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Quantification of Nitrotyrosine in Nitrated Proteins

Quantification of Nitrotyrosine in Nitrated Proteins

Hong Yang, Yingyi Zhang, Ulrich Pöschl

Anal Bioanal Chem. 2010 May;397(2):879-86.

PMID: 20300739

Abstract:

For kinetic studies of protein nitration reactions, we have developed a method for the quantification of nitrotyrosine residues in protein molecules by liquid chromatography coupled to a diode array detector of ultraviolet-visible absorption. Nitrated bovine serum albumin (BSA) and nitrated ovalbumin (OVA) were synthesized and used as standards for the determination of the protein nitration degree (ND), which is defined as the average number of nitrotyrosine residues divided by the total number of tyrosine residues in a protein molecule. The obtained calibration curves of the ratio of chromatographic peak areas of absorbance at 357 and at 280 nm vs. nitration degree are nearly the same for BSA and OVA (relative deviations <5%). They are near-linear at low ND (< 0.1) and can be described by a second-order polynomial fit up to ND=0.5 (R2>0.99). A change of chromatographic column led to changes in absolute peak areas but not in the peak area ratios and related calibration functions, which confirms the robustness of the analytical method. First results of laboratory experiments confirm that the method is applicable for the investigation of the reaction kinetics of protein nitration. The main advantage over alternative methods is that nitration degrees can be efficiently determined without hydrolysis or digestion of the investigated protein molecules.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
IAR42411674	Albumin, Nitrated from bovine serum			Price

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