Structure of extracellular hemoglobin from the brine shrimp Artemia salina. |
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Authors: | A Azem E Daniel |
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Institution: | Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. |
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Abstract: | 1. Hemoglobin from the brine shrimp Artemia salina, purified by ultracentrifugation and preparative gel electrophoresis in non-denaturing medium, gave in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis a single band corresponding to a polypeptide chain with Mr 150,000. 2. Crosslinking by glutardialdehyde resulted in the appearance of a band corresponding to a molecular mass twice that of a polypeptide chain. 3. Limited trypsinolysis gave eight proteolytic bands corresponding to submultiples 8/9-1/9 of a polypeptide chain. 4. We conclude that a molecule of Artemia hemoglobin is composed of two single polypeptide chain subunits and that each subunit consists of nine structural units roughly equal in size. |
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