1958 年 24 巻 3 号 p. 216-220
Crystalline cytochrome c (Cyt) was prepared from the red muscle of tuna, Neothunnus macropterus, by the method of HAGIHARA4, 9) with some modification (Fig. 1). The twicerecrystallized preparation was then analyzed for the iron content, spectral and electrophoretic properties.
The iron content of this preparation was found to be 0.487%, which is slightly higher than the values of crystalline Cyt's from other sources (0.43-0.47%)2, 3, 6). The spectral characters agreed fairly well with those for amorphous Cyt's reported before1), except the lower absorption coefficient for minimum (about 535mμ), which makes the ratios of ε550/ε535 and ε520/ε535 higher (Fig. 2 and Tables 1 and 2).
The electrophoretic experiments revealed the general resemblance of pH-mobility curve of tuna Cyt to those of horse, beef, pig, and chicken18), though Cyt of the former moved more rapidly than the latter in the strongly acidic or alkaline pH range (Fig. 3). The isoelectric point of tuna Cyt was found to be pH 10.2, which is slightly lower in pH value, as compared with those of all the other species above-mentioned (pH 10.7-10.9)18).