In an enzymatic assay for chloramphenicol, chloramphenicol acetyltransferase partially purified by affinity chromatography was used; [3H]acetyl coenzyme A served as a substrate. The purified enzyme was sensitive to p-hydroxymercuribenzoate but insensitive to 5,5'-dithio-bis-2-nitrobenzoic acid. The Michaelis-Menten constant was 10.5 muM. The operating range of the enzymatic assay was 0-30 mug/ml. The coefficient of variation was 1.9% at a concentration of 10 mug/ml. The method correlated well with a microbiological agar-paper disk method for mock unknown sera (r = 0.997) and serum or urine specimens (r = 0.993). The enzymatic assay was unaffected by the presence of any of 12 other antibiotics in tested serum.
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