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Title: Tissue specific alterations in the El. cap alpha. subunit of branched-chain ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKD) in rats

Conference · · Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5435936

Polyclonal antibodies (anti-E1E2 IgG) directed against bovine kidney BCKD have been used to examine the metabolic role of this enzyme in the rat. BCKD activity was assayed in detergent-disrupted kidney mitochondria using (1-/sup 14/C)..cap alpha..-ketoacids. Rates of oxidation of the keto analogs of leucine, valine and isoleucine were 21.6 +/- 1.5, 20.6 +/- 1.3 and 10.2 +/- 0.6 nmol/min/mg protein, respectively. Addition of anti-E1E2 IgG completely inhibited oxidation of all 3 ketoacids. Anti-E1E2 IgG inhibited oxidation of the keto analogs derived from methionine and threonine by 75% and 30%, respectively. It did not inhibit mitochondrial dehydrogenases other than BCKD. Thus, BCKD appears to be important in oxidative metabolism of 5 of the 9 indispensable amino acids. Immunoblots of rat kidneys, liver, muscle and heart mitochondria revealed a tissue specific alteration in the E1..cap alpha.. subunit of BCKD. Kidneys and heart each appeared to contain two E1..cap alpha.. polypeptides differing by an apparent molecular weight of 900 daltons; the predominant E1..cap alpha.. polypeptide in heart was the heavier E1..cap alpha.. band whereas in kidney it was the lighter band. Liver and muscle, however, each exhibited a single but different E1..cap alpha.. polypeptide. E1..cap alpha.. in liver corresponded to the lighter E1..cap alpha.. polypeptide of kidney and heart whereas in muscle E1..cap alpha.. corresponded to the heavier polypeptide. The E1..cap alpha.. subunit differences are associated with differences in basal BCKD activity of these tissues.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
OSTI ID:
5435936
Report Number(s):
CONF-8604222-; TRN: 86-026634
Journal Information:
Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States), Vol. 45:3; Conference: 70. annual meeting of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology, St. Louis, MO, USA, 13 Apr 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English