| Literature DB >> 24764280 |
Elizabeth L Smith1, Carolyn R Bertozzi, Kimberly E Beatty.
Abstract
Fluorogenic probes that are activated by an enzymatic transformation are ideally suited for profiling enzyme activities in biological systems. Here, we describe two fluorogenic enzyme probes, 3-O-methylfluorescein-sulfate and resorufin-sulfate, that can be used to detect sulfatases in mycobacterial lysates. Both probes were validated with a set of commercial sulfatases and used to reveal species-specific sulfatase banding patterns in a gel-resolved assay of mycobacterial lysates. The fluorogenic probes described here are suitable for various assays and provide a starting point for creating new sulfatase probes with improved selectivity for mycobacterial sulfatases.Entities:
Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; fluorescent probes; hydrolases; protein imaging; sulfatases
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24764280 PMCID: PMC4084507 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201400032
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chembiochem ISSN: 1439-4227 Impact factor: 3.164