A flow cytometry-based, ultrasensitive fluorescence detection technique is used to size individual DNA fragments up to 167 kb in length. Application of this technology to the sizing of P1 artificial chromosomes (PACs) in both linear and supercoiled forms is described. It is demonstrated that this method is well suited to characterizing PAC/BAC clones and will be very useful for the analysis of ...

calpastatin (cast) is a specific inhibiter of calpains, playing a role in meat tenderization and myogenesis. in the present study, the polymorphism of the cast gene of makoei sheep was investigated by polymerase chain reaction and single strand conformation polymorphism technique (pcr–sscp). genomic dna was extracted from whole blood samples collected from 100 sheep. a 622 bp cast exon 1 segmen...

We were interested in the recent report by Kelly et al1 that FLT3 internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD) mutations, while sufficient to induce a chronic myeloproliferative disease in a murine bone marrow transplant (BMT) assay, were not sufficient to induce an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) phenotype. These data suggest that FLT3-ITDs may require additional cooperating mutations to generate the A...

Characterization of blood proteins for clinical purposes was initiated in the middle of the nineteenth century and serum protein electrophoresis was first developed in the 1930s by a Swedish biochemist Arne Tiselius. Today, clinical analysis of human serum proteins by the electrophoretic method that evolved from the original fluid method of Tiselius, through paper electrophoresis, cellulose ace...

Some physicochemical properties of calfskin pepsin-solubilized collagen (PSC) and succinylated PSC (SPSC) were compared. The amino acid profile remained significantly unchanged. Sodium dodecylsulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that subunits of SPSC migrated less than those of PSC. The denaturation temperatures of PSC and SPSC were 38.4 degrees C and 34.7 degrees C respectively. ...

Capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) and immuno-subtraction electrophoresis (ISE) were evaluated for ability to detect and immunotype monoclonal proteins, compared with agarose gel electrophoresis (AGE) and immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE), respectively. Six hundred seventeen serum samples were analyzed with CZE and AGE to determine sensitivity and specificity in detecting IFE-confirmed mon...

We explored the mechanism of the development from sensitivity to resistance to carbapenem in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Two P. aeruginosa strains were collected during treatment with carbapenem. Strain homology was investigated using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Porin oprD2 expression was analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The minimum inhibitory ...