Source of pyrrole-2-carboxylate in mammalian urine |
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Authors: | A M Heacock E Adams |
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Institution: | Department of Biological Chemistry University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland 21201 USA |
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Abstract: | Pyrrole-2-car?ylate, earlier reported in human urine and labeled in rat urine after administration of radioactive proline, arises more directly from labeled hydroxyproline. Antibiotic treatment appeared to exclude epimerization of administered hydroxy-L-proline to a D-epimer by intestinal bacteria. A likely reaction for the in vivo conversion is hydroxy-L-proline oxidation by the L-amino acid oxidase of rat kidney, demonstrable with purified enzyme. Crystalline D-amino acid oxidase also catalyzes a slow oxidation of hydroxy-L-proline. These two reactions are adequate to account for the normal excretion of pyrrole-2-car?ylate by a number of species. |
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