A COMPARISON OF HISTONES FROM CHICKEN TISSUES BY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS IN STARCH GEL

1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Neelin ◽  
G. C. Butler

Histories were extracted at pH 1.7 from washed nuclei of chicken erythrocytes, spleen, liver, and testis and compared by starch-gel electrophoresis at pH 5.0, ionic strength 0.020. Spleen and liver histories displayed the most complex electrophoretic patterns with 18 zones each and differed only in relative proportions of certain zones. Erythrocyte histone contained a characteristic zone while lacking a group present in spleen and liver histones. Testis histone with only seven zones differed markedly from the other three. These results were consistent with chromatograms of erythrocyte, spleen, and liver histones on sodium IRC-50. The suggested correlation of tissue-specific histones with cell differentiation is discussed.

1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 2507-2516 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Driedger ◽  
L. D. Johnson ◽  
A. M. Marko

Histories extracted from various organs of the rat have been fractionated by electrophoresis on Polyacrylamide gels. The most convenient reagents to form the gel were selected and the effects of varying concentrations of these reagents on the resolution of histones were investigated. Optimum conditions for the separation of histones were found to be the same as those for starch gel electrophoresis. More consistent results were obtained with the use of Polyacrylamide gels because these gels were equilibrated to constant pH and ionic strength prior to electrophoresis and the gels were electrophoretically destained to demonstrate the histone bands.


1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (89) ◽  
pp. 1020 ◽  
Author(s):  
J McCausland ◽  
CW Wrigley

A range of laboratory methods was examined for their ability to distinguish between 19 barley cultivars currently grown in Australia. Aleurone colour, revealed after mechanical or chemical dehulling, differentiated Abyssinian, Atlas, Cape and Corvette from the other cultivars. Peroxidase and phenol testing were not useful. Seven different patterns were obtained for the hordeins of lowest mobility by starch gel electrophoresis. Further distinction was provided by flat gel isoelectric focusing of the water-soluble and hordein proteins for which 13 different pattern-groupings were obtained. The two electrophoretic techniques complemented one another, so that the use of both methods left only a few cultivars that could not be distinguished.


1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 1073-1078 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Neelin

The effect of pH on gradient starch gel electrophoresis of the venoms of Crotalus adamanteus and Naja flava has been examined. Sodium acetate buffer, pH 4.1, ionic strength 0.020, appeared most effective for resolution of the former venom, and acetate buffer, pH 4.7, or cacodylate buffer, pH 6.0, for the latter. Two-dimensional starch gel electrophoresis resolved at least 20 zones from the crotaline venom and 11 from the colubrid. Two zones of hemolytic activity were separated from each venom: in C. adamanteus the less cationic zone included possibly two or more acidic proteins; the corresponding zone of N. flava was more basic, more homogeneous, and more active under the conditions of assay.


1976 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1691-1698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond J. Zimmerman

Vertical polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis was conducted for the catalase enzymes of representative strains of 18 proposed species and subspecies of the genus Staphylococcus. The catalase bands which resulted were predominantly monomorphic within each of the species and differences in catalase mobilities were observed between many of the species. The electrophoretic mobilities of the catalases were supportive to the scheme of classification used. Many strains of certain species demonstrated multiple catalase bands which are suggestive of multimolecular forms of the enzyme. Horizontal starch gel electrophoresis of representative strains of S. capitis produced catalase bands with relative mobilities that were different from those obtained with polyacrylamide electrophoresis, presumably due to a difference in molecular sieving between the gels.


1983 ◽  
Vol 215 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
R C Strange ◽  
P H Hirrell ◽  
G A Kitley ◽  
D A Hopkinson ◽  
W Cotton

Starch-gel electrophoresis was used to demonstrate two forms of glutathione S-transferase in human erythrocytes. Whereas considerable inter-individual differences in enzyme activity and electrophoretic patterns were detected, intra-individual differences were small.


1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Y. S. Chan ◽  
Edwin T. Mertz

Bovine and human plasminogen preparations were analyzed by starch-gel electrophoresis at pH 2.5 and 0.10 ionic strength. The bands were activated with urokinase and the proteolytic and esterolytic activities measured. Bovine euglobulin contains one plasminogen band, B-1. Plasminogen prepared from bovine euglobulin by continuous electrophoresis at pH 3.5 contains B-1 and a faster plasminogen band, B-2. B-1 and B-2 are also found in bovine plasminogen prepared by DEAE-cellulose chromatography. All three preparations on activation give the same two plasmin bands on starch gel. Human euglobulin also contains two active plasminogen bands H-1 and H-2. Plasminogen prepared from human euglobulin by continuous electrophoresis at pH 3.5 contains H-1, H-2, and a faster minor plasminogen band, H-3. All highly purified human plasminogens derived from Cohn fraction III contain either H-3 as a major band and an additional plasminogen band, H-4, or only H-3, but no H-1 and H-2. On activation with urokinase or streptokinase, human plasminogen preparations give one or two plasmin bands. It is concluded that bovine B-2 and human H-3 and H-4 are altered forms of euglobulin plasminogen created during isolation procedures. Essentially pure human H-3 can be prepared by continuous electrophoresis from Cutter plasminogen.


1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 1357-1364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shun-Fong Hui ◽  
R. H. Common

Starch-gel electrophoresis of the total livetins of hen's egg yolk resolved 16 zones: seven major zones, six minor zones, and three faint, diffuse zones. One zone was identified with the major component of paper electrophoretic alpha-livetin and hence with serum albumin. Four of the major zones were identified with the major components of paper electrophoretic beta-livetin on the one hand, and with an electrophoretically heterogeneous livetin antigen (livetin antigen 3) on the other hand, thus establishing the electrophoretic heterogeneity and relative immunological homogeneity of the paper electrophoretic beta-livetin fraction. The other two major starch-gel electrophoretic zones were identified as transferrins by their positive staining reaction for iron and comparison of their mobilities with two corresponding serum starch-gel fractions.


1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Agatsuma ◽  
K. Terasaki ◽  
L. Yang ◽  
D. Blair

AbstractTwelve enzymes (encoded by 14 loci) in liver flukes of Fasciola species originating from Japan (parthenogenetic triploids), Korea (parthenogenetic diploids), the United States of America (USA) and Australia (all sexual diploids) were analysed using starch gel electrophoresis. Variation in electrophoretic patterns between samples was detected at five enzyme loci (Ak, Got, Gpi, 6-Pgd and Pgm-2). Japanese worms (31, of which six were established as uniparental laboratory strains), which reproduce by parthenogenesis, exhibited three different isozyme patterns. This indicates that triploidy has arisen more than once in Japanese flukes. Japanese Fasciola sp. can be separated into three types on morphological grounds. For the six laboratory strains of Japanese worms, the parental morphological type was known. Each of the three isozyme patterns observed was restricted to one morphological type. Most alleles detected in the Japanese triploids were also found in diploid worms from the other countries: the only alleles not represented elsewhere were four at the Got locus and two at the Pgm locus. Flukes from a laboratory strain derived from a single Korean diploid worm resembled the Japanese worms in genotype more closely than did American (seven uniparental laboratory strains) or Australian (30 worms) specimens. Worms from the last two countries were closely related.


1960 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Neelin ◽  
E. M. Neelin

A total of 19 zones were detected by starch gel electrophoresis of calf thymus histone in buffers of 0.02 μ below pH 5.0. Of these, 18 were evident at pH 4.9 (acetate) and 15 at pH 3.9 (formate). Above pH 5.0, aggregation interfered with resolution, but by adding 4 M urea to the gel sufficient resolution was obtained between pH 4.4 and 8.7 to distinguish a total of 22 zones. Of this total, three fast components were present only occasionally in trace amounts, and three others were resolved from the immobile aggregated histone at low pH only. At least 16 zones appeared to be native histone components. Acid extraction of the histone did not appear to cause degradation since no new N-terminal amino acids were generated by this step. Two different methods of preparation produced histone extracts with essentially the same electrophoretic properties.


1989 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 1945-1951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Okamoto

Sand fance (Genus Ammodytes) collected from four stations off Japan and one station at Kodiak, Alaska were genetically characterized at 17 protein coding loci using starch-gel electrophoresis. Sand lance in Wakkanai (Cape Soya, Japan) consist of two genetically distinct groups. They are fixed for different alleles at four loci (Ldh-2, -3, G3pdh-2, and Mdhp-2). The genetic structure of one of the groups (Wakkanai-a group, W-a) is similar to that of A. personatus around Japan. The other group (Wakkanai-b group, W-b) has different genetic structure from either A. personatus or the Alaskan collection, which is presumed to belong to A. hexapterus. It is not presently possible to identify the affiliation of the W-b group; however, despite its sympatry with the W-a group, it is reproductively isolated and therefore is probably a distinct species occurring northeast of Hokkaido.


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