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  • 1
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    Online Resource
    Newark :John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
    Keywords: Amino acids -- Analysis -- Methodology. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (349 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    ISBN: 9783527613977
    DDC: 572
    Language: English
    Note: Microcharacterization of Proteins -- Contents -- Section I: Overview -- I.1 Microcharacterization of Proteins -- 1 General Aspects -- 2 From a Cell to a Protein Sequence -- 3 Genome and Proteome -- Section II: Microseparation Techniques and Sample Preparation -- II.1 Microseparation Techniques I: High Resolution Gel-Electrophoretic Techniques : Qualitative, Quantitative and Micropreparative Applications -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory -- 3 Media and Equipment -- 3.1 Media -- 3.2 Equipment -- 4 Gel Electrophoretic Methods -- 4.1 Disc Electrophoresis -- 4.2 Gradient Gel Electrophoresis -- 4.3 Additives in Electrophoresis -- 4.4 SDS Electrophoresis -- 4.5 Isoelectric Focusing -- 4.6 Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis (2 -DE) -- 5 References -- II.2 Microseparation Techniques II: Gel Electrophoresis for Sample Preparation in Protein Chemistry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Denaturing Techniques -- 2.1 Commonly Used SDS-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis Techniques for Protein Separation -- 2.2 Blue-SDS-PAGE for Recovery of Membrane Proteins from Gels -- 2.3 Electroelution of Proteins after Blue-SDS-PAGE -- 2.4 Electroblotting of Blue and Colorless SDS Gels -- 2.5 Isoelectric Focusing in the Presence of Urea -- 3 Native Techniques -- 3.1 Colorless-Native-PAGE -- 3.2 Blue-Native-PAGE -- 3.3 Native Isoelectric Focusing -- 4 References -- II.3 Microseparation Techniques III: Electroblotting -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Electroblotting -- 2.1 Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis -- 2.2 Blot Systems -- 2.2.1 Tank Blotting -- 2.2.2 Semidiy Blotting -- 2.3 Blotting Parameters -- 2.3.1 The Blotting Process -- 2.3.2 Transfer Buffers -- 2.3.3 Addition of SDS -- 2.3.4 Addition of Methanol -- 2.3.5 Influence of Protein Concentration -- 3 Blotting Membranes -- 4 References -- II.4 Microseparation Techniques IV: Analysis of Peptides and Proteins by Capillary Electrophoresis. , 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory -- 2.1 Capillary Isotachophoresis -- 2.2 Capillary Zone Electrophoresis -- 2.3 Electroosmotic Flow -- 3 Instrumentation -- 3.1 Injection -- 3.2 Detection -- 4 Applications -- 4.1 Peptide Separations -- 4.2 Protein Separations -- 5 References -- II.5 Microseparation Techniques V: High Performance Liquid Chromatography -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Principle of HPLC -- 3 Getting Started -- 3.1 Solvents -- 3.2 Pump -- 3.3 Gradient -- 3.4 Pre-Column Split -- 3.5 Sample Preparation -- 3.6 Injector -- 3.7 Tubings -- 3.8 In-Line Filter, Guard Column -- 3.9 Column -- 3.10 Detection -- 3.11 Fractionation -- 4 Applications -- 5 References -- II.6 Sample Preparation I: Removal of Salts and Detergents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Removal of Salts or Polar Components -- 2.1 Protein-Binding Membranes -- 2.2 High Performance Liquid Chromatography -- 2.3 Desalting on Microcolumns -- 3 Removal of Detergents and Apolar Contaminants -- 3.1 Detergents -- 3.2 Protein-binding Membranes -- 3.3 Precipitation -- 3.4 SDS-PAGE -- 3.5 Concentrating Gels -- 4 "Golden Rules" for Protein and Peptide Handling -- 5 References -- II.7 Sample Preparation II: Chemical and Enzymatic Fragmentation of Proteins -- 1 Strategy -- 2 Denaturation, Reduction and Alkylation -- 3 Enzymatic Fragmentation -- 3.1 Enzymes -- 3.2 Practical Considerations -- 3.2.1 Practical Considerations for On-Membrane Digestions -- 3.2.2 Practical Considerations for In-Gel Digestions -- 3.2.3 Automation of Digest Procedures -- 4 Chemical Fragmentation -- 4.1 Cyanogen Bromide Cleavage -- 4.2 Partial Acid Hydrolysis -- 4.3 Hydroxylamine Cleavage of Asn-Gly Bonds -- 4.4 Cleavage at Tryptophan -- 4.5 Cleavage at Cysteine -- 5 References -- Section III: Bioanalytical Characterization -- III.1 Amino Acid Analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sample Preparation -- 2.1 Peptides and Proteins. , 2.1.1 Enzymatic Hydrolysis -- 2.1.2 Acid Hydrolysis -- 2.1.3 Alkaline Hydrolysis -- 2.2 Free Amino Acids -- 3 Derivatization -- 3.1 Post-Column Derivatization -- 3.1.1 Ninhydrin -- 3.1.2 Orthophthaldialdehyde -- 3.1.3 Fluorescamine -- 3.2 Pre-Column Derivatization -- 3.2.1 Phenylisothiocyanate -- 3.2.2 Orthophthaldialdehyde -- 3.2.3 Fluorenylmethyl Chloroformate -- 3.2.4 Dabsyl Chloride -- 3.2.5 Dansyl Chloride -- 3.2.6 Chiral Reagents -- 4 Data Evaluation -- 5 Instrumentation -- 6 Discussion -- 7 References -- III.2 Chemical Methods for Protein Sequence Analysis -- 1 The Edman Degradation -- 1.1 Coupling, Cleavage and Conversion -- 1.2 Identification of the PTH Amino Acids -- 2 Instrumentation -- 2.1 The Liquid Phase Sequencer -- 2.2 The Solid Phase Sequencer -- 2.3 The Gas Phase Sequencer -- 2.4 The Pulsed Liquid Phase Sequencer -- 2.5 The Biphasic Column Sequencer -- 3 Difficulties of Amino Acid Sequence Analysis -- 3.1 The Sample and Sample Matrices -- 3.2 Difficulties with the Edman Chemistry -- 4 C-Terminal Sequence Analysis -- 4.1 Chemical Degradation -- 4.2 Enzymatic Methods -- 4.3 Methods Combined with Mass Spectrometry -- 5 References -- III.3 Analyzing Post-Translational Protein Modifications -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Classification of Post-Translational Modifications According to their Behavior during Purification and Edman Degradation -- 2.1 Modifications: Stable during Purification and Edman Degradation -- 2.2 Modifications : Stable during Purification but Unstable during Edman Degradation -- 2.3 Modifications : Unstable during Purification and Edman Degradation -- 3 Examples -- 3.1 1-Methyl-Histidine -- 3.2 Glyco-Asparagine, Glyco-Threonine -- 3.3 Phospho-Tyrosine -- 3.4 N-Pyruvyl or N-a-Oxo-Butyric Acid -- 3.5 Gluco-Arginine -- 3.6 Farnesyl-Cysteine -- 3.7 Phospho-Serine -- 3.8 Phospho-Threonine. , 3.9 Screening for Phospho-Serine/Threonine Containing Peptides by HPLC/MS -- 3.10 Lanthionine, 3 -Methyl-Lanthionine, Dehydroalanine, Dehydro-a-aminobutyric Acid -- 4 References -- III.4 Analysis of Biopolymers by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI) Mass Spectrometry * -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Development of MALDI -- 2.1 Mechanism of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization -- 3 Instrumentation -- 3.1 Time-of-Flight (TOF) Mass Spectrometers -- 3.2 Laser Desorption Ion Source -- 3.3 Ion Detection and Data Collection -- 4 Applications -- 4.1 Sample Preparation -- 4.2 Ion Fragmentation -- 4.3 Molecular Weight Determination of Proteins and Glycoproteins -- 4.3.1 Accuracy of Mass Determination -- 4.3.2 Sensitivity and Mass Range -- 4.4 Analysis of Oligonucleotides -- 4.5 Analysis of Glycans and Glycoconjugates -- 5 Combination of MALDI with Biochemical Methods -- 5.1 Peptide Mapping of Digested Proteins by MALDI -- 5.2 Combination of MALDI and Gel Electrophoresis -- 5.3 Combination of MALDI with Capillary Zone Electrophoresis -- 6 References -- III.5 MALDI Postsource Decay Mass Analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology and Principal Mechanisms of Postsource Decay -- 2.1 Internal Energy Uptake and Ion Stability -- 2.2 Instrumentation for MALDI-PSD Analysis -- 2.3 Precursor Ion Selection -- 3 Applications and Spectra Interpretation -- 3.1 Sequence Analysis of Peptides -- 3.2 Primary Structure Analysis of Unknown Peptides -- 5 References -- 3.3 Primary Structure Analysis of Modified Peptides and Other Biomolecules -- 4 Potential and Perspectives -- III.6 Electrospray Mass Spectrometry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Instrumentation -- 2.1 The Electrospray Source -- 2.2 The Mass Analyzer -- 2.3 The Detector -- 3 Mass Spectra of Proteins -- 4 Coupling of Chromatographic Methods to the Mass Spectrometer -- 4.1 On-Line HPLC-MS. , 4.2 Coupling of a Protein Sequencer to an ESI Mass Spectrometer -- 4.3 Microcapillary LC Coupled to Mass Spectrometry -- 4.4 Capillary Electrophoresis Coupled to Mass Spectrometry -- 5 Purity Control of Synthetic Peptides -- 5.1 Sample Introduction with an Autosampler -- 5.2 Off-Line HPLC-MS -- 5.3 Characterization of Combinatorial Compound Collections -- 6 References -- III.7 Fourier-Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Principle -- 2.1 Resolution, Mass Accuracy, Mass Range and Sensitivity -- 2.2 Tandem Mass Spectrometry -- 3 Electrospray and FT-ICR-MS -- 4 References -- III.8 Sequence Analysis of Proteins and Peptides by Mass Spectrometry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Basics in Peptide Fragmentation -- 3 Instrumentation and Generation of MS/MS Data Sets -- 3.1 MALDI-PSD Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry -- 3.2 ESI-Triple Stage Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry -- 3.3 ESI-Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry -- 3.4 ESI-Quadrupole-TOF Mass Spectrometry -- 4 Coupling Methods for Mass Spectrometry -- 4.1 HPLC Mass Spectrometry -- 4.2 CZE Mass Spectrometry -- 4.3 Microchips -- 4.4 Nanospray -- 5 Identification of Posttranslational Modifications -- 5.1 Disulfide Bond Location -- 5.2 Other Posttranslational Modifications -- 6 Interpretation of Mass Spectrometric Data -- 6.1 Identification of Proteins by Database Search -- 6.2 De novo Sequencing of Peptides -- 7 References -- Section IV: Computer Sequence Analysis -- IV.1 Internet Resources for Protein Identification and Characterization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 General Approach -- 2.1 Experimental Attributes and Choice of Programs -- 2.2 Information in Databases -- 2.2.1 The Annotations in SWISS-PROT -- 2.2.2 SWISS-PROT Supplement TrEMBL -- 3 Identification and Characterization Tools at ExPASy -- 3.1 Identification Tools -- 3.1.1 Identification with Sequence Tags: TagIdent. , 3.1.2 Identification with Amino Acid Composition: AACompIdent.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1460-9568
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Serum-free cultures of meningeal fibroblasts synthesize and release a chondroitin sulphate proteoglycan (CSPG) that markedly enhances survival but not adhesion of embryonic rat (embryonic day 15) neocortical neurons in vitro. The active molecule was purified from conditioned medium (meningeal cell-conditioned medium, MCM) in three steps by means of fast-performance liquid chromatography fractionation combined with a quantitative microphotometric bioassay: (i) preparative Q-Sepharose anion exchange chromatography under native conditions; (ii) rechromatography of biologically active Q-Sepharose fractions on a MonoQ column in the presence of 8 M urea; and (iii) final gel filtration of active MonoQ fractions on Superose 6 in the presence of 4 M guanidinium hydrochloride. Analytical sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis of active Superose 6 fractions revealed a single broad glycoprotein band with a molecular mass in the range of 220–340 kDa. Further characterization of the purified molecule with glycosaminoglycan:lyases revealed a core protein of 50 kDa and the nearly complete loss of neurotrophic activity after chondroitinase digestion, whereas heparitinase treatment changed neither electrophoretic mobility nor biological activity. Amino-terminal sequencing of the purified CSPG core protein revealed identity with the amino acid sequence of rat biglycan. Biglycan purified from bovine cartilage supported neuron survival with virtually the same activity as the CSPG purified from MCM (half-maximal activity ∼10-8 M). In conclusion, we isolated a neurotrophic CSPG from meningeal cells with strong survival-enhancing activity for brain neurons that was identified as biglycan, a molecule not previously related to neural functions.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The HPr kinase of Gram-positive bacteria is an ATP-dependent serine protein kinase, which phosphorylates the HPr protein of the bacterial phosphotransferase system (PTS) and is involved in the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism. The hprK gene from Enterococcus faecalis was cloned via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced. The deduced amino acid sequence was confirmed by microscale Edman degradation and mass spectrometry combined with collision-induced dissociation of tryptic peptides derived from the HPr kinase of E. faecalis. The gene was overexpressed in Escherichia coli, which does not contain any ATP-dependent HPr kinase or phosphatase activity. The homogeneous recombinant protein exhibits the expected HPr kinase activity as well as a P-Ser-HPr phosphatase activity, which was assumed to be a separate enzyme activity. The bifunctional HPr kinase/phosphatase acts preferentially as a kinase at high ATP levels of 2 mM occurring in glucose-metabolizing Streptococci. At low ATP levels, the enzyme hydrolyses P-Ser-HPr. In addition, high concentrations of phosphate present under starvation conditions inhibit the HPr kinase activity. Thus, a putative function of the enzyme may be to adjust the ratio of HPr and P-Ser-HPr according to the metabolic state of the cell; P-Ser-HPr is involved in carbon catabolite repression and regulates sugar uptake via the phosphotransferase system (PTS). Reinvestigation of the previously described Bacillus subtilis HPr kinase revealed that it also possesses P-Ser-HPr phosphatase activity. However, contrary to the E. faecalis enzyme, ATP alone was not sufficient to switch the phosphatase activity of the B. subtilis enzyme to the kinase activity. A change in activity of the B. subtilis HPr kinase was only observed when fructose-1,6-bisphosphate was also present.
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    ISSN: 1574-6968
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Guanosine-5′-diphosphate-3′-diphosphate (ppGpp), an effector for many metabolic pathways, is synthesized by the relA gene product after amino acid limitation. Studies of stringent controlled Escherichia coli CP78 (relA+) and relaxed controlled E. coli CP79 (relA−) were carried out to test whether these strains differ in the appearance of their cytoplasmic membranes after induction of stringent and relaxed response. Cytoplasmic membrane structures of the cells were investigated by freeze-fracture electron microscopy after cooling the cells. The obtained micrographs showed a net-like distribution of the particles in the cytoplasmic membranes of relaxed controlled cells whereas such a pattern was not detectable in the stringent controlled counterparts.
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  • 5
    Electronic Resource
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    Springer
    Histochemistry and cell biology 111 (1999), S. 71-81 
    ISSN: 1432-119X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract  Caveolae are specialized invaginated domains of the plasma membrane. Using freeze-fracture electron microscopy, the shape of caveolae and the distribution of intramembrane particles (integral membrane proteins) were analyzed. The caveolar membrane is highly curved and forms flask-like invaginations with a diameter of 80–120 nm with an open porus of 30–50 nm in diameter. The fracture faces of caveolar membranes are nearly free of intramembrane particles. Protein particles in a circular arrangement surrounding the caveolar opening were found on plasma membrane fracture faces. For isolation of caveolin-enriched membrane vesicles, the method of Triton X-100 solubilization, as well as a detergent-free isolation method, was used. The caveolin-rich vesicles had an average size of between 100 and 200 nm. No striated coat could be detected on the surface of isolated caveolin-rich vesicles. Areas of clustered intramembrane particles were found frequently on membrane fracture faces of caveolin-rich vesicles. The shape of these membrane protein clusters is often ring-like with a diameter of 30–50 nm. Membrane openings were found to be present in the caveolin-rich membrane vesicles, mostly localized in the areas of the clustered membrane proteins. Immunogold labeling of caveolin showed that the protein is a component within the membrane protein clusters and is not randomly distributed on the membrane of caveolin-rich vesicles.
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    ISSN: 1573-904X
    Keywords: dequalinium ; liposome ; bolaform drug ; non-viral transfection vector ; gene therapy ; drug delivery
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Purpose. Dequalinium, a drug known for over 30 years, is a dicationic amphiphile compound resembling bolaform electrolytes. The purpose of our work was to determine the state of aggregation of dequalinium in aqueous medium and to investigate both, its ability to bind DNA and its potential to serve as a novel non-viral transfection vector. Methods. The form of aggregation was determined employing electron microscopic techniques. The DNA binding capacity of dequalinium was assayed using SYBR™ Green I stain. For in vitro cell transfection experiments plasmid DNA encoding for firefly luciferase was used. Results. Dequalinium forms in aqueous medium liposome-like aggregates, which we term DQAsomes. These dequalinium vesicles bind DNA and they are able to transfect cells in vitro with an efficiency comparable to Lipofectin™. Conclusions. Based on the intrinsic properties of dequalinium such as the in vivo selectivity for carcinoma cells and selective accumulation in mitochondria we propose DQAsomes as a novel and unique drug and gene delivery system.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 0173-0835
    Keywords: Platelet activation ; Protein phosphorylation ; Mass spectrometry ; Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ; Protein identification ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2-D PAGE) is a powerful tool to separate complex protein mixtures including whole cell lysates. In combination with immunoblotting techniques or radioactive labeling techniques it is a fast and convenient way to demonstrate the presence of certain proteins or protein modifications. With the development of extremely sensitive analytical techniques such as matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) or electrospray ionization (ESI)-MS, it has become possible to use 2-D gels not only as an analytical but also as a preparative tool. Starting with a number of spots excised from 2-D gels, a protein can be identified using different strategies involving enzymatic cleavage of the protein in the gel matrix, elution of the resulting peptides and analysis of these peptides by mass spectrometry. The obtained peptide mass fingerprint or fragment ion spectra from peptides can be used to screen protein or nucleic acid databases in order to identify the protein. We have used the techniques described above to identify proteins from human platelets which change their phosphorylation state following activation of platelets by thrombin. Platelets were radioactively labeled with [32P]orthophosphate and stimulated. Several protein spots in the observed range of 10-80 kDa and an isoelectric point of 3-10 showed a significant increase or decrease in phosphorylation. We present the results from the investigation of a spot group representing different isoforms and phosphorylation states of myosin light chain.
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