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Isolation, Identification, and Purification of Murine Thymic Epithelial Cells
Published on: August 8, 2014
Simultaneous isolation and determination of prothymosin alpha, parathymosin alpha, thymosin beta 4, and thymosin beta
Abstract:
A method was described for the isolation of peptides from rat thymus. Frozen, powdered tissue was suspended in boiling buffer to inactivate endogenous proteinases, the suspension was homogenized, and the peptides were isolated by a two-step procedure including gel filtration and purification by HPLC. The recoveries from rat thymus were, in micrograms per gram of whole tissue, 60-80 for prothymosin alpha, 50-80 for thymosin beta 4, and 20-30 for thymosin beta 10. The procedure also yielded smaller quantities of a fourth peptide, designated parathymosin alpha. The quantities of these peptides in vertebrate tissues can be evaluated by applying radioimmunoassays for prothymosin alpha and thymosin beta 4 to the boiled tissue extract.
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