This non radioactive colorimetric assay kit contains all the necessary reagents for measuring enzyme activity (everything included in the PiColorlock™ reagent and more) and is ideal for high throughput drug screening.
The kits contain PiColorlock™, a non-radioactive, superior phosphate detection reagent.
Colorimetric assays for ATPases are invariably based on the formation of colored complexes between an inorganic phosphate and a dye molecule under acidic conditions.
Competitor assays are beset with several problems including reagent precipitation. The high stability of PiColorLock™ ensures high stability of the colored dye-phosphate complexes (green color- see below).
Figure 1. ATP has been incubated in three detection reagents. A steadily rising background signal is seen with competitor reagents, whereas PiColorLock™ gives baseline readings.
Figure 2. PiColorLockTM has also been designed to have a large linear range, thus reducing the need for sample dilution. Competitors’ products are linear over a much narrower range of concentrations.