Rapid L-Glutamine Measurement
Rapid, Robust and Sensitive L-Glutamine Measurment
Victoria University of Wellington researchers have developed a novel colorimetric assay for direct and specific measurement of Glutamine.
This novel colorimetric assay provides a simple, rapid and sensitive solution for L-Glutamine measurement in complex biological solutions.
This licensable technique uses a proprietary enzyme to convert L-Glutamine into a detectable blue pigment that can be quantified using standard laboratory instrumentation without relying on a secondary step to remove Glutamate from the reading.
AS Brown, KJ Robins, DF Ackerley. 2017. A sensitive single-enzyme assay system using the non-ribosomal peptide synthetase BpsA for measurement of L-glutamine in biological samples. Scientific Reports 7: 41745.
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Professor David Ackerley is the Biotechnology Programme Director at VUW. His research focuses on the discovery, engineering, and applications of useful bacterial enzymes, and discovery of new drugs from both established chemical collections and the unculturable bacterial communities present in diverse environmental samples. A major theme of his research is directed evolution, the artificial accele...
A molecular and cell biologist by trade, Ryan Graves has a wealth of experience in the crossover of science and business, including close involvement in developing novel drugs for a number of diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neuron Disease, cancer and HIV-1.After moving to the United Kingdom, where he worked for a multi-national pharmaceutical company focused on monoclonal antibody treat...