Results of an immunoenzymetric assay (TANDEM-E CKMB) for creatine kinase (CK; EC 2.7.3.2) MB isoenzyme, in which subunit-specific monoclonal antibodies are used, were compared with those by an immunochemical method (Isomune-CK) and electrophoresis (Corning agarose gel). The study involved 200 patients; greater than 500 samples were analyzed by all three methods. The analytical performances were...

We read with a great pleasure the article ‘Rare ADH variant constellations are specific for alcohol dependence’ by Zuo et al. (2012). We want to direct the speciality about the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) isoenzyme nomenclature to the readers of Alcohol and Alcoholism. Namely, the authors use an old isoenzyme nomenclature what can cause some confusion to not enough familiar readers. Electrophor...

Myosin isoenzyme profiles of rat and chicken embryonic cardiac myocytes were studied during differentiation and growth in vitro by native-gel electrophoresis and assay of Ca2+-activated ATPase. The electrophoretic pattern of myosin extracted from 18-day-embryonic-rat myocytes after 7 days in culture exhibits three isoenzyme bands, V1, V2 and V3, of which the slow-migrating V3 is predominant. Th...

1. A procedure for the purification of the cytoplasmic isoenzyme of aspartate aminotransferase from sheep liver is described. 2. The purified isoenzyme shows a single component in the ultracentrifuge at pH7.6 and forms a single protein band on agar-gel electrophoresis at pH6.3 or 8.6, as well as when stained for protein or activity after polyacrylamide-gel or cellulose acetate electrophoresis a...

Soluble-protein and eight enzyme profiles obtained by polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis were compared between Meloidogyne incognita and M. arenaria. Esterase, malate dehydrogenase, and alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase patterns were distinctly characteristic for each species. Peroxidase and alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase isoenzyme patterns varied when nematodes were propagated on diff...

We present a method for preparing human liver lactate dehydrogenase (L-lactate:NAD+ oxidoreductase; EC 1.1.1.27) isoenzyme-5 by sequential ion-exchange chromatography, general-ligand (AMP analog) affinity chromatography, and preparative isoelectric focusing. The yield ws 40%, with a 493-fold purification. The final specific activity was 458 kU per gram of protein. The preparation contained less...

A novel immunochemical technique for a specific enzymic determination of the myocardial isoenzyme of creatine kinase, CK-MB, involves determination of B-subunit activity of a specimen in which the M-subunit activity has been inhibited by specific antibodies to the M-subunit. Interfering activities from CK-BB isoenzyme, atypical forms of creatine kinase, and adenylate kinase are eliminated by us...