低活力蛋白酶活力測(cè)定方法

1、Universal Protease Activity Assay: Casein as a SubstrateWritten Protocol:A. AbstractProteases break peptide bonds. In the lab, it is often necessary to measure and/or compare the activity of proteases. Sigma's non-specific protease activity assay may be used as a standardized procedure to determ

2、ine the activity of proteases, which is what we do during our quality control procedures. In this assay, casein acts as a substrate. When the protease we are testing digests casein, the amino acid tyrosine is liberated along with other amino acids and peptide fragments. Folin & Ciocalteus Phenol

3、, or Folins reagent primarily reacts with free tyrosine to produce a blue colored chromophore, which is quantifiable and measured as an absorbance value on the spectrophotometer. The more tyrosine that is released from casein, the more the chromophores are generated and the stronger the activity of

4、the protease. Absorbance values generated by the activity of the protease are compared to a standard curve, which is generated by reacting known quantities of tyrosine with the F-C reagent to correlate changes in absorbance with the amount of tyrosine in micromoles. From the standard curve the activ

5、ity of protease samples can be determined in terms of Units, which is the amount in micromoles of tyrosine equivalents released from casein per minute.B. MaterialsReagents:Protease (P4630)Potassium Phosphate, Dibasic, Trihydrate (P5504) Casein (C7078) Trichloroacetic Acid (T0699) Folin & Ciocalt

6、eus Phenol Reagent (F9252) Sodium Carbonate, Anhydrous (S2127) Sodium Acetate, Trihydrate (S8625) Calcium Acetate (C1000) L-Tyrosine, Free Base (T3754) Equipment:0.45 um polyethersulfone syringe filter and syringe 0.45µm Dram vials or polypropylene tubes capable of holding 15 mls of solution Sp

7、ectrophotometer Cuvettes Pipettes Stir/Hot plate Stir bar ScalepH Meter Graphing ProgramC. Preparation of ReagentsBefore beginning the assay, we need to make sure that the following reagents are correctly prepared:1. A 50 mM Potassium Phosphate Buffer, pH 7.5. Prepare using 11.4 mg/ml of potassium p

8、hosphate dibasic, trihydrate in purified water and adjusting pH with 1M HCl. This solution is placed at 37°C prior to use. 2. A 0.65% weight/volume casein solution, prepared by mixing 6.5 mg/ml of the 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer. The solution temperature is gradually increased with gentle

9、stirring to 80-85 °C for about 10 minutes until a homogenous dispersion is achieved. It is very important not to boil the solution. The pH is then adjusted if necessary with NaOH and HCl. 3. A 110 mM Trichloroacetic acid solution, prepared by diluting a 6.1N stock 1:55 with purified water. Tric

10、hloroacetic acid is a strong acid and should be handled with care. 。4. 0.5 M Folin & Ciolcalteas, or Folins Phenol Reagent, which is the solution that will react with tyrosine to generate a measurable color change that will be directly related to the activity of proteases. Folins Phenol Reagent

11、is an acid and should be handled with care. 5. A 500 mM Sodium Carbonate solution, prepared using 53 mg/ml of anyhydrous sodium carbonate in purified water. 6. An enzyme diluent solution, which consists of 10 mM Sodium Acetate Buffer with 5mM Calcium, pH 7.5, at 37°C. This solution is what we u

12、se to dissolve solid protease samples or dilute enzyme solutions. 7. 1.1 mM L-tyrosine Standard stock solution. Prepared using 0.2 mg/ml L-tyrosine in purified water and heated gently until the tyrosine dissolves. As with the casein, do not boil this solution. Allow the L-tyrosine standard to cool t

13、o room temperature. This solution will be diluted further to make our standard curve. If necessary, a solid protease sample of predetermined activity, which is dissolved using enzyme diluent to 0.1-0.2 units/ml. This solution serves as a positive control for the quality control assay and as validati

14、on for the calculations we will perform to determine enzyme activity.D. Setting up the Protease Assay and Standard CurvesTo begin this assay, find suitable vials that will hold about 15 mls. For each enzyme that you will test, you will need 4 vials. One vial will be used as a blank, and three others

15、 will be used to assay activity of three dilutions of the protease. Three dilutions are useful when checking our final calculations against each other. To each set of four vials add 5mls of our 0.65% casein solution, and let them equilibrate in a water bath at 37°C for about 5 minutes. Then, ad

16、d varying volumes of enzyme solution you want to test to three of the test sample vials, but not the blank. Mix them by swirling and incubate for 37°C for exactly ten minutes. The protease activity and consequential liberation of tyrosine during this incubation time is what will be measured and

17、 compared between our test samples.After this 10 minute incubation, add the 5 mls of the TCA reagent to each tube to stop the reaction. Then an appropriate volume of enzyme solution is added to each tube, even the blank, so that the final volume of enzyme solution in each tube is 1 ml. This is done

18、to account for the absorbance value of the enzyme itself and ensure that the final volume in each tube is equal. Now incubate the solutions at 37°C for 30 minutes.During this 30 minute incubation, you may want to set up your tyrosine standard dilutions, which is done using 6 dram vials (dram vi

19、als can be substituted with polypropylene tubes) that can easily hold 8 mls. To the six vials the 1.1 mM tyrosine standard stock solutions is added with the following volumes in mls: 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.40, 0.50. Don't add any tyrosine standard to the blank. Lower standards may be needed for imp

20、ure test samples with that will yield little color change. Once the tyrosine standard solution has been added, add an appropriate volume of purified water to each of the standards to bring the volume to 2 mls.After the 30 minute incubation, filter each of the test solutions and the blank using a 0.4

21、5 um polyethersulfone syringe filter. Filtration is required to remove any insolubles from the samples. The filtration 2 mls of the test samples and blank filtrate is then added to 4 dram vials that can hold at least 8 mls. You can use the same type of vial in which the standards were prepared. To a

22、ll of the vials containing the standards and standard blank, 5mls of sodium carbonate is added, and for best results, 1 ml of Folins reagent is added immediately afterwards. Sodium carbonate is added to regulate any pH drop created by the addition of the Folins reagent. Sodium carbonate is then adde

23、d to our test samples and test blank. Youll notice that these solutions become cloudy after the addition of sodium carbonate. Then, the Folins reagent is added, which will react primarily with free tyrosine. The dram vials are then mixed by swirling and incubated at 37ºC for 30 minutes.After th

24、is incubation, you should notice that the standards have a gradation of color correlating with the amount of tyrosine added; the highest concentrations of tyrosine appearing darkest. You can also notice appreciable color change in our test samples. 2mls of these solutions are filtered using a 0.45 u

25、m polyethersulfone syringe filter into suitable cuvettes. Now we performed the assay, we can proceed to the spectrophotometer to record our absorbance values.E. Measuring Absorbance and Calculating Enzyme ActivityThe absorbance of our samples is measured by a spectrophotometer using a wavelength of

26、660nm. The light path is set to 1cm. Record the absorbance values for the standards, standard blank, the different test samples, and test blank. Once all of the data has been collected, we are ready to create our standard curve. In order to generate the curve, difference in absorbance between the st

27、andard and standard blank must be calculated. This is the absorbance value attributable to the amount of tyrosine in the standard solutions. After this simple calculation, we create our standard curve using a graphing program by plotting the change in absorbance of our standards on the Y axis, versu

28、s the amount in micromoles for each of our 5 standards on the X axis. Volume of Tyrosine StandarduMoles Tyrosine  0.050.055  0.100.111  0.200.221  0.400.442  0.500.553 Once we have entered in our data points, generate a line of best fit and

29、 corresponding slope equation.We then find the change in absorbance in our test samples by calculating the difference between our test sample absorbance and the absorbance of our test blank. Inserting the absorbance value for one of the test samples into the slope equation and solving will result in

30、 the micromoles of tyrosine liberated during this particular proteolytic reaction. To get the activity of enzyme in units per/ml, perform the following calculation.Units/ml Enzyme =(umole tyrosine equivalents released) x (11)-(1) x (10) x (2)11= Total volume (in milliliters) of assay10= Time of assa

31、y (in minutes) as per the Unit definition1= Volume of Enzyme (in milliliters) of enzyme used2= Volume (in milliliters) used in Colorimetric DeterminationTake the number of micromoles tyrosine equivalents released obtained from the slope equation and multiply it by the total volume of the assay in ml

32、s, which in our case is 11mls. Then, divide this value by three other quantities: the time of the assay, which we ran for 10 minutes, the volume of enzyme used in the assay, which was varied, - let's use 1ml - the volume of milliliters used in colorimetric detection, which may differ based on your cuvette. We used 2 mls.Micromoles of tyrosine divided by time in minutes gives us our measurement of protease activity that we call units. We can cancel out the units for volume measurement in the numerator and denominator, and are hence left wit