Extensive studies on the population of PGM
1 polymorphism in human red cells have been studied. Three commonly phenotypes designated as PGM
11-1, PGM
12-1 and PGM
12-2, have been characterized by using the starch gel electrophoresis. However, some rare phenotypes i. e., PGM
13-1, PGM
1 5-1, PGM
16-1, and PGM
18-1, have not fully characterized.
We conducted the study of PGM
16-1 and PGM
16-2 types in red cell lysates from members of a Japanese family.
The proband of the variant was a patient with liver diseases during a medical treatments. From this family of ten individuals, three showed PGM
16-1 type and one had a PGM
16-2 type. Our experimental method for the determination of PGM
1 isoenzymes consisted of starch gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing using polyacrylamide gel with a pH range 5∼7. This paper report an unusual phenomenon of three bands which are characterized for PGM
16 phenotype by isoelectric focusing when two bands are generally obtained by starch gel electrophoresis for the same individuals.
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