MitoTox™ Complex I OXPHOS Activity Assay Kit (ab109903)

The plate is one solid plate and not removable strips. Plate is best used at once as there is risk to unused wells getting wet, etc. We have not tried this and therefore cannot guarantee, but you could try putting a plate seal over unused wells to save them for a second experiment.

The kits that are the best suited for your experiment are listed below. I am having our datasheets team update the species reactivity.
ab109903, Complex I; reactivity = Human, mouse, rat, bovine
https://www.abcam.com/mitotox%E2%84%A2-complex-i-oxphos-activity-microplate-assay-ab109903.html
ab109904, Complex II, reactivity = Human, mouse and bovine
https://www.abcam.com/mitotox%E2%84%A2-complex-ii-oxphos-activity-microplate-assay-ab109904.html
ab109905, Complex II + III, reactivity = This is an in solution assay so it will work with mitochondria from any species, provided that the mitochondria is of good quality. It will not work with homogenate – it requires purified mitochondria
https://www.abcam.com/mitotoxtrade-complex-ii-nbsp-iii-oxphos-activity-microplate-assay-ab109905.html
ab109906, Complex IV, reactivity = Human and bovine
https://www.abcam.com/mitotoxtrade-complex-iv-oxphos-activity-microplate-assay-ab109906.html
ab109907, Complex V, reactivity = Human, mouse, rat and bovine.
https://www.abcam.com/mitotoxtrade-complex-v-oxphos-activity-microplate-assay-ab109907.html

ab110419, Complexes I - V (contains the five kits above at a discounted price)
https://www.abcam.com/mitotox%E2%84%A2-complete-oxphos-activity-assay-kit-5-assays-ab110419.html
In regards to inhibitor treatment, the laboratory agrees that the effects would be reversible. See their response and recommendations below:

If you were to treat the cells with for example rotenone, then isolate the mitochondria from rotenone treated cells, this will wash off all the rotenone from the sample during the sample prep and would simply find no inhibition detected by the assay.

What we would recommend is to test normal mitochondria in-vitro with the inhibitor compound as it is suggested in the kit protocols above.
The kits have a bovine heart mitochondria control, which you can use to see how the assay works (creating a positive and negative control with BHM plus or minus inhibitors).

Then you can compare the BHM results with the results obtained with the mitochondria prepared from your cell system.
The compound inhibitor must be present during the activity assay, otherwise the data will not reflect the immediate in vitro inhibitory effect of the compound, but more likely the downstream effect of that compound (i.e. If the compound generates as a downstream effect oxidative stress and this in turn affects the activity of one of the complexes of the electron transport chain).

Thank you for contacting us.

I have checked with our MitoSciences lab and they sent the attached QC data for the plates used in that lot. Additionally, these kits are designed to be run with developmental compounds. On occasion, we have seen that some developmental compounds have redox activity on their own (they react with the components of the kit) in the absence of sample. In this scenario, you will see activity in the blank wells and this activity should be subtracted from the activity in the test wells. Was your plate run with or without compounds?

If you would like to receive a replacement kit, we do have kits in stock with plates from a different lot. If you have purchased the kit in the past six months I would be happy to send you a free of charge replacement. Could you please let me know your original order or PO number? I will be happy to help you further once I have this additional information.

Les phospholipides peuvent en effet être le paramètre critique pour le bon fonctionnement du kit MTOX I.Ils ne sont pas stables si ils sont conservés à 4ºC et doivent être impérativement stockés à -20 ou -80ºC.

Le kit ab109903 devrait vous avoir été livré avec de la carboglace, pourriez-vous s'il vous plait me confirmer ceci?

J'espère que ces informations vous seront utiles. N'hésitez pas à nous contacter de nouveau si vous avez d'autres questions.

Je suis ravi que les suggestions aient été utiles.

J'ai transmis votre question au laboratoire et vous contacterai de nouveau dès que j'aurai reçu une réponse.

Merci de votre réponse.

Le laboratoire vient de m'indiquer que la valeur de laDO initiale mesurée lors des tests de contrôle qualité était de 1 pour le lot GR78475-2.

Le problème rencontré provient doncprobablement dela dégradation de la roténone.

Assurez-vous également que les mesures sont effectuées à la bonne longueur d'onde.

Merci de m'indiquer si les recommandations ont permis d'améliorer les résultats.

Merci de nous avoir contactés.

La DO initiale (0.5) est en effet un peu faible et pourrait expliquer la valeur anormalementélevée de l'IC50.

Une des raisons expliquant la faible DO est l'age du kit et les conditions de stockage. Deux températures sont à appliquer à ce kit. Le tampon de réaction doit être stocké à -80ºC pour préserver le NADH sensible à de plus hautes températures.

Pourriez-vous me confirmer les conditions de stockage du kit et de ce tampon en particulier?

Une autre raison pour expliquer l'IC50 élevé est l'échantillon lui-même. Au laboratoire, le kit est testé avec de la rotenone (de chez Sigma)fraîchement diluée dans le DMSO. Une conservation à -20 ou -80ºC de la solution de rotenone dans le DMSO n'est pas conseillée.

J'espère que ces informations vous seront utiles. N'hésitez pas à nous contacter de nouveau si vous avez d'autres questions.

Thank you for your enquiry.

The solvent for the Ubiquinone 1 component is 100% ethanol.

Thank you for your enquiry. Please find the answers to your questions below.

1) Thank you for your feedback. We will take this into consideration with the production team.

2) Typically customers have used this kit in combination with Complex I activity assays published in the literature. However if you would like to detect rotenone sensitivity, then this ab109903 MitoTox™ Complex I OXPHOS Activity Microplate Assay would be more appropriate. It is a plate based assay that contains lipids and is rotenone sensitive. However, the lipid content of this kit is proprietary.

I have attached a paper showing how to perform activity assay after immunocapture with the beads. This protocol uses BSA instead of the lipid (see figure 2 under results).

A Functionally Active Human F1F0 ATPase Can be Purified by Immunocapture from Heart Tissue and Fibroblast Cell Lines. THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY Vol. 277, No. 37, pp. 33906–33912, 2002

I hope this information will be helpful.

Thank you for your enquiry and your interest in our products. ab109905 is the only assay which is not an immunoassay. The supplied bovine sample can be replaced with a mitochondrial sample from any other species. This may require some optimization to identify a sample specific amount to use where the rate is acceptable. Fortunately, the kit is supplied with sufficient reagents to perform a test run to determine an acceptable rate. I hope this helps and if I can assist further, please do not hesitate to contact me.