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Analytical identification of additional impurities in urinary-derived gonadotrophins.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Bassett, Robert Lispi, Monica Ceccarelli, David Grimaldi, Luigi Mancinelli, Michele Martelli, Franco Dorsselaer, Alain Van |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | Advances in proteomic technology have enabled contaminant proteins to be identified from complex protein mixtures. The purity of two purified urinary gonadotrophin products, human menopausal gonadotrophin (u-HMG) and human FSH (u-hFSH), was compared with a preparation of recombinant human FSH (r-hFSH). After separation by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), western blot analysis showed that the recombinant preparation contained only FSH, whereas the urine-derived preparations exhibited several non-FSH or LH-related bands. These urinary components were further investigated by a proteomic approach using two-dimensional SDS-PAGE followed by mass spectrometric identification. The proteomic approach detected a total of 23 non-gonadotrophin-related proteins, at variable levels in different batches of the urine-derived preparations. Of these, 16 co-purified proteins have not been previously reported to be present in urine-derived gonadotrophins. These results indicate that the process used to purify urinary gonadotrophins may not remove all non-gonadotrophin proteins. By using a comprehensive proteomic approach, it has been shown that the recombinant FSH preparation has greater purity than either of the urine-derived preparations. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 7 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.aduc.it/generale/files/file/allegati/20091209-Rbm.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 19778474v1 |
| Volume Number | 19 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Journal | Reproductive biomedicine online |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Bands Contain (action) Follicle Stimulating Hormone, Human Gel Electrophoresis (lab technique) Gonadotropins Menopause Menotropins Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis Purity Recombinants SDS-PAGE Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Sulfate measurement Urofollitropin Western Blotting mixture polyacrylamide gels |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |