PubMed · 9569737
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S Ohsawa. 1998. [Urinary proteins. a. Quantitative analysis and its standardization].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9569737/
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A photosystem II preparation from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus, which is especially suitable for three-dimensional crystallization in a fully active form was developed. The efficient purification method applied here yielded 10 mg of protein of a homogenous dimeric complex of about 500 kDa within 2 days. Detailed characterization of the preparation demonstrated a fully active electron transport chain from the manganese cluster to plastoquinone in the Q(B) binding site. The oxygen-evolving activity, 5000-6000 micromol of O(2)/(h.mg of chlorophyll), was the highest so far reported and is maintained even at temperatures as high as 50 degrees C. The crystals obtained by the vapor diffusion method diffracted to a resolution of 4.3 A. The space group was determined to be P2(1)2(1)2(1) with four photosystem II dimers per unit cell. Analysis of the redissolved crystals revealed that activity, supramolecular organization, and subunit composition were maintained during crystallization.
For laboratories involved in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) analyses in environmental samples, it is very useful to participate in interlaboratory comparison studies which provide a mechanism for comparing analytical methods. This is particularly important when PAH analyses are routinely done using a single technique. The results are reported for such an interlaboratory comparison study, in which the four selected participating laboratories quantitatively analyzed several PAH compounds in diesel exhaust samples. The samples included particle and vapor phase extracts collected and prepared at Michigan Technological University (MTU PE and MTU VE, respectively), a diesel particle extract prepared by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST, SRM 1975), and a fully characterized diesel particle sample (NIST SRM 1650). One of the laboratories used only HPLC-FLD, one used only GC/MS and two laboratories used both methods for the routine analysis of PAH in environmental samples. Data were obtained for five PAH compounds: fluoranthene, pyrene, benz[a]anthracene, benzo[a]pyrene, and benzo[g, h,i]perylene. The mean PAH levels found for SRM 1650 were outside the range reported by NIST. The range in the reported means was from 24% lower than certified for benz[a]anthracene to 41% higher for benzo[g,h,i]perylene. For the previously uncharacterized samples in this study (SRM 1975, MTU PE and MTU VE), two-thirds of the reported results were higher for the HPLC-FLD method than for the GC/MS. The range in differences between methods was from-54 to+31% calculated as the difference in GC/MS value relative to the HPLC value for each of the compared compounds. Coefficients of variation for the uncharacterized samples appeared to be higher, in most (but not all) cases, for the HPLC-FLD than for the GC/MS. The resolution of certain PAH isomers (e.g. benz[a]anthracene and chrysene, or the benzofluoranthenes), was better, as expected, for HPLC than for GC. Generally lower detection limits (by an order of magnitude or more) were reported for GC/MS than for HPLC-FLD. On the basis of this limited study, it seems as though significant differences may exist between laboratories, if not between methods, in the analysis of certain PAH compounds in real diesel samples by HPLC-FLD compared to GC/MS. If possible, measurements should be made using both methods. This is particularly important where potential interferences are undefined or subject to change, as is frequently the case with real environmental samples.
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