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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-12-9
pubmed:abstractText
A number of years ago, our laboratory published a method for the isolation of small amounts of polyamines from cell culture media using the ion-exchange resin Bio-Rex 70. We have used this technique extensively to study the export of putrescine and cadaverine from cultured mammalian cells. Unfortunately, this method was highly inefficient in isolating the polyamines spermidine and spermine and was incapable of recovering the acetylated polyamine N(1)-acetylspermidine. In response to these shortcomings, we modified our previous protocol to quantitatively isolate the polyamines N(1)-acetylspermidine, putrescine, cadaverine, N(1)-acetylspermine, spermidine, and spermine. The new method, which is much faster to perform and more efficient than the one previously described, employs the use of disposable minicolumns and a single resin washing step using a weak solution of sodium carbonate at pH 9.3. This new protocol also eliminates the column elution step in favor of directly derivatizing the polyamines with dansyl chloride on the ion-exchange resin. High-performance liquid chromatography analysis of the dansylated polyamines isolated by this procedure showed that 75% of N(1)-acetylspermidine and nearly 100% of the other polyamines present in nanomolar levels were recovered from small amounts of cell culture medium. This new protocol is a valuable new tool for the study of the intracellular/extracellular dynamics of polyamine pools in cultured cells. [A detailed laboratory protocol for this procedure (containing all of the information in this paper but in a condensed form) can be requested by e-mailing the authors.]
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0003-2697
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
311
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
127-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
A streamlined method for the isolation and quantitation of nanomole levels of exported polyamines in cell culture media.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. leo.hawel@ucr.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.