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Polysheaths were spontaneously formed inside cells of the hydrogen bacterium Alcaligenes eutrophus H 16. These particles are long tube-like structures of 24 nm diam. belonging to the phage tail-like defective bacteriophages (Lotz, 1976). In mid log-phase fermenter-grown cells, polysheaths were observed in about 20% of all cells sectioned. Evidence is provided for an inhibition of cell fission by polysheaths. Polysheaths were isolated by differential centrifugation and precipitation techniques using PEG and antibodies. The morphology of polysheaths was investigated electron microscopically by negative staining, ultrathin sectioning and metal shadowing. A surface lattice of the polysheath was derived from light optical diffraction data. The particles were also characterized by their biochemical and biophysical features: mol. wt. of the subunit determined by SDS-gel electrophoresis (58 000), amino acid composition, isoelectric point (4.4), u.v. absorbance spectrum indicating the absence of nucleic acid, buoyant density (1.258), and stability against denaturants and proteolytic enzymes.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of polysheaths, phage tail-like defective bacteriophages of Alcaligenes eutrophus H 16. 72 80

This paper demonstrates the use of UV-transparent replaceable polymer networks for the separation of SDS-protein complexes on the basis of molecular weight. First, the use of linear (i.e. non-cross-linked) polyacrylamide is shown to provide molecular separation of SDS-protein complexes. A study reveals such columns to yield significantly greater lifetime than cross-linked gels because of the flexibility of the noncovalently attached polymer chains. However, column lifetime was still found to be limited (approximately 20-40 injections), and detection at 214 nm was problematical because of the absorbance of polyacrylamide. UV-transparent polymer networks of dextran and PEG were substituted for polyacrylamide with successful molecular weight sieving of SDS-protein complexes at 214 nm. Due to their low to moderate viscosities, these networks could be routinely replaced leading to the possibility of hundreds of injections with a single column. Migration time reproducibilities of 0.5% RSD or less were found with replacement of the network. Using dextran, calibration plots of peak area vs concentration of standard protein were linear over the range of 0.5 microgram/mL up to at least 0.25 mg/mL. Furthermore, plasma samples could be directly utilized because of the strong solvating power of SDS. Rapid separation of protein mixtures are demonstrated with these UV-transparent polymer networks.
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PMID:High-performance capillary electrophoresis of SDS-protein complexes using UV-transparent polymer networks. 128 2

An antigen, protein X (Px), was purified from immune complexes isolated from malignant pleural effusions from patients with adenocarcinoma of the lung by EDTA treatment, PEG 8000 precipitation, protein A affinity chromatography, and Sephadex G-200 separation in the presence of 3 M NaCl. The purified antigen had a M(r) 17,000 by SDS-PAGE, and consisted of isoelectric species of pI 6.3 and 6.6. Purified Px recombined with Ig isolated from pleural fluids from patients with lung adenocarcinoma, but not with Ig from patients with breast carcinoma. Using an autologous human and heterologous chicken antibody, Px was found, by immunohistology, in the cytoplasm of some of the well-differentiated lung adenocarcinoma cells, but was not seen in normal lung or a variety of other malignant tissues. A liquid-phase competitive-inhibition RIA was developed. Over 30 ng/ml of Px were found in 9 of 15 pleural fluids from patients with lung carcinoma, none of 20 from patients with breast, ovary, stomach or colon cancer, and in 3 of 15 patients with unknown primary tumor. Our data suggest that Px may be a lung-cancer-associated autoantigen which can elicit a host humoral response in vivo.
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PMID:Characterization of a lung-cancer-associated auto-antigen. 139 30

Sputum samples from seven patients with cystic fibrosis and chronic P. aeruginosa lung infection were investigated for immune complexes by PEG precipitation and in two different complement binding assays. All seven patients were immune complex positive. The components involved in immune complex formation were identified by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting. We found P. aeruginosa lipopolysaccharide as a major antigen. Both core and O-specific saccharide antigens could be demonstrated. IgG and IgA were the immunoglobulins involved, with IgG2 as the dominating IgG subclass. Lipopolysaccharide has a number of biological activities and its presence in sputum may have consequences for the pathogenesis of lung disease in cystic fibrosis.
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PMID:Lipopolysaccharide is present in immune complexes isolated from sputum in patients with cystic fibrosis and chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection. 155 93

Whether the growth-promoting activity of Pedersen fetuin is due to fetuin itself or to a contaminant(s) has been a long-standing puzzle. The possibility that the growth-promoting activity of Pedersen fetuin for human muscle satellite cells (HMSC) could be caused by some other component of fetal bovine serum (FBS) that remained in the fetuin as a contaminant has been investigated. One liter of FBS was first precipitated with 50% saturated ammonium sulfate, which leaves the serum albumin in solution, and then with 25% polyethylene glycol, which leaves the fetuin in solution, to generate a fraction 50 PEG 2x that was enriched 11-fold in growth-promoting activity for HMSC, with 68% recovery of total activity. Further purification with FPLC anion exchange chromatography achieved 99-fold enrichment of the activity with 30% overall recovery. The activity is heat labile and pH sensitive, suggesting that it is of protein nature, and the size of the activity is above 70 kDa. SDS-PAGE of the most active fractions shows that they are virtually free of fetuin. Thus, although the active fractions are not homogeneous, these studies demonstrate that the growth-promoting activity for HMSC can be fully separated from fetuin.
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PMID:Separation of growth-promoting activity for human muscle cells from fetuin. 171 28

Albumin was isolated from pooled fetal serum from 58 placentas obtained at normal delivery at term and from pooled adult plasma from 8 individuals. Albumin isolation was carried out by means of PEG precipitation followed by ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A 50 and then on SP-Sephadex C 50. The electrophoresis on SDS-polyacrylamide gels showed only one spot that comigrated with commercial human albumin. Binding to albumin was measured by equilibrium dialysis of an aliquot of albumin solution (0.7 ml) against the same volume of 0.13 M sodium orthophosphate buffer (pH 7.4). At a total concentration of 2 micrograms/ml (therapeutic range), the unbound fraction of furosemide was 2.71% (fetal albumin) and 2.51% (adult albumin). Two classes of binding sites for furosemide were observed in fetal and adult albumin. The number of binding sites (moles of furosemide per mole of albumin) was 1.22 (fetal albumin) and 1.58 (adult albumin) for the high-affinity site and 2.97 (fetal albumin) and 3.25 (adult albumin) for the low-affinity site. The association constants (M-1) were 3.1 X 10(4) (fetal albumin) and 2.6 X 10(4) (adult albumin) for the high-affinity set of sites and 0.83 X 10(4) (fetal albumin) and 1.0 X 10(4) (adult albumin) low-affinity site. The displacement of furosemide from albumin was studied with therapeutic concentrations of several drugs. Valproic acid, salicylic acid, azapropazone and tolbutamide had the highest displacing effects which were significantly higher with fetal than with adult albumin.
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PMID:Binding of furosemide to albumin isolated from human fetal and adult serum. 187 50

A streamlined and effective method for RFLP analysis of DNA has been developed. Southern transfers are accomplished by alkali blotting DNA onto positively charged nylon membranes. The prehybridization step has been eliminated. The hybridization solution is composed of three cost-effective reagents: 7% SDS, 10% PEG, and phosphate buffer. By using probes that hybridize to variable number of tandem repeat loci, and RFLP analysis of one to two micrograms of genomic DNA can be achieved within five working days under normal working hours. With longer autoradiographic exposures, as little as 20-100 ng of human genomic DNA is sufficient for analysis.
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PMID:Modifications to improve the effectiveness of restriction fragment length polymorphism typing. 198 91

The authors isolated the circulating immune complexes in experimental lens-induced uveitis by PEG-6000 precipitation and molecular filtration in two peaks. ELISA showed that Peak I was a fraction of antigens comprising four components of soluble lens crystallin, of which gamma-crystallin was the most abundant, but no soluble antigens of the retina; Peak II was the antibodies corresponding to Peak I. SDS electrophoresis demonstrated the presence of over 10 antigen-antibody complexes. The results proved that the toxic complexes of experimental lens-induced uveitis was the lens crystallin immune complexes, and further suggested that gamma-crystallin immune complexes induced experimental uveitis as well as the alpha- and beta-crystallin immune complexes.
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PMID:[Analysis of the circulating immune complexes in experimental lens-induced uveitis]. 206 Apr 8

The catabolism of streptokinase (SK) and polyethylene glycol derivatives of SK (PEG-SK) were studied in mice. The clearance and catabolism of SK:plasmin (SK:Pm) and PEG-SK:Pm activator complexes were also investigated. Native 125I-SK cleared rapidly (t1/2 = 15 minutes) from the circulation, with the majority of the ligand accumulating in the liver and gastrointestinal (GI) tract and a substantial fraction also localizing in the kidneys. SK, which was removed from the plasma by the liver, was secreted into bile and then the GI tract. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) demonstrated that 125I-SK recovered from liver and bile was homogeneous and of the same molecular weight (mol wt approximately 50,200) as native SK. PEG-125I-SK cleared slowly (t1/2 greater than 200 minutes), with more than 80% of the preparation localizing in liver and GI tract. The PEG-125I-SK secreted into the bile was also intact. The bile containing 125I-SK was incubated with stoichiometric amounts of plasminogen and electrophoresed under nondenaturing conditions. This study demonstrated that the secreted SK was able to form SK:Pg complexes. SDS-PAGE also showed activation of 125I-Pg that was incubated with recovered bile containing the SK. 125I-SK:Pm catabolism was also studied. In these experiments, the mol wt approximately 42,000 fragment obtained when SK is cleaved by plasmin was found in the bile. This fragment of 125I-SK was not recovered as part of a complex with plasmin, consistent with our previous observations that catabolism of SK:Pm involves transfer of the plasmin to plasma proteinase inhibitors while SK is catabolized independently. By contrast, when PEG-125I-SK:Pm was injected into mice, only intact PEG-125I-SK was found in the bile, consistent with our previous observations that the PEG derivatization blocks its degradation by plasmin.
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PMID:Catabolism of streptokinase and polyethylene glycol-streptokinase: evidence for transport of intact forms through the biliary system in the mouse. 214 9

A crude extract of pooled early-pregnancy decidual tissue was enriched for soluble decidual proteins by exhaustive affinity absorption with antibodies to human serum proteins immobilized on Eupergit C. The partly purified extract was used to prepare monoclonal antibodies. A monoclonal antibody was obtained recognizing an antigen present in extract of decidual tissue and not in extract of proliferative endometrium. The monoclonal antibody was used for immunoaffinity purification of the decidua-associated protein. By SDS-PAGE analysis, under reducing conditions it yielded 2 bands at apparent molecular weights of 55,000 and 25,000. Under non-reducing conditions a single protein band at apparent molecular weight of 200,000 was observed. The Mr 200,000 protein was named hDP200 and the Mr 55,000 protein was named hDP55. It is suggested that hDP55 is a subunit of the hDP200. The hDP200 did not react with polyclonal antibodies specific for PP12 and PP14. PP14 has been shown to be immunologically indistinguishable from PEP and alpha 2-PEG. Our data therefore suggest that hDP200 is a novel human decidua-associated protein.
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PMID:Identification, immunoaffinity purification and partial characterization of a human decidua-associated protein. 231 34


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