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Preparation and Use of PAL and OAL
When you receive your order of probes, complete the following three steps IMMEDIATELY : 1. FREEZE (at -70°C if possible) THE PROBES Preparation of stock solution for the Probes: The probe is lyophilized in measuring buffer plus 1 mM EDTA and 0.05% sodium azide. Simply resuspend the lyophilized probe in enough deionized/distilled (DI) water to give a final concentration of 100 µM. Measuring Buffer: The measuring buffer consists of 20 mM HEPES, 140 mM NaCl, 5 mM KCl, and 1 mM Na2HPO4. The pH at room temperature equals 7.4 ± 0.1. Store the measuring buffer at 4ºC. The recommended concentration of each probe to be used in the measuring buffer is approximately 0.5 µM. The concentration can be increased or decreased depending on the efficiency of the fluorometer used. Cuvettes: Cuvettes made of glass or quartz are recommended
for a measurement using one of the probes. These cuvettes must be very
clean and all traces of soap rinsed away. A final rinse of ethanol and
then drying under a nitrogen stream is recommended. Disposable cuvettes
can also be used. Plastic cuvettes made of polystyrene from Sarstedt (cat#
67.741) have been found to work well with our probes. However acrylic
cuvettes can leach a substance that reacts with the probe. Cuvettes made
of other materials can be easily tested by determining if the probe ratio
changes over time. Assay Method: You can determine unbound free fatty acid levels in an aqueous solution with a simple, one step procedure: add a small amount of the reagent to a solution suspected of containing unbound free fatty acid and measure the resulting fluorescence. The excitation wavelength for the probes is 375 nm and the emission wavelengths are 550 and 457 nm. Characteristics
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