Dithionitrobenzoic Acid
"Dithionitrobenzoic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A standard reagent for the determination of reactive sulfhydryl groups by absorbance measurements. It is used primarily for the determination of sulfhydryl and disulfide groups in proteins. The color produced is due to the formation of a thio anion, 3-carboxyl-4-nitrothiophenolate.
| Descriptor ID |
D004228
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.241.223.100.600.300 D02.455.426.559.389.127.650.300
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| Concept/Terms |
Dithionitrobenzoic Acid- Dithionitrobenzoic Acid
- Acid, Dithionitrobenzoic
- Ellman's Reagent
- Ellman Reagent
- Ellmans Reagent
- Reagent, Ellman's
- 5,5'-Dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic Acid)
- DTNB
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Cribb AE, Leeder JS, Spielberg SP. Use of a microplate reader in an assay of glutathione reductase using 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid). Anal Biochem. 1989 Nov 15; 183(1):195-6.