Measurement of Oxidized Glutathione by Enzymatic Recycling Coupled to Bioluminescent Detection

✍ Scribed by Tamara Mourad; Kyung-Lyum Min; Jean-Paul Steghens

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Volume: 283
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2697
• DOI: 10.1006/abio.2000.4659

✦ Synopsis

A new method is described for the quantification of oxidized glutathione (GSSG) in tissues by enzymatic recycling coupled to NADPH bioluminescent detection. Tissue samples are treated with metaphosphoric acid. In a first step, after derivatization of GSH with 4-chloro-7-trifluoromethyl-1-methylquinolinium (CFQ), GSSG is recycled in the presence of dithionitrobenzoic acid (DTNB) and NADPH by glutathione reductase. In a second step, the GSSG-dependent NADPH consumption is measured by luminescence with NADPH:FMN oxidoreductase-bacterial luciferase. The coefficient of variation for GSSG measurements on repeated assays (n ‫؍‬ 5) is 2 and 3% for standards and tissue samples, respectively. The sensitivity of this method is at the picomole level and is convenient for determination of GSSG physiological concentrations in tissues: GSSG levels measured in rat liver and kidney ranged from 76 to 215 and 52 to 170 nmol/g wet weight, respectively.