THE PURPLE COLOR REACTION GIVEN BY DIPHENYLAMINE REAGENT .1. WITH NORMAL AND RHEUMATIC FEVER SERA
THE PURPLE COLOR REACTION GIVEN BY DIPHENYLAMINE REAGENT .1. WITH NORMAL AND RHEUMATIC FEVER SERA
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DOI:
10.1172/jci102492
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发表时间:
1951-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
HESS, EL
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作者:
AYALA, W;MOORE, LV;HESS, EL
8 Composition of the reagent: glacial acetic acid 100 ml., conc. sulfuric acid 2.75 ml., diphenylamine 1 gm. tion unsuitable for colorimetric readings. When serum proteins are precipitated with 20% trichloroacetic acid solution, the purple color reaction is present in the acid hydrolyzate obtained from the precipitate and absent in the filtrate. The moiety giving the purple c4olor is dialyzable from serum only after acid or alkaline hydrolysis. In the procedure described by Niazi and State (1), the proteins are precipitated from serum with a 20% o trichloroacetic acid solution, the supernatant discarded, the precipitate hydrolyzed with a 5% trichloroacetic acid solution, and the clear supernatant obtained after centrifugation is tested with the diphenylamine reagent. Since the 20% o tri-chloroacetic acid filtrate from serum does not contain any interfering substance we have found it satisfactory to hydrolyze the serum directly. A study of the hydrolysis step shows that the in-tensity of the purple color reaction increases with time up to 20 minutes and then decreases slowly and becomes negative after several hours. For this reason we have adopted 20 minutes as a standard time of hydrolysis.The time of heating the serum hydrolyzate and the reagent is another important factor in the in-tensity of the color produced. A plot of color in-tensity (in terms of optical density at 530 mj,) against time of heating shows a rapid increase with time up to two hours, after which the rate of increase is slight. When the heating is continued, the purple color shiftsto blue (clearly noticeableat two hours) and the absorption curve develops a new band with amaximum at 650 mju in addition to the one at 530mFL. The variation in the shape of the absorption curves with time of heating is presented in Figure 1. We have selected 30 min-utes as a standard timeof heating; at thistime an intense purple color is obtained with little interference from the blue band, as can be seen in Figure 1.