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  • Title: A spectrophotometric modification of a sensitive densitometric Safranin O assay for glycosaminoglycans.
    Author: Carrino DA, Arias JL, Caplan AI.
    Journal: Biochem Int; 1991 Jun; 24(3):485-95. PubMed ID: 1772427.
    Abstract:
    Recently, an assay for quantification of glycosaminoglycans has been reported based on precipitation with Safranin O (Lammi, M. and Tammi, M. (1988) Anal. Biochem. 168, 352-357). In this procedure, the precipitate which forms when the glycosaminoglycan or proteoglycan is mixed with the Safranin O is collected with a dot-blot apparatus onto a membrane filter. The intensity of the color in the dots is measured densitometrically and is proportional to the amount of glycosaminoglycan or proteoglycan in the sample. This report describes a modification of the densitometric Safranin O assay which allows its use as a spectrophotometric assay. For this, the precipitates are solubilized in cetylpyridinium chloride and the absorbance determined for the resulting solutions. As with the densitometric method, guanidinium chloride diminishes the color intensity. However, the color is stable, even after solubilization, for at least one week. The precipitates collected from as much as 10 micrograms of material can be solubilized in as little as 100 microliters of cetylpyridinium chloride, so that increased sensitivity may be obtained if the solubilized precipitate is measured in a microcuvet. Thus, solubilization with cetylpyridinium chloride allows use of the Safranin O assay for glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans even when a densitometer is unavailable.
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