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Separation of putrescine oxidase and spermidine oxidase in foetal bovine serum with the aid of a specific radioactive assay of spermidine oxidase.


ABSTRACT: 1. A sensitive and specific assay for spermidine oxidase is described. The method involves the separation of [14C]spermidine (substrate) from [14C]putrescine (product) and other 14C-labelled products on a Dowex 50 cation-exchange column: 92% of the putrescine applied to the column was eluted by 2.3 M-HCl, but this treatment left 96% of the spermidine bound to the column. Unchanged spermidine could be removed from the column by elution with 6 M-HCl. 2. By means of this assay, foetal and adult bovine serum were each shown to contain spermidine oxidase activity, putrescine being a major product of the oxidation of spermidine by the serum enzymes. 3. In foetal bovine serum, spermidine oxidase activity is separable from putrescine oxidase activity by chromatography on a cadaverine-Sephadex column, by gel filtration and by ion-exchange column chromatography. Putrescine oxidase was purified 1900-fold and spermidine oxidase 130-fold by these procedures. The former oxidized putrescine but not spermidine, and spermidine oxidase exhibited no activity with putrescine as substrate.

SUBMITTER: Gahl WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1162508 | biostudies-other | 1980 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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