• KSBB Journal
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• v.19 no.6 s.89
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• pp.462-466
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• 2004

Mycothiol (MSH), a low molecular antioxidant thiol compound, was purified and analyzed from Streptomyns coelicolor A[3]2 by the monobromobimane fluorescence detection method modified by this lab. Through HPLC chromatpgram, MSH fraction was obtained following the elution time of standard MSH (donated by Dr. Robert C. Fahey). That MSH showed the highest concentration among the thiol compounds contained in the cell indicated that MSH was the key thiol compound having antioxidant activity. To understand the role of gene of inositol monophosphatase (I-1-Pase) involved in the MSH biosynthesis, it was isolated from S. coelicolor A(3)2 and cloned and overexpressed in the Escherichia coli. The expressed I-1-Pase was purified through Ni-NTA column. The soluble protein consisted of 281 amino acids, and the molecular weight was 32 kDa. I-1-Pase of S. coelicolor A(3)2 had the sequence homology with those of human and E. coli by 24 and $25\%$, respectively, and had two conserved domains (mofif A and motif B) which were typical of I-1-Pase.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 1999

Glutathione(GSH) in biological samples was determined by high performance liquid chromatographic(HPLC) method with fluorescence detector(FLD) after monobromobimane(MBB) or 4-fluoro-7-sulfobenzofurazan(SBD-F) derivatization. The detection limit of $0.03{\mu}g/mL$ was obtained after MBB derivatization, derivative of MBB was about 200 times more sensitive than that of SBD-F. N-acetylcysteine was used as internal standard and tetrabutylammonium ion as counter ion for better separation. The determination by ion-pairing chromatography after MBB derivatization was characterized by linearity in the range between $0.08{\sim}8.33{\mu}g/mL$ with a good correlation coefficient of 0.998. By precision test appeared relative standard deviation at less than 5% at three different concentrations. This method can be used for the analysis of GSH in plasma and tissue.