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Hydrogel Nanoparticle Harvesting of Plasma or Urine for Detecting Low Abundance Proteins
Published on: August 7, 2014
Endogenous natriuretic factors 3: isolation and characterization of human natriuretic factors LLU-alpha, LLU-beta 1,
E D Murray1, D Kantoci, S A DeWind
1Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, CA 92350, USA.
Abstract:
A low molecular weight endogenous substance believed to be responsible for extracellular fluid homeostasis in mammals has been sought for many years. Our goal is to isolate and structurally characterize this putative "natriuretic hormone." We have developed an assay using the conscious rat to measure prolonged natriuresis (Benaksas et al (1993) Life Sciences, 52, 1045-1054), the activity originally described for this putative substance. Using this assay we have identified a number of natriuretic compounds isolated from human uremic urine. The collected urine is processed by ultrafiltration (< or = 3 kDa), gel filtration chromatography (G-25) and extraction with isopropanol and diethyl ether. The organic soluble material is then subjected to sequential high-performance liquid chromatography. We report here the initial characterization of two pure isolates (LLU-alpha and LLU-gamma) obtained by this method, and the structural elucidation of a third pure compound, LLU-beta 1, a natriuretic and previously unreported metabolite of the drug diltiazem.
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