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Inducibility and some properties of the threonine dehydratase of sheep liver.

ABSTRACT: The threonine dehydratase extracted from sheep liver is in an essentially inactive form, referred to here as the precursor, but can be activated by incubation at high temperature in alkaline solution. A method for purification of the activated enzyme to a state approaching homogeneity has been devised. The activated enzyme catalyses the deamination of serine but rapidly loses activity during the process. The enzyme inactivated by incubation with serine can be reactivated under the same conditions as those described for the precursor, the kinetic parameters being the same in both cases. Individual sheep livers differ widely in their content of threonine dehydratase, and the possible role of dietary factors in this variability has been examined. The average amount of the enzyme in the livers of sheep fed on high-plant-protein diets did not differ significantly from that in livers obtained from slaughterhouses, but was higher than that in livers from animals fed only on grass or normal concentrates. Large increases in enzyme concentration were, however, obtained when sheep were injected intraperitoneally with a protein hydrolysate. The enzyme from the livers of these sheep could be purified by the same technique and to the same specific activity as the enzyme from the livers of control sheep.

SUBMITTER: Doonan S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1168531 | biostudies-other | 1974 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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