Abstract
A sensitive method for assaying glutamine synthetase activity is described. This enzyme produces γ-glutamylhydroxamate in the presence of l-glutamic acid and hydroxylamine as substrates. This amino acid hydroxamate was separated and quantified by high performance liquid chromatography on an ion-exchange resin column using post-column derivatization with o-phthalaldehyde for detection. As little as 50 pmol of γ-glutamylhydroxamate was detected in assays using cell-free extracts from fish retina, rat clonal C6 glioma cells, mouse clonal NIE 115 and N18TG2 neuroblastoma cells, whose specific activity measured was 1.0, 0.03, 0.01 and 0.01 μmol of γ-glutamylhydroxamate produced per 30 min per milligram protein, respectively.
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