[Determination of peroxidases according to Sato and Sekiya; modified technic].
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
SEARCH · Search PubMed
Search indexed PubMed citations on genomics, clinical trials, systematic reviews and public health. Explore titles, authors and supplied subject terms, then open the PubMed record.
Quote a phrase for an exact phrase match. Source license links do not imply unrestricted reuse.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Studies on the soil microbes, soil enzyme activity and soil biochemical intensity in copper mining wasteland indicated that the total quantity of major soil microbes declined by 68.43%-80.32%, compared with that of the non-minig soil. The proportion of bacteria and actinomyces decreased, while that of fungi did not changed obviously. The amount of major physiological groups including ammonifiers, nitrogen fixing bacteria, cellulose decomposing bacteria, aerobic nitrogen fixing bacteria and anaerobic nitrogen fixing bacteria all decreased, and soil basic respiration descended, compared with the control. The activity of soil enzymes weakened, which included urease, sucrase, proteinase, acid phosphtase, peroxidase, polyphenol oxidase and dehydrogenase. Soil biochemical intensity including ammonification, nitrification, nitrogen fixation and cellulose decomposition descended, and the circulation of C and N in mining soil inhibited. All the results showed that the weakening of microbial activity was one of major characteristics in reclaimed mining soil.
The properties of extracellular L-glutamate oxidase, isolated and purified from Streptomyces sp. Z-11-6 (specific activity, 50.8 U/mg protein; yield, 40%), were studied. A photometrical method of determination of activities of alanine- and aspartate aminotransferases, based on the use of the L-glutamate oxidase and peroxidase, has been developed. This method is sufficiently sensitive to be used for the determination of aminotransferase activities in biological fluids. The presence of other amino acids did not interfere with the analysis and had no effect on the results of determination.
We describe a kinetic colorimetric method for assaying lipase (EC 3.1.1.3) activity in serum by using a natural long-chain fatty acid 1,2-diglyceride. In the presence of colipase, deoxycholate, and calcium ions, pancreatic lipase hydrolyzes the clear substrate solution to produce a 2-monoglyceride, which in turn releases glycerol by the action of a 2-monoglyceride lipase. Glycerol is then assayed by a sequence of enzymatic actions (glycerol kinase, glycerol phosphate oxidase, and peroxidase) that produce a violet quinone monoimine dye with peak absorption at 550 nm. The method features zero-order reaction kinetics, provides a simple and rapid assay with an extended dynamic range, is specific and precise, gives results that correlate well (r greater than or equal to 0.99) with those of methods in which emulsified triolein is the substrate, and lends itself readily to automation. For all these reasons, the method seems highly suitable for routine use in clinical laboratories.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Candida albicans utilized 14C (ring) labelled dehydropolymer of coniferyl alcohol, 14C-teakwood lignin and indulin and released p-hydroxybenzoic acid, vanillic acid, 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid and catechol as by products from lignin. Candida albicans produced catechol 1,2-dioxygenase, protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase, intra- and extracellular polyphenol oxidase and peroxidase during indulin degradation. The study suggests that Candida albicans degrades different types of lignin.
The screening for extracellular oxidases and peroxidases from autochthonous filamentous fungi isolated from different substrates is an important step towards the detection of extracellular fungal oxidative systems. Thirty-one autochthonous fungal strains from Argentina, belonging to different ecophysiological and taxonomic groups, were plate-screened for their ability to produce extracellular oxidoreductases. Modified Kirk solid medium containing the chromogen 2,2-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) (ABTS) was used to determine the presence of this extracellular activity. The fungi tested were grouped according to the colour intensity of the modified Kirk medium in: a) species without extracellular ABTS-oxidizing activity; b) species with low extracellular ABTS-oxidizing activity; c) species with moderate extracellular ABTS-oxidizing activity; d) species with high extracellular ABTS-oxidizing activity. The assay revealed extracellular ABTS-oxidizing activity in 90% of the strains tested. All species of Basidiomycetes used exhibited ABTS-oxidizing activity, except Laeticorticium roseum. Aspergillus terreus and Epicoccum purpurascens (Deuteromycetes) did not show extracellular oxidative activity on ABTS. Agrocybe aegerita, Amauroderma boleticeum, Cladosporium cladosporioides, Coriolopsis rigida, Grammothele subargentea, Graphium putredinis, Hexagona hydnoides, Hexagona papyraceae, Loweporus lividus, Peniophora albobadia, Phellinus everhartii, Phellinus gilvus; Phellinus linteus; Pleurotus laciniatocrenatus, Pycnoporus sanguineus, Rigidoporus ulmarius, Steccherinum rawakense, Talaromyces helicus, Trametes elegans, Trametes pavonia, Trametes villosa and Trichaptum sector are reported here for the first time as species capable of producing ABTS-oxidizing extracellular oxidorreductases.
The article deals with oxidation of different substrates, intensity of glycolytic and glycogenolytic processes in mitochondria and homogenates of dog liver with its 2-hour exclusion from circulation under conditions of endotracheal ether-oxygen narcosis. It was established that already 30-60-minute ischemia causes a decrease in intensity of succinate, alpha-ketoglutarate oxidation and acceptor respiration, inhibiton in the activity of the citrate cycle enzymes; succinate dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, isocytrate dehydrogenase. The activity of NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenasedehydrogenase and Mg2+-ATPase as well as intensity of NADN oxidation in mitochondria increase. After 2-hour ischemia the activity of Mg2+-ATPase, cytochrome oxidase and peroxidase lowers. A sharply developed glycogenolysis is accompanied by inhibition of phosphorylase activity and a two-fold stimulation of the glycolytic reactions. Peculiarities in regulation of enzymatic reactions under conditions of ischemia and their role in origin of metabolism disturbances in the liver are under discussion.
BACKGROUND: The little knowledge about the distribution of total cholesterol (TC) in childhood and adolescence in Spain, makes the planification of preventive measures for cardiovascular diseases difficult. The aim of this study is to determinate these values in the island of Menorca. METHODS: A sample of 1,062 boys and girls 6 to 18 years of age was studied. Blood samples were obtained by venipuncture and were analyzed by the enzymatic techniques of cholesterol-esterase, cholesterol-oxidase, and peroxidase. RESULTS: Boys showed lower mean TC values than girls in almost all age groups. In both sexes, a descending phase was observed in the TC by age curve at the beginning of the adolescence. TC values above 5.17 mmol/l (200 mg/dl) were recorded for 7% of participants, being this proportion lower than the value found in the Spanish study of Fuenlabrada (13%). CONCLUSIONS: Results obtained are compared with other national and international studies. The values of this study rank an intermediate position between the highest mean TC values registered in Norway and the lowest registered in Israel.
Cytochrome oxidase (CCO), peroxidase, succinic dehydrogenase (SDG) and NADH-diaphorase were studied electron-cytochemically in leprous macrophages (LM) of granulomas of patients suffering from lepromatous leprosy. The LM peroxidase activity and location differed, this affecting the completeness of M. leprae phagocytosis. High CCO activity in LM cytoplasm was not a factor essentially influencing M. leprae disintegration. SDG and NADH-diaphorase, locating predominantly in membraneous structures of M. leprae, show low activity in LM cytoplasm.
An enzymatic method for the calibration of a turbidimetric lipase assay is described, based on measurement of free fatty acids liberated by the action of lipase. The substrate of the turbidimetric assay is a colipase-containing triolein emulsion. For determination of the free fatty acids a commercial test kit including acyl-CoA synthetase, acyl-CoA oxidase, and peroxidase is used. Intra- and interassay imprecision (CV) is about 5% at above-normal lipase activities, about 10% at normal values. Temperature coefficients are 1.24 and 1.45, respectively, for measurements at 30 and 37 degrees C vs 25 degrees C.
In this automated single-run enzymatic procedure for specific determination of triglycerides in serum, free glycerol is removed from the reaction mixture by pre-incubation with glycerol phosphate oxidase and peroxidase. The subsequent addition of lipase and the chromogen, 4-aminoantipyrine, results in the formation of color proportional to the amount of triglycerides in serum. Standards containing triolein in aqueous detergent are used to calibrate the method. For serum pools from the Centers for Disease Control with target values of 0.74, 1.41, and 2.63 mmol/L, the method produced biases of +0.01, -0.05, and 0.00 mmol/L, respectively (mean: -0.01 mmol/L or -0.4%). The mean coefficient of variation was 1.4% within and 2.5% between days; the combined CV, 2.9%. Ninety 6-microL serum samples can be analyzed per hour. The method is more accurate and precise than one based on an NADH-coupled enzyme system with separate addition of lipase.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Hepatic microsomes from rats fed a crude or a purified diet were compared by measureing their contents of protein, cytochrome P-450, and cytochrome b5, their rates of activity of NADPH- and NADH-cytochrome c reductases, NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase, NADPH oxidase, lipid peroxidase, ethylmorphine N-demethylase, aniline hydroxylase, benzpyrene hydroxylase, and their substrate-binding spectra (ethylmorphine, hexobarbital, aniline, and ethyl isoyanide). With the exception of lipid peroxidase activity, which was much higher in microsomes from animals fed the crude diet, little or no consistent diet-related differences in these measurements were observed over a 4-week experimental period, nor were results significantly less variable with one or the other diet. No consistent significant differences were observed with two strains of rats. The lower lipid peroxidase activity seen with the purified diet appeared to be due to the high vitamin E intake when that diet was employed; rats fed the crude diet and an oral supplement of alpha-tocopherol yielded microsomes with low lipid peroxidase activities similar to those seen in microsomes from rats fed the purified diet. A gradual temporal increase in benzpyrene hydroxylase activity was observed with both diets. This was interpreted to be due to environment inducing agents other than those present in the diet.