Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving oxidoreductase
Patent
1986-12-16
1991-07-16
Kepplinger, Esther L.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving oxidoreductase
435 25, 435 4, 435174, 435175, 435176, 435177, 435178, 435179, 435805, 435810, C12Q 132, C12Q 126, C12N 1112
Patent
active
050325060
ABSTRACT:
An assay system useful for the determination of NAD(P)H, NAD(P), or a substrate of an enzyme which reacts with the formation or comsumption of NAD(P)H. Concentrations of organic substrates for example alcohol, cholesterol, uric acid, in a biological fluid such as saliva, blood or urine may be determined. The system includes a diaphorase which catalyzes a NAD(P)H-dependent reduction of a chromogen to cause a visible color change; this color change is indicative of the concentration sought to be determined. The system includes a chromogen which is a first substrate for the diaphorase which causes a color change when reduced by NAD(P)H, and a second substrate which is a competing substrate for the diaphorase; the competing substrate is irreversibly reduced by the diaphorase. The system is capable of measuring colorimetrically without dilution concentrations of organic compounds in biological fluids which previously could not be measured in such concentration. The system provides a convenient, practical sobriety test. The invention also provides a method for such determination and diagnostic kit.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4629697 (1986-12-01), Limbach et al.
Barman, T. E. "Lipoamide Dehydrogenase" in Enzyme Handbook, vol. 1, pp. 203-204, (1969).
Palmer John L.
Timmerman Marsha W.
Enzymatics, Inc.
Kepplinger Esther L.
Scheiner Toni R.
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