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Quantitative Footprinting Analysis Using A Dna-Cleaving Metalloporphyrin Complex+, James C. Dabrowiak, Brian Ward, Jerry Goodisman
Quantitative Footprinting Analysis Using A Dna-Cleaving Metalloporphyrin Complex+, James C. Dabrowiak, Brian Ward, Jerry Goodisman
Chemistry - All Scholarship
The results of quantitative footprinting studies involving the antiviral agent netropsin and a DNA-cleaving cationic metalloporphyrin complex are presented. An analysis of the footprinting autoradiographic spot intensities using a model previously applied to footprinting studies involving the enzyme DNase I [Ward, B., Rehfuss, R., Goodisman, J., & Dabrowiak, J. C. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 1198-12051 led to very low values for netropsin binding constants on a restriction fragment from pBR-322 DNA. In this work, we show that, because the porphyrin binds with high specificity to DNA, it does not report site loading information in the same manner as does DNase I. …
Inulin-125I-Tyramine, An Improved Residualizing Label For Studies On Sites Of Catabolism Of Circulating Proteins, Janet L. Maxwell, John W. Baynes, Suzanne R. Thorpe
Inulin-125I-Tyramine, An Improved Residualizing Label For Studies On Sites Of Catabolism Of Circulating Proteins, Janet L. Maxwell, John W. Baynes, Suzanne R. Thorpe
Faculty Publications
Residualizing labels for protein, such as dilactitol-125I-tyramine (125I-DLT) and cellobiitol-125I-tyramine, have been used to identify the tissue and cellular sites of catabolism of long-lived plasma proteins, such as albumin, immunoglobulins, and lipoproteins. The radioactive degradation products formed from labeled proteins are relatively large, hydrophilic, resistant to lysosomal hydrolases, and accumulate in lysosomes in the cells involved in degradation of the carrier protein. However, the gradual loss of the catabolites from cells (t1/2 approximately 2 days) has limited the usefulness of residualizing labels in studies on longer lived proteins. We describe here a higher molecular weight (Mr approximately 5000), more efficient …
Oxidative Degradation Of Glucose Adducts To Protein: Formation Of 3-(NE-Lysino)-Lactic Acid From Model Compounds And Glycated Proteins, Mahtab U. Ahmed, John A. Dunn, Michael D. Walla, Suzanne R. Thorpe, John W. Baynes
Oxidative Degradation Of Glucose Adducts To Protein: Formation Of 3-(NE-Lysino)-Lactic Acid From Model Compounds And Glycated Proteins, Mahtab U. Ahmed, John A. Dunn, Michael D. Walla, Suzanne R. Thorpe, John W. Baynes
Faculty Publications
The chemistry of Maillard or browning reactions of glycated proteins is being studied in model systems in vitro in order to characterize potential reaction pathways and products in biological systems. In previous work with the Amadori rearrangement product N alpha-formyl-N epsilon-fructoselysine (fFL), an analog of glycated lysine residues in proteins, we showed that fFL was oxidatively cleaved between C-2 and C-3 of the carbohydrate chain to yield N epsilon-carboxymethyllysine (CML) and D-erythronic acid. We then detected CML in proteins glycated in vitro, as well as in human lens proteins and collagen in vivo (Ahmed, M. U., Thorpe, S. R., and …
A Cytochemical Study Of The Transcriptional And Translational Regulation Of Nuclear Transition Protein 1 (Tp1), A Major Chromosomal Protein Of Mammalian Spermatids, Mohammad A. Heidaran, Richard M. Showman, Wilson Stephen Kistler
A Cytochemical Study Of The Transcriptional And Translational Regulation Of Nuclear Transition Protein 1 (Tp1), A Major Chromosomal Protein Of Mammalian Spermatids, Mohammad A. Heidaran, Richard M. Showman, Wilson Stephen Kistler
Faculty Publications
Immunocytochemical localization and in situ hybridization techniques were used to investigate the presence of spermatid nuclear transition protein 1 (TP1) and its mRNA during the various stages of spermatogenesis in the rat. A specific antiserum to TP1 was raised in a rabbit and used to show that TP1 is immunologically crossreactive among many mammals including humans. During spermatogenesis the protein appears in spermatids as they progress from step 12 to step 13, a period in which nuclear condensation is underway. The protein is lost during step 15. An asymmetric RNA probe generated from a TP1 cDNA clone identified TP1 mRNA …
A Judicious Mixture Of Reaction Chemistry And Instrumentation, Julian Tyson
A Judicious Mixture Of Reaction Chemistry And Instrumentation, Julian Tyson
Chemistry Department Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Atomic Spectrometry And Flow Injection Analysis: A Synergic Combination, Julian Tyson
Atomic Spectrometry And Flow Injection Analysis: A Synergic Combination, Julian Tyson
Chemistry Department Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Atomiser, Source, Inductively Coupled Plasmas In Atomic Fluoresence Spectrometry (Asia): A Study Of Chemical And Ionisation Interference Effects, Stanley Greenfield, M. S. Salman, Julian Tyson
Atomiser, Source, Inductively Coupled Plasmas In Atomic Fluoresence Spectrometry (Asia): A Study Of Chemical And Ionisation Interference Effects, Stanley Greenfield, M. S. Salman, Julian Tyson
Chemistry Department Faculty Publication Series
The effects of phosphate, aluminium, sodium and potassium on the atomic fluorescence of calcium at 422.7 nm and the ionic fluorescence at I:393.4-396.8 nm have been studied. When the operating conditions are optimised for maximum fluorescence signal from a solution containing no interferents, interference effects are observed which may be interpreted in terms of stable compound formation, ionisation suppression and fluorescence quenching. These effects may be removed by optimising the operating parameters for minimum interference.
Flow Injection Calibration Techniques, Julian Tyson
Flow Injection Calibration Techniques, Julian Tyson
Chemistry Department Faculty Publication Series
The role of calibration in the overall analytical procedure is discussed and the potential role of flow injection techniques are assessed. The factors affecting the dispersion obtained in a flow injection system are described and examples given of how control of the various factors can be exploited to produce manifolds for calibration purposes. Most of these examples concern atomic spectrometry methods for which there is considerable interest at present in developing extended range calibrations and flow injection versions of the standard additions method. Several examples of the latter are given.