“…However, spectrophotometry requires a relatively large amount of expensive reagents, including enzymes and cofactors, and the procedures are complicated. In order to solve the problem, alternative methods based on electrochemical principles have been proposed (Mizutani et al, 1980(Mizutani et al, , 1998Kihara et al, 1984aKihara et al, , 1984bPeguin et al, 1989;Wollenberger et al, 1989;Cooper et al, 1991;Compagnone et al, 1992;Moser et al, 1997). Among them, detection schemes based on the production of l-glutamate as one of the final products are advantageous because l-glutamate can be measured amperometrically without additional cofactors (Cooper et al, 1991;Compagnone et al, 1992;Moser et al, 1997;Mizutani et al, 1998).…”