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In order to better characterize the new rapid staining method for flow cytofluorometry proposed by Krishan, we have tested its stability and several other properties, and have carried out a quantitative comparison of the fluorescence histograms obtained using propidium iodide or the acriflavine-Feulgen staining procedure. Using a human hematopoietic cell line in the logarithmic phase of growth, and analyzing the data by means of a mathematical method we have devised, we found that the fluorescence intentsity of cells stained with propidium iodide remains stable for at least 48 h; it is insensitive to dye concentration between 0.025 and 0.10 mg/ml (37-150 muM); it is not affected by incubation with ribonuclease before staining; propidium iodide in 0.1% sodium citrate remains stable for at least 20 days; and quantitative estimates of the fractions of cells in the different phases of the cell cycle are in good agreement with those obtained from acriflavine-Feulgen staining and from autoradiography after pulse labeling with tritiated thymidine. We conclude that this method is useful for the measurement of relative DNA content by flow cytofluorometry, although modifications in the technique are necessary for some cell types which grow in monolayers.
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PMID:Flow cytofluorometric analysis of cell cycle distributions using propidium iodide. Properties of the method and mathematical analysis of the data. 6 66

Circulating M antigen, previously described in urine from patients infected by Schistosoma mansoni, was shown in serum from infected patients, using human anti-M immune serum with immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoretic analyses. This antigen was also shown to be present in the serum and urine from infected hamsters, in the urine from infected rabbits and in the serum from infected mice. Generally, it appeared on day 20 after infection. M antigen was specific for the genus Schistosoma and for the immature and adult worm stage. Its electrophoretic migration was cathodic. The molecular weight of urinary M antigen was around 45,000 daltons. The M antigen was thermostable, soluble in trichloroacetic acid, and contained no lipid component. It was hydrolyzed by protease, ribonuclease, amylase or neuraminidase, but was destroyed by sodium metaperiodate. All these properties betoken the polysaccharidic nature of M antigen.
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PMID:Further studies on the circulating M antigen in human and experimental Schistosoma mansoni infections. 10 64

It was shown that total DNA of the blue-green algae A. variabilis can be isolated as a compact particle with the sedimentation constant of 2700--2900S by lysis of the cells with the TritonX-100--sodium deoxycholate mixture in 1.0 M NaCl. The structure isolated is sensitive to ribonuclease and the hydrodynamic shift. It was found that within a compact chromosome A. variabilis DNA is circular and negatively superhelicized. The density of superturns of the DNA in 0,2 M NaCl at 20 degrees C is 0,061, which corresponds to one negative turn per 165 pairs of DNA bases.
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PMID:[Some physico-chemical properties of the compact chromosome of Ananbaena variabilis]. 10 75

Fidelity of preribosomal RNA transcription in vitro was studied after selective deproteinization of nucleoli using either sequential salt extraction or sodium deoxycholate treatment. Homochromatography fingerprinting and identification of marker oligonucleotides from a T1 ribonuclease digest of the transcripts were used to evaluate the RNA products. These studies indicated that: (1) nucleoli retained their endogenous RNA polymerase I activity and the specificity of transcription up to 0.6 M NaCl extraction; (2) exogenous RNA polymerase I transcribed nucleolar chromatin only after 1.0 M NaCl extraction and the transcription pattern, like that of totally deproteinized DNA, was completely random; (3) extraction of nucleoli with deoxycholate resulted in a DNP complex in which the endogenous RNA polymerase I transcribed pre-rRNA specifically; however, it also initiated random transcription, producing a "mixed" fingerprint pattern on the homochromatogram. The random transcription was selectively inhibited either by deoxycholate or rifampicin AF/013. These studies indicate that the selectivity of pre-rRNA transcription is due both to the endogenous RNA polymerase I molecules that were involved in transcription in vivo and are tightly bound to the template and to factors in intact nucleoli which prevent random transcription by the released RNA polymerase I molecules.
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PMID:Studies on the specificity of preribosomal RNA transcription in nucleoli after selective deproteinization. 11 95

Prostaglandin E 9-ketoreductase was purified from chicken heart by ammonium sulfate fractionation, and DEAE-Sephadex, hydroxylapatite and phosphocellulose chromatography. Two peaks of activity were resolved during the phosphocellulose chromatographic step. Both peaks were stimulated by a substance that was not bound to the phosphocellulose column. This stimulatory substance was destroyed by treatment with phosphodiesterase and 0.1 M NaOH. It was heat-stable (100 degrees, 2 min), nondialyzable, and resistant to treatment with pronase, ribonuclease, and deoxyribonuclease; but it was dialyzable after heating or digestion with pronase. Sodium pyrophosphate also enhanced the activities of the prostaglandin E 9-ketoreductases as did angiotensin I; but not angiotensin II. In the presence of 3':5'-cyclic AMP, AMP, or several other ribonucleotides, the enhancing effects of the natural stimulatory substance, sodium pyrophosphate or angiotensin I were blocked, but these ribonucleotides themselves had little effect on the enzymes activity. The substrate specificities of the two prostaglandin E 9-ketoreductases were also studied. Both the 9-keto group and the 15-keto group of 15-ketoprostaglandin F2 alpha could be converted to the corresponding hydroxyl group; the 15-keto group was reduced faster than the 9-keto group. Prostaglandin D2, a prostaglandin with a 9-hydroxyl and an 11-keto group, could not be converted to prostaglandin F2 alpha nor could cyclohexanone be converted to cyclohexanol by the prostaglandin E 9-ketoreductase.
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PMID:Purification and regulatory properties of chicken heart prostaglandin E 9-ketoreductase. 16 95

Purification and partial characterization of the poliovirus RNA-linked protein (VPg) are described. VPg has been freed from the RNA by ribonuclease digestion and phenol extraction. Gel filtration chromatography of VPg-pUp (labeled with 32P) in 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulfate or 6 M guanidine HCl indicates that it has a molecular weight of about 12,000. VPg is bound to the 5' end of poliovirion RNA by a phosphodiester bond between a tyrosine residue in the VPg molecule and the 5'-terminal uridine. After acid hydrolysis of [3H]tyrosine-labeled VPg-pU, free tyrosine can be released by venom phosphodiesterase. Acid hydrolysis of VPg-p labeled with either 32P or [3H] tyrosine yields tyrosine-phosphate. There appears to be only 1 tyrosine residue per VPg molecule.
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PMID:Protein is linked to the 5' end of poliovirus RNA by a phosphodiester linkage to tyrosine. 20 34

RNA ligase has been highly purified in good yields from bacteriophage T4-infected Escherichia coli by a rapid and reproducible procedure. The enzyme is free of phosphomonoesterase and ribonuclease activities and is therefore suitable for the synthesis of oligoribonucleotides and for the labeling of the 3'-terminus of RNA. Greater than 90% of the protein in the enzyme preparation migrates as a single band on gradient polyacrylamide gels containing sodium dodecyl sulfate during electrophoresis. For use as a DNA synthesis reagent the enzyme may be reliably freed of deoxyribonuclease activity by an additional chromatographic procedure using a commercially avialable resin.
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PMID:The purification of nuclease-free T4-RNA ligase. 21 95

Infectious bursal disease (IBD) virus was purified from the bursae of infected chickens. Two morphologically indistinguishable populations of virus particles were separated in sucrose gradients and possessed sedimentation coefficients of 295S and 460S. Both populations contained RNA and had identical polypeptide compositions. IBD virus banded at a density of 1.31 g/ml in CsCl and at 1.24 g/ml in sodium potassium tartrate. IBD virus contained two RNA segments with mol. wts. of 2.4X10(6) and 2.2X10(6) as estimated by polyacrylamide-agarose gel electrophoresis, but sedimented in sucrose gradients at 15S. Virus RNA was resistant to 0.1 micrograms/ml ribonuclease treatment under conditions in which ribosomal RNA was completely hydrolysed, but was sensitive to 1.0 and 10 micrograms/ml treatments. These results suggest that the RNA consists of either double-stranded or highly ordered single-stranded molecules. IBD virus contained seven polypeptides with mol. wts. in the range 97,000 to 24,000. Two polypeptides were absent in empty particles of IBD virus. IBD and infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) viruses were morphologically indistinguishable. IPN virus possessed a sedimentation coefficient of 440S and banded at a density of 1.32 g/ml in CsCl. In addition the electrophoretic mobilities of IBD and IPN virus RNAs were almost identical. Polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis showed that while the number and size of the polypeptides were different for each virus there were similarities in the overall pattern.
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PMID:Biochemical studies with infectious bursal disease virus: comparison of some of its properties with infectious pancreatic necrosis virus. 22 37

Cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinases from several mammalian sources inhibit Na+-dependent alpha-aminoisobutyric acid transport by membrane vesicles isolated from 3T3 cells. Evidence is provided that phosphorylation of membrane proteins by the enzyme is responsible for the inhibition. Lysis of the vesicles, or a reduction in the intravesicular volume is not the cause of reduced transport. The cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase and its catalytic subunit phosphorylate a number of membrane proteins. Most of these proteins are phosphorylated, but to a lesser extent in the absence of protein kinase or cyclic AMP. The phosphorylated proteins remain associated with the membranes during hypotonic lysis treatments, which would be expected to release intravesicular contents and loosely associated membrane proteins. 32P-labeled bands detected on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels after phosphorylation of membranes by the catalytic subunit of the cyclic AMP-dependent kinase are eliminated by treatment with either pronase or 1 N NaOH, but not by ribonuclease nor by phospholipase C. The stability of the incorporated radioactivity to hot acid and hydroxylamine relative to hot base suggests that most of the 32P from [gamma-32P]ATP is incorporated into protein phosphomonoester linkages.
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PMID:Inhibition of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid transport in membrane vesicles from mouse fibroblasts after phosphorylation by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. 22 60

Preparations of radioactive lysosomes were obtained from mouse kidney after injection of radioactive iodine-labeled bovine ribonuclease. Stability of these lysosomes in various media was estimated from measurements of proteolytic activity towards the ribonuclease, and of ribonuclease retention in particles. The lysosomes were stable at 37 degrees C in isotonic, sucrose-free solutions of KCl, NaCl, and potassium acetate, and in mixtures of these with MgCl2, showing that these salts are relatively impermeant through the lysosomal membranes. The membranes were less permeable to Na+ than to K+. Both KCl and NaCl exerted their optimal protective effects over a broad concentration range above 0.125 M in 0.025 M acetate buffer. Mg2+ enhanced the protective effect of both K4 and Na+; the osmotic effect of 0.075 M NaC1-0.05 M MgCl2 was indistinguishable during the entire course of ribonuclease digestion from that of isotonic sucrose. Osmotic protection by KC1-MgC12 was demonstrated over the H range5.5-7.0. A marked alteration in membrane properties occurs at lower temperatures in 0.11 M KC1-0.01 M MgCl2 such that, at 0 degrees C, K+ permeability is much higher than at 37 degrees C, as shown by a several-fold decrease in stability at the lower temperature.
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PMID:A thermally induced alteration in lysosome membranes: salt permeability at 0 and 37 degrees C. 23 78


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