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Significance of different dehydrogenase components to radiation-induced impairment of the pentose phosphate cycle. [X radiation, rats]

Journal Article · · Radiobiology (USSR) (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:7094304
Studies on dehydrogenases from erythrocytes and bone marrow of x-irradiated rats indicated that there are negligible phases of change in apoenzyme activity in erythrocytes of irradiated animals, and apparently this was not the cause of lower activity at the early PPC stage, observed in whole erythrocytes with use of the manometric method. We had to assume that the decreased dehydrogenase activity was due to a decrease in NADP concentration due, in particular, to activation of pyridine nucleotidases which, as we know, are localized in the erythrocyte stroma and are bound with lipoproteins. A special series of experiments established that the overall activity of PPC dehydrogenases in hemolysates from intact animals, with removed stroma, corresponded to PPC activity in intact erythrocytes, whereas in hemolysates without removal of stroma, oxygen consumption decreased by more than 50%. Analogous results were obtained with hemolysates of erythrocytes taken from irradiated rats. While no changes in dehydrogenase activity were noted in the group of irradiated animals, the hemolysates were free of stroma, in hemolyzed erythrocytes without removal of stroma showed 5-fold decrease in enzyme activity than in hemolysates from nonirradiated animals.
Research Organization:
Central Scientific Research Inst. of Roentgenology and Radiology, Leningrad
OSTI ID:
7094304
Journal Information:
Radiobiology (USSR) (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Radiobiology (USSR) (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 17:1; ISSN RADBA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English