ISSN:
0173-0835
Schlagwort(e):
Breast biopsy
;
Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
;
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor
;
Liver biopsy
;
Breast cell line
;
Chemistry
;
Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Quelle:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Thema:
Biologie
,
Chemie und Pharmazie
Notizen:
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is an ubiquitous protein playing various immunological and hormonal roles. Theoretical electrophoretic coordinates calculated from protein sequence in the SWISS-PROT database (AC P14174) are 12 kDa and pI 8.24. Using two-dimensional (2-D) immunoblotting, we have detected isoelectric forms at ca. 11.9 kDa, with pI values of 7.8 and 6.98 in human liver tissue, breast tissue and a cell line and in preparations of human MIF expressed in E. coli. This evidence suggests that MIF charge heterogeneity originates from a post-translational modification not requiring euka-ryote-specific enzymes. We have also detected in human liver a minor immunoreactive spot at pI 6.23, which coincides with the MIF spot in the liver map in SWISS-2DPAGE. The pI 6.23 isoform also conceivably derives from post-translational modification, as MIF is known to be encoded in the human genome by a single copy gene.
Zusätzliches Material:
2 Ill.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/elps.1150191120
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