scholarly journals MOUSE ERYTHROCYTE ESTERASES AND AN INTERACTION WITH HEPARIN AS SHOWN BY STARCH GEL ELECTROPHORESIS

1969 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
McCORMICK TEMPLETON

Esterases from the blood of young adult male C-57 brown mice were separated by starch gel electrophoresis. Enzymatic hydrolysis of the substrates α-naphthyl acetate, naphthyl-AS acetate, α-naphthyl butyrate and acetylthiocholine was studied. Three different esterases were found in erythrocytes. One band hydrolyzed a-naphthyl butyrate but was only slightly active with acetate esters. The fastest migrating bands hydrolyzed acetate faster than butyrate esters, but would hydrolyze both substrates. A third esterase represented in the zymogram by a pair of bands (called "acetate" bands) would hydrolyze only acetate esters. When heparin, or plasma containing heparin, was inserted in a gel so as to overlap an erythrocyte sample, only the acetate bands were altered. When hepanin was inserted cathodal to an erythrocyte sample, the acetate bands are selectively affected by the heparin in such a way as to cause the acetate band to migrate more rapidly toward the anode; other esterase bands were not similarly affected. Acetate bands were not inhibited by physostygmine (1 mM) but their activities diminished with increased concentrations of buffer.

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. Ferrer-Monge

The esterase isozyme patterns for irradiated and non-irradiated soybean seed and seedlings were determined by starch gel electrophoresis. Patterns were determined for cotyledons, hypocotyl, epicotyl, first pair of leaves, and roots. Two different esterase systems, E1 and E2, were detected by using appropriate substrates. E1 produces three anodic bands with both α- and β-naphthyl acetate. E2 acts only on α-naphthyl acetate producing three cathodic bands. Radiation did not change the patterns. Results indicate that esterase isozymes are more abundant in the aerial than in the underground portion of developing seedlings.


1967 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 1307-1312 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Helen Eaton ◽  
D W Moss

1. Purified human liver and small-intestinal alkaline orthophosphatases release inorganic phosphate at appreciable rates from a variety of organic pyrophosphate substrates. 2. The pyrophosphatase action is inhibited by Mg2+ ions at concentrations that activate the hydrolysis of orthophosphate substrates by these enzymes. 3. The results of mixed-substrate experiments, denaturation studies with heat or urea and starch-gel electrophoresis suggest that both orthophosphatase and pyrophosphatase activities are, in each preparation, properties of a single enzyme. 4. Intestinal phosphatase shows greater pyrophosphatase activity relative to orthophosphatase than the liver enzyme.


1966 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. VANHA-PERTTULA ◽  
V. K. HOPSU ◽  
G. G. GLENNER

Hydrolysis of β-naphthylamides of a number of amino acids and dipeptides and of a number of di- and tripeptides by hog kidney homogenate and by fractions obtained by various fractionation procedures has been studied. The substrates were found to be split by a soluble, apparently sulfhydryl-dependent enzyme, and by a particle-bound, metal-activated enzyme. The former constituted only a small part of the total activity. The latter was subfractionated by starch gel electrophoresis into two fractions with identical characteristics. The soluble and particle-bound enzymes differed also in their substrate specificity. The latter enzyme was solubilized, partially purified, characterized by some modifier compounds and compared with enzyme preparations obtained by various fractionation procedures presented by other investigators. Thus enzyme showed ion-determined substrate specificity, i.e., hydrolysis of some of the amino acid naphthylamides was found to be activated by Co++ while the hydrolysis of others was inhibited by the same metal ion.


1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 953-955 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Funnell ◽  
W. T. Oliver

The method described in this paper is based upon hydrolysis of the starch gel by sodium hydroxide, which releases the dye. The dye is then taken up in an immiscible solvent, and the color determined spectrophotometrically. The method gave good reproducibility in studies both of natural activity and competitive inhibition without requiring any changes in the usual methods. The amount of dye in the final solution was related to the activity towards the dye-producing substrate of the enzyme present in the gel section.


1980 ◽  
Vol 35 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 963-966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Strack ◽  
Gerhild Nurmann ◽  
Gesine Sachs

Abstract Following a 20 to 24 h lag-phase after sowing, the onset of both rapid degradation of sinapine (sinapolycholine) and rapid increase in sinapine esterase activity in cotyledons of Raphanus sativus was observed. After 2 days of germination maximal enzyme activity was reached and declined in subsequent germination stages as rapidly as it had appeared. Esterases, active against indophenyl acetate, showed highest activity in dry seeds, declining to more than 50% between the 1st and 3rd day of germination. Starch gel electrophoresis showed that all protein extracts contained a multiplicity of esterases, active against α-naphthyl acetate. When gels were incubated with sinapine, one new band appeared, stainable with diazotized ρ-nitroaniline. This band represents sinapine esterase activity. Tests for substrate specificity towards cinnamic acid choline esters showed highest enzyme activity with sinapine. Studies on the occurrence of sinapine esterase in other Brassicaceae revealed that the enzyme activity coincides with the occurrence and degradation of sinapine.


1969 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 732-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Marek

Gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 was carried out on haemolymph proteins of prepupae. ligatured prepupae, male and female pupae and cooled pupae of Galleria mellonella L.The proteins were separated into two main fractions. The esterase activity of the eluated haemolymph was determined by means of beta-naphthyl acetate after filtration.After elution the samples were condensed and additionally separated on horizontal starch-gel electrophoresis.The “cooling protein” of pupae and the “ligature protein” of ligatured larvae of Galleria mellonella were shown by means of starch-gel electrophoresis to be new proteins, so far not described.The isoelectric point and molecular weight were determined for the individual protein fractions.They were then stained with amido black 10 B for the proof of proteins, and with alpha-naphthyl butyrate with Fast-Blue BB salt for the identification of esterases.


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.


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