Comparative zone electrophoresis of catalase of Staphylococcus species isolated from mammalian skin

1976 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1691-1698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond J. Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Polyacrylamide Electrophoresis ◽  
Electrophoretic Mobilities ◽  
Mammalian Skin ◽  
Zone Electrophoresis ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Molecular Sieving

Vertical polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis was conducted for the catalase enzymes of representative strains of 18 proposed species and subspecies of the genus Staphylococcus. The catalase bands which resulted were predominantly monomorphic within each of the species and differences in catalase mobilities were observed between many of the species. The electrophoretic mobilities of the catalases were supportive to the scheme of classification used. Many strains of certain species demonstrated multiple catalase bands which are suggestive of multimolecular forms of the enzyme. Horizontal starch gel electrophoresis of representative strains of S. capitis produced catalase bands with relative mobilities that were different from those obtained with polyacrylamide electrophoresis, presumably due to a difference in molecular sieving between the gels.

Comparative zone electrophoresis of esterases of Staphylococcus species isolated from mammalian skin

1976 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 771-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond J. Zimmerman ◽  
Wesley E. Kloos
Keyword(s):  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Banding Patterns ◽  
Electrophoretic Mobilities ◽  
Mammalian Skin ◽  
Zone Electrophoresis ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Slab Gels ◽  
Molecular Sieving ◽  
Esterase Patterns

The electrophoretic mobilities of non-specific esterases in vertical polyacrylamide slab gels were determined for 184 strains of staphylococci, representing a total of 18 proposed species and subspecies. Markedly uniform esterase patterns were seen within species demonstrating a high degree of human host specificity, while those species demonstrating a wide host range were polytypic and often showed considerable polymorphism. The unique banding patterns found in several species indicate that this technique may serve as a valuable aid to existing taxonomic schemes. Starch gel electrophoresis of representative strains usually produced sharper esterase bands than were found with polyacrylamide electrophoresis. However, the additional molecular-sieving effect produced by the polyacrylamide gels differentiated esterases to a greater extent.

Morphological and biochemical systematics of chubs, Nocomis biguttatus and N. micropogon (Pisces: Cyprinidae), in southern Ontario

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 771-775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira M. Ferguson ◽  
David L. G. Noakes ◽  
Roy G. Danzmann
Keyword(s):  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Morphological Differentiation ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Electrophoretic Mobilities ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Respective Species ◽  
Probability Of Misclassification

Examination of 17 presumptive gene loci by starch-gel electrophoresis revealed differential mobilities only at acid phosphatase-1, alcohol dehydrogenase, esterase-1, and phosphoglucomutase between Nocomis biguttatus and N. micropogon. No intraspecific variation was observed for any loci. The genetic identity (I) and genetic distance (D) were 0.874 and 0.134, respectively. The correlation of electrophoretic mobilities and nuptial tubercle pattern in sexually dimorphic males supports the present taxonomic distinction of these species and provides a simple, unambiguous means of identifying any individuals.Stepwise discriminant function analysis of a series of mensural characters was used to compare fish identified as to species by electrophoresis. At best this correctly assigned fish to their respective species in 85.7% of cases, with a probability of misclassification of 0.1335.This study suggests these two are sibling species, based on a comparison of biochemical and morphological differentiation.

ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS OF CALF THYMUS HISTONE IN STARCH GEL

1960 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Neelin ◽  
E. M. Neelin
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Low Ph ◽  
Acid Extraction ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Calf Thymus ◽  
Zone Electrophoresis ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Terminal Amino

A total of 19 zones were detected by starch gel electrophoresis of calf thymus histone in buffers of 0.02 μ below pH 5.0. Of these, 18 were evident at pH 4.9 (acetate) and 15 at pH 3.9 (formate). Above pH 5.0, aggregation interfered with resolution, but by adding 4 M urea to the gel sufficient resolution was obtained between pH 4.4 and 8.7 to distinguish a total of 22 zones. Of this total, three fast components were present only occasionally in trace amounts, and three others were resolved from the immobile aggregated histone at low pH only. At least 16 zones appeared to be native histone components. Acid extraction of the histone did not appear to cause degradation since no new N-terminal amino acids were generated by this step. Two different methods of preparation produced histone extracts with essentially the same electrophoretic properties.

STUDIES ON HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPHIN

1968 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. W. M. Schuurs ◽  
E. de Jager ◽  
J. D. H. Homan
Keyword(s):  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Complement Fixation ◽  
Haemagglutination Inhibition ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Chorionic Gonadotrophin ◽  
Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
International Standard ◽  
Electrophoretic Mobilities ◽  
Starch Gel

ABSTRACT Preparations of Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HCG) with varying degrees of homogeneity were investigated immunochemically. The preparations were compared qualitatively by combined starch gel electrophoresis and immunoelectrophoresis, by immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis in agar, and, quantitatively by haemagglutination inhibition and by complement fixation reactions. The components present in pure HCG preparations which differed in electrophoretic mobilities, in N-acetyl neuraminic acid (NANA) content and in biological potencies, appeared to be immunochemically identical. This implies that results of immunochemical and biological estimations need not correlate with each other. This finding is compared with relevant data in the literature. It is proposed to use the 2nd International Standard for HCG for both immunochemical and biological estimations, but, because of the fundamental difference between the results of the two types of estimations, to express the immunochemically determined values in »International Immunochemical Units« (IIU).

A COMPARISON OF HISTONES FROM CHICKEN TISSUES BY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS IN STARCH GEL

1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Neelin ◽  
G. C. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Cell Differentiation ◽  
Ionic Strength ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Electrophoretic Patterns ◽  
Zone Electrophoresis ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Chicken Erythrocytes ◽  
Characteristic Zone

Histories were extracted at pH 1.7 from washed nuclei of chicken erythrocytes, spleen, liver, and testis and compared by starch-gel electrophoresis at pH 5.0, ionic strength 0.020. Spleen and liver histories displayed the most complex electrophoretic patterns with 18 zones each and differed only in relative proportions of certain zones. Erythrocyte histone contained a characteristic zone while lacking a group present in spleen and liver histones. Testis histone with only seven zones differed markedly from the other three. These results were consistent with chromatograms of erythrocyte, spleen, and liver histones on sodium IRC-50. The suggested correlation of tissue-specific histones with cell differentiation is discussed.

scholarly journals LINKAGE ANALYSIS OF THE MULTILOCUS GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE ISOZYME SYSTEM IN SUNFISH (CENTRARCHIDAE, TELEOSTII)

Genetics ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Gregory S Whitt ◽  
William F Childers ◽  
James B Shaklee ◽  
Janet Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Glucosephosphate Isomerase ◽  
Electrophoretic Mobilities ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Allelic Isozymes ◽  
F2 Generation ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Green Sunfish

ABSTRACT The purpose of the present investigation is to determine whether the two duplicated glucosephosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.9) loci Gpi-A and Gpi-B reside on the same chromosome in teleostean fishes. Interspecific sunfish hybrids were employed for the cross because of the different species-specific electrophoretic mobilities of the allelic isozymes at each GPI locus and because of their genomic compatibility. F1 sunfish hybrids, formed from a male warmouth (Lepomis gulosus) × female green sunfish (L. cyanellus) cross, were mated to form the F2 generation. The number of each of the nine different isozyme phenotypes, revealed by starch gel electrophoresis, was determined using 256 F2 individuals. The high frequency of recombinant phenotypes in the F2 generation indicated that the two GPI loci are not linked. An excess of F2 individuals heterozygous at both loci was observed and is interpreted as being caused by heterosis. The absence of linkage for the homologous loci encoding GPI subunits and for other multilocus isozyme systems is consistent with the postulate that the genomes of present-day vertebrates arose through one or more polyploidization events early in vertebrate evolution.

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ESTERASES FROM ELECTRIC TISSUE OF ELECTROPHORUS BY STARCH-GEL ELECTROPHORESIS

1967 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 1099-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Ecobichon ◽  
Y. Israel
Keyword(s):  
Electrophoretic Mobility ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Electrophorus Electricus ◽  
Vertical Zone ◽  
Zone Electrophoresis ◽  
Starch Gel

The water-soluble esterases of a microsome-free supernatant of the electric tissue of Electrophorus electricus were separated by vertical-zone electrophoresis in starch gel. Specific and nonspecific substrates and inhibitors were used in conjunction with histochemical techniques to identify the enzymes. Acetylcholinesterase was present in the form of four bands of activity, the electrophoretic mobility of which was suggestive of aggregated forms of the enzyme. Pseudocholinesterase was detected as two weak bands of activity. A third esterase was identified as a nonspecific carboxylesterase and shown to be a sialoprotein.

scholarly journals CHARACTERISTICS OF STREPTOCOCCAL GROUP-SPECIFIC ANTIBODY ISOLATED FROM HYPERIMMUNE RABBITS

1966 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Kirk Osterland ◽  
Edward J. Miller ◽  
Walter W. Karakawa ◽  
Richard M. Krause
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Specific Antibody ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Carbohydrate Antigen ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Normal Complement ◽  
Zone Electrophoresis ◽  
Group A ◽  
Starch Gel

Intravenous immunization of New Zealand red rabbits with streptococcal group-specific bacterial vaccines yielded sera which possessed markedly elevated γ-globulin. The sera of one rabbit immunized with Group A-variant vaccine possessed 55 mg/ml of γ-globulin. The bulk of this γ-globulin, identified as γG-globulin, was homogeneous by zone electrophoresis and of specificity directed against the Group A-variant carbohydrate antigen. L chains isolated from specific antibody obtained from an immune precipitate were distributed as a single band on starch gel electrophoresis, whereas the normal γ-globulin traveled as a diffuse smear. These data suggest that the rabbit streptococcal Group A-variant antibodies possess a limited range of physicochemical properties and electrophoretic mobility compared to that generally observed for the normal complement of γ-globulin.

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