norepinephrine turnover in rat brain during chronic administration of imipramine and protriptyline: a possible explanation for the delay in onset of clinical antidepressant Effects of thyrotropin-releasing hormone, norepinephrine and acetylcholine on the activity of neurons in the hypothalamus, septum and cerebral cortex of the rat. TRH immunoreactivity in rat hypothalamus and brain: Assessment...

Two novel antibiotics, catacandin A and catacandin B, were isolated from the fermentation broth of the bacterium, Lysobacter gummosus, by extraction and adsorption, reverse-phase and gel filtration chromatography. On the basis of their physico-chemical properties, they are acyltetramic acids that are easily distinguishable from others in this class. Catacandin A and catacandin B possess good an...

A murine B16 melanoma-associated antigen was detected and partially purified from spent culture medium and intracellular material. The antigen was also purified and partially characterized from the detergent extract of cells cultured in the presence of [3H]glucosamine done or together with [‘4C]leucine. During purification, the melanoma-associated antigen activity was monitored by a double anti...

The aim of this study was production and partial purification of α-amylase enzyme by Bacillus licheniformis. B. Licheniformis was allowed to grow in broth culture for purpose of inducing α-amylase enzyme. Optimal conditions for amylase production by B. Licheniformis are incubation period of 120 h, temperature of 37 °C and pH 7.0. The α-amylase enzyme was purified by ion exchange chromatography ...

A type of ligninolytic enzyme was produced in the culture supernatant of Fomitopsis pinicola mycelia. The laccase was purified by ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose FF, gel filtration chromatography on Superdex 200 pg, and HIC chromatography on Phenyl FF from the culture supernatant of F. pinicola. The molecular weight of the enzyme was 92 kDa as determined by SDS-PAGE and gel filtra...

The precipitin reaction has been used to locate serum proteins separated by thin-layer gel filtration on Sephadex G-200, thereby greatly increasing the sensitivity of the method. A pattern of lines reminiscent of immunoelectrophoresis is produced, but the proteins are separated in order of their molecular size and not in accordance with their electrical charge.

Using a modification of the radioenzymic assay described previously (J Biol Chem 259: 2360-2364, 1984) we measured homocysteine in freshly prepared plasma and urine from volunteers. The concentration of free homocysteine--i.e., the amount measurable in plasma after deproteinization by strong acid--was 2.27 (SEM 0.11) mumol/L for 18 men and 1.95 (SEM 0.13) mumol/L for 16 women (p greater than 0....

TR-b is a Reiter treponeme antigen, cross-reacting with an antigen in Treponema pallidum (Nichols pathogenic strain). Sera from patients with secondary syphilis contain precipitating antibodies against TR-b. The isolation of TR-b from a bacterial sonic extract is described here. It involved five fractionation steps: anion-exchange chromatography (DE-52 Whatman), gel filtration (Ac-A-22 Ultrogel...

An acid lipase was purified from rat liver lysosomes. Lipase purification involved affinity chromatography, gel filtration, and stabilization of the purified preparation using ethylene glycol and Triton X-100. A molecular weight of 67,000-69,000 was determined independently using density gradient centrifugation, sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and gel filtration. To s...

Using gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and column chromatography on CM-cellulose, fractions containing either endogenous acceptor of L-fucose or fucosyltransferase were obtained from human parotid saliva. Hydrolysis with mild acid followed by Smith degradation increased the fucosyltransferase activity of the fractions that contained endogeneous acceptor.