Isolation and purification of the extracellular ribonuclease from Physarum polycephalum
β Scribed by Farr, D. R. ;Amster, H. ;Horisberger, M.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1972
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Volume
- 85
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-9276
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β¦ Synopsis
The myxomycete Physarum polyeephalum has been reported to produce an extracellular ribonuclease. A quick procedure is described for the isolation and purification of the ribonuclease from the culture supernatant. It involves an initial concentration of the culture supernatant by slow freezing, followed by ammonium sulfate precipitation. The enzyme was adsorbed onto DEAE-cellulose and eluted with a sodium chloride gradient.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Plasmodia of the true slime molds Physarum polycephalum and Physarum nudum were grown on agar semidefined medium (J. W. Daniel and H. Baldwin (1964) in Methods in Cell Physiology (Precsott, D. M., Ed.), Vol. 1, pp. 9-44, Academic Press, New York.) and pigments were extracted from 8-day-old plasmodia