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D R London

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PubMed1972

Male infertility.

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PubMed1971

Identification in skeletal muscle of a distinct extracellular pool of amino acids, and its role in protein synthesis.

1. The kinetics of radioactive labelling of extra- and intra-cellular amino acid pools and protein of the extensor digitorum longus muscle were studied after incubations with radioactive amino acids in vitro. 2. The results indicated that an extracellular pool could be defined, the contents of which were different from those of the incubation medium. 3. It was concluded that amino acids from the extracellular pool, as defined in this study, were incorporated directly into protein.

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PubMed1971

The effect of insulin on free amino acid pools and protein synthesis in rat skeletal muscle in vitro.

1. The effects of insulin in vitro on tissue pools and incorporation into protein of glycine and leucine in the extensor digitorum longus muscle of the rat are reported. 2. It was found that insulin decreased the lag period before the establishment of a linear rate of incorporation of radioactive glycine into protein. 3. The hormone increased the size of the free intracellular glycine pool. No such effect was found for leucine. The accumulation of radioactive glycine in the intracellular fluid compartment was increased. The content of radioactive leucine in the intracellular compartment was decreased. 4. Insulin decreased the specific radioactivity of both glycine and leucine in the extracellular fluid. 5. The hormone also decreased protein catabolism. 6. The effect on protein synthesis was not caused by an increase in the specific radioactivity of the extracellular pool but was possibly related to increased amino acid concentrations in this pool, which could in turn have affected the aggregation of ribosomes.

Amino Acids↗
PubMed1969

Relationship between intracellular amino acids and protein synthesis in the extensor digitorum longus muscle of rats.

1. The incorporation into protein, and the accumulation into the free amino acid pools, of radioactive l-leucine and glycine was studied in rat extensor digitorum longus muscle. 2. The tissue was incubated first with (14)C-labelled and then with (3)H-labelled amino acid. 3. The experimental results were consistent with a model based on the premise that the amino acids in protein were incorporated directly from the extracellular pool.

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PubMed1969

The sites of hydrolysis of dipeptides containing leucine and glycine by rat jejunum in vitro.

1. The effect of peptides containing leucine and glycine on accumulation of leucine and glycine by everted jejunal rings was studied. 2. It was shown that, on a molar basis, leucyl-leucine is a more effective inhibitor of uptake of [(14)C]leucine than is either leucylglycine or glycyl-leucine. These latter dipeptides behave alike. 3. The concentration of the dipeptides and their constituent amino acids in both the incubation medium and the tissue has been followed in these experiments by amino acid analysis. No leucine-containing peptides were observed in the tissue. 4. The inhibitory effects of the mixed dipeptides are altered by pH changes in an analogous way to the alterations in peptidase activity. 5. The experimental results indicate that leucine-containing peptides are hydrolysed before the transport step. 6. Glycylglycine, on the other hand, has only a small effect on the accumulation of glycine, although large amounts of the peptide accumulate unchanged in the tissue. This suggests that glycylglycine is taken up by a different mechanism to that for the leucine dipeptides.

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