| Assay Method Information | |
| | The Alizarin Assay (ARS) (Lactate) |
| Description: | The alizarin-red binding assay is a colorimetric assay used to determine the inhibition affinity of boronate compounds to glucose. The assay is based on a colour shift of alizarin-red upon binding to boronate, which shift can be followed by change in absorbance in the 330-340 nm region. For determination of the inhibitory constant (Ki) between the boronate and the carbohydrate, 400 μM of boronic acids is dissolved in a 20 mM phosphate buffer pH 7.4 under gentle stirring. Upon complete dissolution of the compound, 200 μM of Alizarin red (ARS) is added to the solution. The ARS-boronate solution is then aliquoted into a 96 multiwell plate (black, flat and clear bottom) 1:1 with appropriate carbohydrate. In particular, L-lactate solutions are prepared in a 20 mM phosphate buffer pH 7.4 at these concentrations respectively: 1000, 500, 250, 100, 50, 25, 10, 5, 2.5, 1, 0.25, 0.1 mM and 2500, 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, 5, 1, 0.5, 0.1, 0.05, 0.01 mM. The plate with ARS-boronate mixed with carbohydrate is incubated 20 minutes at room temperature. After 5 minutes of centrifugation at 4000 rpm the plate is placed in a multiwell spectrometer (Spectra Max, Molecular Devices) for absorption detection. |
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