Journal article

A SELECTIVE PRECIPITATION PURIFICATION PROCEDURE FOR MULTIPLE PHOSPHOSERYL-CONTAINING PEPTIDES AND METHODS FOR THEIR IDENTIFICATION

EC REYNOLDS, PF RILEY, NJ ADAMSON

ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY | ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE | Published : 1994

Abstract

Multiple phosphoseryl-containing sequences of proteins stabilize amorphous calcium phosphate and have been implicated in the regulation of biomineralization, protein structure, and enzyme activity. To facilitate studies on the identification and characterization of multiple phosphoseryl-containing sequences of proteins we have developed a simple and efficient purification procedure involving precipitation of Ca2+/ethanol-induced aggregates of the multiple phosphoseryl-containing peptides from enzymic digests. The multiple phosphoseryl-containing peptides of a tryptic digest of casein were selectively precipitated using Ca2+ (20 mol/mol protein) and 50% (v/v) ethanol at pH 3.5, 4.6, and 8.0. ..

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