Hemoglobin Mahidol: a new hemoglobin α-chain mutant

1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (9) ◽  
pp. 1066-1078 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Pootrakul ◽  
G. H. Dixon

A slow (less anionic) hemoglobin mutant has been detected by starch gel electrophoresis of hemoglobin from three unrelated patients in Bangkok. Dissociation of the abnormal hemoglobin with p-hydroxymercuribenzoate showed that the α-chain was the site of the mutation. The mutant α-chain was isolated by carboxymethylcellulose chromatography in 8 M urea and 0.05 M β-mercaptoethanol. Peptide maps of trypsin and cyanogen bromide cleaved α-chain indicated that the amino acid alteration of the mutant was in the peptide corresponding to residues 62–76 of the α-chain. Further cleavage of this peptide with 0.25 M acetic acid at 110 °C showed that residue 74 was changed from an aspartyl to a histidyl residue, a mutation not previously described. It is proposed that this new hemoglobin α274His β2A be called hemoglobin Mahidol after Mahidol University in Bangkok. In one of the three patients showing hemoglobin Mahidol, interaction with α-thalassemia occurs and, in this patient, hemoglobin A is totally absent, being replaced by hemoglobin Mahidol together with some hemoglobin H (β4A).

1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet SD Graham

An improved apparatus and procedures for starch-gel electrophoresis of proteins of wheat flour are described; highly reproducible separation of the protein components was achieved. By starch-gel electrophoresis it was shown that similar protein components occur in the extracts of wheat flour obtained with a variety of solvents; however, there were marked differences in the proportions of these components in various extracts. Several protein components were present in the fJ'actions separated by ion-exchange chromatography of' the proteins soluble in Bodium pyrophosphate and of those soluble in acetic acid; some fractions containeda number of similar protein components.


Blood ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 830-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIRGINIA MINNICH ◽  
ROBERT J. HILL ◽  
PHILIP D. KHURI ◽  
MARY E. ANDERSON

Abstract A new hemoglobin, hemoglobin Hope, with a beta chain abnormality has been found in three generations of a St. Louis Negro family. The abnormal hemoglobin in the heterozygous state caused neither clinical stigmata nor abnormality in the red blood cells. Hemoglobin Hope was detected by agar gel electrophoresis at pH 6.2, but could not be differentiated from hemoglobin A by starch block electrophoresis at pH 8.6. Also, it could not be separated from hemoglobin A by paper, or starch gel electrophoresis employing a range of buffers from pH 6.2 to 8.6. Amino acid analysis showed that aspartic acid was substituted for glycine at position 136 of the beta chain. Hemoglobin Hope may be formulated as α2Aβ2136 gly-asp.


1969 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Bannister

1. Salt-soluble rat skin collagen was precipitated from solution at neutral pH and 37°. On cooling, a portion of the collagen returned into solution. The fractions were separated, the supernatant was concentrated and the precipitate was redissolved in dilute acetic acid. 2. Solutions of supernatant and precipitate were subjected to the same fractionation procedure, giving four fractions. 3. Each fraction was examined by starch-gel electrophoresis and a relationship between subunit composition and the fractionation procedure was noted. The collagen that redissolved on cooling contained less of the more highly cross-linked components than did either the fraction remaining in the precipitate or the starting material.


1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 699 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Frater

Soluble derivatives of wool and wool-root proteins have been extracted by reduction with mercaptoethanol in the presence of 8M urea followed by alkylation with acrylonitrile. Using chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, followed by gelfiltration on Sephadex, one of the major low-sulphur proteins present in the extract has been isolated in a pure state as determined by starch-gel electrophoresis. Such pure proteins were isolated from extracts of wool and wool roots taken from the same animal. Proteins from these two sources were then compared on the basis of amino acid composition and peptide maps prepared from tryptic digests of them. The results show that small but significant differences do exist between the wool and wool-root proteins. Oomparisons of the protein from different wools show that differences also occur here. It is concluded that small changes must occur in the protein composition during the keratinization process.


1964 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 126-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl H. Slotta ◽  
J. D Gonzalez

SummaryWhen urea or ε-amino caproic acid were used as solublizing agents for plasminogen in electrophoretic experiments, only one broad band of the proenzyme was obtained on acetate cellulose, in starch block, and in acrylamide gel. In starch gel electrophoresis, however, both forms of plasminogen – the native or euglobulin and Kline’s or Pseudoglobulin plasminogen – separated into six bands. These migrated toward the cathode at room temperature in borate or veronal buffer in the alkaline range and showed full activity in fibrinagar-streptokinase plates.


Genetics ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-603
Author(s):  
D Borden ◽  
E T Miller ◽  
D L Nanney ◽  
G S Whitt

ABSTRACT The isozymic patterns of tyrosine aminotransferase, NADP malate dehydrogenase, NADP isocitrate dehydrogenase, and tetrazolium oxidase were examined by starch-gel electrophoresis in Tetrahymena pyriformis, syngen 1. The genetics of the alleles controlling these enzymes was studied through a breeding program. Each enzyme locus was shown to assort vegetatively, as do other loci in this organism. A detailed analysis of the assortment process for the tyrosine aminotransferase locus indicated that the rate of stabilization of heterozygotes into pure types was essentially identical to previously-reported rates for other loci.


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.


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