Determination of Significance:
Proteins are an important class of biomolecules found in all living organisms and are the basic substances of life. Disulfide bond is a chemical bond that connects the sulfhydryl groups of two different cysteine residues in different peptide chains or the same peptide chain. Disulfide bonds have a great influence on the structure of proteins and play a role in stabilizing the spatial structure of peptide chains in protein molecules, so it is particularly important to determine the content of protein disulfide bonds.
Measurement Principle:
Reducing agent will make the disulfide bond cleaved, the cleaved sulfhydryl group will undergo nucleophilic reaction, that is, the sulfhydryl group reacts with 5,5'-dithio-bis-nitrobenzoic acid (DTNB) to produce a yellow color compound, with a maximum absorption peak at 412 nm, according to which, we can calculate the content of the disulfide bond of the protein.
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Spectrophotometer, tabletop centrifuge, water bath, adjustable pipette, 1 mL glass cuvette, Acetone, mortar/homogenizer/ sonicator and distilled water.
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