ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1034 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Maria Dolores Mayan1,2, Paula Carpintero-Fernández1, Raquel Gago-Fuentes1, Marta Varela-Eirin1, Gary S. Goldberg3 and Francisco Javier Blanco1,4,5, 1Cartilage Biology Research Group, Rheumatology Division, INIBIC-Hospital Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, 2Email: [email protected], A Coruña, Spain, 3Rowan University, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ, 4Rheumatology Division, CIBER-BBN/ISCIII, INIBIC-Hospital Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, 5Rheumatology Division, ProteoRed/ISCIII, Proteomics Group, INIBIC-Hospital Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
Background/Purpose: Glycosylated proteins are essential components of the extracellular matrix (ECM) of cartilage and contribute to the maintenance of its function. A shift from a-2,6-…