A method for the determination of protein in urine by means of the biuret reaction was described by Hiller (1) and by Hiller, McIntosh, and Van Slyke (2), in which pure biuret prepared by Kahlbaum was used as a standard for visual calorimetry. Since Hiller (1) the biuret method has been used for the determination of urinary proteins by Price (3) and by Lehmann (4), and has been widely used in m...

BACKGROUND Assay of total serum protein by the biuret method calibrated with albumin standards according to the reference method provides results with a positive bias approximately 3%-5% exceeding the total error of 3.4% allowable for total protein in serum analysis made by analysers using two-part reagents and short-term procedures. METHODS We used two types of two-part biuret reagents utili...

OBJECTIVES Refractometric methods to measure total protein (TP) in serum and plasma specimens have been replaced by automated biuret methods in virtually all routine clinical testing. A subset of laboratories, however, still report using refractometry to measure TP in conjunction with serum protein electrophoresis. The objective of this study was therefore to conduct a modern performance evalua...

The Biuret, Ultraviolet and Lowry techniques for the determination of total protein content were compared in 31 samples of patient serum and in 30 rat heart tissue homogenates. Statistically significant differences were found to exist between values obtained with each method. Human serum and heart homogenate protein were both lowest when assayed by the Lowry procedure, while serum and homogenat...

The degradative pathway of cyanuric acid [1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-trione] was examined in Pseudomonas sp. strain D. The bacterium grew with cyanuric acid, biuret, urea or NH4+ as sole source of nitrogen, and each substrate was entirely metabolized concomitantly with growth. Enzymes from strain D were separated by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and three reactions were examined. Cyanuri...

BACKGROUND Recently, biuret derivatives have been reported as showing moderate to good cytotoxic effect against certain cancer cell lines. In this study, a high-performance liquid chromatography method was developed for determination of 1-(2-phenylethyl)-5-(quinaldin-4-yl) biuret (PEQB) in rat plasma to use in future studies on this compound and related derivatives. OBJECTIVES In this study, ...