- Title
- Studies on the kallikrein-kininogen system of the ostrich (Struthio camelus)
- Creator
- Bothma, Leonard Frederick
- Subject
- Kallikrein
- Subject
- Kinins
- Subject
- Ostriches
- Date Issued
- 2001
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- vital:11067
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/275
- Identifier
- Kallikrein
- Identifier
- Kinins
- Identifier
- Ostriches
- Description
- Ostrich organs/tissue/fluids were screened for plasma kallikrein-like, tissue kallikrein-like and tonin-like activity in a continuous-fluorogenic-assay system using Pro-Phe-Arg-7-amino-4-methylcoumarine, Phe- Arg-7-amino-4-methylcoumarine and Val-Leu-Arg--7-amino-4-trifluoro-methylcoumarine as substrates. Ostrich liver and kidney showed the highest specific plasma kallikrein-like activity. Ostrich adrenal glands and kidney showed the highest specific tissue kallikrein-like and tonin-like activity. Ostrich high molecular weight kininogen was purified from plasma and low molecular weight kininogen was partially purified. The N-terminal amino acid sequences of both high- and low molecular weight kininogens from ostrich plasma were determined. Ostrich plasma high molecular weight kininogen was purified as a 118 kD protein. The purified high molecular weight kininogen inhibits the cysteine proteinase papain at a ratio of one molecule HKG to two molecules of papain. Ornitho kinin-like molecules were detected in ostrich urine using reverse phase HPLC.
- Format
- ix, 122 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Port Elizabeth
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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