ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL THIOLS - DERIVATIZATION WITH MONOBROMOTRIMETHYLAMMONIOBIMANE AND CHARACTERIZATION BY ELECTROPHORESIS AND CHROMATOGRAPHY
ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL THIOLS - DERIVATIZATION WITH MONOBROMOTRIMETHYLAMMONIOBIMANE AND CHARACTERIZATION BY ELECTROPHORESIS AND CHROMATOGRAPHY
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(80)90483-2
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
KOSOWER, EM
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作者:
FAHEY, RC;NEWTON, GL;KOSOWER, EM
A new method for analysis of biological thiols based upon their conversion to fluorescent derivatives by reaction with monobromotrimethylammoniobimane (qBBr) is described. The derivatives are separated by chromatography and by electrophoresis on cellulose TLC plates. The use of 2-dimensional mapping makes it possible to differentiate between a wide variety of biological thiols including N-acetylcysteine, CoA, cysteine, cysteinylglycine, cysteamine, ergothioneine, glutathione, .gamma.-glutamylcysteine, homocysteine, mercaptopyrimidine, pantetheine, 4''-phosphopantetheine, thiosulfate and thiouracil. For applications to biological samples, thiols were isolated from crude extracts by binding to a mercuriagarose gel. Following removal from the gel with dithiothreitol, the thiols were derivatized with qBBr. The methods were tested by showing that glutathione is the major thiol in human red blood cells, that glutathione and ergothioneine are the major thiols in Neurospora crassa conidia and that Bacillus cereus vegetative cells lack glutathione but contain cysteine, pantetheine, and an unidentified thiol in significant amounts.