Monochlorobimane is a glutathione (GSH) fluorescent cell-permeable probe. When incubated with the test cell culture, it readily enters the cells and forms a fluorescent complex. The Monochlorobimane-GSH reaction is catalyzed by glutathione-S-transferase, which is detected fluorometrically.
Monochlorobimane, also known as mBCl, is a non-fluorescent compound that forms a fluorescent complex upon reaction. The fluorescence is detected at 394/490nm.
Application
Monochlorobimane is used as a fluorescent agent in fluorometric glutathione assays. It is used to detect the principal intracellular low-molecular-weight thiols, which play a pivotal role in the defense mechanism.
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We have investigated what limits demand-driven de novo glutathione (GSH) biosynthesis in green Arabidopsis suspension culture cells. GSH is the most abundant low-molecular weight thiol in most plants and can be quantified using monochlorobimane to fluorescently label GSH in live
Xenobiotics are widely used as pesticides. The detoxification of xenobiotics frequently involves conjugation to glutathione prior to compartmentalization and catabolism. In plants, degradation of glutathione-S-conjugates is initiated either by aminoterminal or carboxyterminal amino acid cleavage catalyzed by a gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase
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Environmental science and pollution research international, 14(2), 114-122 (2007-04-26)
Numerous herbicides and xenobiotic organic pollutants are detoxified in plants to glutathione conjugates. Following this enzyme catalyzed reaction, xenobiotic GS-conjugates are thought to be compartmentalized in the vacuole of plant cells. In the present study, evidence is presented from experiments
A rapid and facile colony assay has been developed for catalytically active enzymes in combinatorial cDNA libraries of mutated glutathione transferases (GST), expressed in Escherichia coli. The basis of the method is the conjugation of glutathione (GSH) with the fluorogenic
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