Separation of some biogenic amines via RP-HPLC using mixed micellar mobile phase was investigated. The compounds were derivatized before hand by dansyl chloride as a chromophoric reagent. Appropriate conditions for separation, were determined by studying factors such as temperature, type and percentage of organic modifier, concentration of surfactants (SDS and Brij-35) and the pH of the mobile ...

A systematic approach to selection of surfactants for disrupting biological membranes, for solubilizing their components, and for removing the surfactant by dialysis is described. The two relevant surfactant parameters were the critical micelle concentration (CMC) and the hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB). Rat liver mitochondria were treated with two series of nonionic surfactants and the exte...

The platelet integrin, α IIb β $ (GPIIb-IIIa), and the tetraspanin, CD9, are integral membrane proteins that are abundant in platelet membranes. We have identified several proteins, including CD9, which were co-precipitated by anti-α IIb β $ antibody from untreated, resting platelets that were solubilized with the poly(oxyethylene) non-ionic detergent, Brij-35. Immunoblot and quantitative immun...

HL-A antigen solubilized with the non-ionic detergent, Brij 99, has been purified to about 50% of homogeneity from a cultured human lymphoblast line. It consists of two nonidentical subunits of 44,000 and 12,000 molecular weight (MW). Upon papain proteolysis the 44,000 MW peptide is converted by at least two cleavages to a 34,000 MW peptide, but the 12,000 MW peptide appears to be unchanged. Co...

A spectrofluorometric method is described for the determination of germanium(IV) based on its complexation reaction with quercetin in presence of Brij-35. The fluorescence is monitored at 552 nm with excitation at 432 nm. The pH, quercetin and Brij-35 concentrations were optimized simultaneously using the response surface methodology from sequential experimental three-variable Doehlert designs....

Separation of some biogenic amines via RP-HPLC using mixed micellar mobile phase was investigated. The compounds were derivatized before hand by dansyl chloride as a chromophoric reagent. Appropriate conditions for separation, were determined by studying factors such as temperature, type and percentage of organic modifier, concentration of surfactants (SDS and Brij-35) and the pH of the mob...

As an IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Distinguished Lecturer (DL), last December, John Deere Technical Fellow Dr. Brij N. Singh, also Fellow, was on a lecture tour of India, invited by joint & Energy Society/Industry Applications Society/Power (PES/IAS/PELS) Chapters at Bombay, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Delhi sections, India.

Lipid rafts are plasma-membrane microdomains that are enriched in certain lipids (sphingolipids, glycosphingolipids and cholesterol), as well as in lipid-modified proteins. Rafts appear to exist in the liquid-ordered phase, which contributes to their partitioning from the surrounding liquid-disordered glycerophospholipid environment. DRM (detergent-resistant membrane) fractions isolated from ce...

We have suggested that adenine-related compounds are allosteric inhibitors of UGT in rat liver microsomes (RLM) treated with detergent. To clarify whether the same occurs with a pore-forming peptide, alamethicin, the effects of adenine-related compounds on 4-metylumbelliferone (4-MU) glucuronidation were examined using RLM and human liver microsomes (HLM). ATP inhibited 4-MU glucuronidation whe...