TRANSAMINASE ACTIVITY IN HUMAN BLOOD
TRANSAMINASE ACTIVITY IN HUMAN BLOOD
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DOI:
10.1172/jci103055
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发表时间:
1955-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
LADUE, JS
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作者:
KARMEN, A;WROBLEWSKI, F;LADUE, JS
ARTHUR KARMEN, FELIX WR6BLSWSKI, AND JOHN S. LADUE was similarly found not to affect the observed transaminase activity of serum. Increased concentration of aspartate in a given serum incubation mixture was seen to cause a greater increase in the observed rate of glutamate production than an increase in the concentration of alpha-keto glutarate, demonstrating that complete saturation of the enzyme with substrate had not been achieved at these concentrations. These results are in essential agreement with those re-ported for transaminase preparations from pig heart muscle (7, 8).The effect of pH on serum transaminase ac-tivity was studied by altering the composition of the buffer used. Phosphate buffer, 0.2 M, of several pH values was substituted for the 0.06 M buffer. The pH of each incubation mixture was determined before and after incubation. An increase in pH from 0.1 to 0.2 pH units was ob-served in each sample after the incubation period and the average of the pre-and post-incubation values was taken as the pH of the mixture. The finding of maximal activity between pH 7.0 and 8.0 (Figure 3) is in essential agreement with the results of Cohen (9) and others using pig heart muscle as source of transaminase. No change in transaminase activity with time was noted in serum samples stored from ten minutes to 96 hours at room temperature, or for pe-riods of from one hour to two weeks in the re-frigerator (O to 5 C.). The transaminase activity was not changed by freezing or lyophilization of