On electrophoretic resolution and densitometric determination of apo-transferrin and iron-bound transferrin

Reliability of transferrin and leucine aminopeptidase phenotyping in wild meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus)

Replicate plasma samples from wild Microtus pennsylvanicus were typed by gradient polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the transferrin and leucine aminopeptidase polymorphisms. Phenotypes remained the same through major seasonal changes in reproductive activity and environmental conditions. Possible explanations for the anomalous phenotypic variation seen in Microtus ochrogaster [McGovern M., and Tracy, C. R. (1981). Oecologia 51:276] are discussed.

The isoelectric fractionation of hen's-egg ovotransferrin

1. Hen ovotransferrin was examined by isoelectric fractionation. 2. The major component observed in starch-gel electrophoresis can be isolated from the minor component. 3. When non-saturating amounts of iron are added to ovotransferrin, isoelectric fractionation demonstrates the existence of three molecular species corresponding to the metal-free protein, the one-iron-atom-protein complex and the two-iron-atoms-protein complex. 4. Isoelectric fractionation of human serum labelled with (59)Fe suggests that the transferrin of normal human serum also exists as metal-free protein, the one-iron-atom-protein complex and the two-iron-atoms-protein complex. 5. It is concluded that the binding constants for the first and second iron atoms are similar.