Measurement of radiolabeled lactate production using lactate monooxygenase.
Measurement of radiolabeled lactate production using lactate monooxygenase.
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使用乳酸单加氧酶测量放射性标记的乳酸产量。
DOI:
10.1006/abio.1993.1069
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发表时间:
1993
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Piomelli,S
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作者:
Tilton,WM;Seaman,C;Piomelli,S
In studies of metabolism in vitro, the production of lactate reflects the orderly flow of glycolysis. It is often difficult to measure accurately the production of lactate by commonly used spectrophotometric techniques, as large amounts of lactate and pyruvate are present in the cellular environment, and these may be further in-creased in several abnormal situations (1, 2). The system described in this report offers the means to monitor lactate production, regardless of the background of endproducts or intermediates. The technique measures lactate production from radiolabeled glucose using the enzyme lactate monooxygenase (LMO) that converts the lactate produced to carbon dioxide and acetate. Since the radiolabeled glucose is added at the beginning of the incubation, any radiolabeled CO, formed reflects exclusively the newly produced lactate. Incubation uith glucose for lactate production. Metabolic incubation of tissue with uniformly radiolabeled glucose under optimal conditions for the production of radiolabeled lactate is first conducted. In our labora-tory, we apply this technique to the study of red blood cells. Since, in whole blood, the contribution of white cells and platelets to glucose metabolism is comparatively negligible in comparison, all activity reflects essentially that of red blood cells. Substantial changes in metabolic intermediates take place with any cell manipulation; thus, in order to obtain reliable results, whole blood must be used immediately upon collection. Hlood obtained from normal healthy volunteers was buffered at pH 7.4; 25 ml of blood was added to 0.5 ml of a buffer designed to give the following final concentrations in the blood suspension: Tes, 20 mM; glucose, 2.5 mM; NaCl,(0.14 M; KCl, 4 mM; KH, PO,, 0.7 mM; MgSO,, 1.7 mM.(The buffer contained six times the final concen-trations shown.)[U-“C] Glucose (2 uCi) was then added, and the mixture was transferred either to a closed incu-bation system in an Erlenmeyer flask or to an open incubation system in a dialysis bag, as described previ-ously (3). The cell suspensions were shaken in a Dubnoff metabolic incubator at 37 C, usually for 3 h.