Proteins hydroperoxide determination

GrintzaUs, K., Zisimopoulos, D., Grune, T., Weber, D., and Georgiou, C. D. 2013. Method for the simultaneous determination of free/protein malondialdehyde and Upid/protein hydroperoxides. 59, 27-35. 

This test is used for both in vitro and in vivo determinations. It involves reacting thiobarbituric acid (TBA) with malondialdehyde (MDA), produced by lipid hydroperoxide decomposition, to form a red chromophore with peak absorbance at 532 nm (Fig. 10.1). The TBARS reaction is not specific. Many other substances, including other alkanals, proteins, sucrose, or urea, may react with TBA to form colored species that can interfere with this assay. 

Concerning the mode of formation of ES, we prefer the concept that the substrate in a monolayer is chemisorbed to the active center of the enzyme protein, just as the experimental evidence pertaining to surface catalysis by inorganic catalysts indicates that in these reactions chemisorbed, not physically adsorbed, reactants are involved. Such a concept is supported by the demonstration of spectroscopically defined unstable intermediate compounds between enzyme and substrate in the decomposition by catalase of ethyl hydroperoxide,11 and in the interaction between peroxidase and hydrogen peroxide.18 Recently Chance18 determined by direct photoelectric measurements the dissociation con-... 

By definition POV is the number of miliequivalents of active oxygen per kilogram of sample" , or in some cases the number of micrograms of active oxygen in one gram of sample, capable of oxidizing iodide to iodine" °°. Many of the methods described in Section V for determination of hydroperoxide classes or individual compounds can also be applied for determination of POV, as total hydroperoxides. The iodometric determination of hydroperoxides in lipids and proteins has been reviewed . 

The iodometric determination of hydroperoxides in lipids and proteins has been reviewed . Although the standard AOCS iodometric method for POV accounts for the peroxides present in the sample, interference is possible from the action of air that causes liberation of additional I2, or other moieties present in solution that may react with I2. Thus, alternative methods have been proposed for the determination of this important parameter, such as the analytical kits in Table 2, other spectrocolorimetric... 

Hydroperoxides may be determined by measuring at 290 nm (e = 44100 M cm ) or 360 nm (e = 28000 cm ) the concentration of 13 formed in the presence of a large excess of ions. The reaction may be too slow for practical purposes, unless a catalyst is present. For example, an assay for lipid hydroperoxides conducted without a catalyst may require several measurements every 6 min until the absorbance reaches a maximum. Exclusion of air from the sample cuvette is important. The method is about 1000-fold more sensitive than thiosulfate titration The iodometric method with UVD at 360 was adopted for detecting the presence of hydroperoxides derived from protein, peptide or amino acid substrates subjected to y-radiation, after destroying the generated H2O2 with catalase. ... 

Reactive aldehydes derived from lipid peroxidation, which are able to bind to several amino acid residues, are also capable of generating novel amino acid oxidation products. By means of specific polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies, the occurrence of malonaldehyde (MDA) and 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) bound to cellular protein has been shown. Lysine modification by lipid peroxidation products (linoleic hydroperoxide) can yield neo-antigenic determinants such as N-c-hexanoyl lysine. Both histidine and lysine are nucleophilic amino acids and therefore vulnerable to modification by lipid peroxidation-derived electrophiles, such as 2-alkenals, 4-hydroxy-2-alkenals, and ketoaldehydes, derived from lipid peroxidation. Histidine shows specific reactivity toward 2-alkenals and 4-hydroxy-2-alkenals, whereas lysine is an ubiquitous target of aldehydes, generating various types of adducts. Covalent binding of reactive aldehydes to histidine and lysine is associated with the appearance of carbonyl reactivity and antigenicity of proteins [125]. 

The most popular method involves 2-thiobarbituric acid (TBA) two molecules of 2-thiobarbituric acid are condensed with malonaldehyde. The emergent chromogen — the two tautomeric structures of the red TBA-malonaldehyde adduct — is determined at 532 nm, and also often at 450 nm, to determine aUcenals and aUcanals, respectively. The qualitative Kreis test was based on a similar principle it involved detection of the epihydrine aldehyde — a tautomeric malondialdehyde — in a color reaction with resorcine or phloroglucinol. The popularity of the TBA test stems from a correlation between the results and sensory evaluations. Paradoxically, this is related to the most important drawback of the TBA technique — its lack of specificity. In addition to the reaction with malonaldehyde, TBA forms compounds of identical color with other aldehydes and ketones, products of aldehyde interaction with nitrogen compounds, and also with saccharides, ascorbic acid, creatine, creatinine, trimethylamine oxide, trimethylamine, proteins, and amino acids. For this reason, the TBA test may even be treated as a proteolysis indicator (Kolakowska and Deutry, 1983). Recently, TBA-reactive substances (TEARS) were introduced, primarily to stress that the reaction involves hydroperoxides in addition to aldehydes. Due to the nonspecificity of the TEARS test, its results reflect the rancidity of food better than other conventional methods, especially off-flavor, which is caused by volatiles from lipids as well as being affected by products of lipids interaction with nitrogenous compounds. 

Casein has been found to be an excellent candidate to produce oil-in-water emulsions that have both high physical and oxidative stability. The differences in the physical properties and oxidative stability of com oil-in-water emulsions stabilized by casein, WPI, or SPI at pH 3.0, have been investigated. Emulsions have been prepared with 5 per cent com oil and 0.2-1.5 per cent protein. Physically stable, monomodal emulsions have been prepared with 1.5 per cent casein, 1.0 or 1.5 per cent SPI, and 2=0.5 per cent WPI. The oxidation stability of the different protein-stabilized emulsions was in the order of casein > WPI > SPI, as determined by monitoring both lipid hydroperoxide and headspace hexanal formation. The degree of positive charge on the protein-stabilized emulsion droplets was not the only factor involved in the inhibition of lipid oxidation, because the charge of the emulsion droplets... 

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