scholarly journals An examination of heart proteins by two-dimensional electrophoresis.

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 2011-2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Gianazza ◽  
L Osio ◽  
G Grazioli ◽  
S Astrua-Testori ◽  
P G Righetti ◽  
...  

Abstract We examined specimens from explanted human hearts by two-dimensional electrophoresis. The protocol selected includes: (a) solubilization of the sample in a urea-detergent mix; (b) charge fractionation in the presence of urea and nonionic detergent on a pH 4-10 immobilized pH gradient; (c) size fractionation on a polyacrylamide concentration gradient in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate; and (d) staining with silver nitrate. The method is sensitive enough for analysis of biopsies in the 1-3 mg range (wet tissue). We saw, for explanted hearts, variations in the protein pattern with the site of sample dissection. Results are presented for 11 explanted human hearts: one control organ and 10 pathological samples. The recorded pathologies included dilatative cardiomyopathy (six cases), valvulopathy (one case), ischemic cardiopathy (two cases), and graft rejection (one case). The patterns for whole extracts as well as for cytoplasmic proteins and myofibril components are compared. Extensive individual variability was observed both between control and pathological cases and among the abnormal samples.

Blood ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1121-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
JJ Edwards ◽  
NG Anderson ◽  
SL Nance ◽  
NL Anderson

Abstract Human erythrocyte lysate proteins were resolved into over 250 discrete spots by two-dimensional electrophoresis using isoelectric focusing in the first dimension and electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate, (SDS) in the second. The overwhelming excess of hemoglobin has made such analyses difficult in the past. However, with the ISO-DALT two-dimensional electrophoresis system, large numbers of red cell proteins can be mapped in the presence of hemoglobin. When hemoglobin and several other major proteins are removed by adsorption to DEAE-cellulose, additional minor components are seen, giving a total of over 275. With the use of purified preparations, the map positions of five cell enzymes or their subunits were determined: pyruvate kinase, catalase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase, and carbonic anhydrase. The mapping techniques described complement and extend those traditionally used to find human red cell protein variants.


1987 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Manabe ◽  
S Visvikis ◽  
M F Dumon ◽  
M Clerc ◽  
G Siest

Abstract We examined lipoproteins and apolipoproteins in serum of a Tangier-disease patient. We used three different techniques of micro-scale two-dimensional electrophoresis: (a) no denaturants; (b) with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) used only in the slab gel electrophoresis; (c) and with urea and a detergent used in isoelectric focusing and with SDS in slab gel electrophoresis. By technique a, an extremely low concentration of high-density lipoproteins (HDL) in the Tangier serum was seen, and lipoproteins that cannot form HDL complexes were detected as multiple spots in the acidic (pl 4 approximately 5) and relatively low apparent molecular mass (20,000 approximately 80,000) region. By technique b, Tangier low-molecular-mass lipoproteins were dissociated into their constituent apolipoproteins, and we observed a higher proportion of apoC-III, together with lower proportions of apoA-I and apoA-II, than in the normal HDL fraction. Technique c showed the total content of apolipoproteins in the whole Tangier serum, as several workers have reported. The presence of low-molecular-mass lipoproteins and a high concentration of apoC-III in this lipoprotein fraction characterized the Tangier serum.


Blood ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1121-1132
Author(s):  
JJ Edwards ◽  
NG Anderson ◽  
SL Nance ◽  
NL Anderson

Human erythrocyte lysate proteins were resolved into over 250 discrete spots by two-dimensional electrophoresis using isoelectric focusing in the first dimension and electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate, (SDS) in the second. The overwhelming excess of hemoglobin has made such analyses difficult in the past. However, with the ISO-DALT two-dimensional electrophoresis system, large numbers of red cell proteins can be mapped in the presence of hemoglobin. When hemoglobin and several other major proteins are removed by adsorption to DEAE-cellulose, additional minor components are seen, giving a total of over 275. With the use of purified preparations, the map positions of five cell enzymes or their subunits were determined: pyruvate kinase, catalase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase, and carbonic anhydrase. The mapping techniques described complement and extend those traditionally used to find human red cell protein variants.


1984 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 2014-2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Klose ◽  
E Zeindl

Abstract A concept is presented for estimation of the total number of different proteins in a single human cell type (exemplified here by Hep cells) by use of two-dimensional electrophoresis (2DE). This concept includes three problems, the first, investigated in this study, being the transfer of all protein species of the cells into a sample useful for separation by 2DE. Five different extraction media containing--in various combinations--urea, Nonidet P-40, Zwittergent, mercaptoethanol, dithiothreitol, and sodium dodecyl sulfate were used step by step in three different extraction procedures to extract the cell proteins. The amount of radiolabeled proteins in each extract was measured. Each extract was subjected to 2DE. From the total mass of cell proteins, 99.99% could be extracted in two steps: 96% were extracted with urea/beta-mercaptoethanol solution, the remaining 4% with sodium dodecyl sulfate/urea/beta-mercaptoethanol solution. A special class of proteins assumed to be present in the latter fraction was not detected. Thus this fraction can be omitted from the further analysis of all cell proteins by 2DE. Protein classes that possibly remain undetected by the described extraction procedures are mentioned.


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