A new phycocyanin（PC） fluorescent subunit namedβ_2（18kDa） was isolated and characterized by both SDS-PAGE and isoelectric focusing（IEF） from a species of cryptophytic alga Chroomonas placoidea.PC was separated ...A new phycocyanin（PC） fluorescent subunit namedβ_2（18kDa） was isolated and characterized by both SDS-PAGE and isoelectric focusing（IEF） from a species of cryptophytic alga Chroomonas placoidea.PC was separated and purified by ammonium sulfate sedimentation followed by two steps of Sephadex G-100 chromatography.After denatured in 4 mol/L urea for 48 h,PC was divided into two fractions by passing through a Sephacryl S-100 chromatography column twice.The blue fraction（S-1） containedβsubunits with a maximal absorbance at 595 nm in visible light region.While the green fraction（S-2） enriched inαsubunits showed a characteristic long wavelength absorbance at 680-700 nm region and exhibited a relatively low molecular weight of 9.4（α_1） and 8.5 kDa（α_2）.Fraction S-1 also consisted of two different fluorescent subunits with molecular weight of 20.1 kDa（β_1） and 18 kDa （β_2） and differed from each other on isoelectric points of pH 5.7（ft） and 6.0（ft）,respectively.Further investigation of peptide sequence will help a lot in elucidating the new subunit ft that was smaller in size and more neutral than the known ft subunit,and may provide an alternative explanation in structure of cryptophytic phycobiliproteins.展开更多
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文摘A new phycocyanin（PC） fluorescent subunit namedβ_2（18kDa） was isolated and characterized by both SDS-PAGE and isoelectric focusing（IEF） from a species of cryptophytic alga Chroomonas placoidea.PC was separated and purified by ammonium sulfate sedimentation followed by two steps of Sephadex G-100 chromatography.After denatured in 4 mol/L urea for 48 h,PC was divided into two fractions by passing through a Sephacryl S-100 chromatography column twice.The blue fraction（S-1） containedβsubunits with a maximal absorbance at 595 nm in visible light region.While the green fraction（S-2） enriched inαsubunits showed a characteristic long wavelength absorbance at 680-700 nm region and exhibited a relatively low molecular weight of 9.4（α_1） and 8.5 kDa（α_2）.Fraction S-1 also consisted of two different fluorescent subunits with molecular weight of 20.1 kDa（β_1） and 18 kDa （β_2） and differed from each other on isoelectric points of pH 5.7（ft） and 6.0（ft）,respectively.Further investigation of peptide sequence will help a lot in elucidating the new subunit ft that was smaller in size and more neutral than the known ft subunit,and may provide an alternative explanation in structure of cryptophytic phycobiliproteins.
