A Spectrophotometric Method for the Assay of Carbonic Anhydrase Activity.

Blood carbonic anhydrase activity in the newborn.

Logan, R. W., Crooks, S. M., Hutchison, J. H., and Kerr, M. M. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 256. Blood carbonic anhydrase activity in the newborn. Erythrocyte carbonic anhydrase activity was measured in 7 adults, 12 mature newborn infants, 12 preterm low birthweight infants, 9 'dysmature' infants, 33 infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), and 5 infants who had re...

A Novel Stopped-Flow Assay for Quantitating Carbonic-Anhydrase Activity and Assessing Red-Blood-Cell Hemolysis

We report a novel carbonic-anhydrase (CA) assay and its use for quantitating red-blood-cell (RBC) lysis during stopped-flow (SF) experiments. We combine two saline solutions, one containing HEPES/pH 7.03 and the other, ~1% CO2/44 mM [Formula: see text]/pH 8.41, to generate an out-of-equilibrium CO2/[Formula: see text] solution containing ~0.5% CO2/22 [Formula: see text]/pH ~7.25 (10°C) in the S...

Targeting carbonic anhydrase IX activity and expression.

Metastatic tumors are often hypoxic exhibiting a decrease in extracellular pH (~6.5) due to a metabolic transition described by the Warburg Effect. This shift in tumor cell metabolism alters the tumor milieu inducing tumor cell proliferation, angiogenesis, cell motility, invasiveness, and often resistance to common anti-cancer treatments; hence hindering treatment of aggressive cancers. As a re...

Carbonic Anhydrase Activity during Embryonic Development

Assay of carbonic anhydrase by titration at constant pH.

1. A method is described for measuring accurately the initial velocity of the hydration reaction catalysed by the enzyme carbonic anhydrase (EC 4.2.1.1); the method depends on the titration of H(+) ions at constant pH. 2. Human erythrocyte carbonic anhydrase, isoenzyme C, was used to illustrate the method. Under the experimental conditions employed (0 degrees , pH7.0, in the presence of 45mm-so...