Hemoglobin analysis

Reports describing patients with Hb-S-/3-thalassemia or with Hb-C-)3-thalasseraia are numerous [ (A5, A6, B28, C22, K21, K23, N12, R38, S50, S51, S63) and many others]. The patients suffer from a mild to rather severe anemia (Hb levels between 7.5 and 12 g/100 ml) which is usually microcytic and hypochromic. Hemoglobin analysis shows a high percentage of the abnormal variant (60-80%), elevated Hb-A2 levels (4-7%), variable amounts of Hb-F (1-20%) and of Hb-A (0-20%). Patients who produce notable amounts of Hb-A are usually less severely affected than patients in which the normal Hb-A production is completely suppressed. 

Basic information on a-thalassemias, i.e., defects with an impaired production of a polypeptide chains, is still limited because of difficulties in identifying the simple adult heterozygote. Detection of a-thalassemia can best be made by hemoglobin analysis of cord bloods and of subjects with Hb-H disease. 

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Fig. 10. Computer simulation of pH, p, 7 courses in the pH 6.8—7.8 Immobiline gradient for hemoglobin analysis, having the limiting composition plotted in Fig.

There are a range of applications of conventional cIEF to real-world analysis, including the characterization of protein samples in laboratories of biotech pharmaceutical companies, and clinical analysis. In the pharmaceutical industry, some methods have been developed based on this technology [13,14] and validated [15-17] as the identity assays in regulated pharmaceutical laboratories for the analysis of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and glycoproteins. cIEF has also been used in clinical analysis for human hemoglobin analysis [18,19] and the analysis of proteins in cerebrospinal fluid [20]. There are several reviews on the applications of the conventional cIEE [10,21]. However, the pace of acceptance of conventional cIEF for the analysis of real-world samples is slow. 

Although CE instruments are not well designed for CIEF, many variants can be separated better by this technique. In addition to the common variants, G Philadelphia, A2, and Bart s can all be separated by CIEF [46-48]. The separation by CIEF compares well with gel isoelectric focusing and with HPLC. The variants have also been analyzed by both CE and CIEF equipped with special absorption imaging detectors. These types of detection devices eliminate the extra steps needed to move the peaks, after the focusing step, to the detector and can simultaneously detect several capillaries with better precision and faster results than CE instruments. HB A2, which is increased in P-thal, is better quantified by CE compared with AG electrophoresis [44]. Hemoglobin analysis by CE has been reviewed recently [49-51]. 

Shihabi, Z.K. Effect of sample composition on electrophoretic migration application to hemoglobin analysis by capillary electrophoresis and agarose electrophoresis. J. Chromatogr. A, 1027, 179, 2004. 

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CPR can be used to find continuous paths for complex transitions that might have hundreds of saddle points and need to be described by thousands of path points. Examples of such transitions include the quaternary transition between the R and T states of hemoglobin [57] and the reorganization of the retinoic acid receptor upon substrate entry [58]. Because CPR yields the exact saddle points as part of the path, it can also be used in conjunction with nonnal mode analysis to estimate the vibrational entropy of activation... 

Much research focuses on the structures, properties, and uses of the complexes formed between d-metal ions acting as Lewis acids and a variety of Lewis bases, partly because they participate in many biological reactions. Hemoglobin and vitamin B12, for example, are both complexes—the former of iron and the latter of cobalt (Box 16.1). Complexes of the d-metals are often brightly colored and magnetic and are used in chemistry for analysis, to dissolve ions (Section 11.13), in the... 

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