... residues and have a common stemtetrasaccharide of xylose (xyl), two galactose units (gal) and a glucuronic acid residue (GlcA). The repeating disaccharide of HS is N-acetylglu-cosamine and uronic acid, ... 6-0NNN6-0NNFig. 1. Schematic of the four vertebrate syndecans. Syndecans-1 and -3 core proteins are larger than those of syndecan-2 and -4, and canbear both heparan and chondroitin sulfate chains. ... SA, Copeland RA,Decicco CP, Wynn R et al. (1999) Purification and cloning of aggrecanase-1: a member of the ADAMTSfamily of proteins. Science284, 1664–1666.53 Echtermeyer F, Bertrand J, Dreier...