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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was purified from rabbit brain cortex using a single immunoaffinity chromatographic step and was contaminated only by a 50 kDa protein. The proteins, separated by SDS-PAGE, were sequenced: the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was blocked at the N-terminal, the co-eluted protein was similar to α-tubulin. Our technique can be applied to purification and sequencing of the enzyme from brain areas or to measure its turnover rate in cultured cells.
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Capellacci, S., Aluigi, G., Tabellini, L. et al. One step purification of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from brain areas by immunoaffinity chromatography. Biotechnology Letters 23, 353–357 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005645321854
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