Journal
ACTA BIOMATERIALIA
Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages 3146-3151Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2010.02.004
Keywords
Hydroxyproline assay; Sircol assay; Collagen content; Sirius red; Ultrafiltration
Funding
- Provost's Office, National University of Singapore
- Faculty Research Committee of the Faculty of Engineering
- Life Science Institute
- Science Foundation Ireland
- National University of Ireland, Galway
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Collagen contains the unique imino acid hydroxyproline (HyPro). which is involved in the stabilization of this triple helical molecule The concentration of HyPro is customarily used to calculate the total collagen content in a cell culture environment and in acid hydrolysates of normal and pathophysiological tissues. Radiolabelling, chromatographic and calorimetric assays have been developed over the years for the accurate determination of collagen content through HyPro estimation Recently, the Sircol Collagen Assay (SCA) has been almost exclusively adopted as the fastest and simplest colorimetric method for the determination of collagen concentration in complex protein solutions We show here that the colorimetric SCA, which is based on the binding of Sinus red (SR) to collagen, is flawed by interference of non-collagenous proteins (e g scrum) In fact, we demonstrate that SCA in cell culture systems and tissue hydrolysates results in a dramatic overestimation of collagen content ranging from 3- to 24-fold In order to rescue this otherwise very practical assay, we introduce a simple purification procedure that allows the removal of interfering non-collagenous proteins from culture media and tissue samples so that accurate measurements with SCA are now possible (C) 2010 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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