A spectrophotometric assay for the transphosphatidylation activity of phospholipase D enzyme |
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Authors: | Hagishita T Nishikawa M Hatanaka T |
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Affiliation: | Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Okayama, Kayo-cho, Okayama 716-1241, Japan. |
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Abstract: | We developed a specific spectrophotometric assay for the quantitative determination of phospholipase D-catalyzed transphosphatidylation activity. The assay measures p-nitrophenol liberated by phospholipase D-catalyzed reaction of phosphatidyl-p-nitrophenol and ethanol in an aqueous-organic emulsion system. The release of p-nitrophenol was linear to reaction time at an early stage of the reaction with phospholipase D from Streptomyces sp. In the spectrophotometric assay for the reaction with phospholipase D from Streptomyces chromofuscus, which has higher hydrolytic activity than transphosphatidylation activity, p-nitrophenol was not found. The advantages of this novel method for measuring the transphosphatidylation activity of phospholipase D are that (i) it does not use radioactive compounds, (ii) it can measure the initial velocity of the reaction, and (iii) it is rapid, easy, and accurate to perform. |
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