scholarly journals Isolation and a partial amino acid sequence of insulin from the islet tissue of cod (Gadus callarias)

1968 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
P T Grant ◽  
K. B. M. Reid

1. Insulin has been isolated by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography from extracts of the discrete islet tissue of cod. The final preparation yielded a single band on electrophoresis at two pH values. The biological potency was 11·5 international units/mg. in mouse-convulsion and other assay procedures. 2. Glycine and methionine were shown to be the N-terminal amino acids of the A and B chains respectively. An estimate of the molecular weight together with amino acid analyses indicated that cod insulin, like the bovine hormone, consists of 51 amino acid residues. In contrast, the amino acid composition differs markedly from bovine insulin. 3. Oxidation of insulin with performic acid yielded the A and B peptide chains, which were separated by ion-exchange chromatography. Sequence studies on smaller peptides isolated from enzymic digests or from dilute acetic acid hydrolysates of the two chains have established the sequential order of 14 of the 21 amino acid residues of the A chain and 25 of the 30 amino acid residues of the B chain.

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 1450-1459 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Tremaine ◽  
W. P. Ronald ◽  
E. M. Kelly

Southern bean mosaic virus (SBMV) protein was cleaved with cyanogen bromide and a highly basic peptide, CB-1, was isolated by ion exclusion and ion-exchange chromatography. Twelve peptides were separated from a tryptic digest of CB-1 by ion-exchange chromatography and the composition of these peptides was similar to that of peptides released from EDTA-swollen virus particles by limited tryptic digestion. The composition and N-termini of the tryptic peptides indicated CB-1 was from the N-terminus of SBMV protein and contained 48 amino acid residues. The CB-1 peptide moved rapidly to the cathode in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis at pH 3.9 and contained nine arginine residues, three lysine residues, and no acidic amino acid residues. It was shown to interact with purified viral RNA, sodium dextran sulfate, and calf thymus DNA.Antiserum to sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-dissociated virus gave a reaction of partial identity between the CB-1 peptide and the SDS-dissociated virus in SDS gel diffusion tests. The CB-1 peptide did not react with antiserum to SDS-dissociated, trypsin-treated virus. Gel diffusion tests conducted in saline agar gels between trypsin-treated virus and SBMV, with SBMV antiserum, did not show differences in their serological properties. Antiserum to the CB-1 peptide conjugated to tomato bushy stunt virus reacted with SBMV but SBMV antiserum did not react with CB-1 or the CB-1-tomato bushy stunt virus conjugate.


1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
GM Air ◽  
EOP Thompson

The amino acid sequence of the jS-chain of haemoglobin from M. giganteus has been determined. The soluble peptides formed by tryptic digestion were isolated by gel filtration, ion-exchange chromatography, and paper ionophoresis, and amino acid sequences determined by the "dansyl"-Edman procedure. Special procedures were necessary for three peptides which were insoluble.


1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
WK Fisher ◽  
DD Koureas ◽  
EOP Thompson

Myoglobin isolated from the red muscle of the school shark Galeorhinus australis was purified by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography. The amino acid sequence was determined following digestion with trypsin and purification of the peptides by paper ionophoresis and chromatography. Sequences of purified peptides were determined by the dansyl-Edman procedure and the peptides aligned by homology with the sequence of the myoglobin of the gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus. The two myoglobin sequences showed a marked similarity (16 differences), but both sequences showed approximately the same number of differences (68) from myoglobin of the Port Jackson shark Heterodontus portusjacksoni. There are 19 residues unique to the three shark myoglobin sequences.


1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
WK Fisher ◽  
DD Koureas ◽  
EOP Thompson

Myoglobin isolated from red muscle of the gummy shark M. antarcticus was purified by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography on carboxymethyl cellulose in 8 M urea-thiol buffer. Amino acid analysis and sequence determination showed 148 amino acid residues. The amino terminal residue is acetylated as shown by nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrographic analysis of an N-terminal peptide. There is a deletion of four residues at the amino terminal end as well as one residue in the CD interhelical area relative to other myoglobins. These overall differences were also found previously in myoglobin of Heterodontus portusjacksoni.


1962 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1095-1104
Author(s):  
B. Truscott ◽  
P. L. Hoogland ◽  
P. H. Odense ◽  
A. E. Waddell

Tropomyosin from cod muscle can be oxidized with performic acid to cleave disulphide bonds without degradation of other amino acid residues. The ε-amino groups of lysine within the molecule can be substituted readily with carbobenzoxy-groups for protection against digestion by trypsin. The digestions by trypsin of carbobenzoxy-substituted tropomyosin, and by chymotrypsin of oxidized tropomyosin, have been shown to be reproducible, providing peptides suitable for amino acid sequence studies. The peptides so obtained were separated by ion-exchange chromatography using a Beckman/Spinco Amino Acid Analyzer.After treatment with urea, cod tropomyosin does not yield a free N-terminal amino acid as has been reported for rabbit tropomyosin.


1989 ◽  
Vol 44 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 407-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
René A. Brunisholz ◽  
I. Bissig ◽  
R. Wagner-Huber ◽  
G. Frank ◽  
F. Suter ◽  
...  

Abstract The antenna complex B 880 of Rp. marina has been isolated by applying ion-exchange chromatography on Whatman DE -52 resin and sucrose density centrifugation of LDAO-solubilized photosynthetic membranes. The antenna polypeptides B 880-α and B 880-β were pre­pared by organic solvent extraction of extensively dialyzed and freeze-dried B 880 antenna complex material or photosynthetic membranes. Gel filtration on Sephadex LH-60 and ion-exchange chromatography on Whatman DE -32 resin in the presence of organic solvents and an additional step on a C-8 reversed phase column yielded pure α-and β-apoproteins. Their complete primary structures have been elucidated using automated Edman degradation and carboxypeptidase diges­tion. According to quantitative Edman degradation the ratio of B 880-α and B 880-β has been determined as 1:1 in the isolated antenna complex as well as in the photosynthetic membrane. B 880-α of Rp. marina, presumably N -form ylated, consists of 52 amino acid residues and is 75, 56, 52 and 44% homologous to the corresponding core antenna polypeptides of Rs. rubrum, Rp. viridis, Rb. capsulatus and Rb. sphaeroides. In contrast, B 880-β (56 amino acid residues) is less homologous to the corresponding core β-antenna polypeptides of the same strains (57. 51. 41 and 42%). It shows an extended N-terminal domain as compared to the B 880-a polypeptide. Apart from the typical structural features of bacterial membrane-bound antenna polypeptides (three domain structure, His-residue in the hydrophobic stretch) the antenna polypeptides of Rp. marina are structurally related to polypeptides of core antenna complexes with strong near infra­red circular dichroism signals.


2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
E.S. Yunusova ◽  
E.S. Sadykov ◽  
N.M. Sultanalieva ◽  
A.V. Shkinev

Ability of fractions of cobra’s (Naja oxiana Eichwald) and copperhead snake’s (Agkistrodon halys halys) venoms to hydrolyze fibrinogen/fibrin was studied. In cobra’s snake a component with molecular mass of nearly 60 kDa was found to hydrolyze a-chain of fibrinogen but failed to hydrolyze casein/azocasein and fibrin. A fibrinogen-specific metalloproteinase, the enzyme was inhibited by EDTA. Cobra’s venom reduced the mass of donor’s fresh blood clots. The copperhead snake’s venom and the fractions obtained by gel-filtration (HW-50) and ion exchange chromatography (DEAE-650) were found to hydrolyze casein/azocasein, a- and b-chains of fibrinogen/fibrin and donor’s blood clots. The results from the study of the venom and proteolytically active fractions are the evidence for a thrombolytic potential in a copperhead snake’s venom.


1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
WK Fisher ◽  
EOP Thompson

Myoglobin isolated from red muscle of the shark H. portusjacksoni was purified by ion-exchange chromatography on sulfopropyl-Sephadex and gel-filtration. Amino acid analysis and sequence determination showed 148 amino acid residues. The amino terminal residue is acetylated as shown by mass spectrographic analysis of N-terminal peptides. There is a deletion of four residues at the amino terminal end as well as one residue in the CD interhelical area relative to other myoglobins.


1968 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-NP ◽  
Author(s):  
B. T. PICKERING

SUMMARY A protein capable of binding neurohypophysial hormones has been isolated from cod pituitary glands using gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography. The cod protein which was acidic and rich in cystine had an amino acid composition closely related to those of the mammalian neurophysins. It had a maximum binding capacity of 2·2 μmole/14mg. for oxytocin, 2·1 μmole/14 mg. for [8-arginine]-oxytocin and 1·1 μmole/14 mg. for [8-arginine]-vasopressin. Thus the cod protein had a greater capacity for the endogenous pressor-antidiuretic peptide than for the analogous mammalian hormone.


1973 ◽  
Vol 30 (02) ◽  
pp. 414-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulla Hedner

SummaryA procedure is described for partial purification of an inhibitor of the activation of plasminogen by urokinase and streptokinase. The method involves specific adsorption of contammants, ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex, gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and preparative electrophoresis. The inhibitor fraction contained no antiplasmin, no plasminogen, no α1-antitrypsin, no antithrombin-III and was shown not to be α2 M or inter-α-inhibitor. It contained traces of prothrombin and cerulo-plasmin. An antiserum against the inhibitor fraction capable of neutralising the inhibitor in serum was raised in rabbits.


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