Application

• For quantitative determination of L-malate dehydrogenase enzyme activity and drug effects on malate dehydrogenase metabolism.

Key Features

• Fast and sensitive. Linear detection range (20 µL sample): 0.5 to 65 U/L for 20 min reaction at 37°C.
• Convenient and high-throughput. Homogeneous “mix-incubate-measure” type assay. Can be readily automated on HTS liquid handling systems for processing thousands of samples per day.

Method

• OD565nm

Samples

• Biological samples (e.g. plasma, serum, erythrocytes, tissue and culture media)

Species

• All

Procedure

• 30 min

Size

• 100 tests

Detection Limit

• 0.5 U/L

Shelf Life

• 6 months

More Details

• Malate dehydrogenase (MDH) (EC 1.1.1.37) is an enzyme which reversibly catalyzes the oxidation of L-malate to oxaloacetate in the presence of NAD. There are 2 isoforms in eukaryotic cells: MDH1 and MDH2. MDH1 found in the cytoplasm and plays a key part in the malate-aspartate shuttle for transporting malate into the mitochondria. MDH2 is a mitochondrial enzyme which participates in the TCA cycle that reversibly converts L-malate into oxaloacetate. Higher MDH activities are found in some neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease. BioAssay Systems’ non-radioactive, colorimetric MDH assay is based on the reduction of the tetrazolium salt MTT in a NADH-coupled enzymatic reaction to a reduced form of MTT which exhibits an absorption maximum at 565 nm. The increase in absorbance at 565 nm is proportional to the enzyme activity.

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Venkat, S. (2020). Implications of lysine acetylation on the enzymes of the tca cycle. Theses and Dissertations. Assay: Malate Dehydrogenase in purified malate dehydrogenase.

Venkat, S. et al (2017). Genetically encoding thioacetyl-lysine as a non-deacetylatable analog of lysine acetylation in Escherichia coli. FEBS open bio, 7(11), 1805-1814. Assay: Malate dehydrogenase in E.coli cell lysate.

Gan, Q, Lehman, BP, Bobik, TA and Fan, C ( 2016) Expanding the genetic code of Salmonella with non-canonical amino acids. Sci Rep 6, 39920. Assay: Malate dehydrogenase in Salmonella cell lysate.

Fan, C et al (2015). rationally evolving tRNAPyl for efficient incorporation of noncanonical amino acids. Nucl. Acids Res. 43(22):e156. Assay: Malate dehydrogenase in E.coli cells.

Trivedi, AK et al (2015). Adaptation of oxidative phosphorylation to photoperiod-induced seasonal metabolic states in migratory songbirds. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 184: 34-40. Assay: Malate dehydrogenase in avian plasma.

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