An Evaluation of a Simple Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis System for Lipoproteins and its Use for the Characterisation of Hyperlipoproteinaemia

Author(s):  
Ying Foo ◽  
T. R. Tickner ◽  
D. G. Cramp

The use of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis as a screening procedure for the characterisation of hyperlipoproteinaemia is described. Sixty-one samples were investigated and classified by four different methods: (1) chemical profile derived from visual appearance and estimation of total cholesterol and triglyceride; (2) ‘SML’ profile by nephelometry; (3) electrophoresis on agarose gel; and (4) electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gel. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed the closest correlation with the chemical profile when compared with the other two methods. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was found to be a rapid, reliable, and satisfactory procedure for plasma lipoprotein phenotyping.

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Hagen ◽  
N.O. Solum ◽  
M. Peterka

Platelet surface (glyco)proteins, and alterations in these in connection with the thrombin-induced release reaction has been studied. Platelets were labeled by lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodination, and examined by SDS gel electrophoresis in two different gel systems, one conventional(J. Biol. Chem.1969 244 4406), and the other containing urea and EDTA in the gels. In the conventional system the bulk of radioactivity coincided with a PAS band (GP III) of MW about 100, 000. In the other system, the main radioactive peak appeared in the GP II area (MW 120,000), and a shift in the PAS stain intensity from GP III to GP II was seen. Thrombasthenic platelets showed only traces of the GP II band in both systems. The bulk of radioactivity was associated with the surface glycopolypeptide GPS, which is present, but not labeled in normal platelets. In thrombin-released platelets, GPS in its unreduced state has an altered electrophoretic mobility compared to control platelets and platelets which have been incubated with metabolic inhibitors to prevent secretion. The findings indicate that the GP III band consists of two different polypeptides, one of which appears in the GP II area in gels containing urea and EDTA. Further, that thrombasthenic platelet membrane exists in a conformational state different from that of normal platelets. And finally, GPS is in some way involved in, or influenced by, the thrombin-induced release reaction.


1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-H. Yeh ◽  
T. Takagi ◽  
S. Sasaki

Two peptide fractions of bovine amelogenin having a highly aggregative property to form polymers were purified by chromatography, SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and HPLC. Amino acid sequences of purified peptides were determined by automated Edman degradation. One peptide was found to be composed of 63 amino acid residues having a molecular weight of 7105, and the other of 86 residues having that of 9683. The sequence of the smaller peptide was identical to the C-terminal 63 residues of the amelogenin molecule of 170 residues previously reported, but the larger contained eight residues which are absent in the amelogenin sequence. There is a possibility that the latter peptide might be synthesized independently from mRNA spliced at different positions.


2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu GAN ◽  
Dian-Rong LI ◽  
Xin ZANG ◽  
Chun-Hua FU ◽  
Long-Jiang YU ◽  
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1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline McKillop ◽  
W. Edgar ◽  
C. D. Forbes ◽  
C. R. M. Prentice

Seven pationts undergoing therapeutic defibrination by ancrod infusion were studied. Blood samples were obtained before treatment and after 6 and 24 hours ancrod infusion. Fibrinogen and its derivatives were precipitated with beta-alanine and separated by ΰ per cent agarose gel filtration. A range of soluble complexes were demonstrated after 6 hours infusion. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in SDS showed that the soluble complexes were largely composed of units with molecular weight similar to a minimally degraded early Fragment X. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in SDS and mercaptoethanol showed a marked loss of intact alphachain in the soluble complexes when compared with the uncomplexed material, suggesting that the soluble complexes had undergone preferential fibrinolytic digestion. It is suggested that, during ancrod therapy, FDP may be produced directly from soluble complexes rather than insoluble micro-thrombi as has been suggested previously.


Genome ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-471
Author(s):  
N. R. Sharopova ◽  
A. A. Sozinov ◽  
V. A. Portyanko

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis has been used to investigate the inheritance and linkage relationships between anodal (PXA) and cathodal (PXC) seed peroxidases in hexaploid oat (Avena sativa L.). A total of 12 seed peroxidase loci (5 loci of PXA and 7 loci of PXC) were identified in three crosses. Only two Pxc loci (Pxc5 and Pxc7) were not linked to any peroxidase loci; the others were scored in three linkage groups. The order of the three loci assigned to one of the linkage groups was Pxc1–Pxa5–Pxc2. The order of loci in the other two linkages were Pxc4–Pxa1–Pxa3 and Pxc3–Pxa4–Pxa2. Also, the Pxc6 locus was shown to be linked to the Pxc3 locus. Considering that A. sativa is an allohexaploid, it can be proposed that the three peroxidase linkages represent homoeologous chromosomes.Key words: seed peroxidase, isozyme inheritance, linkage, Avena sativa.


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