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J M Rawls 《Analytical biochemistry》1978,86(1):107-117
A rapid and efficient method is described for the synthesis of [6-14C]orotidine 5′-monophosphate from radioactive orotic acid using purified yeast orotate phosphoribosyltransferase and inorganic pyrophosphatase. Radioactive orotidine 5′-monophosphate is purified by ion exchange chromatography and employed in small scale assays of Drosophila orotate phosphoribosyltransferase and orotldylate decarboxylase in which both enzyme activities are simultaneously measured in single reaction mixtures. Radioactive substrate and products are separated for counting using DEAE-cellulose paper chromatograms developed in one or two solvents. 相似文献
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An assay is described for the determination of the radioactive purity of [14C]oxalic acid preparations and the quantity of [14C]oxalic acid in biological samples. In this method oxalate decarboxylase is used to convert oxalate to formate and CO2. The entire procedure is carried out in a scintillation vial. The 14CO2 released in the enzymic reaction is allowed to diffuse off in a fume hood following acidification. Scintillation fluid is added to reacted and unreacted vials and the radioactivity measured. The loss of radioactivity from the reacted versus the unreacted vials provides the quantity of evolved 14CO2. This value is equal to 50% of the [14C]-oxalate (dpm) present. The radioactive purity of four preparations of [U-14C]oxalic acid was 99.0% while a fifth batch had a purity of 88%. A single batch of [U-14C]oxalic acid had a radioactive purity of 99.0% following storage of an aqueous solution, at -20 degrees C for 7 years. Recovery of [14C]oxalic acid from rat fecal extracts was 101.3%. Eight replicate analyses of a [U-14C]oxalic acid preparation gave a coefficient of variation of 0.3%. Following subcutaneous infusion of [U-14C]oxalic acid to rats, 100.2 +/- 2.9%, mean +/- SD, of the 14C in fecal extracts was present as [14C]oxalic acid (n = 10). The procedure provides a rapid, sensitive, and specific method to determine [14C]oxalic acid. It avoids the time consuming and inconvenient procedure for trapping and counting the evolved 14CO2. The approach used to determine the evolved 14CO2 may find application in other radiochemical methods that require its measurement. 相似文献
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Three groups of mice, normally fed, fasted and fed after a fasting period are injected intravenously with either 1- or 2-14C acetate. The respiratory 14CO2 as well as that of the liver, the adipose tissue and the carcass are collected after 3 min and the radioactivity measured. A determination is also made of the radioactivity of the tissue fatty acids and, for two groups of mice, of the circulating glucose. A calculation is suggested by which the number of revolutions performed by the acetate C in the Krebs cycle before it is transformed into CO2 can be deduced. The results suggest that the Krebs cycle is very open, that the acetate C found in the glucose has already broken away from the cycle after one revolution and that the C which appears in the form of CO2 has performed an average of only 2.8 to 3.6 revolutions. The results are evaluated as a function of the experimental conditions chosen. 相似文献
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A new assay method using high pressure liquid chromatography has been developed which permits the simultaneous isolation, determination, and quantitation of lauric acid and its hydroxylated products after methylation of extracts from kidney or liver microsomal incubation mixtures. The small differences in polarity between the lauric acid, 11-hydroxy- and 12-hydroxy-lauric acid after methylation permit their separation on reverse phase columns packed with octadecyltrichlorosilane bonded to silicone polymers. The total time required for the chromatography is less than 1 hr. Using this method, the formation of hydroxylated products was shown to have a linear dependence on protein concentration and time. The Km for lauric acid and NADPH were determined to be 8 μm and 54 μm in kidney microsomes, respectively. 相似文献
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The catalytic activity of the enzyme L-glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) is determined by an amperometric method based on a recently developed glutamate-selective biosensor. The biosensor is composed of an amperometric H2O2 electrode and a biocatalytic membrane containing the enzyme glutamic acid oxidase (GAO). The biosensor allows the direct and continuous measurement of GA levels by monitoring the H2O2 produced at the electrode interface as a coproduct of the GAO-catalyzed GA oxidation to alpha-ketoglutaric acid. Since GA is transformed to gamma-aminobutyric acid and CO2 under the catalytic activity of GAD, the rate of GA consumption in solution, monitored by the GAO biosensor, represents a reliable measure of GAD catalytic activity. Additional experiments performed in the presence of different concentrations of the GAD inhibitor valproic acid have shown the suitability of the proposed approach for the study of GAD inhibitors also. Discussion of the main experimental characteristics of this new analytical method is given in terms of sensitivity, reproducibility, and reliability of the experimental results and ease, time, and cost of operation. 相似文献
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The separation of oligonucleotides of baker''s-yeast value transfer ribonucleic acid 2b by high-voltage electrophoresis on DEAE-paper and by thin-layer chromatography. 下载免费PDF全文
V G Gorbulev T V Kutateladze J Barciszewski V D Axel''rod 《The Biochemical journal》1977,163(3):409-410
A modified procedure for the separation of oligoribonucleotides is described that is based on the combination of t.l.c. on cellulose and electrophoresis on DEAE-paper at 4000 V on a cooling plate. The technique is relatively rapid and allows the analysis of larger quantities than is possible by electrophoresis on cellulose acetate. 相似文献
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Don J. Durzan 《Trees - Structure and Function》2010,24(2):335-341
Feeding [1-14C]-guanidinoacetic acid to shoot primordia, O2 uptake was inhibited and major products were 14C-glycine, 14CO2 and 14C-serine. The direct decarboxylation of [1-14C]-guanidinoacetic acid to 14CO2 and N-methylguanidine, the methylation of [1-14C]-guanidinoacetic acid to 14C-creatine, and the lytic cleavage to urea and 14C-glycine were all ruled out. Enzymatic transamidinations of [1-14C]-guanidinoacetic acid with amino acid acceptors occurred as arginine-rich storage proteins were being turned over and new
proteins synthesized containing 14C-glycine and 14C-serine. The products of transamidination were recycled as substrates until 14C-glycine was metabolized in different directions and transported to mitochondria and peroxisomes. 14C-Glycine was decarboxylated by a glycine decarboxylase multienzyme complex resulting in a net carbon loss and a sharp decline
in total protein rich in arginine N. Under these conditions, unlabelled arginine and ornithine contributed as substrates for
reversible transamidination reactions. Peroxisomes and mitochondria are hypothesized as providing arginine-derived nitric
oxide to maintain redox homeostasis in response to the stresses imposed by [1-14C]-guanidinoacetic acid and to protect against the inhibitory activity of sulfhydryls on transamidinase activity. The destruction
of a respiratory inhibitor by transamidination may comprise a mechanism associated with the awakening from of dormancy and
the mobilization of storage protein reserves in conifers. 相似文献
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H W Higgins 《Analytical biochemistry》1982,127(1):121-133
The low levels of 14C radioactivity found in many biological samples, such as cell exudates of marine algae, can be determined conveniently by uv photooxidation of the 14C-labeled compounds. The acid distillation of the resultant 14CO2 and its rapid absorption (cf. 15 min) by a quaternary amine in a closed recirculating system prior to liquid scintillation counting provides a means of concentrating the 14C activity by up to 10 times. Quench problems are thus reduced to that of one compound, namely 14CO2. The kinetics of photooxidation of various 14C-labeled compounds in seawater are complex but similar in form for the several different classes of compounds tested. The role of the nature and concentration of the oxidant, sample pH, and the source of uv irradiation during photooxidation are discussed. 相似文献
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The metabolic fate of (2-14C)folic acid and a mixture of (2-14C)- and (3'',5'',9-3h)-folic acid in the rat. 下载免费PDF全文
The metabolism of [2-14C]folic acid over 13 days and a mixture of [2-14C]- and [3',5',9-3h]-folic acid in rats over a 6-day period is described. Both 14C and 3H are excreted in urine over the 6-day period, but 3H and 14C are only detectable in faeces for 2 days. A breakdown product of folic acid labelled with 3H only was found in some urine samples, but no metabolite corresponding to the part of the molecule containing 14C was detected. These experiments show that in the whole animal a substantial portion of orally administered folic acid undergoes scission shortly after administration [Blair Biochem. J. (1957) 68, 385-387] and that the retained folates are a shortage form for folate monoglutamates. 相似文献
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A novel method for detecting microorganisms capable of producing cephalosporin C (CPC) acylase and/or 7-(4-carboxybutanamido)cephalosporanic acid (GL-7-ACA) acylase has been developed. The method is based on the degradation of 2-nitro-5-(6-bromohexanoylamino)benzoic acid (NBHAB), a chromogenic substrate, into yellow 2-nitro-5-aminobenzoic acid by the action of the CPC acylase or the GL-7-ACA acylase. This method is very sensitive and quite specific, and has been successfully applied to screen the acylases from a variety of bacteria. A large number of colonies isolated on a plate surface from more than 67 samples and several known bacteria were tested by the NBHAB paper. Five NBHAB-positive strains and isolates were obtained. They were further examined by the reaction of their bacterial cells upon CPC and GL-7-ACA, respectively, and by thin-layer chromatography in order to distinguish the CPC acylase from the GL-7-ACA acylase. 相似文献
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Sandrine Sagan Thierry Milcent Rachel Ponsinet Odile Convert Olivier Tasseau Gérard Chassaing Solange Lavielle Olivier Lequin 《European journal of biochemistry》2003,270(5):939-949
Molecular mechanics calculations on conformers of Ac-HGly-NHMe, Ac-beta2-HAla-NHMe and Ac-beta3-HAla-NHMe indicate that low-energy conformations of the beta-amino acids backbone, corresponding to gauche rotamers around the Calpha-Cbeta bond, may overlap canonical backbone conformers observed for alpha-amino acids. Therefore, Substance P (SP) was used as a model peptide to analyse the structural and biological consequences of the substitution of Phe7 and Phe8 by (R)-beta2-HPhe and of Gly9 by HGly (R)-beta2-HAla or (S)-beta3-HAla. [(R)-beta2-HAla9]SP has pharmacological potency similar to that of SP while [HGly9]SP and [(S)-beta3-HAla9]SP show a 30- to 50-fold decrease in biological activities. The three analogues modified at position 9 are more resistant to degradation by angiotensin converting enzyme than SP and [Ala9]SP. NMR analysis of these SP analogues suggest that a beta-amino acid insertion in position 9 does not affect the overall backbone conformation. Altogether these data suggest that [HGly9]SP, [(S)-beta3-HAla9]SP and [(R)-beta2-HAla9]SP could adopt backbone conformations similar to that of SP, [Ala9]SP and [Pro9]SP. In contrast, incorporation of beta2-HPhe in position 7 and 8 of SP led to peptides that are almost devoid of biological activity. Thus, a beta-amino acid could replace an alpha-amino acid within the sequence of a bioactive peptide provided that the additional methylene group does not cause steric hindrance and does not confine orientations of the side chain to regions of space different from those permitted in the alpha-amino acid. 相似文献
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M E Izard G R Boniface K L Hardiman M W Brechbiel O A Gansow K Z Walkers 《Bioconjugate chemistry》1992,3(4):346-350
Samarium-153 (153Sm) radioimmunoconjugates of the monoclonal antibody K-1-21 were produced using the bifunctional chelate 2-(p-isothiocyanatobenzyl)-6- methyldiethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (Mx-DTPA). The specific activity (up to 150 MBq mg-1) and percent retained immunoreactivity (greater than 75%) were similar to that of 153Sm-K-1-21 conjugates formed with cyclic DTPA anhydride (cDTPAa). In vivo biodistribution studies showed specific localization of 153Sm-Mx-DTPA-K-1-21 to target antigen implants and higher blood pool and lower uptake in liver, spleen, kidney, and bone when compared to 153Sm-cDTPAa-K-1-21. The improved in vivo distribution of 153Sm-Mx-DTPA-K-1-21 should result in lower radiotoxicity to nontarget tissues when used for radioimmunotherapy purposes. 相似文献
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