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Glutathione Reductase Assay Kit

Sufficient for 100 colorimetric tests

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Synonym(s):
Glutathione Reductase Activity Assay Kit
UNSPSC Code:
12161503
NACRES:
NA.28

Quality Level

200

usage

sufficient for 100 tests

detection method

colorimetric

storage temp.

2-8°C

Gene Information

human ... GSR(2936)

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General description

Glutathione reductase (GR) is a ubiquitous enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of oxidized glutathione (GSSG) to glutathione (GSH). Glutathione reductase is essential for the glutathione redox cycle that maintains adequate levels of reduced cellular GSH, which serves as an antioxidant reacting with free radicals and organic peroxides. Glutathione is also a substrate for the glutathione peroxidases and glutathione S-transferases in the detoxification of organic peroxides and the metabolism of xenobiotics. 

Application

Glutathione Reductase Assay Kit has been used to measure the activity of glutathione reductase as a part of oxidative stress assessment and also to study the effects of antifouling biocides on it.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Glutathione reductase (EC 1.6.4.2) (GR) is a ubiquitous enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of oxidized glutathione (GSSG) to glutathione (GSH). Glutathione reductase is essential for the glutathione redox cycle that maintains adequate levels of reduced cellular GSH, which serves as an antioxidant reacting with free radicals and organic peroxides. Glutathione is also a substrate for the glutathione peroxidases and glutathione S-transferases in the detoxification of organic peroxides and the metabolism of xenobiotics. This kit contains reagents for the spectrophotometric determination of glutathione reductase activity either by following the decrease in absorbance caused by the oxidation of NADPH at 340 nm (UV assay) or the increase in absorption caused by the reduction of dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) at 412 nm (colorimetric assay). This kit provides reagents for a spectrophotometric assay for measuring the activity of glutathione reductase either by following the decrease in A340 caused by the oxidation of NADPH or the increase in A412 caused by the reduction of dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid).
This kit provides reagents for a spectrophotometric assay for measuring the activity of glutathione reductase either by following the decrease in A340 caused by the oxidation of NADPH or the increase in A412 caused by the reduction of dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid).

Suitability

Suitable for the measurement of glutathione reductase activity in biological samples

Principle

This kit contains reagents for the spectrophotometric determination of glutathione reductase activity either by following the decrease in absorbance caused by the oxidation of NADPH at 340 nm (UV assay) or the increase in absorption caused by the reduction of dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) at 412 nm (colorimetric assay). This kit provides reagents for a spectrophotometric assay for measuring the activity of glutathione reductase either by following the decrease in A340 caused by the oxidation of NADPH or the increase in A412 caused by the reduction of dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid).

Analysis Note

UV assay: One unit will cause the oxidation of 1.0 μmole of NADPH at 25 °C at pH 7.5.
Colorimetric assay: One unit will cause the reduction of 1.0 μmole of DTNB to TNB at 25 °C at pH 7.5.

Kit Components Also Available Separately

Product No.
Description
SDS
  • D81305,5′-Dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) 50 mgSDS
  • G4626Glutathione, oxidized, disodium salt 100 mgSDS
  • N6505β-Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide 25 mgSDS

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Regulatory Information

常规特殊物品
含少量动物源组分生物产品

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  6. In your product bulletin you say you have tested Product GRSA, Glutathione Reductase Assay Kit, on rabbit reticulocyte lysate and Saccharomyces extract. Have you tested it on other species?

    At this time, we have used the kit to test only these species. We have received inquiries concerning its use for rat and higher plant tissue, but we have no data at this time.

  7. Do you know if Product GRSA, Glutathione Reductase Assay Kit, can be used with a 96 well plate reader?

    We have used this kit ony with a UV/Vis spectrophotometer with 1 cm pathlength cuvettes. We have not attempted to modify it for use with a plate reader.

  8. Is Product GRSA, Glutathione Reductase Assay Kit, compatible with your CelLytic cell lysis reagents?

    We have not tried using this kit with our CelLytic reagents. We believe it should be suitable for use with C2978 for mammalian cell lysis or C4882 for yeast cell lysis.

  9. Is Product GRSA, Glutathione Reductase Assay Kit, suitable for use for GR determination in whole blood?

    We do not recommend the kit for use with whole blood due to interference from hemoglobin.

  10. In your brochure for Nitric Oxide and Cell Stress you present absorbance data from yeast lysis. How were the yeast prepared?

    Here is the procedure as recommended by our Production group (March 2008): Grow S. cerevisiae (we used GP460 private strain) on YEPD medium; harvest cells by centrifugation. Wash the cells [7g]  with 20 ml of 20 mM HEPES buffer, pH 7.0. Discard supernatant. Add 1 ml HEPES buffer to make a thick slurry and pour dropwise into liquid nitrogen. Take approx. 2 g of frozen pellet and homogenize with UltraTurrax T-25 while still in liquid nitrogen to make a fine powder. After all the liquid nitrogen has evaporated, take approximately 2 mL of HEPES buffer and add to the 2 g of finely powdered cells. Centrifuge for 5 min in an Eppendorf (benchtop) centrifuge at maximum speed. The supernatant  liquid is the source of the enzyme. The total amount of protein received from this procedure was 21 mg (8.8 mg/mL in 2.4 mL total volume). We determined an activity of approximately 0.3 units/mL, using both the UV and DTNB assays.

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