The lipoprotein-associated coagulation inhibitor (LACI) has been isolated from human plasma using a combination of hydrophobic, ion-exchange, and affinity chromatography. The final purification required was greater than 500,000-fold with a yield of 13%. Plasma LACI, on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, contains major bands at 40 and 46 kDa and minor bands at 55, 65, 75,...

A guanidinium chloride extract of [3H]glucosamine- and [35S]methionine-labeled virions plus dense bodies of human cytomegalovirus (Towne) was separated by reverse-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the eluate revealed the major peak to be a glycoprotein with a relative mass of 64,000. This glycoprotein (HCMVgp64) was character...

We applied a simple sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis method to urine. The method, developed for serum protein analysis (Clin Chem 1984;30:475-9), has a high sample throughput and gives excellent resolution with unconcentrated urine. It clearly distinguishes and characterizes proteinuric urine (7.5 microL) by Coomassie Blue staining and gives complex silver-stained patte...

Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus RNA directs the synthesis in vitro of its coat protein in a wheat germ cell-free extract. Optimum conditions for synthesis have been defined, and the effect of spermine on specifically enhancing coat protein formation has been examined. Identity between the in vitro synthesized coat protein and authentic coat protein of Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus was established by an...

A total of 17 B. burgdorferi isolates from various sources were characterized by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell proteins, restriction enzyme analysis, Southern hybridization with probes complementary to unique regions of evolutionarily conserved genes (16S rRNA and fla), and direct sequencing of in vitro polymerase chain reaction-amplified fragments of t...

Interferon produced by human diploid fibroblast cells in culture has been purified approximately 5000-fold. The purified interferon, when analyzed by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gel containing sodium dodecyl sulfate, contains only one polypeptide component of 20,000 molecular weight. The interferon activity comigrates with this polypeptide, indicating identity of the activity and the poly...

Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (PAGE) is both an analytical and preparative tool widely used in protein analysis. Proteins are separated by PAGE in an electric field according to their size, shape and charge both in their native configuration (native PAGE) or in the presence of denaturing agents such as the ionic detergent sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS-PAGE). A third type of electrophoretic t...

Incubation of UDP-N-acetyl[3H]glucosamine with purified inner membrane preparations of a mutant (UDPgalactose-4-epimeraseless and glucosamine-6-phosphate synthetaseless) Escherichiu coli 0111-B4 results in the incorporation of N-acetyl[3H]glucosamine into two components, A and B, that may be distinguished by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. A contain...

Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of nuclear non-histone proteins extracted with 0.15 and 0.30 M NaCl from human normal lymphocytes or leukemic leukocytes indicated a lack of bands in the highermolecular-weight regions of the gels. However, the corre sponding fractions from phytohemagglutinin-stimulated lymphocytes and Burkitt lymphoma cells did contain highmolecul...

We have previously demonstrated the isolation of platelet membrane glycoprotein lIb-Illa by affinity chromatography with a specific monoclonal antibody.1 We have now separated the polypeptide subunits lIb and lIla of the isolated glycoprotein by preparative sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and have compared their structural features. Both llb and lIla contain -.1 5% car...