Use of a non-extraction HPLC technique for measuring angiotensin-converting enzyme under optimum conditions

Autor: Michael Norman Badminton, T.R. Tickner, Sandra J. Rainbow, C M Dawson
Rok vydání: 1991
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Zdroj: Annals of clinical biochemistry. 28
ISSN: 0004-5632
Popis: A non-extraction high performance liquid chromatography assisted method for the measurement of angiotensin-converting enzyme in serum has been developed. Serum containing the enzyme was incubated with the synthetic substrate, furylacryloylphenylalanylglycylglycine at a concentration approaching 10 times the apparent Km, prior to injection onto a shielded hydrophobic reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography column. This allowed the product to be separated and measured directly without the need for a time consuming protein extraction step. The method is enzymatically sound and avoids the methodological problems associated with automated kinetic assays.
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