An isocratic reversed-phase high-pressure liquid chromatographic method for the determination of six components of the teicoplanin complex in biological fluid was developed. By using fluorescence detection after precolumn derivatization with fluorescamine, the assay is specific and highly sensitive, with reproducibility studies yielding coefficients of variation ranging from 1.5 to 8.5% (at 5 t...

Platelet factor 4 (PF4), a secreted platelet protein, alleviates concanavalin A-induced immunosuppression in mice. We now find that activity also resides in (i) the C-terminal tridecapeptide of PF4 (P13S), (ii) an analog of this in which arginine replaces the lysine residues and in which the last two amino acids are absent, (iii) the C-terminal 18 amino acids of low-affinity platelet factor 4, ...

1974); (4) decrease in oxidative phosphorylation by the same cells; (5 ) activity only when added to the blood side of the toad bladder and peritubular surface of the isolated nephrone segment. We have found natriuretic factor to be present in greatly increased quantities in both blood and urine in uraemia; hence its rate of production must be increased in uraemia. Moreover, the natriuretic res...

Transbilayer phosphatidylethanolamine (PtdEtn) movements in the plasma membrane of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are regulated by an ATP-dependent, protein-mediated process(es). To examine whether this process is influenced by the actin cytoskeleton, we have studied the PtdEtn translocation in S. cerevisiae cells after treatment with microfilament disrupting and microtubule-disrupting agents. PtdEtn...

Staining of blot membranes enables the visualization of bound proteins. Proteins are usually transferred to blot membranes by electroblotting, by direct spotting of protein solutions, or by contact blots. Staining allows the efficiency of transfer to the membrane to be monitored. This unit describes protocols for staining proteins after electroblotting from polyacrylamide gels to blot membranes...

An uncontrolled used of antibiotics and sulphonamides is responsible for the presence of residues in beehive products and contributes to the problem of food safety. The optimisation of analytical methods for the detection of residues of antibacterial drugs (sulphonamides, SPs; tylosin, TL; streptomycin, ST) in honey was pursued and the methods applied to routine samples. ST was investigated by ...

The antimicrobial lysozyme (Lys) was electrostatically incorporated to negatively charged crosslinked poly(glycidyl methacrylate) (c-PGMA) macromolecular assemblies. resulting material characterized by AFM, infrared spectra, water contact angle measurements and the staining with primary amino specific dye fluorescamine. c-PGMA nanoparticles were successfully loaded Lys reaching ratios of 27.3 ±...