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Aqueous humor hydrogen peroxide analysis with dichlorophenol-indophenol.

Hydrogen peroxide is now reported to be a normal aqueous humor component present, in the low microM concentration range, in the animal species which have been studied. This finding was established with the exclusive use of the dichlorophenol-indophenol method of analysis. In this procedure, aqueous humor is added to a blue, oxidized dichlorophenol-indophenol solution. The 605 nm absorbance of this solution immediately decreases in response to the reducing action of ascorbate present in the sample. The extent of reoxidation of the solution upon the addition of peroxidase, as measured by the increase in its 605 nm absorbance, can be quantitatively related to the concentration of H2O2 in the sample. A close examination of this method revealed that reduced dichlorophenol-indophenol spontaneously reoxidizes at a rate of 0.03 nmol min-1 microM-1, with generation of H2O2. H2O2 generation was unequivocally established by analysis of the temporal dependency of the absorbance increase produced by peroxidase in the absence of added H2O2 and by the sensitivity of this phenomenon to catalase. This spontaneous production of H2O2, on the other hand, cannot be attributed to ascorbate auto-oxidation because added ascorbate quantitatively reacts with dichlorophenol-indophenol, provided that an excess of the latter is maintained. This method then has an enormous potential to overestimate H2O2 in any sample. On the other hand, the response of the assay system to a given level of H2O2 depends on the level of reduction previously produced by ascorbate. This results in an artifactual positive correlation between ascorbate and H2O2 levels in samples containing variable amounts of ascorbate. In spite of these serious limitations the method can still be useful to measure H2O2 if appropriate precautions are taken. When using it for the analysis of rabbit aqueous humor H2O2 without correcting for the H2O2 generated during the assay and ignoring differences in the level of ascorbate in the samples, we obtained an average value of 25.3 microM H2O2, which coincides with that reported in the literature for the rabbit, but is obviously incorrect. When analysing aqueous humor there was the additional variable of the aqueous humor itself inhibiting the rate of dichlorophenol-indophenol auto-oxidation and so the final, corrected figure for H2O2 concentration in the aqueous humor became uncertain, since the auto-oxidation of the substrate could not be properly subtracted.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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The linkage of genes for the human interferon-induced antiviral protein and indophenol oxidase-B traits to chromosome G-21.

13 independent mouse-human somatic cell hybrid clones derived from beta-propiolactone-inactivated Sendai stimulated cell fusion of human cells with mouse cells were tested for their sensitivities to human and mouse interferon. All of them were protected by mouse interferon and only six of the clones were protected by both human and mouse interferon. Only the six that were protected by human interferon were shown to express the human dimeric form of indophenol oxidase. Complete chromosomal analysis of the clones indicated human chromosome G-21 to be the only human chromosome in common for the six clones which had both phenotypes present. Nine subclones were derived from one of the clones expressing both phenotypes. Eight of the nine subclones were shown to retain both phenotypes, whereas one subclone lost both. Chromosomal analysis of the subclones indicated the loss of chromosome G-21 from the subclone which lost both phenotypes. It is apparent from these findings that the gene(s) for indophenol oxidase (IPO-B) and the gene(s) for the antiviral protein are syntenic and that they are linked to human chromosome G-21.

Animals

Mitochondrial membrane-linked reactions in carcinogenesis: change in steroselective uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation by aliphatic dicarbonyls and in the Arrhenius plot of NADH-indophenol reductase.

The previously observed alterations in the energy transducing system of rat liver mitochondria during 3'-methyl-4-(dimethylamino)azobenzene (3'-Me-DAB) carcinogenesis were investigated using aliphatic dicarbonyl compounds as molecular probes and the effect of temperature on the membrane-linked NADH-indophenol reductase. The vicinal diketone, diacetyl, uncouples oxidative phosphorylation in normal rat liver mitochondria while the higher diketones, acetylacetone and acetonylacetone, are increasingly less effective in that order; diacetyl totally abolishes respiratory control with substrates the oxidation of which involves the NADH leads to CoQ segment, but only partially with succinate which bypasses this segment. Diacetyl, likewise, uncouples oxidative phosphorylation in liver mitochondria from rats fed 3'-Me-DAB, but the mitochondria are most resistant to this uncoupling (in terms of the P/O ratio) at the time period when the respiratory control index (determined in the absence of diacetyl) is at the dye-induced minmum. This time period is at 3 to 4 weeks of dye administration, representing the cumulative dose for tumorigenesis threshold. At this threshold period of feeding 3'-Me-DAB, discontinuities in the Arrhenius plot of the mitochondrial membrane-localized NADH-indophenol reductase appear, with a return toward the control state (no break) at 8 weeks, only to reappear in the plot of the enzyme from tumor mitochondria, suggesting sequential membrane phase transitions in the mitochondria during azo dye carcinogenesis.

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Reduction of exogenous quinones and 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol in cytochrome b-deficient yeast mitochondria: a differential effect on center i and center o of the cytochrome b-c1 complex.

The reduction of duroquinone (DQ), 2,3-dimethoxy-5-methyl-6-decyl-1,4-benzoquinone (DB), and dichlorophenol indophenol (DCIP) by succinate and NADH was investigated in yeast mitochondria which have no spectrally detectable cytochrome b. Succinate reduces DB in the cytochrome b-deficient mitochondria at rates comparable to that observed in wild-type mitochondria, suggesting that succinate:ubiquinone oxidoreductase is unaffected by the lack of cytochrome b. In the mutant mitochondria, succinate does not reduce DQ or DCIP at significant rates; however, NADH reduces both DQ and DCIP at rates similar to that of the wild-type mitochondria in a myxothiazol, but not antimycin, sensitive reaction. The Ki for myxothiazol in this reaction is close to that for electron transfer through the cytochrome b-c1 complex. In addition, myxothiazol does not inhibit NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase. These results confirm our previous suggestion that the cytochrome b-c1 complex is involved in electron transfer from the primary dehydrogenases to DQ and DCIP and suggest that cytochrome b is not the binding site for myxothiazol.

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[Activation, by various aldoses, of dichlorophenol-indophenol reduction by endogenous constituents of a preparation of glucose dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas fluorescens].

Dichlorophenol-indophenol is reduced neither by D-glucose nor by the endogenous components of a particulate purified glucose-dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas fluorescens, when these two classes of compounds acts individually. In contrast, the dye is quickly reduced by the endogenous components when the reaction occurs in the presence of glucose, without a direct participation of glucose in the reduction. In this effect D-glucose can be replaced by D-mannose, D-galactose or D-xylose, but not by D-fructose.

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Aids for in vitro Mycobacterium lepraemurium investigations: estimation of oxidation-reduction potentials and pO2 with 2, 6 dichlorophenol indophenol.

The partial success in cultivating a "host-dependent" microbe provided the incentive to develop methods which may aid the growth of the organism. The oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) of NC-5, an aerobic, cysteine containing medium which supports the limited in vitro growth of Mycobacterium lepraemurium, is measurable with the redox dye, 2, 6 dichlorophenol indophenol. Both cysteine and autoclaved glucose can be used to adjust to ORP. Glucose autoclaved in phosphate buffer but not in aqueous solutions reduced the dye. The dye was also reduced in glucose solutions by atmospheres containing 10% and 1%-2% pO2. With exposure to 20% pO2 the reoxidation of the dye was slow but complete. Thus, the dye in glucose solutions provides a general method for estimating pO2 above the level of anaerobiosis. Proper adjustment and monitoring of the ORP and pO2 may enhance growth.

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[The influence of infusions and amino-acids on the determination of ammonia by means of indophenol-reaction (author's transl)].

It will analyse and discuss the influence of fructose-, glucose-, sorbitol- and argininmalat-infusions, of ascorbit acid and vitamin-B-complex as well as of 13 different amino-acids on the determination of ammonia by means of indophenol-reaction. With this the frequent of liver-cirrhosis i.v. administer substances trouble the determination of ammonia just as little (exception: arginin-malat), how amino-acids in physiological and little pathological range.

Amino Acids

The role of chloride ion on the photoreactivation of the oxygen-evolving center of tris-washed, 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol-treated grana.

Chloride ion is found to be an essential factor in photoreactivation of the oxygen-evolving center. Tris-washed, 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol-treated grana are low in both Mn content and oxygen-evolving activity. These grana can restore high oxygen-evolving activity, however, by incorporating Mn2+ ion under weak light in the presence of chloride and calcium ions with dithiothreitol. This restoration is called photoreactivation. When chloride ion is omitted from the medium for the photoreactivation, the recovery of oxygen-evolving activity is inhibited. Other anions, such as bromide and nitrate anions, could also mediate the reactivation; but, anions of weak acids or polyvalent strong acids were not effective. Chloride ion is also required in the light-induced H+ and Mn2+ uptake of these grana, which are essential partial reactions for the reactivation. It is therefore concluded that chloride ion plays an important role in the photoreactivation.

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