Bound-free separation

B/F separation bound/free separation BCPDA 4,7-bis(chlorosulfophenyl)-... 

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These signaling aptamers have shown that multiple aptamer ligands can be detected without bound-free separation that is, through homogeneous detection. It is very difficult to realize this type of detection using antibodies, aside from a few exceptions (Ueda et al., 2003). We discuss the problem of homogeneous detection in the next section and introduce our solution the aptameric enzyme subunit. 

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Other immunoassays No fluorogenic reaction is needed if the radiolabel or the enzyme label is replaced by a fluorogenic label, which can be measured after the bound-free separation. An example of such a label is 4-methylumbelliferone 3-acetic acid. The advantage of these fluoroimmunoassay methods (FIA) is their simplicity. However, a disadvantage is that, as a consequence of the strong background fluorescence, the sensitivity is poor. 

Dou X., Yamaguchi Y., Yamamoto H., Doi S., Ozaki Y., NIR SERS detection of immune reaction on gold colloid particles without bound/free antigen separation, J. Raman Spectrosc. 1998 29 739-742. 

In a radioimmunoassay procedure, 1 pmol of labelled analyte was added to the sample. Antiserum equivalent to 75 pmol of analyte was then added, and after incubation the bound and free fractions separated by precipitation with ammonium sulphate solution. The activity ratio, bound free, was measured to be 2.88. Calculate the number of moles of analyte in the original sample. 

The unusual rate enhancement of nucleophiles in micelles is a function of two interdependent effects, the enhanced nucleophilicity of the bound anion and the concentration of the reactants. In bimolecular reactions, it is not always easy to estimate the true reactivity of the bound anion separately. Unimolecular reactions would be better probes of the environmental effect on the anionic reactivity than bimolecular reactions, since one need not take the proximity term into account. The decarboxylation of carboxylic acids would meet this requirement, for it is unimolecular, almost free from acid and base catalysis, and the rate constants are extremely solvent dependent (Straub and Bender, 1972). 

Many specificity elements for tRNA are also the result of interactions with the three bases of the anticodon loop C34 (and U34), U35, and G36 are each bound within separate pockets of the anticodon-binding domain." Although it is likely that in free tRNA , like most other free tRNAs, anticodon bases are normally stacked with one another, binding by GlnRS disrupts this base stacking, allowing each base to be recognized by... 

Like in RILAs, an advantage of fluorescence detection is the possibility of developing homogeneous FILAs using direct or indirect (competitive or displacement) approaches. The fluorescence polarization immunoassay (PFIA) and their homolog fluorescence polarization immuno-like assay (PFILA) are two of the most widely used procedures in homogeneous fluoroassays. Both are based on the principle that fluorescence polarization gives a direct measure of the bound/free ratio of the labeled analyte (tracer) without the need for their separation [23, 28]. 

The main virtue of the adiabatic approximation is its interpretative power. The separation of the various degrees of freedom leads to a factorization of the photodissociation cross sections into a one-dimensional bound-bound and a one-dimensional bound-free overlap integral. Let us assume, for simplicity, a separable ground-state wavefunction of the form... 

A linear approximation of the potential is certainly too sweeping a simplification. In reality, Vr varies with the internuclear separation and usually rises considerably at short distances. This disturbs the perfect (mirror) reflection in such a way that the blue side of the spectrum (E > Ve) is amplified at the expense of the red side (E < 14).t For a general, nonlinear potential one should use Equations (6.3) and (6.4) instead of (6.6) for an accurate calculation of the spectrum. The reflection principle is well known in spectroscopy (Herzberg 1950 ch.VII Tellinghuisen 1987) the review article of Tellinghuisen (1985) provides a comprehensive list of references. For a semiclassical analysis of bound-free transition matrix elements see Child (1980, 1991 ch.5), for example. 

Finally, as usual, bacteria provide an exception to the general rule. In this case the di-haem cytochrome c peroxidase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa removes its electron, not from a porphyrin, nor an amino acid, but instead from a separate high-potential haem, which is converted from Fe11 to Fe111 [22]. This proves that, at least for peroxidases, nature can manage very well without protein-bound free radicals if necessary. 

Figure 4.5 HPLC analysis of enzymatic assay with ATP in free and metal-bound forms. Separations were carried out on a reversed-phase C 8 column with a potassium phosphate mobile phase containing 10% methanol. The flow rate was 2 mL/min. Assay mixture of 100 /xL contained 8 mAf Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 2 mM ATP, and 2 mM MgCl2 and enzyme preparation containing ATP pyrophosphohydrolase (10 /xg of protein). Chromatograms of 20 /xL samples illustrate incubation of (A) zero time and (B) 2 hours. (From Jahngen and Rossomando, 1983).

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