Selective inhibition of alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase in rat hepatocytes.
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Experiments were conducted with intact rat hepatocytes to identify inhibitors and incubation conditions that cause selective inhibition of alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase. Satisfactory results were obtained by preincubating cells with L-cycloserine or L-2-amino-4-methoxy-trans-but-3-enoic acid in the absence of added substrates. When cells were incubated for 20 min with 50 microM-L-cycloserine, alanine aminotransferase activity was decreased by 90%, whereas aspartate aminotransferase was inhibited by 10% or less. On subsequent incubation, synthesis of glucose and urea from alanine was strongly inhibited, but glucose synthesis from lactate was unaffected. L-2-Amino-4-methoxy-trans-but-3-enoic acid (400 microM) in hepatocyte incubations caused 90-95% inactivation of aspartate aminotransferase, but only 15-30% loss of alanine aminotransferase activity. After preincubation with the inhibitor, glucose synthesis from lactate was almost completely blocked; with alanine as the substrate, gluconeogenesis was unaffected, and urea synthesis was only slightly decreased. By comparison with preincubation with inhibitors, simultaneous addition of substrates (alanine; lactate plus lysine) and inhibitors (cycloserine; aminomethoxybutenoic acid) resulted in smaller decreases in aminotransferase activities and in metabolic rates. Other compounds were less satisfactory as selective inhibitors. Ethylhydrazinoacetate inactivated the two aminotransferases to similar extents. Vinylglycine was almost equally effective in blocking the two enzymes in vitro, but was a very weak inhibitor when used with intact cells. Concentrations of DL-propargylglycine (4 mM) required to cause at least 90% inhibition of alanine aminotransferase in hepatocytes also caused a 16% decrease in aspartate aminotransferase. When tested in vitro, alanine aminotransferase was, as previously reported by others, more sensitive to inhibition by amino-oxyacetate than was aspartate aminotransferase, but in liver cell incubations the latter enzyme was more rapidly inactivated by amino-oxyacetate.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Biochemical journal
دوره 220 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1984