Abstract: | The crystalline proteins fromBac. thuringiensis of the third and fourth serotypes with a molecular weight of 130,000 have been isolated and carboxymethylated, and their amino acid compositions has been determined. The CM-proteins have been found to be labile in acid media (80% CF3COOH and 65% HCOOH). Conditions have been found for the cleavage of the CM-protein of the third serotype with cyanogen bromide. A BrCN fragment with a molecular weight of 16,000 has been isolated, the intensity of which in 5% polyacrylamide gel on scanning amounts to about half the intensity of the sum of all the fragments. The aminoacid composition of this fragment has been determined.Institute of Chemistry of the Bashkir Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Ufa. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 384–386, May–June, 1980. |