The rapid disappearance of muscle AMP aminohydrolase from blood plasma of normal and dystrophic chickens |
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Authors: | H.David Husic Clarence H. Suelter |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 USA |
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Abstract: | The levels of creatine kinase and pyruvate kinase are increased 22 and 9.3 fold respectively in the blood plasma of dystrophic chickens as compared to normal controls. AMP aminohydrolase levels are not increased despite their abundance in muscle tissue. When AMP aminohydrolase was injected into a blood vessel, its rate of disappearance from the plasma was rapid with 97% of the enzyme disappearing with a half-life of 3.3 minutes. In contrast, the rate of disappearance of pyruvate kinase from the blood plasma is relatively slow, following a biphasic exponential decay with half-lives of 113 min and 710 min. These data suggest that the rates of disappearance of enzymes from the blood plasma is an important factor in determining whether increased plasma levels of these enzymes are observed in muscular dystrophy. |
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Keywords: | CsCl cesium chloride DNase pancreatic deoxyribonuclease I SDS sodium dodecyl sulfate TCA trichloracetic acid |
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