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  • Title: Enzyme immunoassay of calpain I and calpastatin and its application to the analysis of human erythrocyte hemolysate.
    Author: Takano E, Kitahara A, Kannagi R, Murachi T.
    Journal: J Appl Biochem; 1984 Jun; 6(3):117-25. PubMed ID: 6094468.
    Abstract:
    A highly sensitive sandwich enzyme immunoassay for a Ca2+-dependent cysteine proteinase (calpain I) and its specific endogenous inhibitor protein (calpastatin) was developed. The calpain I and calpastatin used as immunogens were purified from human erythrocytes. Anti-calpastatin antisera having sufficiently high titer were obtained only when the immunogen was purified by preparative sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The assay method was principally based on the report by M. Imagawa et al. (1982, J. Appl. Biochem. 4, 41-57), using a specific antibody-coated polystyrene ball and horseradish peroxidase-conjugated Fab' fragment of the antibody. The sensitivity was 0.1 ng of calpain I or calpastatin per assay tube. Starting with 50 microliter of the hemolysate from human erythrocytes, the method permitted direct and simultaneous determination of calpain I and calpastatin, without prior separation of these two enzymatically counteracting components by chromatography. The present method as applied to the erythrocytes from 14 healthy adults gave 120-170 micrograms for calpain I and 164-211 micrograms for calpastatin per gram of hemoglobin, respectively.
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