The heat-shock 70 protein (Hsp70) chaperone family is very conserved and its prokaryotic homologue, the DnaK protein, is assumed to form one of the cellular systems for the prevention and restoration of heat-induced protein denaturation. By using anti-DnaK antibodies we purified the DnaK homologue heat-shock cognate protein (Hsc70) from calf thymus to apparent homogeneity. This protein was clas...

In 2.5 x 10(-4)M EDTA buffer, the derivative melting curve of calf thymus DNA shows a major band at 47 degrees with a shoulder at about 54 degrees . The fraction of melting area of this shoulder is about 13%. For reconstituted polylysine-calf thymus DNA complexes, in addition to the melting of free DNA regions at about 50 degrees (T(m)) there is another melting at about 106 degrees (T(m)) of po...

Reverse transcriptase was purified from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It utilized the artificial primer-template poly(rA)-oligo(dT)12-18 more efficiently than activated calf thymus DNA, poly(rI)-oligo(dC)12-18, poly(rC)-oligo(dG)12-18, or poly(rCm)-oligo(dG)12-18. Maximum activity was observed at pH 7.0 to 7.6 in the presence of 5 mM MgCl2 and 100 mM KCl. 3'-Azido-3'-deoxythymidine tripho...

Nicotinic acid and niacinamide are used in a variety of therapeutic application as important components of the co-factors, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate. Decreasing the adverse effects will improve the stability and absorption of nicotinic acid. Nicotinic acid aspartic acid dipeptide and tetrapeptide were synthesized via Fmoc solid-phase synth...

The changes that one observes upon the addition of CH3HgOH in the circular dichroism spec­ trum and ultraviolet absorbance spectrum of native calf thymus DNA, dissolved in buffered (pH 6.8) solutions of Na2S04 at pNa 2.0, 1.5, 1.0, and 0.0, respectively (pNa= —log [Na+]), are shown to be due to denaturation brought about by the organomercurial interacting with the base moieties of the polymer. ...

Mammalian cells contain two DNA ligase activities with different chromatographic properties, referred to as DNA ligase I and II. The major ligase activity present in calf thymus cell extracts, DNA ligase I, has been purified 1000-fold. After repeated injections of this enzyme with complete Freund's adjuvant into a rabbit, antibodies were induced that inhibit DNA ligase I from calf, human, mouse...

The fluorescence spectral characteristics and the interaction of several water-soluble metal complexes of Schiff-base with DNA are described. Among the complexes tested, Mn-Schiff-base bound to DNA showed a marked decrease in the fluorescence intensity with a blue shift of the excitation and emission peaks. Some hypochromism in the UV absorption spectra was also observed. KI quenching and compe...

New naphthacenecarboxamide antibiotics, TAN-1518 A and B, were isolated from a culture broth of Streptomyces sp. AL-16012. Their structures were elucidated from their reactions and from spectroscopic analyses. The relaxation of supercoiled pBR322 DNA by calf thymus DNA topoisomerase I was inhibited by these metabolites as potently as by camptothecin. However, the decatenation of kinetoplast DNA...

The thermal denaturation profiles of Calf Thymus DNA in the presence of binuclear compounds of bivalent platinum (cis-[{Pt(NH3)2Cl}2Pyr]Cl2) were studied by absorption spectrophotometry and differential adiabatic scanning microcalorimetry. A comparison with an active antitumor drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (cis-DDP) was made. Experimental data witness that small concentrations (r<0.3) of bi...