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Composition-and-method-for-the-determination-of-cholesterol

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Composition and method for the determination of cholesterol

Details

Inventors: Gruber, Wolfgang; Lang, Gunter; Nelboeck-Hochstetter, Michael; Roeschlau, Peter; Seidel, Hans; von Hoerschelmann, Detlef;
Assignee: Boehringer Mannheim GmbH (Mannheim-Waldhof, DE)
Primary Examiner: Wiseman; Thomas G.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sprung, Felfe, Horn, Lynch & Kramer

In a process for the determination of total or bound cholesterol by liberating any bound cholesterol using cholesterol esterase and simultaneously or subsequently determining the liberated cholesterol and any initially free cholesterol with a cholesterol reacting enzyme, the improvement comprising using as the cholesterol reacting enzyme an NAD or NADP-dependent cholesterol dehydrogenase obtained from an anaerobic microorganism, e.g., Eubacterium sp. ATCC 21408, or from mammalian tissue, e.g., liver.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
In a cholesterol assay wherein a sample suspected of containing bound cholesterol is treated with cholesterol esterase to liberate cholesterol and the liberated cholesterol is subsequently or simultaneously measured by its enzymatic conversion to cholesterase using a cholesterol reacting enzyme, the improvement comprises using as the cholesterol reacting enzyme a NAD- or NADP-dependent cholesterol dehydrogenase obtained from either an anaerobic microorganism or from a mammalian liver.
2.
Improvement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cholesterol esterase and the NAD- or NADP-dependent cholesterol dehydrogenase are added simultaneously to the sample to be determined.
3.
Improvement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cholesterol dehydrogenase used is obtained from Eubacterium sp.
ATCC 21408.
4.
Improvement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cholesterol dehydrogenase is obtained by the mechanical digestion of the anaerobic micro-organism in the absence of surface-active agents, followed by separation of the insoluble components.
5.
Improvement as claimed in claim 1 wherein a purified NAD- or NADP-dependent cholesterol dehydrogenase preparation precipitated by the addition of ammonium sulfate up to a concentration of 3.
1 M is used.
6.
Improvement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cholesterol dehydrogenase from an anaerobic microorganism which has been cultured in oxygen-free atmosphere in a nutrient medium containing a thioglycolate and a 3-.
beta.
-OH group containing steroid is used.
7.
Improvement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cholestenone formed by action of the cholesterol reacting enzyme on the liberated cholesterol is determined as a measure of the cholesterol initially present.
8.
Improvement as claimed in claim 1 wherein NAD or NADP is also added and the NADH or NADPH formed, upon formation of cholestenone by action of said cholesterol reacting enzyme on said liberated cholesterol, by transfer of the hydrogen released thereby to said NAD or NADP, is determined as a measure of the initial cholesterol content

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