title: New spectrophotometric method for continuous recording of the spleen exonuclease activity.
abstract: Some of the synthetic chromophoric substrates of various enzymes cannot be used for direct spectrophotometric recording of the reactions, when a difference between the pH optimum of the enzyme reaction and the pH of maximum absorption of the released chromophore exists. In the present paper we describe a new method for following the time course of the spleen exonuclease-catalyzed reaction with thymidine 3'-monophospho-p-nitrophenyl ester as a substrate, based on the difference obtained in the absorbency of the substrate and its products in the far UV (at 330 nm). This difference, not published before, permits direct spectrophotometric recording of the amount of the hydrolyzed chromophoric substrate in acidic pH, whereas the maximum absorption of the product as accepted in the literature, is in alkaline pH. The molar absorption coefficient of the measurement at pH 5.7 is determined to be epsilon = 522 M-1.mm-1.
authors.affiliation: Department of Enzymology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Dolapchiev
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Bakalova
mesh_terms: D002863:Chromogenic Compounds; D005092:Exonucleases / Q000378:metabolism*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000379:methods*; D013154:Spleen / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D002863:Chromogenic Compounds; D005092:Exonucleases