A high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for the determination of ornithine conjugation of some carboxylic acids in vitro has been developed. The ornithine conjugates of benzoic acid, p-nitrobenzoic acid, furancarboxylic acid and phenylacetic acid in an incubation mixture with kidney mitochondria were well separated on a reversed-phase C18 column using a mixture of 10 mM ammonium acetate buffer and methanol as the mobile phase. In addition, by varying the pH of the mobile phase and utilizing the absorption wavelengths (nm) of the conjugates it was possible to resolve and specifically detect each conjugate. The calibration curves were linear in the range of 0.2-16 μg/ml for all compounds and the detection limits were about 50 ng/ml except for the ornithine conjugate of phenyl acetic acid (S/N=2). The ornithine conjugatin of some carboxylic acids with chicken kidney mitochondria were determined by this assay method. The activity of ornithine conjugation of benzoic acid, furancarboxylic acid, p-nitrobenzoic acid and phenylacetic acid were 14.5, 5.5, 0.5 and 6.9 nmol/mg of protein, respectively. Moreover, the ornithine conjugation and the glycine conjugation of benzoic aicd were examined in birds and rodents. The ornithine conjugation was observed only in chicken (14.5 nmol/mg of protein) and mallard (0.99 nmol/mg of protein).
研究人员开发了一种高效
液相色谱(HPLC)方法,用于测定某些
羧酸在体外的
鸟氨酸共轭物。以10 mM
乙酸铵缓冲液和
甲醇的混合物为流动相,在C18反相色谱柱上分离了与肾线粒体培养混合液中的
苯甲酸、
对硝基苯甲酸、
呋喃羧酸和
苯乙酸的
鸟氨酸共轭物。此外,通过改变流动相的 pH 值和利用共轭物的吸收波长(nm),可以分辨和特异性检测每种共轭物。除了
苯乙酸的
鸟氨酸共轭物(信噪比为 2)外,所有化合物的校准曲线在 0.2-16 μg/ml 范围内均呈线性,检测限约为 50 ng/ml。用这种检测方法测定了一些
羧酸与鸡肾线粒体的
鸟氨酸轭合物。
苯甲酸、
呋喃羧酸、
对硝基苯甲酸和
苯乙酸的
鸟氨酸共轭活性分别为 14.5、5.5、0.5 和 6.9 nmol/mg(蛋白质)。此外,还研究了鸟类和啮齿动物体内
苯甲酸的
鸟氨酸共轭和甘
氨酸共轭情况。仅在鸡肉(14.5 nmol/mg 蛋白质)和野鸭(0.99 nmol/mg 蛋白质)中观察到
鸟氨酸共轭作用。