发布: 2018年05月20日第8卷第10期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2856 浏览次数: 7237
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Abstract
Invertase can catalyze the hydrolysis of sucrose, and is widely distributed in cells of cyanobacteria and plants. Being responsible for the first step for sucrose metabolism, invertase plays important physiological roles and its enzymatic activity is frequently needed to be determined. All the methods for determination of the invertase activity are dependent on detection of the glucose product generated by the invertase. Here we describe an ion chromatography based protocol of our laboratory for determination of cyanobacterial intracellular invertase activity.
Keywords: Cyanobacteria (蓝藻)Background
Invertase and sucrose play important physiological roles in cyanobacteria (Curatti, et al., 2008; Kolman et al., 2015) and higher plants (Vargas et al., 2003; Vargas et al., 2010). Invertase (EC 3.2.1.26) can catalyze the sucrose degradation into glucose and fructose. Due to this characteristic of the invertase, any methods which could be used for the determination of glucose or fructose would be theoretically used for the invertase enzymatic activity assay. In fact, most of the invertase enzymatic activity assays are based on the detection of the generated glucose product.
Some companies have developed several kits for the invertase activity assay, for instances, ab197005 from abcam (USA), KA1629 from Novus Biologicals (USA), MAK118 from Sigma-Aldrich (USA). By using these kits, the glucose product generated from the invertase reactions would be oxidized and determined by a colorimetric (570 nm) or fluorimetric method (λem/ex = 585/530 nm). In other methods, the amount of reducing sugar liberated by invertase was measured by coupling hexokinase, phosphoglucose isomerase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, while the resulting NADPH was further spectrophotometrically determined at 340 nm (Vargas et al., 2003). Ion chromatography could directly detect various sugars including glucose, fructose, sucrose (Du et al., 2013) and glucosylglycerol (Tan et al., 2015). Compared with the spectrophotometer-based methods for sugar determinations, ion chromatography (IC) could be more beneficial for analyzing the enzymatic mixtures containing multiple compounds, especially for the enzymatic assay of cell crude extracts. By using ion chromatography, the sucrose consumption and the glucose production could be shown at the same time in the case of the invertase enzymatic assay, which would provide complete information for the enzymatic assays.
Here, we report our recent IC-based protocol for determination of the invertase activity in cyanobacterial cells.
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Tan, X., Song, K. and Lu, X. (2018). Enzymatic Activity Assay for Invertase in Synechocystis Cells. Bio-protocol 8(10): e2856. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2856.
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微生物学 > 微生物生物化学 > 糖类
微生物学 > 微生物新陈代谢 > 糖类
生物化学 > 蛋白质 > 活性
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