Purification of Escherichia coli Chloramphenicol Acetyltransferase by Affinity Chromatography

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 1087-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Guitard ◽  
Réjean Daigneault

Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CATase) was purified by affinity chromatography from Escherichia coli W677/HJR66, an R-factor-bearing mutant. The chloramphenicol aryl nitro group had to be reduced to an amino group prior to its coupling to the Sepharose 4B matrix. The single-step isolation procedure resulted in a 237-fold purification of CATase with over 65% recovery of the enzyme.

1986 ◽  
Vol 235 (3) ◽  
pp. 731-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
D H Rich ◽  
M A Brown ◽  
A J Barrett

Human cathepsin B was purified by affinity chromatography on the semicarbazone of Gly-Phe-glycinal linked to Sepharose 4B, with elution by 2,2′-dipyridyl disulphide at pH 4.0. The product obtained in high yield by the single step from crude starting material was 80-100% active cathepsin B. The possibility that this new form of affinity chromatography may be of general usefulness in the purification of cysteine proteinases is discussed.


1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 544-545
Author(s):  
Frank Seela

Abstract A biospecific resin for the retardation of ribosomal pep-tidyltransferase by affinity chromatography was prepared by condensing the α-amino group of puromycin with the N-hydroxysuccinimide ester of CH-Sepharose 4B to yield the resin-linked puromycin derivative 4.


1966 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. R. Reeve

Six one-step Chloramphenicol (Cm)-resistant mutants of Escherichia coli K12 were graded for resistance to Cm, Tetracycline (Tc) and Puromyein (Pm) by streaking on minimal agar plates containing antibiotic. They fell into at least three distinct groups on the basis of their resistance patterns. One mutant showed increased sensitivity to Pm. Most of the mutants expressed their effect on resistance to Cm and Tc in the presence of R-factors carrying resistance genes for these antibiotics, but one mutant with a relatively high level of resistance to Cm had its resistance effect completely masked in the presence of R-mediated resistance. Similar cases were found among mutants selected for Cm-resistance in another strain of K12.


1972 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Mosbach ◽  
H. Guilford ◽  
R. Ohlsson ◽  
M. Scott

1. Two different gels have been prepared suitable for the separation of a number of enzymes, in particular NAD+-dependent dehydrogenases, by affinity chromatography. For both the matrix used was Sepharose 4B. For preparation (a), NAD+–Sepharose, 6-aminohexanoic acid has been coupled to the gel by the cyanogen bromide method and then NAD+ was attached by using dicyclohexylcarbodi-imide; for preparation (b), AMP–Sepharose, N6-(6-aminohexyl)-AMP has been coupled directly to cyanogen bromide-activated gel. 2. Affinity columns of both gels retain only the two enzymes when a mixture of bovine serum albumin, lactate dehydrogenase and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase is applied. Subsequent elution with the cofactor NAD+ yields glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase whereas lactate dehydrogenase is eluted by applying the same molarity of the reduced cofactor. 3. The binding of both glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase to the gel tested, AMP–Sepharose, is strong enough to resist elution by gradients of KCl of up to at least 0.5m. A 0.0–0.15m gradient of the competitive inhibitor salicylate, however, elutes both enzymes efficiently and separately. 4. The elution efficiency of lactate dehydrogenase from AMP–Sepharose has been examined by using a series of eluents under comparable conditions of concentration etc. The approximate relative efficiencies are: 0 (lactate); 0 (lactate+semicarbazide); 0 (0.5mm-NAD+); 80 (lactate+NAD+); 95 (lactate+semicarbazide+NAD+); 100 (0.5mm-NADH). 5. All contaminating lactate dehydrogenase activity can be removed from commercially available crude pyruvate kinase in a single-step procedure by using AMP–Sepharose.


1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Jørgensen

Previous methods for purification of AT III are based on its heparin-binding capacity. However, in congenital AT III deficiency abnormal inhibitor molecules with impaired binding of heparin and/or thrombin has been reported. The aim of the present study was to develop a purification method based on immuno-affinity chromatography, and thus independent of the heparin binding capacity.Rabbits were immunized with human AT III purified by a three-step procedure involving dextran sulphate precipitation, affinity chromatography on heparin-Sepharose and ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50. Rabbit immunoglobulins against human AT III were isolated by affinity chromatography using purified human AT III coupled to CNBr-activated Sepharose 4B. Trace amounts of immunoglobulin against human albumin, IgG and IgM were removed by solid phase immunoadsorption. The highly purified immunoglobulins against human AT III were coupled to CNBr-activated Sepharose 4B. This anti-AT III-Sepharose was used for single-step purification of AT III from plasma. Elution was performed by Na-citrate buffer at pH 3.0 and the eluted fractions immediately neutralized. The recovery was more than 60%.The purified AT III appeared as a single protein band in SDS-poly-acrylamide gel electrophoresis with or without reduction. Affinity purified AT III and AT III purified by the three-step procedure were indistinguishable when analyzed by crossed immunoelectrophoresis in the absence and the presence of heparin isoelectrical focusing in polyacrylamid gel at a pH 4-6.5 gradient, and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. AT III antigen concentration was determined by electroimmunoassay and the reactive site concentration determined by titration with purified human thrombin using Phe-Pip-Arg-Nan (S-2238) as substrate. The ratio (active site conc.)/(antigen conc.) was identical in the two AT III preparations. It is concluded that this single-step immuno-affinity chromatography gives a high recovery from plasma of a highly purified functionally intact AT III molecule. The purification method is independent of the heparin binding capacity of AT III. This is of particular importance for the purification and characterization of abnormal AT III molecules with impaired heparin-binding site.


1985 ◽  
Vol 54 (02) ◽  
pp. 533-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfried Thiel ◽  
Ulrich Delvos ◽  
Gert Müller-Berghaus

SummaryA quantitative determination of soluble fibrin in plasma was carried out by affinity chromatography. For this purpose, desAA-fibrin and fibrinogen immobilized on Sepharose 4B were used at the stationary side whereas batroxobin-induced 125I-desAA-fibrin or thrombin-induced 125I-desAABB-fibrin mixed with plasma containing 131I-fibrinogen represented the fluid phase. The binding characteristics of these mixtures to the immobilized proteins were compared at 20° C and 37° C. Complete binding of both types of fibrin to the immobilized desAA-fibrin was always seen at 20° C as well as at 37° C. However, binding of soluble fibrin was accompanied by substantial binding of fibrinogen that was more pronounced at 20° C. Striking differences depending on the temperature at which the affinity chromatography was carried out, were documented for the fibrinogen-fibrin interaction. At 20° C more than 90% of the applied desAA-fibrin was bound to the immobilized fibrinogen whereas at 37° C only a mean of 17% were retained at the fibrinogen-Sepharose column. An opposite finding with regard to the tested temperature was made with the desAABB-fibrin. Nearly complete binding to insolubilized fibrinogen was found at 37° C (95%) but only 58% of the desAABB-fibrin were bound at 20° C. The binding patterns did not change when the experiments were performed in the presence of calcium ions. The opposite behaviour of the two types of soluble fibrin to immobilized fibrinogen at the different temperatures, together with the substantial binding of fibrinogen in the presence of soluble fibrin to insolubilized fibrin in every setting tested, devaluates affinity chromatography as a tool in the quantitative assessment of soluble fibrin in patients’ plasma.


1978 ◽  
Vol 253 (16) ◽  
pp. 5847-5851 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Lanka ◽  
C. Edelbluth ◽  
M. Schlicht ◽  
H. Schuster

2020 ◽  
Vol 295 (38) ◽  
pp. 13314-13325
Author(s):  
Yanyu Zhu ◽  
James C. Weisshaar ◽  
Mainak Mustafi

Proline-rich antimicrobial peptides (PrAMPs) are cationic antimicrobial peptides unusual for their ability to penetrate bacterial membranes and kill cells without causing membrane permeabilization. Structural studies show that many such PrAMPs bind deep in the peptide exit channel of the ribosome, near the peptidyl transfer center. Biochemical studies of the particular synthetic PrAMP oncocin112 (Onc112) suggest that on reaching the cytoplasm, the peptide occupies its binding site prior to the transition from initiation to the elongation phase of translation, thus blocking further initiation events. We present a superresolution fluorescence microscopy study of the long-term effects of Onc112 on ribosome, elongation factor-Tu (EF-Tu), and DNA spatial distributions and diffusive properties in intact Escherichia coli cells. The new data corroborate earlier mechanistic inferences from studies in vitro. Comparisons with the diffusive behavior induced by the ribosome-binding antibiotics chloramphenicol and kasugamycin show how the specific location of each agent's ribosomal binding site affects the long-term distribution of ribosomal species between 30S and 50S subunits versus 70S polysomes. Analysis of the single-step displacements from ribosome and EF-Tu diffusive trajectories before and after Onc112 treatment suggests that the act of codon testing of noncognate ternary complexes (TCs) at the ribosomal A-site enhances the dissociation rate of such TCs from their L7/L12 tethers. Testing and rejection of noncognate TCs on a sub-ms timescale is essential to enable incorporation of the rare cognate amino acids into the growing peptide chain at a rate of ∼20 aa/s.


1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 986-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satish K. Sharma ◽  
Stewart A. Brown

Two discrete furanocoumarin (5- and 8-) O-methyltransferases and a caffeic acid 3-O-methyl-transferase from cell cultures of Ruta graveolens L. have been copurified by affinity chromatography on 1,6-diaminohexane agarose (AH-Sepharose 4B) linked with 5-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH). The furanocoumarin O-methyltransferases, which transfer a methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) to the 5- or 8-hydroxyls of linear furanocoumarins, were not retarded by 5-(3-carboxypropanamido)-xanthotoxin (CPAX) immobilized to AH-Sepharose 4B, but addition of SAM to the irrigant buffer led to complete retardation of both enzymes on this affinity system. An analogous phenomenon was observed for the caffeic acid O-methyltransferase, with a ferulic acid ligand coupled to the same insoluble support. SAH was as effective as SAM in promoting binding of the furanocoumarin O-methyltransferases to CPAX and caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase to immobilized ferulic acid, respectively. The strong and specific adsorption of these enzymes was abolished by exclusion of SAM or SAH from the irrigant buffer. It is concluded that the enzymes bind first to SAM or SAH, and that this binding process in turn induces the binding site for their specific phenolic substrates or their analogs. Based on these findings, a compulsory–ordered kinetic mechanism for the action of these O-methyltransferases is postulated.


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