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Query: UNIPROT:P56851 (epididymal)
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The epididymis, under control of testosterone, secretes proteins which bind to the membrane of the spermatozoa during their passage through the lumen. One such class is termed PES (prealbumin epididymal specific). Injection of heterologous oPES (ovine PES) into male rats caused antibody production but failed to induce sterility, unlike results previously obtained when rat PES was injected into male rats. This suggests that only very restricted species-specific epitopes of PES might be useful for causing immunocontraception. Despite this, the sperm binding properties of PES purified from the rat (rat PES) and from the ram (oPES) were shown to be similar. When either rat PES or oPES, conjugated with a fluorescent probe (dimethylamino-fluorescein), was incubated with washed rat spermatozoa originating from the caput, corpus or cauda epididymis, results of flow cytometric analysis showed: (1) the number of spermatozoa bound to isologous or heterologous fluorescent PES, and (2) the binding-affinity of spermatozoa for PES was greater for sperm collected from more distal sites in the epididymis.
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PMID:Binding of rat and ovine epididymis-specific prealbumins (PES) to rat spermatozoa without effect of heterologous immunization on rat fertility. 921 33

The partitioning of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) (E.C. 1.1.1.49) and hexokinase (E.C. 2.7.1.1) in polyethylene glycol (PEG)-hydroxypropyl starch (PES) and PEG-phosphate aqueous two-phase systems was investigated with free triazine dyes, Cibacron Blue F3GA and Procion Red HE3B, as their affinity ligands. It was found that the free reactive triazine dyes, not bound to phase-forming polymers, preferentially partitioned in the top-PEG phase in the PEG-salt and PEG-PES systems. The effect of various parameters such as type and concentration of affinity ligands, pH of the system, molecular mass of PEG and phase composition on partitioning of the enzymes was estimated. Phosphate is a key factor affecting the enzyme partitioning in the PEG-PES system. Cibacron F3GA changed the partition coefficient of G6PDH from 0.73 to 1.59.
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PMID:Affinity partitioning of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and hexokinase in aqueous two-phase systems with free triazine dye ligands. 1238 80

To improve the selectivity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) extraction by an aqueous two-phase system, a simple and inexpensive affinity aqueous two-phase system using unbound reactive triazine dyes as ligands was introduced. In a polyethylene glycol (PEG)/hydroxypropyl starch (PES) system, the unbound free triazine dyes, Cibacron Blue F3GA and Procion Red HE3B, partitioned unevenly in the top PEG-rich phase and thus showed an affinity effect on G6PDH, but no influence on hexokinase. The various parameters investigated were pH of the system, buffers, molecular weight of PEG, and ligand type and concentration. A two-step affinity extraction process was established for the purification of G6PDH from baker's yeast. The total yield of G6PDH was 66.9% and purification factor was 2.35.
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PMID:Purification of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from baker's yeast in aqueous two-phase systems with free triazine dyes as affinity ligands. 1272 23