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Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit (ab109878)

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ELISA - Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit (ab109878)
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  • Functional Studies - Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit - 90 tests (ab109878)

Overview

  • Product name

    Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit
    See all Complex IV kits
  • Sample type

    Cell culture extracts, Tissue
  • Assay type

    Sandwich (quantitative)
  • Species reactivity

    Reacts with: Mouse, Rat
  • Product overview

    ab109878(MS432) contains 30 or 90 dipsticks and necessary components to quantify the activity of the cytochrome c oxidase enzyme complex from mouse and rat samples. The kit includes sufficient materials to generate a standard curve and evaluate several unknown samples.



    Using an antibody immobilized on the dipstick that specifically recognizes COX, the enzyme complex is immno-captured (i.e immuno-precipitated in active form) and enzyme activity is determined directly on the dipstick. Using a traditional method for determining COX enzyme activity by histo-chemical methods and in-gel activity assays, Di-amino benzidinetetrachloride (DAB) serves as the reporter of COX activity. The greater the signal of precipitated DAB, the greater the amount of COX enzyme complex. In addition, the reaction is cyanide sensitive. The signal intensity is best measured by a dipstick reader or may be analyzed by another imaging system.

  • Notes

    Store dipsticks at room temperature in their provided container and out of direct sunlight.

    High humidity conditions should be avoided.

    Store Buffer A, B, and C at 4°C or at -20°C for long term storage.

    Store Tubes 1 and 2 at -20°C or at -80°C for long term storage; they can also be aliquoted upon receipt to prevent freeze/thaw cycles.

    Tube 3 can be stored at room temperature.


    Range of complex IV / cytochrome c oxidase assay kits

    Biochemical assay - ab239711

    Immunocapture with biochemical assay (plate-based) - ab109911 (rodent)  and ab109909 (human)

    Immunocapture with biochemical assay (dipstick) - ab109878 (rodent) (this kit) and ab109876 (human)

    Immunocapture with biochemical assay and ELISA - ab109910 (human) 

    ELISA - ab179880 (human)

  • Tested applications

    Suitable for: Functional Studiesmore details
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Properties

  • Storage instructions

    Please refer to protocols.
  • Components 30 tests
    96-well microplate 2 units
    Buffer B (10X Blocking solution) 1 x 2ml
    Dipsticks 1 x 30 units
    Extraction Buffer (ab260490) 1 x 15ml
    Tube 1 (DAB 100X stock) 1 x 100µl
    Tube 2 (reduced cytochrome c 20X stock) 1 x 500µl
    Tube 3 (Buffer for activity assay) 1 x 10ml
    Wash buffer 1 x 2ml
  • Research areas

    • Signal Transduction
    • Metabolism
    • Mitochondrial
    • Metabolism
    • Pathways and Processes
    • Mitochondrial Metabolism
    • Mitochondrial markers
    • Metabolism
    • Pathways and Processes
    • Mitochondrial Metabolism
    • Cytochromes
  • Alternative names

    • cco
    • COX
    • Cytochrome c oxidase
    • Cytochrome oxidase

Applications

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Our Abpromise guarantee covers the use of ab109878 in the following tested applications.

The application notes include recommended starting dilutions; optimal dilutions/concentrations should be determined by the end user.

Application Abreviews Notes
Functional Studies
Use at an assay dependent dilution.
Notes
Functional Studies
Use at an assay dependent dilution.

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  • ELISA - Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit (ab109878)
    ELISA - Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit (ab109878)
    Figure 2. An example using ab109878 to quantify Complex IV enzyme activity in mouse protein extracts Based on the standard curve, 50 µg of protein extract were loaded onto a dipstick for each sample. The figure shows three developed dipsticks from unknown samples (1-3). The analysis of the signal intensity and interpolation from the standard curve showed that the unknown samples have between 23-87% of normal Complex IV activity levels.
  • ELISA - Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit (ab109878)
    ELISA - Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit (ab109878)
    Figure 1. An example using ab109878 to quantify Complex IV enzyme activity in mouse protein extracts Developed dipsticks from a 1:2 dilution series using a positive control sample and the associated standard curve. Starting material was 100 µg of protein extract.
  • Functional Studies - Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit - 90 tests (ab109878)
    Functional Studies - Complex IV Rodent Enzyme Activity Dipstick Assay Kit - 90 tests (ab109878)
    Abcam's enzyme activity assays apply a novel approach, whereby target enzymes are first immunocaptured from tissue or cell samples before subsequent functional analysis. Dipstick ELISA Kits extend this concept by utilizing the well-established lateral flow concept, wherein capture antibodies are striped onto nitrocellulose membrane and a wicking pad draws the sample through the antibody bands. All of our ELISA kits utilize highly validated monoclonal antibodies and proprietary buffers, which are able to capture even very large enzyme complexes in their fully-intact, functionally-active states.

Protocols

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References (6)

Publishing research using ab109878? Please let us know so that we can cite the reference in this datasheet.

ab109878 has been referenced in 6 publications.

  • Zhang W  et al. Mst1 regulates non-small cell lung cancer A549 cell apoptosis by inducing mitochondrial damage via ROCK1/F-actin pathways. Int J Oncol 53:2409-2422 (2018). PubMed: 30320378
  • Kumar RP  et al. Regulation of energy metabolism during early mammalian development: TEAD4 controls mitochondrial transcription. Development 145:N/A (2018). PubMed: 30201685
  • Chavan H  et al. Arsenite Effects on Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in Human and Mouse Primary Hepatocytes Follow a Nonlinear Dose Response. Oxid Med Cell Longev 2017:9251303 (2017). PubMed: 28163822
  • Vafai SB  et al. Natural Product Screening Reveals Naphthoquinone Complex I Bypass Factors. PLoS One 11:e0162686 (2016). Functional Studies . PubMed: 27622560
  • Bär F  et al. Mitochondrial Gene Polymorphisms That Protect Mice From Colitis. Gastroenterology N/A:N/A (2013). Cellular Activity ; Mouse . PubMed: 23872498
  • Choi EM Honokiol protects osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 cells against antimycin A-induced cytotoxicity. Inflamm Res : (2011). Mouse . PubMed: 21800176

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Product code: 109878

Inquiry: When I assess the complex IV activity will it have retained inhibition from ATP that may or may not be occurring within the samples that I am looking at? Or will it loose this inhibition upon processing? Thanks

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Asked on May 14 2012

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Thank you or your inquiry.

Please find below the answer of one of our senior scientists to your question:

"Iam assuming that the customer refers to high ATP/ADP ratios reducing the activity of Cytochrome c Oxidase, making it the rate limiting step of the electron transport chain.Kadenbach hypothesized several years ago that inhibition of complex IV by ATP was due to phosphorylation. Since then several researchers have shown that Cytochrome c oxidase is phosphorylated in subunit 1, 4 and 5b by mass spectrometry.

Assuming that the customer is concerned about capturing endogenous CIV activity, then the activity observed with the kit will depend mostly on sample preparation. If the customer is worried about it, my suggestion is to test a control sample with and without phosphatase inhibitors and compare the activity of both preps with the kit. If it is a rodent tissue, care must be taken into account from the moment the animal is euthanized to maintain the “endogenous phosphorylation status “.

We have not tested in the lab the effects of ATP in-vitro on the activity of CIV. But If the customer is interested in determining the ability of ATP to downregulate the activity of CIV after immunocapture, then they will have to adjust the protocol in a way so that they can expose CIV on the dipstick to a titration of ATP. The way I would personally set up the first experiment (although I’ve never done) would be to immunocapture the complex with the dipstick and then remove the wicking pad and dip the dipstick in a contiguous well containing 300uL of buffer with a titration of ATP (including a no-ATP control) for 15 – 30 minutes before developing the dipstick with the activity solution. We have done something similar after immunocapture of PDH and in this case we found that it was necessary to add BSA during the treatment reaction to maintain stability of the immunocaptured complex on the dipstick. PDH is a much larger enzyme that CIV and so even though this is comparing apples and oranges, my point is that the customer should be careful in assessing results when deviating significantly from the protocol."

I hope this information is helpful and wish you good luck with your experiments.

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Answered on May 14 2012

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Product code: 109878

Inquiry: What are the alternate methods for analysing the results of the dipstick assay? Thanks

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Asked on May 10 2012

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Thank you for your inquiry.

I can confirm that Dipsticks could be scanned with a regular document scanner and then signal intensity of the image could be analyzed with Image J software (which can be downloaded for Free).

The other option is to simply use visual inspection. This can be done on the dipstick kits that contain a control protein (Frataxin or GFP). The visual inspection method also requires to user to set aside at least 8 dipsticks to generate a calibration curve (with small gaps between data points). The calibration curve generated with the standard protein can be made into a “visual reference card”. The test sample is then compared against the visual reference card by matching up the reporter line density of the processed dipstick in the appropriate slot (see image below). The value (or value range) can then be interpolated based on the position relative to the antigen levels of the two lines immediately to the left and to the right. The accuracy of the value will be inversely proportional to the dilution factor of the calibration curve.

Dipstick Visual Reference Card Interpolation is attached. The unknown test sample reporter line fits neatly into the slot between the standard #6 and 7.

We have tested this last method with the GFP dipstick and the Frataxin dipstick (using 4 – 8 naïve testers) and have obtained a percentage error less than 15% in comparison to the instrument reading.

I hope this information is helpful.

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Abcam Scientific Support

Answered on May 10 2012

Question

Hello, I am wondering if "Buffer A" in these kits (AB109878 and AB109720) are the same. In other words, can I use same samples prepped with "Buffer A" from either kits to measure both Complex I and IV activities? Yes, I am aware that the later process should be specific to the respective kit. Thank you very much for your help in advance!

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Asked on Feb 16 2012

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Thank you for contacting us.

The buffers for each kit are optimized for use with the particular assay. The name 'A', 'B', etc. is by convention and not representative of similar components.

I hope this information is helpful to you. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need any more advice or information.

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Abcam Scientific Support

Answered on Feb 16 2012

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Can I use frozen mouse tissues for mitochondrial assay kits (ab109720 and ab109878)? If not, do any of your products allow to use frozen tissues to measure mouse mitochondrial ComplexI and IV activities? Thank you very much for your help in advance.

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Asked on Feb 09 2012

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Thank you for contacting us.

Yes, both kits work with frozen mouse tissue samples.

I hope this information is helpful to you. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need any more advice or information.

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Abcam Scientific Support

Answered on Feb 09 2012

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                       Dear  tech,   A customer has some questions about ab109878 and ab109911 .As follows:   1. Whether samples extracted from tissue with solution 1 provided in the kit can used to perform WB experiment for other proteins expressing in membrane, cytoplasmic,and  nucleus?  2.Whether solution 1 contains protease inhibitors or phosphatase inhibitor? 3.As the tissues are small, whether the cutomer could use 200ul solution 1  to extract 1mg tissue? I would like to apologize for having taken so much of your time.Thank you for your help. Best regards,  

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Asked on Oct 19 2011

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Thank you for contacting us.  1. The detergent used in this kit is not efficient at extracting nuclear samples.  Most of the nuclear proteins will be in the pellet obtained after the centrifugation step during the sample preparation (as explained in the protocol).  Other membrane and cytoplasmic proteins can be found in the extract obtained with the kit ab109878, however these proteins will be in their native form.  It will be necessary to mix this extract with 2XSDS buffer before running the samples on a western blot.   2. Solution 1 does not contain protease inhibitors.  In the additional materials required section of the protocol we suggest the use of protease inhibitors.   3. My suggestion is to use between 1 and 5mg of wet tissue in 100 - 200uL of buffer during the homogenization.  Protein concentration in the homogenate should be greater than 1mg/mL. With such  a small sample I suggest to use a very small glass dounce homogenizer (0.5mL). I hope this information is helpful to you. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need any more advice or information.  

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When should protease inhibitors be added? Which protease inhibitors should be used? Will EDTA interfere with Complex IV activity?

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Asked on Sep 21 2011

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Thank you for contacting us. Please find further information below about the use of protease inhibitors: When should protease inhibitors be added?   Protease inhibitors should be added during the extraction procedure.  Which protease inhibitors should be used?   We recommend any off the shelf cocktail of protease inhibitor Will EDTA interfere with Complex IV activity?   The role of Magnesium, Zinc and Sodium ions in the activity of cytochrome c oxidase (to my knowledge) is not yet fully understood and therefore the outcome of adding a chelator of this ions is all but a guess.  Cytochrome c oxidase is composed of 13 subunits, 3 of which (I, II and III) form the catalytic core of the enzyme.  The other subunits are involved in assembly, stability and regulation of the complex.  There is Mg bound at the interface of subunits I and II of complex IV.  Zn is bound to subunit Vb.  There is Sodium bound to subunit I at a site which also accepts calcium and this has been shown to affect the spectral properties of the haeme a3 (which is critical for activity). Typically the activity buffer to carry out a CIV activity assay, contains a very small amount of EDTA.  My suggestion is for the customer not to add more than 5 or 10uM EDTA final concentration to avoid any potential artifacts. We will add this to the protocol for other customers, thanks for bringing this to our attention. Please let me know if I can be of further help.

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Answered on Sep 21 2011

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