THE SPECIFIC PRECIPITATION OF ORTHOPHOSPHATE AND SOME BIOCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS.
THE SPECIFIC PRECIPITATION OF ORTHOPHOSPHATE AND SOME BIOCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS.
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1964-07
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Y. Sugino;Y. Miyoshi
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作者:
Y. Sugino;Y. Miyoshi
Various procedures for the separation of inorganic orthophosphate from phosphoric acid esters and anhydrides have been reported. The solvent estraction method for phosphomolybdic acid, originally introduced by Berenblum and Chain (l), has been widely adopted for the analysis of biological materials (2, 3). In order to minimize the tedium and error due to the droplet occlusion during the solvent extraction, Hagihara and Lardy (4) have recently developed a new procedure employing reversed phase chromatography to remove solvent-soluble phosphomolybdie acid. However, preparation of several materials, such as columns sealed with Alundum disks, siliconized Celite, a hexanolmethanol mixture equilibrated with a mixture of perchloric acid and sodium sulfate solution, and others, is still more or less tedious and time consuming. Precipitation of orthophosphate with CaCl*-Ca(OH)z (5), CaCl,-alcohol (6), or “magnesium mixture” (7) is useful, especially for the analysis of materials that contain extremely acidlabile phosphate compounds, such as creatine phosphate and acetyl phosphate. However, these precipitation procedures have the disadvantage that the sensitivity is relatively low and the high salt concentration needed for precipitation interferes in the analysis of phosphate compounds remaining in the supernatant fraction. Charcoal treatment (8,9), which is useful in separating nucleotides and their derivatives from various inorganic salts, including Pi, is not effective in separating Pi from pyrophosphate, sugar phosphates, and other phosphate derivatives that are not adsorbed on charcoal. In the course of separating ‘*PPi from ZPi by ion exchange column chromatography (DEAE-cellulose) with triethylammonium bicarbonate, we observed that on adding ammonium molybdate under acidic conditions to a very dilute solution of Pi, a heavy precipitate was formed. However, no precipitate was formed with PPi under the same conditions. This observation led us to the finding that triethylamine is a potent and selective precipitant of phosphomolybdic acid. This paper describes the results of experiments performed to determine the optimal conditions for the precipitation of Pi by