Changing activities of galactose-metabolizing enzymes during perfusion of suckling-rat liver.
The specific activities of the galactose-metabolizing enzymes, galactokinase (EC 2.7.1.6), galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.12), and UDPgalactose 4-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.2), in suckling-rat livers perfused for 90 min with 1 and 4 mM galactose fluctuate significantly with a different pattern of change for each enzyme. Perfusion for 30 min with galactose resulted in a significant increase of transferase specific activity followed by a precipitous decline to about one-fifth of the activity in unperfused liver at 90 min. The increase in transferase activity was also observed when D-glucose was perfused but not when L-glucose, D-fructose, D-xylose, or D-ribose was added to the perfusate. No such changes in transferase activity were observed when adult-rat liver was perfused with galactose. Epimerase activity in the suckling-rat liver was relatively low, and the changes in its activity correlated best with the uptake rate of galactose. The perfused suckling-rat liver may provide a model system for examination of factors that modulate the specific activity of galactose-metabolizing enzymes and effect the metabolism of galactose.[1]References
- Changing activities of galactose-metabolizing enzymes during perfusion of suckling-rat liver. Rogers, S., Segal, S. Am. J. Physiol. (1981) [Pubmed]
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