Effect of streptozotocin-induced diabetes on the turnover of hexokinase II in the rat |
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Authors: | Sandra K. Frank Herbert J. Fromm |
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Affiliation: | The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA |
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Abstract: | Skeletal muscle hexokinase II activity and turnover rates were measured in the normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat. Enzyme activity decreases in the diabetic animal relative to the normal rat; however, the specific activity of hexokinase II is essentially the same for the two conditions. No alteration is observed in the relative rate of hexokinase II synthesis in the normal or diabetic rats, but there is a 3-fold increase in the rate of hexokinase II degradation in the latter group of animals. These results suggest that the primary cause of the well-established decrease in hexokinase II activity in skeletal muscle of the diabetic is an increase in the rate of enzyme degradation. |
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