In a previous study (1) it was shown that dogs maintained on a purified diet developed a defect in acetaldehyde metabolism. Of the five known enzyme systems that could theoretically be involved in acetaldehyde metabolism in viva (aldolase, mutase, carboxylase, aldehyde ox&se, and xanthine oxidase), the xanthine and aldehyde oxidases seemed most likely to be dependent upon a dietary factor not a...

The sensitivity of cultured L1210 and P388 cells sensitive (L1210/0, P388/0) and resistant (L1210/OAP, P388/CLA) to oxazaphosphorines, to 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide, ASTA Z-7557, phosphoramide mustard, and acrolein was determined in the absence and presence of known (disulfiram, diethyldithiocarbamate, cyanamide) or suspected [ethylphenyl(2-formylethyl)phosphinate] inhibitors of aldehyde deh...

The catalysis of amine oxidation by lysyl oxidase has been probed to assess for the likely order of substrate binding and product release and to discriminate between mechanistic alternatives previously proposed for other copper-dependent amine oxidases using molecular oxygen as a substrate. Lineweaver-Burk plots revealed a pattern of parallel lines when the oxidation of n-butylamine was followe...

In continuation of our investigation of liver diphosphopyridine nucleotide-linked aldehyde dehydrogenase (1)) we have undertaken a study of various classes of inhibitors of the enzyme. Interest in aldehyde oxidation has been increasing in recent years from several points of view. The classical problem of ethanol oxidation in viva still has many unresolved facets (Z), and the enzymes responsible...