Arginine biosynthesis in Pseudoinonas aeruginosa proceeded via transacetylation of acetylornithine with glutamate ; it resembled Micrococcus glutamicus rather than Escherichia coli. Of four arginine biosynthetic enzymes, N-acetyl-y-glutamokinase, N-acetylornithine glutamate transacetylase, ornithine transcarbamylase and argininosuccinase determined under various conditions of arginine excess an...

Four arginaseless mutants of Neurospora crassa have been isolated. All carry mutations which lie at a single locus, aga, on linkage group VIIR. A study of aga strains shows the arginase reaction to be the major, perhaps the only, route of arginine consumption in Neurospora other than protein synthesis. Ornithine-delta-transaminase, the second enzyme of the arginine catabolic pathway, is present...

Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTCase, EC 2.1.3.3) a mitochondrial enzyme of the urea cycle catalyses the formation of citrulline from ornithine and carbamoyl phosphate. It has been purified from liver in 3 mammalian species: bovine [ 11, human [2] and rat [3,4] but not from mouse. We decided to purify mouse OTCase because the mouse is the only mammalian species in which two strains with an OTCase...

A series of transplantable hepatomas which arose spontaneously in mice or in mice treated with goldthioglucose, urethan, or 3-methylcholanthrene has been tested for the extent of deviation of enzyme activity from that of normal liver. The growth rates of these hepatomas varied from 2 1 to 211 days. Deoxythymidine kinase, uridine kinase, carbamylphosphate synthetase , aspartate transcarbamylase,...