一种转移非特异性蛋白带的染色方法

考马斯亮蓝是常用的聚丙烯酰胺凝胶蛋白电泳的染料,利用硝酸纤维素膜(NCF)对染料的吸附作用,将低浓度的考马斯亮蓝(0.025%)染色液直接对NCF上的转移蛋白带进行染色,经实验反复验证.它是一种较好的NCF上转移非特异性蛋白带的染色方法.     

甘薯叶片蔗糖酶的分离纯化及其部分性质

纯化酶经聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳显示单一蛋白带,ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ显示一条蛋白带,其亚基分子量为３９．８ｋＤ。用Ｓｅｐｈａｃｒｙｌ Ｓ－２００凝胶过滤测得全酶的分子量为７９．４ｋＤ,该酶由两个相同亚基组成。其表观Ｋｍ为１２ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ,Ｖｍａｘ为９９．５ｍｇ还原糖ｍｇ＾－１ｐｒｏｔｅｉｎ ｈ＾－１。     

聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳脂蛋白带的耐尔氏蓝染色法

目前聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳用考马斯亮蓝G或R染蛋白带、用过碘酸-Schiff试剂染糖蛋白带,均取得了满意的结果.至于用油红(OR)、苏丹黑(SB)对琼脂、醋酸纤维膜等凝胶中的脂蛋白带的染色鉴定是成功的,但对聚丙烯酰胺凝胶中的脂蛋白带的染色则不够满意.我们应用耐尔氏蓝[Nile’s blue] 染色法染盘状聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳的脂蛋白带取得了较好的结果.现介绍如下:     

聚丙烯酰胺凝胶的蛋白质荧光染色法

十二烷基硫酸钠-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳(SDSPAGE),经常用于分离、鉴定蛋白质,测定肽链分子量。蛋白质在聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳后,一般用考马斯亮蓝法染色,其优点是操作简易,灵敏度较高。据我们的经验,最低检出量约为每一蛋白带0.5μg。此法的缺点是费时,染色及脱色要一昼夜,且染色后,许多蛋白质丧失抗原性及其它生物学活性。最近我们研究出蛋白质PAGE的荧光染色法,蛋白质样品在上胶前用荧光素标记,电泳后可立即在紫外光灯下看到清晰的蛋白带,其灵敏度不低于考马斯亮蓝法。现介绍如下。一、样品的荧光标记蛋白质样品用牛血清白蛋白(68,000)、卵白蛋白(44,000)、肌红蛋白(16,800)、溶菌酶(14,600)的混     

甘薯叶片蔗糖酶的分离纯化及其部分性质

纯化酶经聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳显示单一蛋白带,ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ显示一条蛋自带,其亚基分子量为３９．８ｋＤ。用ＳｅｐｈａｃｒｙｌＳ－２００凝胶过滤测得全酶的分子量为７９．４ｋＤ,该酶由两个相同亚基组成。其表观Ｋｍ为１２ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ,Ｖｍａｘ为９９．５ｍｇ还原糖ｍｇ－１ｐｒｏｔｅｉｎｈ－１。     

猪血小板外廓蛋白（profilin）的分离纯化和鉴定

本文合成了一种聚脯氨酸亲和层析凝胶,并用这种凝胶纯化了猪血小板外廓蛋白。纯化的外廓蛋白在ＳＤＳ－聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳中呈单一蛋白带,分子量１４ｋＤ;在体外能显著抑制肌动蛋白聚合。     

猪血小板外廓蛋白（profilin）的分离纯化和鉴定

本文合成了一种聚脯氨酸亲和层析凝胶,并用这种凝胶纯化了猪血小板外廓蛋白。纯化的外廓蛋白在ＳＤＳ－聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳中呈单一蛋白带,分子量１４ｋＤ;在体外能显著抑制肌动蛋白聚合。     

枯草芽孢杆菌B034拮抗蛋白的分离纯化及特性分析

枯草芽孢杆菌（Ｂａｃｉｌｕｓｓｕｂｔｉｌｉｓ）Ｂ０３４分离自水稻叶面,对水稻白叶枯病菌具有较强的拮抗能力。除去菌体培养液以７０％饱和度硫酸铵沉淀所得的拮抗物粗提液对热稳定,对胰蛋白酶不敏感,对蛋白酶Ｋ、链霉蛋白酶Ｅ部分敏感,对氯仿部分敏感,其作用的活性ｐＨ范围低至４,高至１２以上,比较耐碱性。粗提液经ＰｈｅｎｙｌＳｅｐｈａｒｏｓｅＣＬ４Ｂ柱层析、ＤＥＡＥＳｅｐｈａｃｅｌ柱层析和ＨＰＬＣ的Ｓｕｐｅｒｄｅｘ７５ＨＲ１０／３０柱层析,得到二个拮抗活性峰：Ｐ１和Ｐ２。Ｐ２经ＳＤＳＰＡＧＥ和ＰＡＧＥＩＥＦ电泳显示为单一蛋白带,分子量５０３ｋＤ,等电点６２５。自动Ｅｄｍａｎ降解法从Ｐ２的Ｎ端测出残基序列为ＩｌｅＳｅｒＡｓｎＰｒｏＸＩｌｅＡｓｐＶａｌ     

耐盐辣椒分子育种

利用自花授粉后形成的花粉管通道将海岸耐盐植物红树总 Ｄ Ｎ Ａ 导入辣椒,其后代的耐盐性明显增强,在海滩上试种,用海水直接浇灌,约５５％ 的转化株能开花、结果,而对照株全部死亡。进行蛋白质 Ｓ Ｄ Ｓ Ｐ Ａ Ｇ Ｅ电泳和 Ｒ Ａ Ｐ Ｄ 分析,分别发现一条１７５ Ｋ Ｄ蛋白质和一条１１ Ｋｂ Ｄ Ｎ Ａ 的特异性谱带,表明通过花粉管通道导入外源 Ｄ Ｎ Ａ 是可行的,其后代植株耐盐能力提高与基因组变异有关。     

兔出血症病毒结构多肽分析

粗提病毒经Ｓｅｐｈａｒｏｓｅ４Ｂ层析后,获得纯化的兔出血症病毒（ＲＨＤＶ）。提纯病毒经过ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ经考马斯亮蓝染色显示Ａ、Ｂ、Ｃ、Ｄ、Ｅ、Ｆ和Ｇ７条多肽,凝胶扫描显示Ａ为ＲＨＤＶ主要结构多肽。用多抗和单抗作免疫转印分析,证实Ａ、Ｂ、Ｃ、Ｄ、Ｅ、和Ｇ为结构多肽,此６条结构多肽间的抗原关系十分密切。     

Solid-state 13C and 15N NMR study of the low pH forms of bacteriorhodopsin

The visible absorption of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is highly sensitive to pH, the maximum shifting from 568 nm (pH 7) to approximately 600 nm (pH 2) and back to 565 nm (pH 0) as the pH is decreased further with HCl. Blue membrane (lambda max greater than 600 nm) is also formed by deionization of neutral purple membrane suspensions. Low-temperature, magic angle spinning 13C and 15N NMR was used to investigate the transitions to the blue and acid purple states. The 15N NMR studies involved [epsilon-15N]lysine bR, allowing a detailed investigation of effects at the Schiff base nitrogen. The 15N resonance shifts approximately 16 ppm upfield in the neutral purple to blue transition and returns to its original value in the blue to acid purple transition. Thus, the 15N shift correlates directly with the color changes, suggesting an important contribution of the Schiff base counterion to the "opsin shift". The results indicate weaker hydrogen bonding in the blue form than in the two purple forms and permit a determination of the contribution of the weak hydrogen bonding to the opsin shift at a neutral pH of approximately 2000 cm-1. An explanation of the mechanism of the purple to blue to purple transition is given in terms of the complex counterion model. The 13C NMR experiments were performed on samples specifically 13C labeled at the C-5, C-12, C-13, C-14, or C-15 positions in the retinylidene chromophore. The effects of the purple to blue to purple transitions on the isotropic chemical shifts for the various 13C resonances are relatively small. It appears that bR600 consists of at least four different species. The data confirm the presence of 13-cis- and all-trans-retinal in the blue form, as in neutral purple dark-adapted bR. All spectra of the blue and acid purple bR show substantial inhomogeneous broadening which indicates additional irregular distortions of the protein lattice. The amount of distortion correlates with the variation of the pH, and not with the color change.     

Partial characterization of the 30 kD Ig-binding protein from Pseudomonas maltophilia.

We have previously demonstrated that Pseudomonas maltophilia (ATCC 13637) possess a 30 kDa cell wall protein which binds various subclasses of IgG's and IgA by their Fc region. The protein was solubilized by papain and purified by affinity chromatography on cyanogen bromide activated sepharose beads conjugated with human IgG. The eluent was electrophoresed on a 12% polyacrylamide gel under denaturing conditions, and the immunoactive bands identified by Western blot analysis, a second gel was stained with Coomassie blue. The affinity purified eluent was electrophoresed on a one-dimensional 15% polyacrylamide gel and stained with Coomassie blue. The protein band of interest was cut. The protein band was then digested in situ with Staphylococcus aureus V-8 protease. The peptide bands were separated by electrophoresis on a second one dimensional 15% polyacrylamide gel and then electroblotted into a polyvinylidine difluoride membrane. The bands were visualized by staining with Coomassie blue, cut out, and sequenced using an automated gas phase sequencer. Minimal amino acid composition was determined in a similar fashion. We have thus obtained partial N-terminal amino acid sequence data from the above method.     

Qualitative changes in protein synthesis associated with polyspermic fertilization of human eggs

To investigate the early molecular events in human oocytes that are triggered by fertilization, the authors examined the pattern of polypeptides synthesized by unfertilized and dispermic embryos obtained through an in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) program. Compared with unfertilized oocytes of the same postovulatory age, the de novo protein synthesis in tripronuclear dispermic zygotes (21 hours postinsemination) was characterized by the appearance of three novel protein bands with molecular weights of 41.2, 35.3, and 26.0 kD. Concomitant with these changes, these zygotes showed the disappearance of bands at 54.0, 36.5, and 28.0 kD, along with the decreased synthesis of a protein band at 42.5 kD. Although 24% of the aged unfertilized oocytes exhibited bands corresponding to 41.2 and 35.3 kD, the 26.0 kD protein is restricted to the tripronuclear embryos. The significance of these results is discussed in relation to the use of polyspermic human oocytes as a model for the study of the early molecular events triggered by fertilization.     

Redshift of the purple membrane absorption band and the deprotonation of tyrosine residues at high pH: Origin of the parallel photocycles of trans-bacteriorhodopsin

At high pH (> 8) the 570 nm absorption band of all-trans bacteriorhodopsin (bR) in purple membrane undergoes a small (1.5 nm) shift to longer wavelengths, which causes a maximal increase in absorption at 615 nm. The pK of the shift is 9.0 in the presence of 167 mM KCl, and its intrinsic pK is ~8.3. The red shift of the trans-bR absorption spectrum correlates with the appearance of the fast component in the light-induced L to M transition, and absorption increases at 238 and 297 nm which are apparently caused by the deprotonation of a tyrosine residue and red shift of the absorption of tryptophan residues. This suggests that the deprotonation of a tyrosine residue with an exceptionally low pK (pK_a ≈ 8.3) is responsible for the absorption shift of the chromophore band and fast M formation. The pH and salt dependent equilibrium between the two forms of bR, “neutral” and “alkaline,” bR ↔ bR_a, results in two parallel photocycles of trans-bR at high pH, differing in the rate of the L to M transition. In the pH range 10-11.8 deprotonation of two more tyrosine residues is observed with pK's ~ 10.3 and 11.3 (in 167 mM KCL). Two simple models discussing the role of the pH induced tyrosine deprotonation in the photocycle and proton pumping are presented.

It is suggested that the shifts of the absorption bands at high pH are due to the appearance of a negatively charged group inside the protein (tyrosinate) which causes electrochromic shifts of the chromophore and protein absorption bands due to the interaction with the dipole moments in the ground and excited states of bR (Stark effect). This effect gives evidence for a significant change in the dipole moment of the chromophore of bR upon excitation.

Under illumination alkaline bR forms, besides the usual photocycle intermediates, a long-lived species with absorption maximum at 500 nm (P500). P500 slowly converts into bR_a in the dark. Upon illumination P500 is transformed into an intermediate having an absorption maximum at 380 nm (P380). P380 can be reconverted to P500 by blue light illumination or by incubation in the dark.

     

The role of the native lipids and lattice structure in bacteriorhodopsin protein conformation and stability as studied by temperature-dependent Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy

We report the effect of partial delipidation and monomerization on the protein conformational changes of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) as a function of temperature. Removal of up to 75% of the lipids is known to have the lattice structure of the purple membrane, albeit as a smaller unit cell, whereas treatment by Triton monomerizes bR into micelles. The effects of these modifications on the protein secondary structure is analyzed by monitoring the protein amide I and amide II bands in the Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectra. It is found that removal of the first 75% of the lipids has only a slight effect on the secondary structure at physiological temperature, whereas monomerizing bR into micelles alters the secondary structure considerably. Upon heating, the bR monomer is found to have a very low thermal stability compared with the native bR with its melting point reduced from 97 to 65 degrees C, and the pre-melting transition in which the protein changes conformation in native bR at 80 degrees C could not be observed. Also, the N[bond]H to N[bond]D exchange of the amide II band is effectively complete at room temperature, suggesting that there are no hydrophobic regions that are protected from the aqueous medium, possibly explaining the low thermal stability of the monomer. On the other hand, 75% delipidated bR has its melting temperature close to that of the native bR and does have a pre-melting transition, although the pre-melting transition occurs at significantly higher temperature than that of the native bR (91 degrees C compared with 80 degrees C) and is still reversible. Furthermore, we have also observed that the reversibility of this pre-melting transition of both native and partially delipidated bR is time-dependent and becomes irreversible upon holding at 91 degrees C between 10 and 30 min. These results are discussed in terms of the lipid and lattice contribution to the protein thermal stability of native bR.     

血卟啉衍生物（HPD）对紫膜菌紫质（bR）的光敏化作用

研究了血卟啉衍生物（ＨＰＤ）对嗜盐菌紫膜上蛋白质菌紫质（ｂＲ）的光敏化作用,结果表明,ＨＰＤ与紫膜结合并不影响ｂＲ的光学性质及活性;但经光照射、ＨＰＤ光敏反应后,ｂＲ丧失光循环活性。进一步的探测显示ｂＲ中的视黄醛色素团及色氨酸均在光敏反应中受损,反映了除视黄醛色素团有可能直接受损外,深埋于折叠蛋白内部的部分色氨酸残基。亦可能在ＨＰＤ光敏化过程中被损伤。实验证明,单线态氧（＾１Ｏ２）的作用是ＨＰＤ光     

Secreted alpha amidating enzymes are generated by specific posttranslational processing of precursors containing transmembrane domains

The biosynthesis and secretion of alpha amidating enzymes from CA-77 cells has been investigated to determine the relationship among the various forms of alpha amidating enzyme seen after purification of alpha amidating enzyme activity from conditioned cell culture media. Initially 2 proteins of 104 kD and 94 kD are synthesized. With time the 104 kD precursor is processed to 41 kD and 43 kD, and the 94 kD precursor is processed to 75 kD. The 41 kD, 43 kD, and 75 kD proteins are secreted into the medium as functional enzymes. In comparing these data with known cDNA sequence for alpha amidating enzyme we conclude that the 104 kD and 94 kD precursors are membrane bound proteins which are posttranslationally processed to generate secreted alpha amidating enzyme.     

Two-dimensional gel electrophoretic resolution of the polypeptides of rat liver mitochondria and the outer membrane

The proteins of highly purified rat liver mitochondria were resolved by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and detected by staining with either Coomassie blue or silver. Approximately 250 polypeptides were detected with silver staining which is 2- to 3-times that observed with Coomassie blue. Silver staining was especially more effective than Coomassie blue for detecting polypeptides of less than 50 000 daltons. A two-dimensional gel pattern of rat liver microsomes was distinct from that of the mitochondria. The mitochondrial outer membrane was prepared from purified mitochondria either with digitonin or by swelling in a hypotonic medium. As assessed by marker enzymes, the latter method yielded a considerably purer outer membrane preparation (20-fold purification) than the former (2.6-fold purification). Approximately 50 polypeptides were observed in a two-dimensional gel (pH 3-10) of the highly purified outer membrane fraction. Three isoelectric forms of the pore (VDAC) protein were observed with pI values of 8.2, 7.8 and 7.1. Monoamine oxidase was identified as a polypeptide of Mr 60 000. About 50 polypeptides were also resolved in a reverse polarity non-equilibrium pH gradient electrophoresis gel of the outer membrane, pH 3-10, with at least six isoelectric forms of the VDAC protein observed under these conditions. The six isoforms of the VDAC protein were also observed in a non-equilibrium gel with 2 micrograms of the purified protein.     

Tubulin interaction with kinetochore proteins: analysis by in vitro assembly and chemical cross-linking

The sera from patients with the CREST (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia) variation of the autoimmune disease scleroderma contain autoantibodies that specifically recognize the kinetochore by immunofluorescence. Two major antigens of molecular masses 18 and 80 kD are consistently identified by Western blotting of proteins of isolated chromosomes using CREST sera. In this paper, the possible roles that these two proteins play in the interaction of metaphase chromosomes with tubulin and microtubules are examined using two different procedures. In one set of experiments. Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) chromosomes were extracted with 1-2 M NaCl before incubating with phosphocellulose-purified tubulin under in vitro microtubule assembly conditions. After this treatment, the kinetochores of the residual chromosome scaffolds can still initiate the in vitro assembly of microtubules. Immunoblots of the chromosome scaffold proteins demonstrate that the 18-kD protein has been solubilized by the 1-2 M NaCl extraction, suggesting that this protein is not essential for microtubule assembly at the kinetochore. In a second approach, tubulin was covalently cross-linked to kinetochores of CHO chromosomes using the reversible cross-linking reagent dithiobis (succinimidyl propionate). After DNase I digestion, the chromosomes were solubilized and subjected to anti-tubulin affinity chromatography. Tubulin-kinetochore protein complexes were specifically eluted and analyzed by PAGE and immunoblotting with scleroderma CREST serum. Only a small number of proteins were eluted from the antitubulin affinity column as shown by Coomassie Blue-stained gels. In addition to tubulin, an 80-kD polypeptide, bands at 110 and 24 kD, as well as a faint band at 54 kD, can be resolved. Several minor bands can also be seen in silver-stained gels. The 80-kD protein band from whole metaphase chromosomes reacted with scleroderma CREST serum by immunoblotting and therefore probably represents the major centromere antigen CENP-B. This report provides evidence for a specific protein complex on metaphase chromosomes that is contiguous with kinetochore-bound tubulin and may be involved in microtubule-kinetochore interactions during mitosis.     

Biogenesis of the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium

A protein closely resembling the purple membrane protein pre-exists in the cell membrane of H. halobium prior to the appearance of functional bacteriorhodopsin. It is associated with a differentiated membranous structure which has been isolated on a sucrose gradient and appears to be a precursor of the purple membrane. The identity of the precursor protein as a form of the purple membrane protein was established in different ways: (1) The cell proteins were labelled in vivo with ¹⁴C-proline during dark aerobic growth, the label was chased, and the cells transferred to the illuminated near-anaerobic conditions under which purple membrane is optimally synthesised (induction conditions). Cell lysates were fractionated on sucrose gradients at different times after induction. Label first found in the precursor fraction appeared within 24 h in the purple membrane fraction. (2) SDS-urea-acrylamide gel electrophoresis of the purple membrane protein and the precursor showed only one protein band whose migration coincided with that of the purple membrane band. (3) The amino-acid analysis of the purified precursor was very similar to that of the purple membrane.The absorption spectrum of the precursor showed little of the characteristic absorption of bacteriorhodopsin at 570 nm. A major band appears at 412 nm, the exact nature of which is not known. The difference spectrum (reduced versus oxidised) of a purified fraction showed only traces of cytochrome. Thin-layer chromatography of an acetone-soluble lipid extract indicated the presence of retinal and -carotene. Cells grown in the presence of nicotine did not develop purple membrane after induction: the species absorbing at 412 nm was much less abundant than in non-inhibited cells, but a new fraction was present with a sharp peak at 345 nm consisting mainly of lycopene.Abbreviations CTAB cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide - SDS sodium dodecyl sulfate - CAP chloramphenicol - TLC thin layer chromatography - CD circular dichroism