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1. The intrarenal role of angiotensin II in controlling sodium excretion was examined in anaesthetized, dehydrated dogs by infusing the angiotensin II antagonist Sar1-Ile8-angiotensin II directly into the renal artery. Comparisons were made with dehydrated dogs receiving only sodium chloride solution intrarenally. 2. Intrarenal angiotensin II blockade resulted in significant increases in urinary sodium excretion and urine flow rate. 3. The results indicate that during the high-renin state of dehydration endogenous angiotensin II has intrarenal effects which lead to salt and water retention.
Clin Sci Mol Med 1977 May
PMID:Intrarenal role of angiotensin II in controlling sodium excretion during dehydration in dogs. 86 48

Several properties of thermal denaturation and renaturation of DNA in polyacrylamide gels were investigated: (1) Following electrophoresis the DNA band was scanned and shown to increase in absorbance with increasing temperature. The increase was proportioned to DNA concentration across the peak. (2) The dependence of the Tm on salt concentration over a hundred fold range was similar to that found for DNA in free solution. (3) Denaturation of several DNA samples ranging in G + C content from 26 to 71% was compared in gels and free solution. The relationship between Tm and % G + C was virtually identical for both sets of DNAs. (4) The kinetics of DNA renaturation in the gel was followed. Reassociation of bacteriophage T4 DNA was 2nd order and proceeded more rapidly in polyacrylamide gels than in free solution.
Mol Biol Rep 1977 Mar
PMID:Polyacrylamide gel as a medium for DNA dissociation and reassociation. 87 Aug 17

Ribosomes were isolated from normal and growing kidney and the protein complement was examined by a two-dimensional gel electrophoretic procedure. Proteins were resolved in the first dimension on the basis of charge and, in the second dimension, on the basis of molecular weight. 60S and 40S ribosomal subunits from normal kidney contained respectively 42 and 31 proteins. 80S ribosomes contained 23 proteins not found with either sub-unit. Nineteen of these proteins were removed from the ribosomes when isolated ribosomes were washed in a high salt buffer. Six proteins of the 80S ribosome corresponded to proteins associated with both sub-units. 80S ribosomal proteins were also studied during compensatory renal hypertrophy after 4-96 h of induced growth. The protein complement displayed by electrophoresis was identical to the pattern seen from normal renal cells.
Mol Cell Biochem 1977 Aug 19
PMID:Ribosomal proteins of mouse kidney: normal status and during compensatory renal hypertrophy. 90 16

1. Chemical and morphological features of uraemic bone disease were studied by comparison of bone composition in 44 patients with uraemia (12 dialysed and 32 non-dialysed) and 36 control subjects. The significant changes included decreased bone mineral carbonate associated with calcium, a concomitant increase in phosphate, and an increase in magnesium. There was also an increase in osteoid and a reduction in the specific gravity of the compact bone. 2. The most marked changes in bone composition were observed in patients with uraemia of more than 1 year's duration, who had been dialysed. Bone mineral sodium concentrations were not significantly altered in any group. 3. The changes in bone mineral composition appeared to be the result of several simultaneous and/or successive mechanisms: (i) loss of fixed base, calcium carbonate; (ii) replacement of carbonate by phosphate; (iii) the addition of immature bone mineral, which contains high concentrations of phosphate and relatively low concentrations of carbonate. 4. These observations are consistent with earlier views of the bone salt as an indefinite calcium/phosphate/carbonate complex. Variations in bone composition may arise from a reciprocal relationship between phosphate and carbonate. The bone mineral analogue that best explains these variations in bone composition is octacalcium phosphate carbonate [Ca4 (PO4)2(HPO4)x(CO3)1-x,zH2O].
Clin Sci Mol Med 1977 Oct
PMID:Inter-relationships of carbonate, phosphate, monohydrogen phosphate, calcium, magnesium and sodium in uraemic bone: comparison of dialysed and non-dialysed patients. 91 54

DNA-dependent heat effects accompanying mixing of water-salt (0.3 M NaCl) solutions of PEG and DNA within the range of PEG 10-50 mg/ml at 25 degrees C were determined by the method of difference microcalorimetry. It was found that, unlike optical and hydrodynamical methods, microcalorimetry makes it possible to detect some changes of the DNA-PEG system preceding formation of compact particles of DNA. In the studied range of DNA concentrations (up to 50 X 10(-3) MG/ML) the specific DNA-dependent heat effect is essentially independent of DNA concentration. It is negative and its absolute value increases from 0 to 5 cal/g of DNA in the PEG concentration range from 0 to 35-40 mg/ml after that the rate of its increase raises greatly and at PEG concentration of 50 mg/ml it is equal to 35 cal/g of DNA. It is suggested that the studied DNA dependent heat effects at low concentrations of PEG (less than 40 mg/ml) are caused by dehydration of DNA preceding its compactization.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:[The compact form of DNA in solution. V. The heat effect preceding compactization of double-chained DNA in PEG containing water-salt solutions]. 94 May 53

1. Restriction of dietary salt intake does not affect the development or maintenance of hypertension in rats with unilateral renal ischaemia whether the contralateral kidney is present (Goldblatt 2 model) or not (Goldblatt 1 model). 2. Acute dietary salt depletion induces a similar loss of sodium and fall in body weight with little change in blood pressure in both normal and hypertensive rats. 3. Excision of the ischaemic kidney in rats with short-term (less than 50 days) Goldblatt 2 hypertension restores the mean blood pressure to normal, whereas Goldblatt 1 hypertensive rats show only a partial response. Previous salt depletion of this model enhances the blood pressure response to nephrectomy. 4. Sodium retention plays no part in the development or maintenance of Goldblatt 2 kidney hypertension. However, although sodium retention is normally involved in the Goldblatt 1 model, hypertension can develop in the absence of dietary sodium.
Clin Sci Mol Med 1976 Sep
PMID:Influence of sodium restriction upon two models of renal hypertension. 96 57

Chromatin which was hydrodynamically sheared in a low ionic strength buffer lacking divalent cations (mu = 0.005) contains a heterogeneous set of DNP particles but no molecules of free DNA. The main finding is that a transference of sheared chromatin to 1-2 mM MgCl2 or to 0.1-0.2M NaCl results in the appearance of completely free DNA molecules. A salt-induced rearrangementof DNA-bound histones, but not a partial loss of them is responsible for the observed phenomenon. Formation of free DNA molecules is accompanied by aggregation of the majority of remaining DNP particles. Percentage of free DNA molecules in the chromatin which was sheared to an average DNA length of approx. 400 base pairs is increased from zero in the initial DNP sample to 8-9% in 1 mM MgCl2 and further to 30-31% of the total DNA in 0.30 M NaCl, 2 mM MgCl2. Free DNA molecules in the sheared chromatin are observed not only upon isopycnic banding of formaldehyde-fixed DNP in CsCl gradients but also in non-ionic Metrizamide gradients with either fixed or unfixed DNP samples. Process of free DNA formation is a reversible one; its direction and the equilibrium state depend in particular on the ionic conditions of the medium. Percentage of free DNA molecules in the sheared chromatin at a given ionic strength of solution is strongly decreased upon an increase of the average length of DNA in the DNP particles. Several lines of evidence suggest that free DNA molecules are formed in the sheared chromatin as a result of cooperative rearrangements of histones in salt-induced DNP aggregates. A dynamical model of chromosomal fiber is proposed on the basis of the present and earlier experimental data [1]. According to the model histones are arranged on DNA in clusters separated by stretches of free DNA. A salt-induced migration of histones along or between DNP fibers can result in unification of different clusters, thereby generating longer stretches of free DNA, the total amount of free DNA being approximately constant. Possible in vivo significance of such a dynamical structure is discussed.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:[Structure of chromosomal deoxyribonucleoproteins. VII. Free dna in preparation of fragmented chromatin]. 98 44

Fragments of calf thymus DNA have been crystallized by precipitation from water-salt solutions, containing 2-methylpentane-2,3-diol (MPD). DNA crystals usually take the form either of spherulites up to 100 mu in diameter or of needles with the length up to 50 mu. No irreversible denaturation of DNA occurs during the crystallization process. X-ray diffraction from dense slurries of DNA crystals yields crystalline powder patterns.
Mol Biol Rep 1976 Sep
PMID:Crystallization of DNA fragments from water-salt solutions, containing 2-methylpentane-2,3-diol. 100 6

The subunit dissociation of human hemoglobin A by the aliphatic acid salts at neutral pH has been investigated by light-scattering molecular-weight measurements at 630 nm. Dissociation of hemoglobin tetramers to alphabeta dimers is observed in essentially all experiments at low to intermediate levels of salt concentrations, below the denaturation transitions, described in the accompanying paper (Ibanez, V.S., and Herskovits, T.T. (1976), Biochemistry 15, preceding paper in this issue). The effectiveness of the salts as subunit dissociating agent, reflected by the slopes, s, of the plots of deltaGDdegrees, the standard free energy of dissociation, vs. [D], the salt concentration, is found to increase with increasing alkyl chain length or hydrocarbon content of the salt. Estimates of the apparent number of amino acid sites at the areas of contact per alphabeta dimer formed, N', based on the slopes of the higher members of the series have been obtained using the equation, deltaGDdegrees = deltaGD,Wdegrees - 2N'RTKB[D]. Independent estimates of the binding constant, KB, required for these calculations were based on free-energy transfer data of hydrophobic amino acid alkyl groups and protein denaturation data. Our estimates of N' denaturation data. Our estimates of N' obtained with the more reliable data of the higher members of salt series are in the ranges of 19 and 27 amino acid groups, shown by the x-ray crystallographic structure of horse and human hemoglobin of Perutz (Perutz, M.F., et al. (1968), Nature (London) 219, 131) and Fermi ((1975) J. Mol. Biol. 97, 237) for the smaller alpha1 beta2 contact areas in the tetrameric structure. The lower estimates than 27 based on our dissociation of human hemoglobin suggest that several of the amino acid residues in the contact areas of the subunits are partially exposed to solvent. The increasing effectiveness of the higher mn imporant source of stabilization of the tetrameric structure of hemoglobin.
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PMID:Light-scattering investigations of the subunit dissociation of human hemoglobin A. Effects of the aliphatic acid salts. 100 84

A single, major 21 S messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP complex) was isolated and purified by sucrose gradient centrifugation after EDTA treatment of high salt washed polysomes from 15 day embryonic chick lenses. A 17 S mRNA was released from the 21 S subunit of delta crystallin. Similar results were obtained with the 17 S mRNA released from the 21 S mRNP complex.
Mol Biol Rep 1976 Sep
PMID:Synthesis of delta crystallin from embryonic chick lens messenger ribonucleoprotein complex. 103 4


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