suggested that the BMP is a polypeptide containing 163 amino acids. In the present study, telopeptide-free type I collagen was used as a carrier of BMP.