In studies on muscular dystrophy in young individuals investigations of the urine were made along three lines, as follows: (a) the estimation of creatinine and creatine, according to Folin (1) and Benedict (2) respectively; (b) the study as to whether the creatine findings include other substances than creatine; (c) the possibility that in muscular dystrophy guanidine intoxication plays a promi...

The synthesis of hyaluronic acid by cultured chondrocytes from the Swarm rat chondrosarcoma was examined using [3H]glucosamine as a precursor. [3H]Hyaluronate in samples was estimated as the specific unsaturated disaccharide released by incubation with chondroitinase ABC under conditions where all [3H]hyaluronate was converted to disaccharide even in the presence of excess chondroitin sulfate. ...

Inhibition of HeLa cell deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis, which occurred by the 4th to 5th hr after infection with poliovirus, could be blocked completely by guanidine only when it was present before the 2nd hr. At the 2nd hr, there was no significant ribonucleic acid (RNA)-replicase activity, and addition of guanidine inhibited all production of virus but allowed 57% of maximal DNA inhibi...

Chicken 7.1S immunoglobulin was purified from whole chicken serum by DEAE-cellulose chromatography and Sephadex G-200 gel filtration. The macroglobulin was purified by a combination of salt precipitation and Sephadex G-200 gel filtration. Both immunoglobulin molecules yielded 75% heavy (H) chains and 25% light (L) chains when subjected to extensive reduction and alkylation followed by gel filtr...

Experiments were conducted to determine the influence of basal lamina on the morphology of ovarian granulosa cells in vitro. Pure and intact basal lamina was isolated from the large preovulatory follicles of the chicken ovary and designated basal lamina of avian ovarian follicle (BLAOF). Examination of the isolated basal lamina with electron microscope revealed an ultrastructure that is similar...

The z-average molecular weight of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase in dilute neutral buffer is 78,200 by sedimentation equilibrium. Guanidine hydrochloride, 1 M, reversibly inhibits enzymatic activity. The inhibition with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide is competitive and with ethanol is mixed. When ethylenediaminetetraacetate is added to the enzyme in 1 M guanidine hydrochloride, zinc is re...

Prior studies of the viscosity of the subunit proteoglycan obtained by dissociative extraction of bovine nasal septum cartilage suggested that the proteoglycan subunit molecule behaves as a rigid rod in aqueous solution over the range of 0.5 to 4.0 M guanidine hydrochloride. A more direct view of dimension and shape can be obtained from light-scattering and viscosity of bovine nasal cartilage p...

Background: The purpose of this study was to clone, express, and purify a novel multidomain fusion protein of Micobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in a prokaryotic system. Methods: An hspX/esxS gene construct was synthesized and ligated into a pGH plasmid, E. coli TOP10 cells were transformed, and the vector was purified. The vector containing the construct and pET-21b (+) plasmid were digested ...