Fluorescamine staining of nonhistone chromatin proteins as revealed by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
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Isolation of nucleolar proteins was obtained by dissociation in the presence of urea-guanidine hydrochloride, followed by high-speed centrifugation to remove nucleic acids. At least 31 fractions of nucleolar proteins were detected by isoelectrofocusing gel electrophoresis in pH range 3.5-10. Following two-dimensional gel electrophoresis on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide slab gels, more than 100 components of nucleolar proteins were identifieid. Two-thirds of nucleolar proteins were located in the pH range 5-8 following isoelectrofocusing. The molecular weights of these classes of proteins were shown to be mostly 30000-70000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
The myosin light chain composition of sheep interatrial and interventricular septa were analysed by one- and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel. The interventricular septum has myosin light chain composition indistinguishable from that of ventricular myosin. Myosin from the interatrial septum contains three light chains, two of which co-migrated with the two atrial light chains (ALC1 and ALC2), while the third co-migrated with ventricular light chain 2 (VLC2). ALC1 are more abundant than ALC2 or VLC2 suggesting a mixed myosin population. Myosin with ALC1 and VLC2 light chain composition may be present, and its possible relationship with cardiac "conducting" cells is discussed.
The level of biosynthesis and the composition of polyglycerophosphatides (phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidyglycerolphosphate, and diphosphatidylglycerol or cardiolipin) and phosphatidylinositols were examined in mitochondria and microsomes, respectively, isolated from neonatal and adult rat heart and liver. Biosynthesis of [3H]polyglycerophosphatides [( 3H]phosphatidylglycerol and [3H]phosphatidylglycerolphosphate) was 4.5 times higher in neonatal than in adult heart mitochondria, whereas in the respective liver mitochondria this synthesis was only 15% higher in neonatal mitochondria. The biosynthesis of [3H]phosphatidylinositol was twice as high in neonatal as in adult heart microsomes, but very similar in the respective liver microsomes. The major biosynthesized polyglycerophosphatide was [3H]phosphatidylglycerol. The accumulation of [3H]phosphatidylglycerolphosphate depended on the origin of the mitochondria. Under our experimental conditions [3H]phosphatidylinositol was the only synthesized phosphoinositide in all microsomes. The biosynthesis of cardiolipin depended on the origin of the mitochondria and was highest in adult rat liver mitochondria and lowest in adult heart mitochondria. In all cases the biosynthesized [14C,3H] cardiolipin from [14C]phosphatidylglycerol and [3H]CDP-diglycerides had a ratio of 14C/3H around unity. The biosynthesis of [3H]CDP-diglycerides, the key precursor for the biosynthesis of phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, and cardiolipin, was 30% higher in neonatal than in adult heart microsomes and very similar in the respective liver microsomes. The subcellular localization of the enzymes required for the biosynthesis of the lipids and liponucleotides examined was found to be the same in membranes isolated from neonatal and adult rat heart and liver.