Hydrolysis products, paper chromatogram

Figure 13. Taper chromatogram of the hydrolysis products from cello-oligosaccharides by Ex-1. Developed by the descending technique for 72 hr at room temperature on Whatman No. 1 paper, using 1-butanol pyridine water (6 4 3, v/v) as a solvent (S) standard, (Gt) glucose, (Ge) cellobiose, (Gs) cellotriose, (Gu) cellotetraose, (G5) cellopentaose, (G6) cellohexaose final enzyme concentration 3.0 X 10 2%.

Techniques. In 1962, McKinley and Read (42) developed an esterase-inhibition technique for the detection of organophosphate pesticide residues on paper chromatograms. The procedure involved conversion of the thiophosphates with bromine to yield active esterase inhibitors, the inhibition by the pesticide of the esterases from a beef liver homogenate sprayed onto the chromatogram, the hydrolysis of the substrate (a-naph-thyl acetate) which was sprayed onto the paper after the liver homogenate had dried, and the development of a background color between Fast Blue RR and the hydrolysis product, a-naphthol. 

These investigators (100) made use of this method to follow the in vitro hydrolysis of succinyldicholine by horse serum cholinesterase. Previous studies had established conditions such that the components of the incubation mixture and all possible hydrolysis products—succinyldicholine, choline, and succinic acid—could be easily separated and detected on paper chromatograms. 

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