Abstract
A systematic comparison of six sugar indicators for their sensitivity, specificity, cross-reactivity, and suitability in the context of crude lysates revealed para-hydroxybenzoic acid hydrazide (pHBH) to be best suited for application in a plate-based phosphatase-assisted universal sugar-1-phosphate nucleotidyltransferase assay. The addition of a general phosphatase to nucleotidyltransferase reaction aliquots enabled the conversion of remaining sugar-1-phosphate to free sugar, the concentration of which could be rapidly assessed via the pHBH assay. The assay was validated using the model glucose-1-phosphate thymidylyltransferase from Salmonella enterica (RmlA) and compared favorably with a previously reported HPLC assay. This coupled discontinuous assay is quantitative, high throughput, and robust; relies only on commercially available enzymes and reagents; does not require chromatography, specialized detectors (e.g., mass or evaporative light scattering detectors), or radioisotopes; and is capable of detecting less than 5 nmol of sugar-1-phosphate. It is anticipated that this high-throughput assay system will greatly facilitate nucleotidyltransferase mechanistic and directed evolution/engineering studies.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 251-258 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Analytical Biochemistry |
| Volume | 377 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 15 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported, in part, by National Institutes of Health grants GM70637 and U19 CA113297 (to J.S.T.). R.M. was a National Institutes of Health Molecular Bioscience Training Grant trainee (GM07215). J.S.T. is an H. I. Romnes fellow.
Keywords
- Carbohydrate
- Enzyme
- Glycosyltransferase
- Nucleotide
- Sugar
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology