As the first step in the investigation of the structure and action of little known gastric zymogens and enzymes, pepsinogen has been isolated from the mucosa of the fourth stomach (abomasum) of the’ cow. The pepsinogen was purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, batch absorption on diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) cellulose, recycling gel filtration on Sephadex G-100, and finally chromatography on ...

As the first step in the investigation of the structure and action of little known gastric zymogens and enzymes, pepsinogen has been isolated from the mucosa of the fourth stomach (abomasum) of the’ cow. The pepsinogen was purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, batch absorption on diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) cellulose, recycling gel filtration on Sephadex G-100, and finally chromatography on ...

Pepsinogen has been purified from the fundic mucosa of the dog. The preparation is homogeneous by chromatography, amino terminal analysis, ultracentrifugation, electrophoresis on cellulose acetate strips, and disc electrophoresis. Analysis indicates the presence of 352 amino acid residues, at least 12 moles of carbohydrate including some amino sugars, and 1 mole of organic phosphate per mole of...

reacted with other reactive groups in the protein. However, it would appear that, whatever other reactions may have occurred, the increase in specifically monitors the extent of modification of histidine residues only. Thus diethyl pyrocarbonate appears to have reacted with pig pepsinogen to modify, at least, all three histidine residues in the protein. Once again, therefore, the potential acti...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to assess the validity of the measurement of pepsinogen as a screening test for chronic atrophic gastritis (AG) in health check-up populations in China. METHODS Patients from consecutive regular health check-up were enrolled from January 2014 to June 2015. Endoscopy, combined with monitoring the Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infections, and measuring the serum p...

Polyglycine (polygly) is an important model system for understanding the structural preferences of unfolded polypeptides in solution. We utilized UV resonance and visible Raman spectroscopy to investigate the conformational preferences of polygly peptides of different lengths in water containing LiCl and LiClO(4). Lithium salts increase the solubility of polygly. Our study indicates that in sol...

The role of Helicobacter pylori infection in gastric cancer was evaluated in a high-risk population in Venezuela using serological assays in a study of 302 cases and 483 neighborhood controls. To investigate the claim that assays for H. pylori should use antigens derived from local strains, four different assays derived from Venezuelan and European strains were used. Prevalence of IgG H. pylori...

Atrophic gastritis (AG) is a well-recognized high-risk condition for developing gastric cancer (GC). Gastrin 17 (G17), a hormone secreted from antral G cells, regulates gastric acid secretion, and its serum level is a possible indicator of antral atrophy. Serum pepsinogen is well established as the indicator of AG involving the corpus. Here we investigated whether serum PG and G17 levels would ...

In the preceding communication, the molecular properties of pepsinogen in water and water-urea solutions were evaluated (1). In this report the rates of unfolding of pepsinogen as a function of pH and temperature in urea solutions are presented. A comparison can then be made between the influence of these variables on pepsinogen denaturation and the results of a similar study reported several y...

We investigated cholecystokinin (CCK) receptors on isolated gastric chief cells from guinea pig. CCK stimulated pepsinogen secretion from chief cells at the same efficacy as that induced by carbamylcholine. Binding of 125I-labeled CCK-33 (125I-CCK) to chief cells was temperature-dependent, and was saturable and reversible at 37 degrees C. Hofstee plots of the ability of CCK-8 to inhibit binding...