L-Carnitine Assay Kit (ab83392)

This kit will be very suitable for use with EDTA plasma samples.

The ab138889 CoA detection kit assay buffer is 100 mM Na phosphate buffer, pH = 6. The RIPA buffer may be an issue with the other two kits, since they are enzyme-based, and that kind of assay is generally incompatible with detergents. Your best approach will be to dilute the samples as much as you can with the provided buffers, while maintaining the diluted sample OD values (for the carnitine assay) and RFU values (for the other two) remain within the range of the standards. So, you will need to test serial dilutions of, for instance, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8.

The instructions in the protocol are correct, and the values are too, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 nmol per well. Here is the calculation:

Starting with the 1 mM standard carnitine solution, calculate the moles per microliter.

1 millimole per liter = 1 nanomole (nmol) per microliter.

Add the volumes indicated in the protocol per well, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ul, to get the nanomoles per well listed in the protocol.

I hope that makes sense. There is sometimes confusion between nanomoles (amount, nmol) and nanomolarity (concentration, nM). The concentration can be calculated from the amount and the volume, for example, 10 nanomoles per 50 ul equals 200,000 nanomoles (10 x 20,000) per 1,000,000 microliters (50ul x 20,000) = 0.2 millimoles per liter = 0.2 mM (concentration).

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We are not ISO registered company which is why we do not have CE certification. We can however provide certificate of analysis, if requested. I don't think CE certification is required for research products. Our products conform to European law which is why we sell it throughout Europe without any problem.

This kit will work for assaying L-Carnitine irrespective of species of samples.

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

Thank you for your message and for your patience.

I have already received information to confirm that this kit has been optimized to measure free L-carnitine and so regrettably we cannot guarantee or advice regarding measurement of total L carnitine.

I had been waiting to receive a more precise list of on mammalian species in which this has been tested but I am sorry I have not yet received a response. I will let you know as soon as I receive more information.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for your enquiry regarding ab83392.

My colleague Kate has been out of the office this morning. Here are some links which show these levels:

http://www.kidney.org/professionals/KDOQI/guidelines_ped_ckd/cpr9.htm

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000991200100234X

http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/7/1602.full

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Thank you for your inquiry.

This kit should be very specific for L-Carnitine since the enzymes used are specific to it. Also the reaction mimics the biological activity of L-Carnitine and only L-Carnitine is active not D-Carnitine.

It has not been experimentally tested if this kit also detects D-Carnitine, but if it does is should be only in negligible amount.

I am sorry I could not provide a straight forward answer on this occasion and hope this information is nevertheless helpful.

I wish you good luck with your research and a good weekend.

Thank you for contacting Abcam

Upon arrival the kit has to be stored at -20C. Certain key components in the kit are lyophilized so the kit may be stable. However I cannot guarantee this and you will have to test whether it is still working.

The carnitine assay buffer should be in the kit that you received (you should have received 1x25ml of it) and you can use any standard 96 well plate to perform the assay in.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.

Thank you for contacting Abcam regarding ab83392. Unfortunately, the specific details of the reaction mechanism and enzyme names are proprietary information in this case. I can only provide the following: Acetyl CoA + Carnitine ---> Free CoA + Acetylated Carnitine. Free CoA + Oxired probe ---> Proportionate increase in color or fluorescence. I apologize that I am not able to provide more specific details. I hope that this information is helpful. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any additional questions.