Quantitative Analysis of Sphingomyelin by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography after Enzymatic Hydrolysis
Figure 4
Effect of BSA on sphingomyelin hydrolysis. (a) Sphingomyelin and (b) dihydrosphingomyelin standards (1,000 pmol) were hydrolyzed with sphingolipid ceramide N-deacylase (SCDase) plus sphingomyelinase (SMase) in a reaction buffer with varying concentrations of fatty acid-free BSA (0, 7.5, 15, and 30%). The released sphingoid bases were derivatized with OPA and analyzed by HPLC. Values are expressed as the mean ± SD (). Differences with and were statistically significant.