Determination of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity in milk by a fluorometric assay

Author:

Larsen Torben

Abstract

Indigenous L-lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in milk originates mainly from somatic cells, leucocytes and invading microorganisms. Its activity may be used for detection of mastitis. However, existing methods to measure LDH activity in milk both need pretreatment of the samples and still suffer from methodological problems. The present paper describes a fast, reliable method for determination of LDH activity, suitable for milk samples. The method is based on fluorometric determination of enzyme kinetics when L-lactate is converted to pyruvate. The assay uses raw milk without pretreatment and the method is easily adjustable to large-scale analyses on micro assay plates. Detection is based on (straight line) linear response within 4–7 min of initiation of the reaction. A substrate concentration of 35 mM in the reaction mixture was considered to be optimal for the assay. Intra plate assay precision was approx. 6% (CV) and the inter plate precision approx. 10%. Known inhibitors of LDH activity (oxidative direction), i.e., oxalic acid, oxamate, and pyruvate, were tested in different concentrations in order to verify the specificity of the response. The detailed kinetics of samples analysed indicated that the isoenzyme composition may have differed between milk samples, and that this composition may have been altered in high activity samples.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology,General Medicine,Food Science

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