FURTHER STUDIES OF CHANGES IN PLASMA PROTEINS IN AVIAN ERYTHROBLASTOSIS: I. TWO-DIMENSIONAL STARCH GEL ELECTROPHORESIS

1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 1661-1665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohendra Merriman

Plasma protein changes in avian erythroblastosis previously studied with paper and starch gel electrophoresis have now been examined with a two-dimensional technique combining the two methods. The differences affect chiefly one zone which migrates in the α-globulin region.

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Merriman ◽  
C. le Q. Darcel

Alterations of the plasma proteins have been previously demonstrated in avian erythroblastosis by paper and now by starch gel electrophoresis. With the latter technique, eight protein zones are recognized in normal plasmas. Heparin contributes an additional non-staining zone. In leukemic plasmas two more zones occur while another zone shows significant retardation.Heparin is not responsible for these changes because they are also observed in oxalated plasmas, but there is evidence of increased binding of heparin in leukemic plasma.


1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 369-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Neelin

By varying conditions of starch gel electrophoresis, factors contributing to the resolution of myogen proteins from chicken breast muscle have been studied. Variables examined included composition of the myogen extractant, protein concentration, ionic strength of electrophoretic media, pH of gel media, plane and direction of electrophoresis, and the nature of cations and anions in gel media and bridge solutions. The significance of anions was more closely studied with constant buffer systems, and gradient systems in which bridge electrolyte differed from, and gradually altered, the gel medium. Optimal separation was obtained in gradient systems with 0.10 M sodium chloride bridge solutions, and gel media of sodium cacodylate, pH 6.9, μ 0.010, which resolved 12 cationic zones, and sodium veronal, pH 7.4, μ 0.010, which resolved 10 anionic zones. These buffers in two-dimensional sequence revealed a total of about 24 components in this myogen.


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.


1966 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tsuyuki ◽  
E. Roberts

The species specific muscle myogens of Salmo gairdnerii, Oncorhynchus masou, O. masou ishikawae, O. kisutch, O. tshawytscha, O. keta, O. nerka, and O. gorbuscha are compared by starch gel electrophoresis. Plasma proteins of these same species are also examined by polyacrylamide disc electrophoresis. The range of usefulness of muscle myogens in species identification, and equally significantly, their value in establishing phylogenetic relationships of closely related groups, as the genus Oncorhynchus, are discussed. The myogen patterns of O. keta and O. gorbuscha from the Asiatic and North American coasts were found to be identical, further supporting the concept of absolute species specificity of these patterns.


1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Neelin

By varying conditions of starch gel electrophoresis, factors contributing to the resolution of myogen proteins from chicken breast muscle have been studied. Variables examined included composition of the myogen extractant, protein concentration, ionic strength of electrophoretic media, pH of gel media, plane and direction of electrophoresis, and the nature of cations and anions in gel media and bridge solutions. The significance of anions was more closely studied with constant buffer systems, and gradient systems in which bridge electrolyte differed from, and gradually altered, the gel medium. Optimal separation was obtained in gradient systems with 0.10 M sodium chloride bridge solutions, and gel media of sodium cacodylate, pH 6.9, μ 0.010, which resolved 12 cationic zones, and sodium veronal, pH 7.4, μ 0.010, which resolved 10 anionic zones. These buffers in two-dimensional sequence revealed a total of about 24 components in this myogen.


1967 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1269-1273 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Uthe ◽  
H. Tsuyuki

Polyacrylamide disc electrophoresis of plasma proteins and starch-gel electrophoresis of hemoglobins and muscle myogens of adult and ammocoete forms of three species of Great Lakes lamprey were carried out. Blood proteins were shown to undergo marked changes upon transformation of the ammocoete into the adult form. Muscle myogen did not undergo any change during transformation. The muscle myogen electropherograms of Ichthyomyzon unicuspis and Lampetra lamottei were found to be the same.


1960 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L. Cohen

1. The plasma proteins of six inbred strains of mice have been studied, using starch-gel electrophoresis.2. The existence of two alternative plasma transferrin (β-globulin) phenotypes has been demonstrated. Five of the strains have one of these and one strain has the other. Each of the two transferrin patterns comprises three (or possibly only two) electrophoretic bands. The two patterns differ in all of these bands.3. The two transferrin types recognized are determined by a pair of allelic, autosomal genes (designated TrfA and TrfB). The TrfA phenotype (CBA strain) is determined by the genotype TrfA/TrfA, and the TrfB phenotype (A, C57BL, JU, KL, RIII strains) by the genotype TrfB/TrfB. The phenotype TrfAB, of the heterozygote (genotype TrfA/TrfB), is distinguishable and shows four (or possibly only three) bands. In this way it closely resembles a mixture of equal parts of TrfA and TrfB plasma.4. No linkage was detected between the Trf locus and sex, the agouti locus or the haemoglobin locus.5. The possible molecular basis of the action of the transferrin alleles in the mouse, and the widespread distribution in mammals of polymorphism involving the transferrins, are discussed.


Nature ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 188 (4744) ◽  
pp. 78-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
MORRIS GOODMAN ◽  
EMILY POULIK ◽  
M. D. POULIK

1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
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.


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