A method for quantitatively measuring
catechol-O-
methyltransferase activity and application thereof belong to the technical field of
biomedicine. The method uses 4-
acetic acid-7,8-dihydroxycoumarin as the specific probe substrate of COMT
enzyme, which can be specifically catalyzed by COMT
enzyme to generate 8-methoxy product and display at 520nm
Fluorescence signal, the activity of COMT can be quantitatively determined by detecting the change of
fluorescence intensity. The invention can not only be used for quantitative evaluation of COMT
enzyme activity in biological samples from different sources, but also can be used for rapid screening of COMT inhibitors
in vitro and evaluation of their inhibitory ability. The method can be used to quantitatively evaluate the real activity of COMT enzymes in various
in vitro biological samples, realize rapid screening of inhibitors and quantitative evaluation of inhibitory ability; it can be used to evaluate the catalytic activity of different species of COMT and COMT mutants with different
amino acid sequences , and then evaluate its ability to metabolize catechols. The method of the invention has the advantages of (1)
high selectivity, (2) cheap and easy to obtain; (3) high sensitivity and the like.