Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Journal of neurochemistry
26 (1976), S. 0
ISSN:
1471-4159
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract— The purification of choline acetyltransferase (ChAc) has been hampered by the increasing instability of the enzyme in the course of purification. By working with a high concentration of protein and by adding glycerol to the enzyme, the stability was increased. The purification was performed by centrifuging twice, at low and high salt concentrations, precipitation by ammonium sulphate and chromatography on carboxymethyl–Sephadex, hydroxylapatite and Sephadex G 100. The final steps were performed by using chromatography on an immunoabsorbent; this consists of agarose-coupled gammaglobulins of antisera devoid of any activity against ChAc itself and directed against other proteins still present in the purest ChAc preparation achieved by conventional biochemical techniques. The purest rat brain ChAc preparation had a specific activity of 20 μmol/min/mg of protein after a 30,000-fold purification. The enzyme was not homogeneous in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis performed either at pH 4.5 or with sodium dodecyl sulphate. Pure ChAc from rat brain would have a specific activity of approximately 100 μmol/min/mg of protein.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1976.tb01509.x
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