title: Determination of cellular thiols and glutathione-related enzyme activities: versatility of high-performance liquid chromatography-spectrofluorimetric detection.
abstract: A high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method to determine the most important cellular thiols [reduced glutathione (GSH), cysteine, gamma-glutamylcysteine and cysteinylglycine] is described. Separation relies upon isocratic ion-pairing reversed-phase chromatography and detection is operated by spectrofluorimetry coupled with post-column derivatization reactions using either N-(1-pyrenyl)maleimide (NPM) or ortho-phthalaldehyde (OPA). When OPA is used without co-reagent, only GSH and gamma-glutamylcysteine are detected (heterobifunctional reaction). However, either the OPA reaction in the presence of glycine in the mobile phase (thiol-selective reaction) or NPM allows the detection of all the cited thiols. The HPLC system has been validated as concerning linearity, accuracy and precision. The low detection limits reached (in the pmol range for each thiol injected) allow the screening and the quantification of thiols (as NPM derivatives) in V79cl and V79HGGT cells as well as the measurement of two cytosolic enzymes related to the glutathione synthesis, using the heterobifunctional OPA reaction.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Nancy, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Parmentier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Leroy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wellman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nicolas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D005721:Glutamate-Cysteine Ligase / Q000378:metabolism*; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism*; D005981:Glutathione Synthase / Q000378:metabolism*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds / Q000378:metabolism*; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase; D005721:Glutamate-Cysteine Ligase; D005981:Glutathione Synthase; D005978:Glutathione