AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR THE QUANTITATIVE-DETERMINATION OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATES IN CELL-EXTRACTS
AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR THE QUANTITATIVE-DETERMINATION OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATES IN CELL-EXTRACTS
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(84)90386-5
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
WATAYA, Y
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作者:
TANAKA, K;YOSHIOKA, A;WATAYA, Y
The analysis of deoxyribonucleoside 5''-triphosphates (dNTP) in cell extracts by high-pressure liquid chromatography [HPLC] requires the prior, selective degradation of ribonucleoside 5''-triphosphates (rNTP) that are present in the extracts in large quantities. When this method was used for quantifying the dNTP (dATP, dCTP, dGTP, dTTP) in mammalian cell extracts, the presence of an interfering peak in the HPLC between the peaks for dTTP and DATP was observed. This unwanted peak sometimes overlapped with that of dATP, depending on the pH of the eluant. The material which gave this peak was formed during the periodate oxidation of rNTP in the presence of methylamine, and it could be removed by changing the order of addition of the reagents in the procedure, i.e., the methylamine was added only after the excess periodate was decomposed, instead of adding it together with periodate, as given in the original procedure. Furthermore, an addition of deoxyguanosine to the reaction mixture was effective in preventing the partial loss of dGTP in the oxidation procedure. Using this improved method, the dNTP contents of the extracts of [mouse] Ehrlich ascites tumor cells were measured in an accurate and reproducible manner. The analysis requires about 106 cells, and all 4 dNTP can be quantified in 2.5 h, starting from the harvest of the cells.