title: Bioluminescent determination of 0.1 picomole amounts of guanine nucleotides.
abstract: A bioluminescence procedure for the determination of the guanylates has been optimized to allow measurement of 0.1 pmol amounts. Modifications of the Karl procedure include the use of purified firefly luciferase and nucleoside diphosphate kinase instead of a crude extract of firefly tails, the use of Tricine buffer instead of the inhibitory arsenate buffer, and optimization of the amounts of reagents and incubation times for each of the partial reactions. In the determination of GMP, background values varied widely with different lots of bovine guanylate kinase. Careful selection of a suitable lot of bovine brain guanylate kinase was essential for determination of lower amounts of guanylates. This establishes that selection of guanylate kinase must be based on experimental determination and not reported adenylate kinase activity. The wide variation in background was not eliminated by the inclusion of adenylate kinase inhibitors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 74078-0454.
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: V R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Vaden
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Booth
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Webster
authors.forename: F R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Leach
mesh_terms: D000263:Adenylate Kinase / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000201:enzymology; D006150:Guanine Nucleotides / Q000032:analysis*; D006157:Guanosine Monophosphate / Q000032:analysis*; D051528:Guanylate Kinases; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D007700:Kinetics; D008156:Luciferases; D008163:Luminescent Measurements; D008832:Microchemistry; D009701:Nucleoside-Diphosphate Kinase; D009703:Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D006150:Guanine Nucleotides; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D006157:Guanosine Monophosphate; D008156:Luciferases; D000263:Adenylate Kinase; D009703:Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase; D009701:Nucleoside-Diphosphate Kinase; D051528:Guanylate Kinases