Three alkaline RNases were purified from human pancreatic juice to near homogeneity as judged by sodium dodecyl sulfate and native polyacrylamide gel electrophoreses. The molecular weights of these RNases determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis were 27,000, 19,000, and 13,000. The activities of these three RNases were increased by addition of Mg2+, Ca2+, Co2+, K+, Na+, spermine, an...

The difficulties associated with the isolation of pure C1q in sufficient amounts are reflected by the substantial number of isolation procedures, which are being published. The two major problems are a low yield and contaminating immunoglobulins. In addition, some isolation protocols appear to produce C1q contaminated with an inhibitor (C1q-INH). The present isolation protocol involves precipit...

To verify whether cancer procoagulant (CP), a cysteine proteinase procoagulant distinct from tissue factor (TF), is associated with leukemic cells, we assayed the procoagulant activity of blast cell extracts from 26 patients with different cytological subtypes of acute nonlymphoid leukemia (ANLL) according to the French-American-British classification. All the samples except two shortened the r...

The activity of S-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) dehydratase. an enzyme involved in heme biosynthesis. has been shown to increase in Friend virus-transformed murine erythroleukemia (MEL) cells during erythroid differentiation. In this study. the nature of the increase in ALA dehydratase activity in MEL cells was examined using a monospecific antibody directed to the enzyme. A sevenfold increase in A...

our synthetic ape C-il (46-58) gave a negative response when tested with purified native apolipoprotein C-fl. Double iminunodiffusion (Ouchterlony technique) of antibodies against our synthetic ape E (141-155) gave a positive immunoprecipitation line with Purified apolipoprotein E, which showed a partial identity with those obtained with polyclonal antibodies raised against the native protein. ...

Dissociation indices of Pasteurella pestis strains. Observations on viable cell numbers and the morphology of colonies isolated from suspensions of P. pestis strains Poona, 139L, 53,2 and 623 were made by the method described by Eisler et al. (1958). Generation time studies. Subcultures of smooth and nonsmooth colonial variants were made in 100-ml amounts of heart infusion broth (HIB, Difco) wh...

A rapid and precise assay for neuraminidase using 2-(3'-methoxyphenyl)-N-acetyl-alpha-neuraminic acid (MPN) is described. It is proposed that this substrate be used for the standardization of activity of neuraminidases from viral, bacterial, and mammalian sources. MPN is also used as a chromogenic substrate to localize influenza and parainfluenza virus foci in tissue culture. This technique per...

We report the establishment of a phylogenetic relationship between the sterol-nonrequiring mycoplasmas (Acholeplasma species) and streptococci. Three specific antisera prepared against purified Streptococcus faecalis fructose diphosphate aldolase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and Pediococcus cerevisiae glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase were used for comparative enzyme immu...

A radioimmunoassay for antibody to Candida albicans is described. The test used whole, killed organisms as the antigen and radiolabelled sheep anti-human globulins to quantitate different classes of antibody to C. albicans. The assay has been compared with an Ouchterlony precipitin method and found to be simpler, more rapid, and more sensitive than the latter. Results obtained from two groups o...

King, Sylvia (Hektoen Institute, Chicago, Ill.) and Esther Meyer. Gel diffusion technique in antigen-antibody reactions of Actinomyces species and "anaerobic diphtheroids." J. Bacteriol. 85:186-190. 1963.-The Ouchterlony agar gel diffusion test was used to establish antigenic patterns produced by Actinomyces israelii, A. bovis, and A. naeslundii, as compared with those of "anaerobic diphtheroid...