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Study of interfering substances in a simple, new spectrophotometric assay for phenylalanine ammonia-lyase. 1987

N U Khan, and A V Kamath, and C S Vaidyanathan

A study of interfering substances in a new spectrophotometric assay for phenylalanine ammonia-lyase has been made. None of the commonly interfering compounds interfere in the assay to any significant extent. The assay has been employed for the partial purification of the enzyme from mint leaves (Mentha viridis'L).

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007202	Indicators and Reagents	Substances used for the detection, identification, analysis, etc. of chemical, biological, or pathologic processes or conditions. Indicators are substances that change in physical appearance, e.g., color, at or approaching the endpoint of a chemical titration, e.g., on the passage between acidity and alkalinity. Reagents are substances used for the detection or determination of another substance by chemical or microscopical means, especially analysis. Types of reagents are precipitants, solvents, oxidizers, reducers, fluxes, and colorimetric reagents. (From Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed, p301, p499)	Indicator,Reagent,Reagents,Indicators,Reagents and Indicators
D007700	Kinetics	The rate dynamics in chemical or physical systems.
D010650	Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase	An enzyme that catalyzes the deamination of PHENYLALANINE to form trans-cinnamate and ammonia.	Phenylalanine-Tyrosine Ammonia-lyase,Ammonia-Lyase, Phenylalanine,Ammonia-lyase, Phenylalanine-Tyrosine,Phenylalanine Ammonia Lyase,Phenylalanine Tyrosine Ammonia lyase
D010944	Plants	Multicellular, eukaryotic life forms of kingdom Plantae. Plants acquired chloroplasts by direct endosymbiosis of CYANOBACTERIA. They are characterized by a mainly photosynthetic mode of nutrition; essentially unlimited growth at localized regions of cell divisions (MERISTEMS); cellulose within cells providing rigidity; the absence of organs of locomotion; absence of nervous and sensory systems; and an alternation of haploid and diploid generations. It is a non-taxonomical term most often referring to LAND PLANTS. In broad sense it includes RHODOPHYTA and GLAUCOPHYTA along with VIRIDIPLANTAE.	Plant
D000642	Ammonia-Lyases	Enzymes that catalyze the formation of a carbon-carbon double bond by the elimination of AMMONIA. EC 4.3.1.	Ammonia Lyase,Ammonia-Lyase,Ammonia Lyases,Lyase, Ammonia
D013056	Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet	Determination of the spectra of ultraviolet absorption by specific molecules in gases or liquids, for example Cl2, SO2, NO2, CS2, ozone, mercury vapor, and various unsaturated compounds. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)	Ultraviolet Spectrophotometry