1. Partial characterization of 21.5K myelin basic protein from sheep brain.
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Carnegie PR and Dowse CA
- Subjects
- Amino Acids analysis, Animals, Cyanogen Bromide, Molecular Weight, Myelin Basic Protein isolation & purification, Peptides analysis, Trypsin, Brain Chemistry, Myelin Basic Protein analysis, Sheep metabolism
- Abstract
The 21,500 molecular weight (21.5K) variant of myelin basic protein (MBP) was isolated from sheep brain and partially characterized. Digestion with cyanogen bromide and trypsin yielded peptides which showed that approximately 30 additional amino acids were inserted at the equivalent of the amino acid at position 57 in the bovine 18.5K MBP sequence. An unusually hydrophobic peptide Pro, Val, Leu, Trp, Lys was present in this region. Ornithine was present in hydrolyzates of 21.5K MBP, but it was not detected in any of the peptides.
- Published
- 1984
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