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  • Title: Determination of delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase activity by a specific fluorometric coupled-enzyme assay.
    Author: Giampietro PF, Desnick RJ.
    Journal: Anal Biochem; 1983 May; 131(1):83-92. PubMed ID: 6577805.
    Abstract:
    A coupled-enzyme assay for the specific and sensitive determination of delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase activity has been developed. The assay specifically measured picomole quantities of the product, porphobilinogen, by its enzymatic conversion to uroporphyrinogen I and the fluorometric detection of oxidized uroporphyrin I. The coupled-enzyme assay was linear with time and protein concentration and required less than 3 h for 20 individual determinations. Under the standard assay conditions, 10 to 100 pmol of uroporphyrin I was reliably measured, representing 0.085 to 0.850 nmol/h of delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase activity per assay. In addition, the fluorometric assay was more sensitive than either the standard or the semimicro colorimetric methods. The specificity, rapidity, and sensitivity of this new fluorometric method facilitates the reliable determination of low levels of aminolevulinate dehydratase activity in small amounts of crude tissue homogenates or in cultured cells.
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