Zahnley J C, Davis J G
Biochem J. 1973 Sep;135(1):59-61. doi: 10.1042/bj1350059.
Colorimetric determination of tryptophan in intact proteins by the acidic ninhydrin method of Gaitonde & Dovey (1970) gives high apparent tryptophan contents for proteins having high tyrosine/tryptophan ratios. Correction for this interference by tyrosine can be achieved by plotting the ratio of observed to expected tryptophan content as a function of tyrosine/tryptophan ratio for proteins of known composition. The equation of the line is: [Formula: see text] Application of this correction to chicken ovoinhibitor, which contains 17 tyrosine residues per molecule, gave results that agree with tryptophan content determined by other methods.
采用盖顿德和多韦(1970年)的酸性茚三酮法对完整蛋白质中的色氨酸进行比色测定时,对于酪氨酸/色氨酸比率较高的蛋白质,测得的色氨酸含量明显偏高。对于酪氨酸造成的这种干扰,可以通过将观察到的色氨酸含量与预期色氨酸含量之比,绘制为已知组成蛋白质的酪氨酸/色氨酸比率的函数,来进行校正。该直线方程为:[公式:见原文] 将此校正方法应用于每个分子含有17个酪氨酸残基的鸡卵清抑制剂时,得到的结果与通过其他方法测定的色氨酸含量相符。