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Actin Affinity Chromatography in the Purification of Human, Avian and Other Mammalian Plasma Proteins Binding Vitamin D and Its Metabolites (Gc Globulins)

Actin Affinity Chromatography in the Purification of Human, Avian and Other Mammalian Plasma Proteins Binding Vitamin D and Its Metabolites (Gc Globulins)

J G Haddad, M A Kowalski, J W Sanger

Biochem J. 1984 Mar 15;218(3):805-10.

PMID: 6547042

Abstract:

The human plasma protein binding vitamin D and its metabolites (Gc globulin; group-specific component) has been isolated from human plasma by column affinity chromatography on gels to which monomeric actin was covalently attached. Rabbit skeletal-muscle G-actin was covalently coupled to amino-agarose gels before the application of human plasma. At actin/protein molar ratios of 4-8:1, excellent recovery (approximately 58%) of purified binding protein was achieved. After 0.75 M-NaCl washes, the binding protein was eluted from the columns in 3 M-guanidinium chloride, dialysed and analysed. These eluates contained the binding protein as 34-100% of the total protein, reflecting a 130-fold average purification in this single step. In the presence of Ca2+, gelsolin (another plasma protein that binds actin) was apparently retained by the affinity column, but this was prevented by chelation of plasma Ca2+. The actin affinity step also was effective in the isolation of the binding protein from rat, rabbit and chicken plasma, as indicated by autoradiographs of purified fractions analysed by gel electrophoresis after incubation with 25-hydroxy[26,27-3H]cholecalciferol. Further isolation by hydroxyapatite chromatography yielded a purified binding protein which displayed characteristic binding activity toward vitamin D metabolites and G-actin, and retained its physicochemical features. This brief purification sequence is relatively simple and efficient, and should prove to be useful to investigators studying this interesting plasma protein.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP68476368-A	Gc-globulin from human plasma		68476-36-8	Price

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