The observation that thiamin (B1) or pyridoxine (B.) serves as an alternate growth stimulant for one strain of brewers' top yeast and the conditions under which this equivalence occurs have been discussed elsewhere (Moses and Joslyn, 1953). The ability of the organism to synthesize thiamin or pyridoxine when grown in media deficient in either and its ability to form carboxylase under these cond...

A fast and sensitive method for screening transaminase activity and enantioselectivity, using D- and L-amino acid oxidases, allows new amine substrates to be rapidly identified.

Previous studies of serine dehydratase (EC 4.2.1.13) and ornithine aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.13) adaptation in rat liver showed that in rats on a high protein diet, glucocorticoid administration increased serine dehydratase activity while simultaneously reducing the activity of ornithine aminotransferase. The present study examines the role of enzyme synthesis in the expression of these and ot...

Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity is inducible in mouse 3T3 fibroblasts by benz[alpha]anthracene, whereas no detectable basal or inducible levels of this enzyme occur in rat-hepatoma tissue culture cells. Conversely, tyrosine aminotransferase activity is inducible in hepatoma cells by dexamethasone, whereas only low noninducible levels of this enzyme exist in 3T3 cells. In hybrids formed by...

The course of plasma catalytic activities of total creatine kinase, creatine kinase isoenzyme MB, total, cytoplasmatic and mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase, glutamate dehydrogenase and concentrations of myoglobin, urea, acidic alpha 1-glycoprotein and creatinine were followed in 33 patients suffering f...

The aim of this study was to demonstrate changes in acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) activities, tyrosine aminotransferase activity (TAT) and plasma corticosterone level, neuroexcitability and behavior following 24 hours and 4 weeks of soman sublethal inhalation exposure at low level. AChE activity in erythrocytes and BuChE activity in plasma was decreased (dependen...

Transaminases were first shown to be present in plant tissues by the early experiments of Virtanen and Laine (12), Albaum and Cohen (1), and Rautanen (9). In a later and more comprehensive paper Leonard and Burris (5) demonstrated transaminase activity in stem, leaf, and root tissues of numerous plant species. Wilson et al. (16) and Stumpf (11) further indicated the participation of plant enzym...

Received November 28,1979 Summary: Insulin causes a 5 to lo-fold increase in the velocity of a-aminoisobutyric acid transport and a 2 to 3-fold increase in tyrosine aminotransferase activity in dexamethasone-treated hepatoma tissue culture cells. Maximal responses occur 2-4 hours after insulin addition but then decrease to control levels by 24 hours incubation. Medium conditioned by cells incub...