Characterization of Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoidea) strains, using enzyme isoelectric focusing

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 1130-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent R. Dixon ◽  
Hisao P. Arai
Keyword(s):  
Isoelectric Focusing ◽  
Malic Enzyme ◽  
Hymenolepis Diminuta ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Japanese Strain ◽  
Banding Patterns ◽  
Agarose Gels ◽  
Enzyme Pattern ◽  
Polymorphic Nature

This study evaluates the use of enzyme isoelectric focusing on thin-layer agarose gels in the differentiation of six geographical isolates of the rat tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta. Differences in the enzyme profiles among these strains were apparent in two of five enzymes examined. A Japanese strain differed from all others in its more anodally positioned malic enzyme bands. This enzyme profile may be attributed to its more recent isolation from the wild type or to the unique origin of this strain. Two qualitatively different phosphoglucomutase banding patterns were apparent among the H. diminuta strains. This polymorphic nature of phosphoglucomutase has similarly been observed in a number of earlier studies. A number of problems are associated with the traditional morphological means of identifying cestodes, particularly at the intraspecific level. The enzyme pattern differences observed among the strains in this study indicate that enzyme isoelectric focusing may be a useful alternative.

Isoelectric focusing of soluble proteins in the characterization of three species of Hymenolepis (Cestoda)

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 1720-1723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent R. Dixon ◽  
Hisao P. Arai
Keyword(s):  
Isoelectric Focusing ◽  
Protein Separation ◽  
Soluble Proteins ◽  
Hymenolepis Diminuta ◽  
Good Resolution ◽  
Banding Patterns ◽  
Morphological Approach ◽  
Single Host ◽  
Taxonomic Studies

A technique involving protein separation was used as an alternative to a morphological approach in the differentiation of the tapeworms Hymenolepis diminuta, H. citelli, and H. microstoma. Isoelectric focusing of soluble proteins was performed on Polyacrylamide gels using extracts from whole, adult worms. Each species of Hymenolepis was found to have a unique protein banding pattern, although some bands appeared to be common to two or all three species. Very little difference was found in the protein banding patterns of worms of a given species, whether they were from a single host individual or two different host individuals of the same species. There was also little difference between gels in the banding patterns of a given species. This technique of soluble protein isoelectric focusing is simple and reproducible, has very good resolution, and seems well suited to taxonomic studies involving tapeworms.

Isolation and characterization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutants with defective NAD-dependent malic enzyme

1986 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 481-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Osothsilp ◽  
R. E. Subden
Keyword(s):  
Schizosaccharomyces Pombe ◽  
Malic Enzyme ◽  
Pool Analysis ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Isolation And Characterization ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Colony Color ◽  
Color Indicator

To obtain NAD-dependent malic enzyme mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, a colony color indicator screening system was developed. Mutants defective for malic acid utilization (mau mutants) are yellow, while wild-type colonies are blue on the defined bromcresol green based indicator medium. NAD-dependent malic enzyme mutants were distinguished from other mau mutants by subsequent, starch gel electrophoresis, spectrophotometry, complementation tests, and intermediate pool analysis with cell-free extracts.

Characterization of plasminogen variants in healthy subjects and plasminogen mutants in patients with inherited plasminogen deficiency by isoelectric focusing gel electrophoresis

2004 ◽  
Vol 92 (08) ◽  
pp. 352-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Tefs ◽  
Maria Georgieva ◽  
Stefan Seregard ◽  
Campbell Tait ◽  
Lori Luchtman-Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Isoelectric Focusing ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Molecular Genetic ◽  
Gene Mutations ◽  
Molecular Genetic Analysis ◽  
Compound Heterozygous ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Ligneous Conjunctivitis

SummaryPlasmin(ogen) plays an important role in fibrinolysis and wound healing. Severe hypoplasminogenemia has recently been linked to ligneous conjunctivitis. Plasminogen (plg) is known as a polymorphic protein and most of these variants have been identified using isoelectric focusing (IEF) gel electrophoresis. Here, we studied common plg variants from healthy subjects and plg mutants from three patients with hypoplasminogenemia and three subjects with dysplasminogenemia by molecular genetic analysis and IEF. Analysis of 24 healthy subjects showed that subjects with the most common IEF plg phenotype A (n = 12) were homozygous for aspartate at position 453 (453D), while both subjects with IEF plg phenotype B were homozygous for asparagine at this position (453N). Subjects with IEF plg phenotype AB (n = 10) were compound-heterozygous for 453D/453N. Three patients with severe hypoplasminogenemia and different plg gene mutations exhibited characteristic “abnormal” IEF band patterns when compared with IEF plg phenotypes A and B. In all heterozygous family members the observed IEF plg phenotype was derived from the wild type plg molecule only, probably due to low concentration of the mutant plg molecule in plasma. In contrast, in three unrelated subjects with heterozygous dysplasminogenemia an equal “mixture” of wild type and mutant plg was found by IEF analysis. In conclusion, plg phenotyping by IEF in combination with molecular analysis of the plg gene seems to be a useful method for characterization of plg variants and mutants.

Characterization of immune complexes by isoelectric focusing in agarose gels

1990 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne L. Hoffman ◽  
Patrick J. Kelly ◽  
Margaret Larrumbide
Keyword(s):  
Isoelectric Focusing ◽  
Immune Complexes ◽  
Agarose Gels

Interspecific characterization of several taeniid cestodes by isoenzyme analysis using isoelectric focusing in agarose

Parasitology ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. A. Allsopp ◽  
A. Jones ◽  
M. T. E. P. Allsopp ◽  
S. D. Newton ◽  
C. N. L. Macpherson
Keyword(s):  
Isoelectric Focusing ◽  
Definitive Host ◽  
Host Species ◽  
Isoenzyme Analysis ◽  
Agarose Gels ◽  
Identification Of Species

SUMMARYTaenia cestodes were obtained from 5 different definitive host species in Kenya and 175 different samples were examined by classical morphological methods and by isoenzyme analysis using isoelectric focusing in agarose. Gels were stained for 17 different enzymes and 3 of these were used in the construction of isoenzyme profiles. The samples fell into 25 zymodemes, and no zymodeme contained more than 1 species of Taenia, indicating that isoenzyme analysis can reliably be used for the identification of species of this genus.

Functional characterization of the H+/K+ ATPase in wild type and gastrin knock-out mice

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Schnur ◽  
P Hegyi ◽  
V Venglovecz ◽  
Z Rakonczay ◽  
I Ignáth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Characterization ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Knock Out ◽  
Knock Out Mice
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