A very sensitive method for fractionating the serum-protein was investigated and called turbidometric titration by the authors. The conclusions obtained were as follows:
1. The essential point of this method lies in making use of turbi-dometric analysis combined with salting-out. Ammonium sulfate so-lution is used as a precipitant and 1 per cent NaCl solution as solvent for serum. Authors found that the concentration of the protein should be kept low and the protein-solution should contain NaCl, these being necessary to achieve reliable results.
2. The human-serum-protein was fractionated into twelve compo-nents, say, serum albumin (h, i, j, k), serum-globulin III (f, g), serum-globulin II (d, e), and serum-globulin I (a', a, b, c). Making some improvements on the first experiments, it was found that human-serum-albumin is fractured into five components (h, i, j
1, j
2, k), human-serum-globulin I into seven components (a', a
1, a
2, b
1, b
2, c
1, c
2) and rabbit-serum-globulin I into eight components.
3. Even in the case of low protein content, the turbidometric titration was performed easily without specific concentrating methods such as freezing-drying or ultrafiltration.
The authors were indebted to Professor Kyugo Sasagawa (Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto) and Professor Shiro Kit a-mura (Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto). And also the authors wish to thank Professor Tsunenobu Yarnamoto, Dr. Misazo Yamamoto (Department of Quantum-Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyoto Uni-versity, Kyoto) and Dr. Sohei Kondo (Department of Induced Mutation, Institute of Genetics, Mishima), Assistant Professor Hiroshi Inagaki (Institute of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Takatsuki) and Dr. Fumio Sawada (Department of Chemistry, Tokyo University, Tokyo) for their excellent advices.
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