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Biochem (Lab) - Experiment 2a & 2b
Biochem (Lab) - Experiment 2a & 2b
Objectives
✓ Hopkins-Cole Test
- Test for indole group, tryptophan (Nucum,
2005)
- Reagent: Hopkin’s Cole reagent and conc.
H2SO4
- Positive Result: purple ring at the interface
✓ Biuret Test
of two liquids
- General test for proteins, detecting dipeptide
- Dehydration of tryptophan, only amino acid
bonds (Nucum, 2005)
with indole group
- Reagents: – KOH, hydrated CuSO4,
- Reacts with reagent glyoxylic acid in
Potassium sodium tartarate
presence of H2SO4
- Positive result: Violet solution
- Blue color of basic solution of Cu2+ turns to
a violet color when a tripeptide or larger
peptide is present.
- The NaOH is there to raise the pH of the
solution to alkaline. ----
✓ Sakaguchi Test
- Test for guandine group, arginine
- Reagent: α- Napthol and a drop of sodium
hypobromite
- Positive Result: red-colored complex
solution; in alkaline solution react with
✓ Ninhydrin Test
sodium hypobromite as oxidizing agent.
- General test for proteins except proline
(Nucum, 2005)
(yellow) (Hunt, n.d.)
- Test for the -NH2 group in free amino acid;
- Positive result: a deep blue or purple color
solution
- Reagent: Ninhydrin degrades amino acids
into aldehydes ammonia and CO2 (on pH
range 4-8) (Perret & Nayuni, 2014)
- Ninhydrin then condenses with ammonia
and hydrindantin to produce an intensely
blue or purple pigment (Ruhemann’s
purple)
BIOCHEMISTRY - LECTURE PRELIMINARY
SAKAGUCHI TEST
XANTHOPROTEIC TEST
✓ Reagents- 1 % tyrosine, 1 %
tryptophan, 1 % phenylalanine, 5 % egg
white (albumin), Nitric acid, 40 %
NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide)
✓ Positive result – dark yellow or
orange colored solution
BIURET TEST
proteins function optimally at body attraction for sulfur and which lead to
temperature (37 degree centigrade) the denaturation of protein
✓ Heavy metals can disrupt bonds in the
EFFECT OF ALCOHOL
protein, causing it to lose its structure
✓ Hydrogen bonding occurs between ✓ Salts of heavy metals such as mercury
amide groups in the secondary protein and lead may be used to denaturation
structure interact with a protein’s functional side
✓ Hydrogen bonding between “side chain groups to form complexes.
chains” occurs in tertiary protein ✓ Heavy metals also oxidize the protein’s
structure in a variety of amino acid amino acid side chains
combinations ✓ Heavy metals (e.g., Hg2+, Pb2+, Cu2+)
✓ Alcohol denatures proteins by are high molecular weight cations
disrupting the side chain ✓ (+) charge of cations counteracts the (-
intramolecular hydrogen bonding ) charge of the carboxylate group in
✓ New hydrogen bonds are formed proteins giving a precipitate
instead between the new alcohol
molecule and the protein side chains
✓ 70% alcohol solution is used as a
disinfectant on the skin
✓ 70% of alcohol is able to penetrate the
bacterial cell wall and denature the
proteins and enzymes inside of the cell
✓ 95% alcohol solution merely
coagulates the protein on the outside
of the cell wall and prevents any
alcohol from entering the cell