PURIFICATION OF CYSTEINE-RICH BIOACTIVE PEPTIDES FROM LEUKOCYTES BY CONTINUOUS ACID-UREA POLYACRYLAMIDE-GEL ELECTROPHORESIS

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作者
HARWIG, SSL [1 ]
CHEN, NP [1 ]
PARK, ASK [1 ]
LEHRER, RI [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES, WADSWORTH VET ADM HOSP, DEPT MED, LOS ANGELES, CA 90025 USA
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10.1006/abio.1993.1065
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Q5 [生物化学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A new continuous acid-urea-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (CAU-PAGE) preparative method was developed and used to purify rabbit and human defensins. With it, we identified two post-translationally modified forms of rabbit defensins NP-1 and NP-2, and purified a processed RANTES (β-intercrine) peptide from leukophoresed human leukocytes. CAU-PAGE afforded approximately 70% recovery of rabbit defensin NP-5. The recovered defensins were not N-terminally modified, and their in vitro antimicrobial activity was equivalent to that of defensins purified by previously described chromatographic methods. Since CAU-PAGE is performed under nonreducing conditions, it should be especially useful for purifying cationic peptides with intramolecular disulfide bonds, such as defensins and α or β-intercrines. © 1994 Academic Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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