The biochemical characterization of alkaline phosphatase from chemicaland viral-induced thymic lymphomas of C57BL mice.
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The alkaline phosphatase activity of a number of chemicaland viral-induced thymic lymphomas from C57BL mice was characterized biochemically according to pH optimum, heat inactivation, the ratio of activity toward two substrates, p-nitrophenyl phosphate and /3-glycerophosphate, and electrophoretic mobility in acrylamide gel. Alkaline phosphatase activity from nor mal liver, spleen, and duodenum was also characterized for comparison. Since this enzyme is not found in thymic lymphocytes of the normal C57BL adult mouse but is usually present in tumor cells, such a characterization of it might be expected to indicate whether the genetic in formation for the enzyme is of virus or cell origin. En zyme activity from tumors induced by different chemical agents or by virus did not differ significantly with respect to the first 3 parameters tested and, in addition, resem bled the enzyme from spleen in these 3 characteristics. These same characteristics determined for the alkaline phosphatase activity in the normal 16-day embryo thy mus were consistent with those found in the tumor and spleen enzymes. Disc-gel electrophoresis performed on the adult nor mal and tumor tissue extracts showed the major compo nent of the tumor alkaline phosphatase activity to have an electrophoretic mobility similar to that of the normal spleen. A minor component of the tumor alkaline phos phatase activity was found to have a slower mobility than any component of the enzyme from the normal tissues tested. It is concluded that the major component of the alkaline phosphatase activity of this tumor is similar to the alkaline phosphatase activity of the spleen and may represent a cell-coded enzyme which is derepressed in the process of neoplastic transformation.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cancer research
دوره 30 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1970