发布: 2018年04月05日第8卷第7期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2785 浏览次数: 9426
评审: Renate WeizbauerVenkatasalam ShanmugabalajiAswad Khadilkar
Abstract
Nitrate reductase (NR) reduces the major plant nitrogen source, NO3-, into NO2-. NR activity can be measured by its final product, nitrite through its absorbance under optimized condition. Here, we present a detailed protocol for measuring relative enzyme activity of NR from Arabidopsis crude extracts. This protocol offers simple procedure and data analysis to compare NR activity of multiple samples.
Keywords: Nitrate reductase (硝酸盐还原酶)Background
Nitrogen is crucial macronutrient required by plants and is mainly absorbed in the form of nitrate. Nitrate reductase is the first enzyme of the nitrogen assimilation in higher plants. Homodimers of plant nitrate reductase catalyze the NAD(P)H-dependent reduction of nitrate to nitrite as follows:
NO3- + NADH + H+ → NO2- + NAD+ + H2O
Methods to measure NR activity may be a powerful tool to investigate biological factors influencing NR activity (Park et al., 2011). Nitrogen assimilation affects the contents of amino acid in plant, thus regulating NR activity could be used for increasing quality of some crop (Croy and Hageman, 1970; Dalling and Loyn, 1977; Ruan et al., 1998).
In this protocol, increased nitrite concentrations during limited time in optimized buffer condition are acquired as comparable values. Nitrite concentration is measured by its absorbance at 540 nm through Griess assay. Briefly, nitrite forms a diazonium salt with sulfanilic acid, then N-(1-naphthyl) ethylenediamine dihydrochloride is formed colored azo compound. It is possible to compare the values to determine how samples have different NR activity. Furthermore, the values could be converted to exact increased nitrite concentration through a simple process.
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Kim, J. Y. and Seo, H. S. (2018). In vitro Nitrate Reductase Activity Assay from Arabidopsis Crude Extracts. Bio-protocol 8(7): e2785. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2785.
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植物科学 > 植物生物化学 > 蛋白质
植物科学 > 植物生物化学 > 其它化合物
生物化学 > 蛋白质 > 活性
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