Capillary Electrophoresis-Based Enzyme Assay for Nicotinamide N-Methyltransferase |
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Authors: | Chunyang Chen Doreen Bönisch Robert Penzis Thomas Winckler Gerhard K. E. Scriba |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry,Friedrich Schiller University Jena,Jena,Germany;2.Department of Pharmaceutical Biology,Friedrich Schiller University Jena,Jena,Germany |
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Abstract: | A capillary electrophoresis method was developed for the determination of the activity of nicotinamide N-methyltransferase. Separation of the substrate nicotinamide and the product N-methylnicotinamide as well as the cofactor S-(5′-adenosyl)-l-methionine and its metabolite S-(5′-adenosyl)-l-homocysteine were achieved in a 50/60.5 cm fused-silica capillary using 100 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 3.0 as electrolyte and an applied voltage of 25 kV. Analyte detection was carried out at 193 nm. Using lidocaine as internal standard the method was validated for nicotinamide and N-methylnicotinamide with regard to range, limit of detection, limit of quantitation, repeatability, intermediate precision and accuracy. The assay was applied to the determination of the Michaelis–Menten kinetic parameters of the enzyme. |
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