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bryanh

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Phosphate analysis
« on: November 03, 2005, 10:59:25 AM »
Hi
I need to know a good method for organic phosphate analysis. I intend to use this for the detection of the presence of DNA (direct DNA analysis is not possible due to mitigating circumstances). So i need a method that will detect phosphate in the DNA or will decompose DNA to release the phosphate for analysis. I am thinking of molybdenum blue but i'm having trouble finding a procedure that i am sure will be able to detect phosphate in DNA.

Also a simple method for carbon and/or ribose analysis would be great too.
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Re:Phosphate analysis
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2005, 11:26:08 AM »
well...the fosfomolibdate test is quite sensitive, other test for fosfate is the MgNH4PO4 precipitation, but I can't think of any other test... ???
« Last Edit: November 03, 2005, 11:26:57 AM by Alberto_Kravina »

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Re:Phosphate analysis
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2005, 12:32:51 AM »
Is detecting the DNA spectrophotometrically not an option (DNA absorbs UV light at 260nm, 1.0AU ~ 50µg/ml)?

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Re:Phosphate analysis
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2005, 04:57:17 AM »
No due to the presence of other chemicals that also absorb at this range UV spec is not a great option.

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Re:Phosphate analysis
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2005, 04:17:17 PM »
you can determine the purity of your DNA by calculating the A(260) / A(280) - ratio
« Last Edit: November 04, 2005, 04:19:45 PM by sdekivit »

bryanh

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Re:Phosphate analysis
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2005, 10:24:03 AM »
The DNA isn't even in solution, it is (possibly) bound within a large amount of FeS, it requires acid to dissolve the FeS after which no DNA can be detected by UV which is why I am trying to analyse for the constituents of the DNA, phosphate, ribose, etc..  I thought phosphate analysis would be simple, apparently not.

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Re:Phosphate analysis
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2005, 11:08:32 AM »
Please try to digest the sample with acid and then by molybdenum blue. The detection limit can be down to 3 ppb as P.
For Carbon determination, dry the sample first and then determine the carbon by high temperature combustion under oxygen atm and pass thro the gas to soda tube.

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Re:Phosphate analysis
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2005, 04:06:45 AM »
I recall assaying for free phosphates using ammonium molybdate as a reagent, which allows for colorimetric quantitation of your phosphate concentration.  You can try googling for ammonium molybdate and phosphate assay and see what comes up.

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