A spectrophotometric method with 3-methyl-2-benzothiazolone hydrazone hydrochloride was developed for the determination of pyridoxal and pyridoxal 5'-phosphate, and for the selective determination of each in the presence of the other. Pyridoxal and pyridoxal 5'-phosphate react with the reagent to yield the azine derivatives, which give characteristic absorption spectra. The highest extinction v...

Aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1) activities in sera from nine healthy individuals were monitored during two weeks, both with and without first supplementing the serum with pyridoxal phosphate. Pyridoxal phosphate supplementation caused a mean increase of 39% (range, 33-55%) in measured activity. The biological variability during the two-week period was independent of pyridoxal phosphate ...

Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity was detected using bovine serum albumin (BSA)-functionalized manganese-doped zinc sulfide (Mn–ZnS) quantum dots (QDs), and the phosphate substrate vitamin-B 6 cofactor pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP).

1. Oxygen was taken up rapidly when pyridoxal or pyridoxal phosphate was added to mixtures of pea-seedling extracts and Mn(2+) ions. 2. The increases in total oxygen uptake were proportional to the pyridoxal or pyridoxal phosphate added and were accompanied by the disappearance of these compounds. 3. In addition to Mn(2+) ions, the reactions depended on two factors in the extracts, a thermolabi...

Vitamin B 6 is an important vitamin for normal brain function. The metabolism of dietary vitamin B 6 to its active cofactor pyridoxal 5´-phosphate is described. The mechanism of action of pyridoxal 5´-phosphate is described, as are some important functions in the brain. The clinical features and biochemistry of three inborn errors of metabolism affecting brain pyridoxal 5´-phosphate concentrati...

The first synthesis of 1-deaza-pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (2-formyl-3-hydroxy-4-methylbenzyl phosphate) is described. The chemoenzymatic approach described here is a reliable route to this important isosteric pyridoxal phosphate analogue. This work enables elucidation of the role of the pyridine nitrogen in pyridoxal 5'-phosphate dependent enzymes.

BACKGROUND Vitamin B1 (thiamine-diphosphate) and B6 (pyridoxal-5'phosphate) are micronutrients. Analysis of these micronutrients is important to diagnose potential deficiency which often occurs in elderly people due to malnutrition, in severe alcoholism and in gastrointestinal compromise due to bypass surgery or disease. Existing High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) based methods inclu...

The nuclear fraction of rat hepatoma-derived HTC cells contained approximately 8% of the total cellular pyridoxal 5'-phosphate. HTC cells were able to metabolize [3H]pyridoxine to coenzymatically active pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate. As HTC cells did not have any demonstrable pyridoxine-5'-phosphate oxidase activity, the conversion of pyridoxine to pyridoxal 5'-phosphate ...

1. Phospholipase C was inactivated by exposure to the three amino-group reagents, ethyl acetimidate, 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulphonic acid and pyridoxal 5'-phosphate plus reduction. 2. Inactivation by pyridoxal 5'-phosphate showed the characteristics of Schiff's base formation with the enzyme. The pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-treated enzyme after reduction had an absorbance maximum at 325nm and 6-N-pyr...

Vitamin B6 concentrations in patients with chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma Vitamin B6 is the generic term for three closely related and interconvertible compounds. Most of the vitamin B6 obtained from the diet is rapidly converted by the liver to its active coenzyme, pyridoxal-5-phosphate, which has a central role in the metabolism of amino acids. Patients with chronic liver ...