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Elston C, Wallach J, Saulnier J. New continuous and specific fluorometric assays for Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase and LasA protease. Anal Biochem 2007; 368:87-94. [PMID: 17553454 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2007.04.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2007] [Revised: 04/23/2007] [Accepted: 04/23/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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A highly sensitive assay based on new internally quenched fluorogenic peptide substrates has been developed for monitoring protease activities. These novel substrates comprise an Edans (5-(2-aminoethylamino)-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid) group at the C terminus and a Dabsyl (4-(dimethylamino)azobenzene-4'-sulfonyl chloride) fluorophore at the N terminus of the peptide chains. The Edans fluorescence increases upon peptide hydrolysis by Pseudomonas aeruginosa proteases, and this increase is directly proportional to the amount of substrate cleaved, i.e., protease activity. The substrates Dabsyl-Ala-Ala-Phe-Ala-Edans and Dabsyl-Leu-Gly-Gly-Gly-Ala-Edans were used for testing the peptidasic activities of P. aeruginosa elastase and LasA protease, respectively. Elastase and LasA kinetic parameters were calculated and a sensitive assay was designed for the detection of P. aeruginosa proteases in bacterial supernatants. The sensitivity and the small sample requirements make the assay suitable for high-throughput screening of biological samples. Furthermore, this P. aeruginosa protease assay improves upon existing assays because it is simple, it requires only one step, and even more significantly it is enzyme specific.
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- Caroline Elston
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Analytique & Synthèse Bioorganique, UFR Chimie-Biochimie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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Shihabi ZK. REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS OF CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS FOR CLINICAL ANALYSIS. J LIQ CHROMATOGR R T 2006. [DOI: 10.1081/jlc-100101437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Zak K. Shihabi
- a Pathology Department , Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center , Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, U.S.A
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Glatz Z. Determination of enzymatic activity by capillary electrophoresis. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2006; 841:23-37. [PMID: 16574509 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2006.02.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2006] [Revised: 02/20/2006] [Accepted: 02/21/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Enzymes are biological catalysts that play an important role in biochemical reactions necessary for normal growth, maturation and reproduction through whole live world. Their accurate quantitation in biological samples is important in many fields of biochemistry, not only in routine biochemistry and in fundamental research, but also in clinical and pharmacological research and diagnosis. Since the direct measurement of enzymes by masses is impossible, they must be quantified by their catalytic activities. Many different methods have been applied for this purpose so far. Although photometric methods are undoubtedly the most frequently used, separation methods will further gain their position in this field. The article reviews different possibilities for the assay of enzymatic activity by means of capillary electrophoresis (CE). Both the off-line and on-line enzyme assays based on CE are discussed.
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- Zdenek Glatz
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
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Chapter 15 Electrophoresis of proteins and peptides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4770(04)80028-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Iadarola P, Annovazzi L, Lupi A, Luisetti M, Casado B, Doring G, Worlitzsch D, Cetta G, Viglio S. CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS AS A MODERN TOOL FOR DETERMINING PROTEOLYTIC ACTIVITIES IN PURIFIED SPECIMENS AND IN REAL SAMPLES. J LIQ CHROMATOGR R T 2002. [DOI: 10.1081/jlc-120013989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Paolo Iadarola
- a Dipartimento di Biochimica “A. Castellani” , Università di Pavia , Via Taramelli 3/B, Pavia, 27100, Italy
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- a Dipartimento di Biochimica “A. Castellani” , Università di Pavia , Via Taramelli 3/B, Pavia, 27100, Italy
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- a Dipartimento di Biochimica “A. Castellani” , Università di Pavia , Via Taramelli 3/B, Pavia, 27100, Italy
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- b Laboratorio di Biochimica e Genetica , Clinica di Malattie dell'Apparato Respiratorio , IRCCS Policlinico , San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- c Department of Medicine , Georgetown University , Washington, DC, 20007, U.S.A
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- d Department of General and Environmental Hygiene , Hygiene Institute , University of Tuebingen , Tuebingen, Germany
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- d Department of General and Environmental Hygiene , Hygiene Institute , University of Tuebingen , Tuebingen, Germany
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- a Dipartimento di Biochimica “A. Castellani” , Università di Pavia , Via Taramelli 3/B, Pavia, 27100, Italy
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- a Dipartimento di Biochimica “A. Castellani” , Università di Pavia , Via Taramelli 3/B, Pavia, 27100, Italy
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Righetti PG. Capillary electrophoretic analysis of proteins and peptides of biomedical and pharmacological interest. Biopharm Drug Dispos 2001; 22:337-51. [PMID: 11835253 DOI: 10.1002/bdd.276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is an automated approach to electrokinetic separations that has had a deep impact in all fields of life sciences, including biomedical and biotechnological research and clinical and forensic practice. The present review highlights aspects of peptides and proteins separations, with particular emphasis on macromolecular analytes of biomedical interest. Among the various CE techniques available, a novel methodology is here illustrated consisting in separations in acidic, isoelectric buffers, which have the advantage of protonating the silica wall, thus minimizing interactions of proteinaceous material with the siliceous surface, while allowing delivery of high voltage gradients, due to their low conductivities. The review ends with applications of CE to the analysis of folding/unfolding/refolding/misfolding of proteins, a field which has deep implications in the biomedical arena, since it is connected to a host of disorders, such as prion protein diseases.
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- P G Righetti
- Department of Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnologies, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie No. 15, 37134 Verona, Italy.
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Vessillier S, Delolme F, Bernillon J, Saulnier J, Wallach J. Hydrolysis of glycine-containing elastin pentapeptides by LasA, a metalloelastase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2001; 268:1049-57. [PMID: 11179971 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.01967.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes severe infections in vulnerable hosts. It may produce various virulence factors including proteases. Among them, LasA possesses both elastolytic and staphylolytic (hydrolysis of pentaglycine cross-links in the cell wall peptidoglycan) activities. To understand if its elastolytic activity results from a preference for glycine-rich substrates, we studied its ability to hydrolyse the 65 pentapeptides of human tropoelastin containing at least three glycines. As demonstrated by capillary electrophoresis (CE), 22 of these peptides were hydrolysed by LasA, generally at a single peptide bond and the catalytic ratio kcat/KM was determined for most of them. The highest value was obtained for LGGGA, 59 +/- 9 min(-1) x mmol(-1) x L. The specificity of hydrolysis was elucidated by CE, liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry and, in some cases, collision activated dissociation-mass analysis of ion kinetic energy. The preferred cleavage sites are GG and GA peptide bonds, the sequence GG(cleavage site)A being especially sensitive to hydrolysis. Both positions P2 and P'2 must be occupied for hydrolysis and the presence of an amino acid in P3 (but not in P'3) significantly increases the catalytic ratio. Considering these results, about 30 GGX sequences (X: G, A or Y) of human tropoelastin could be susceptible to LasA elastolysis.
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- S Vessillier
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Analytique et Synthèse Bioorganique, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France; Service Central d'Analyse, CNRS, Vernaison, France
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Kennedy RT, German I, Thompson JE, Witowski SR. Fast analytical-scale separations by capillary electrophoresis and liquid chromatography. Chem Rev 1999; 99:3081-132. [PMID: 11749511 DOI: 10.1021/cr980134j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- R T Kennedy
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200
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This article gives a review of the recent developments in capillary electrophoresis (CE) of peptides. New approaches to the theoretical description of electromigration behavior of peptides are described, and methodological aspects of CE separations of peptides such as selection of separation conditions, sample treatment, suppression of peptide adsorption to the capillary wall and specificities of CE separation modes are discussed. Progress in application of high performance detection schemes, namely laser-induced fluorescence and mass spectrometry, in peptide separations by CE is presented. Applications of different CE techniques, zone electrophoresis, isotachophoresis, isoelectric focusing, affinity electrophoresis, electrokinetic chromatography and electrochromatography to peptide analysis, preparation and physicochemical characterization are demonstrated.
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- V Kasicka
- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.
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- A L Burlingame
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0446, USA
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