scholarly journals Phosphorylation of synaptic-membrane proteins from ox cerebral cortex in vitro. Preparation of fractions enriched in phosphorylated proteins by using extraction with detergents and urea, and gel filtration

1977 ◽  
Vol 163 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
P R Dunkley ◽  
H Holmes ◽  
R Rodnight

Synaptic-membrane fragments from ox cerebral cortex contain basal and cyclic AMP-stimulated protein kinase(s) that transfer 32P from [gamma-32P]ATP to hydroxyl groups of serine and threonine residues in membrane-protein substrates. In the present work, labelled membrane fragments were partitioned into soluble and insoluble fractions with Triton X-100, Nonidet P. 40, sodium deoxycholate and urea, and the distribution of 32P-labelled protein in the fractions was determined by polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and radioautography. A high percentage of phosphorylated protein sustrates remained insoluble, including those whose phosphorylation was most highly stimulated by cyclic AMP. Whole membrane fragments and samples prepared by detergent extraction were fractionated on Sepharose 6B columns in the presence of low concentrations of sodium dodecyl sulphate and pooled fractions were analysed by polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and radioautography. Phosphorylated proteins were fractionated on the basis of their molecular weight, but homogeneous protein was not obtained. The results are discussed in relation to the techniques used and the results obtained in other laboratories.

1978 ◽  
Vol 175 (3) ◽  
pp. 1079-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Villarroya ◽  
J Williams ◽  
P Dey ◽  
S Villarroya ◽  
F Petek

Two beta-mannanases (beta-mannosidases, EC 3.2.1.25) purified from the germinated seeds of Trifolium repens by a procedure that included chromatography on hydroxyapatite, gel filtration on acrylamide/agarose (Ultragel 5/4) and preparative polyacrylamide-gel-electrophoresis. The final purification step completely resolved two beta-mannanases with distinct specificities, which were termed beta-mannanase I and beta-mannanase II. beta-Mannanase I was purified 1400-fold and beta-mannanase II 1000-fold. The purified enzymes showed a single protein band when examined by polyacrylamide-gel disc electrophoresis. beta-Mannanase I, apparent mol.wt. 43 000, accounted for 49% of the total activity recovered from the final step of purification. beta-Mannanase II, apparent mol.wt. 38 000, accounted for the remaining 51% of activity. Molecular-weight determinations were by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and by the electrophoretic method of Hendrick & Smith [(1968) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 126, 155-164]. The substrate specificities of both enzymes were examined with the galactomannans of T. repens and of Medicago sativa, as well as with manno-oligosaccharides. The pH optimum was between pH 5.1 and 5.6 for both enzymes.


1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Arámburo ◽  
J. L. Montiel ◽  
J. A. Proudman ◽  
L. R. Berghman ◽  
C. G. Scanes

ABSTRACT To determine whether GH and prolactin could be phosphorylated, turkey GH, chicken GH, chicken prolactin and turkey prolactin were incubated in vitro with the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A and [γ-32P]ATP. Phosphorylation was assessed after sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Western blotting and autoradiography. Polyacrylamide electrophoresis showed that both purified native chicken GH and turkey GH were phosphorylated under the conditions employed. However, the glycosylated variant of chicken GH did not appear to be labelled. Chicken prolactin, turkey prolactin and the glycosylated variant of turkey prolactin were all intensely phosphorylated by protein kinase A. Ovine and rat prolactins could also be phosphorylated by protein kinase A. The phosphate content of different native prolactin (turkey, ovine and rat) and GH (ovine and chicken) preparations was also determined and found to be significant. Chicken pituitary cells in primary culture incorporated P in GH- and prolactin-like bands isolated by non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and this was stimulated by phorbol myristate acetate. Phosphorylation of GH and prolactin may thus explain some of the charge heterogeneity of these hormones.


1979 ◽  
Vol 184 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
R K Craig ◽  
P A J Perera ◽  
A Mellor ◽  
A E Smith

1. Guinea-pig caseins synthesized in a mRNA-directed wheat-germ cell-free protein-synthesizing system represent the primary translation products, even though they appear to be of lower molecular weight when analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis in parallel with caseins isolated from guinea-pig milk. 2. Identification of the N-terminal dipeptide of the primary translational product of caseins A, B and C and alpha-lactalbumin showed that all shared a common sequence, which was identified as either Met-Arg or Met-Lys. 3. Procedures utilizing methionyl-tRNAfMet or methionyl-tRNAMet in the presence or absence of microsomal membranes during translation provide a rapid method of distinguishing between N-terminal processing of peptides synthesized in vitro and other post-translational modifications (glycosylation, phosphorylation), which also result in a change in mobility of peptides when analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. 4. The results demonstrate that guinea-pig caseins, in common with most other secretory proteins, are synthesized with transient N-terminal ‘signal’-peptide extensions, which are cleaved during synthesis in the presence of microsomal membranes.


1983 ◽  
Vol 214 (3) ◽  
pp. 943-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
F van der Mark ◽  
W van den Briel ◽  
H G Huisman

Evidence is presented that French-bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) seed ferritin is composed of one type of subunit with an apparent Mr of 26500. In normal and iron-loaded leaf tissues it is detected immunologically with an antiserum raised against purified bean seed ferritin and migrates in SDS (sodium dodecyl sulphate)/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis with the same mobility as the bean seed ferritin subunit. The biosynthetic pathway of ferritin in normal and iron-loaded leaves was investigated. RNA was extracted, fractionated into polyadenylated RNA and translated in a cell-free rabbit reticulocyte lysate and a wheat-germ-extract system. The products were identified by SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis after indirect immunoprecipitation. In all cases the ferritin product had an Mr 5000 higher than that of the native subunit. Uptake and processing of the precursor form of ferritin from iron-loaded leaves by intact chloroplasts was demonstrated. This indicates that, in iron-loaded leaves, ferritin acts as a chloroplast protein. We propose that the ferritin precursor in normal leaves follows the same biosynthetic pathway. This suggests that the iron-buffering function of ferritin in plants takes place in the chloroplast and that non-functional cellular iron will accumulate in this cell organelle.


1974 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIDGET I. BAKER

SUMMARY A method for measuring melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) in rat neurointermediate lobe in vitro and in incubation medium, using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, is described. Using this technique, it was shown that dibutyryl cyclic AMP increased the release of MSH in vitro, the degree of stimulation depending on the concentration of the nucleotide. The effect of low concentrations of the nucleotide was potentiated by theophylline.


Author(s):  
Darmawi D ◽  
Ummu Balqis ◽  
Risa Tiuria ◽  
Retno D Soejoedono ◽  
Fachriyan H Pasaribu

Penelitian ini bertujuan menentukan konsentrasi dan berat molekul protein  ekskretori/sekretori larva (L3) Ascaridia galli (A. galli). Larva L3 diperoleh dari usus halus 100  ayam tujuh hari setelah pemberian dosis 6000 L2 melalui esofagus ayam. Sebanyak 5–10  L3 dikultur secara in vitro  dalam setiap ml medium Rosswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI 1640), pH 6,8, tanpa merah fenol dalam inkubator pada temperatur 37 0C dan 5% CO2 selama 3 hari. Ke dalam medium ditambahkan 100 unit ml-1 penisilin G, 100 µg ml-1 streptomisin, 5 µg ml-1 gentamisin dan 0,25 µg ml-1 kanamisin. Ekskretori/sekretori dipreparasi dari produk metabolisme L3 yang dilepaskan ke dalam medium kultur. Untuk mendapatkan protein ekskretori/sekretori, medium kultur dipekatkan dengan vivaspin 30.000 MWCO, dan kuantitas protein dihitung dengan metode Bradford. Berat molekul protein ekskretori/sekretori divisualisasikan dengan sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS PAGE). Hasil penelitian  menunjukkan bahwa konsentrasi protein ekskretori/sekretori adalah 0,595 mg/ml dengan berat molekul 28 kDa.


1982 ◽  
Vol 205 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Mohindru ◽  
A R Rhoads

1. In the presence of Ca2+, a 5.3-S 3′:5′-cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (EC 3.1.4.17) from bovine ventricle was isolated and purified by (NH4)2SO4 precipitation and DEAE-cellulose and Affi-Gel Blue chromatography. The enzyme activity was enriched 800-fold by these procedures. 2. Sucrose-density gradient centrifugation, gel filtration and non-denaturing polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis resolved a single enzyme species with an Mr of 89 000. 3. Sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis of the purified enzyme demonstrated a prominent protein band at Mr 59000 and a minor band of Mr 28000. Calmodulin was not detected. 4. The hydrolysis of micromolar concentrations of 3′:5′-cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cyclic GMP) but not 3′:5′-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) was stimulated by calmodulin. 5. Anomalous biphasic kinetics plots were observed for both the catalysis of cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP hydrolysis. Kinetic plots became linear in the presence of calmodulin. 6. After several months of storage at −20 degrees C, the 5.3-S enzyme was transformed into a 6.2-S cyclic GMP-specific enzyme and a 4.4-S non-specific form.


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