Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is a useful and convenient method for the analysis of steroids due to: its simple sample preparation, low time-consuming process, high sensitivity, low equipment investment and capacity to work on many samples simultaneously. Here we describe a TLC easy protocol very useful to analyze steroid molecules derived from a biotransformation carried out in wild-type and mutant resting cells of Rhodococcus ruber strain Chol-4. Following this protocol, we were able to detect the presence or the absence of some well-known intermediates of cholesterol catabolism in Rhodococcus, namely AD, ADD, and 9OHAD.
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Guevara, G., Perera, J., & Navarro-Llorens, J. M. (2017). Analysis of intermediates of steroid transformations in resting cells by thin-layer chromatography (TLC). In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1645, pp. 347–360). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7183-1_24
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