Luminescent Visualization of Low Amounts of Cytochrome P450 and Hemoproteins by Luminol in Acrylamide Gels
✍ Scribed by C. Bonfils; S. Charasse; J.P. Bonfils; C. Larroque
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 443 KB
- Volume
- 226
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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✦ Synopsis
In this paper we apply luminol (5-amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione), a light-emitting substrate, in conjunction with (\mathrm{H}{2} \mathrm{O}{2}) to the luminescence labeling of hemoproteins. We describe in detail a photodetection device which permits an efficient recording of the light emitted by heme-containing proteins resolved in acrylamide gels. The sensitivity of this procedure, when compared to the classical (3,3^{\prime}-5,5^{\prime})-tetramethylbenzidine staining method, results in a 5 - to 20 -fold enhancement with standard hemoproteins (lactoperoxidase, catalase, cytochrome P450 2B4, horseradish peroxidase, hemoglobin, myoglobin, and cytochrome b5). The potential applications of this technique are illustrated by the detection of cytochrome (P 450) in microsomes from plant as well as from animal extrahepatic tissues which possess low amounts of this cytochrome. 1995 Academic Press, Inc.