Assay of carboxypeptidase N activity in serum by liquid-chromatographic determination of hippuric acid.
D Hendriks, S Scharpé, M van Sande
文献索引:Clin. Chem. 31(12) , 1936-9, (1985)
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We describe conditions for determining carboxypeptidase N (EC 3.4.17.3) activity by liquid chromatography. Serum (10 microL) is mixed with the artificial substrates hippuryl-L-arginine (30 mmol/L) and hippuryl-L-lysine (100 mmol/L) in 50 mmol/L 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid (HEPES) buffer solution at pH 8.2 and 7.8, respectively. The hippuric acid product is separated from the substrate in less than 2 min by reversed-phase "high-performance" liquid chromatography and measured spectrophotometrically. o-Methyl hippuric acid is used as internal standard. By this method, optimized for activity and sensitivity of detection, carboxypeptidase N activities are 60-fold greater than those by another procedure (J Chromatogr 266:173-177, 1983). The mean value for 80 normal control subjects was 74.8 (SD 10.3) nmol of hippuric acid released per milliliter of serum per minute for hippuryl-L-arginine substrate, 378 (SD 55) for hippuryl-L-lysine substrate. The sensitivity and precision of the method make it suitable both for routine clinical determinations and as a reference procedure.
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