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Purification and properties of the native form of rabbit liver aldolase. Evidence for proteolytic modification after tissue extraction.

Aldolase was purified from rabbit liver by affinity-elution chromatography. By taking precautions to avoid rupture of lysosomes during the isolation procedure, a stable form of liver aldolase was obtained. The stable form of the enzyme had a specific activity with respect to fructose 1,6-bisphosphate cleavage of 20-28 mumol/min per mg of protein and a fructose 1,6-bisphosphate cleavage of 20-28mumol/min per mg of protein and a frutose 1,6-bisphosphate/fructose 1-phosphate activity ratio of 4. It was distinguishable from rabbit muscle aldolase, as previously isolated, on the basis of its electrophoretic mobility and N-terminal analysis. Muscle and liver aldolases were immunologically distinct. The stable liver aldolase was degraded with a lysosomal extract to a form with catalytic properties resembling those reported for aldolase B4. It is postulated that liver aldolase prepared by previously described methods has been modified by proteolysis and does not constitute the native form of the enzyme.

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Regulation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase in rat mammary gland. Effects of incubation with Ca2+, Mg2+ and ATP on enzyme activity in tissue extracts.

1. The effect of preincubation of extracts of lactating rat mammary gland with ATP, Mg2+ and micromolar concentrations of Ca2+ on the activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase was studied. 2. Both Mg2+ and Ca2+ activated the enzyme. Activation with Mg2+ (5 mM) was larger than that with Ca2+ (calculated free Ca2+ concentration = 20-50 microM), but the activity decreased after reaching a peak. The activation obtained with Ca2+ was stable for up to 180 min. 3. Incubation with Ca2+ and Mg2+ together resulted in an activation that was slightly higher than that with Mg2+ only and was stable (compare the results for Ca2+ alone). 4. Preincubation in the absence of Mg2+, but not in the absence of Ca2+, resulted in the impairment of subsequent activation with either Mg2+ (when preincubation was with Ca2+ alone) or Mg2+ plus Ca2+. 5. KF (50 mM) prevented the activation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase by Ca2+ and Mg2+. 6. MgATP2- reversed (Mg2+ + Ca2+)-mediated activation and decreased the activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase to about 10% of initial activity. Inhibition by ATP was unaffected by addition of cyclic AMP or cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase inhibitor. 7. 32P was incorporated into acetyl-CoA carboxylase when incubations were carried out in the presence of [gamma-32P]ATP. Subsequent removal of ATP from the incubation medium resulted in rapid loss of 32P from acetyl-CoA carboxylase. 8. It is suggested that extracts of rat mammary gland contain endogenous protein kinase and phosphatase activities that modulate acetyl-CoA carboxylase activity through reversible phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. The phosphatase activity is sensitive to both Mg2+ and micromolar concentrations of Ca2+, whereas the kinase does not appear to be cyclic AMP-dependent.

Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase↗

Method for isolation of MMP-7-ase isoenzymes from rat muscle tissue extract.

Two MMP-7-ase isoenzymes were purified 100-fold from rat muscle extract to apparent homogeneity, with an overall yield of 10%, using homogenization, ultracentrifugation, high-performance aqueous size-exclusion and high-performance anion exchange chromatography methods. When using a TSK G-2000SW column, the separation resulted in a 6-fold purification and 30% recovery of isoenzymes B and C. This concentrated enzyme extract was then passed through a TSK-DEAE-2SW column, using salt gradient at pH 7.5, with an additional 25-fold purification and 90% recovery of the isoenzymes. Two symmetrical enzyme peaks, representing isoenzymes B and C, were detected when performing purity tests of the active enzymes on the anion exchanger and reversed-phase HPLC columns. The procedures involved are extraction, ultracentrifugation, chromatographies and enzyme assays and require less than five hours.

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A critical comparison of commonly used procedures for the assay of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase in crude tissue extracts.

Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) is a non-template directed DNA polymerase normally found in vertebrate thymus and bone marrow. Quantitative assay of TdT activity is being widely used as a tool in the differential diagnosis of acute leukemias in man. Clinical specimens of blood and bone marrow often contain 10(7) or fewer cells and require a specific and rapid assay for transferase which can be carried out in crude cell extracts. Commonly used assay methods do not meet these requirements, but can be easily modified to do so.

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Tissue extraction of amiodarone and N-desethylamiodarone in man after a single oral dose.

The hepatic extraction of amiodarone and N-desethylamiodarone has been investigated in seven patients following catheterization of the portal and hepatic veins under general anaesthesia. Amiodarone (600 mg) was administered orally 4 h before regional blood sampling. Concentrations of amiodarone and N-desethylamiodarone, determined by h.p.l.c., were about twice as high in the portal vein compared with those in the hepatic vein, the calculated hepatic extraction ratios of both compounds being 0.39 +/- 0.07 and 0.34 +/- 0.03, respectively. The presence of N-desethylamiodarone in the portal vein in higher concentrations than in the hepatic vein strongly suggests that N-dealkylation of amiodarone occurs in the gut wall or lumen, a finding which might account for the low and highly variable intersubject amiodarone bioavailability.

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