[51] Assays for differentiation of glutathione S-Transferases
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This chapter provides the spectrophotometric, titrimetric, nitrite, and cyanide assay for the differentiation of glutathione S-transferases. Spectrophotometric assays depend upon a direct change in the absorbance of the substrate when it is conjugated with glutathione (GSH). Because each of the reactions is catalyzed at a finite rate in the absence of enzyme, care is needed to reduce nonenzymatic catalysis by minimizing substrate concentrations and by decreasing pH wherever necessary. Titrimetric assay is based on the principle that the conjugation of alkyl halides with GSH can be measured titrimetrically. Although acid production accompanies many of the transferase catalyzed reactions in which thioethers are formed, titrimetry is only used when more convenient assays are not available. Nitrite assay is based on the principle that nitrite is released when GSH reacts with nitroalkanes or with organic nitrate esters. The nitrite can be assayed as the limiting factor in a diazotization reaction with sulfanilamide that produces a readily quantitatable pink dye. Cyanide assay is based on the fact that when glutathione transferases catalyze the attack of the glutathione thiolate ion on the electrophilic sulfur atom of several organic thiocyanates, it results in the formation of an asymmetric glutathionyl disulfide and cyanide. Cyanide can be readily quantitated by a calorimetric method.
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