Aran Incharoensakdi
  • Chulalongkorn University
Determination of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) Content in Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Using Acid Hydrolysis Followed by High-performance Liquid Chromatography
Authors:  Janine Kaewbai-ngam, Aran Incharoensakdi and Tanakarn Monshupanee, date: 08/20/2023, view: 557, Q&A: 0

Various photoautotrophic cyanobacteria accumulate intracellular poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) granules. This protocol can be used for determining the PHB contents of the cells as % PHB weight per dry cell weight using acid hydrolysis followed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). This HPLC analysis is rapid, with a running time of approximately 5 min per sample. The technique can accurately determine PHB concentrations in the range of 2–1,000 μg/mL PHB. However, this technique is not applicable for determining the contents of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) in cyanobacteria.

Extraction and Quantification of GABA and Glutamate from Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Authors:  Simab Kanwal and Aran Incharoensakdi, date: 09/20/2016, view: 11374, Q&A: 0
GABA (γ-amino butyric acid) is a biologically active four carbon non-protein amino acid found in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Glutamate is a five carbon α-amino acid which can be converted to GABA catalyzed by the enzyme glutamate decarboxylase. In this protocol, we describe the procedure for extraction and quantification of GABA and glutamate from cells of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (hereafter Synechocystis). Apart from Synechocystis, this protocol has already been successfully tested for the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme and for the green alga Tetraspora sp. CU2551. The protocol can also be used for the analyses of other primary amino acids. We have successfully employed this protocol in our studies of GABA and glutamate analyses in Synechocystis (Kanwal and Incharoensakdi, 2016).
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