MEASUREMENT OF PROTEIN TURNOVER IN RAT-LIVER - ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX CURVE FOR DECAY OF LABEL IN A MIXTURE OF PROTEINS
MEASUREMENT OF PROTEIN TURNOVER IN RAT-LIVER - ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX CURVE FOR DECAY OF LABEL IN A MIXTURE OF PROTEINS
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DOI:
10.1042/bj1560657
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
SWICK, RW
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作者:
GARLICK, PJ;WATERLOW, JC;SWICK, RW
The curve for decay of 14C in rat liver protein labeled by injection of NaH14CO3 was analyzed to obtain the average turnover rate of mixed liver protein. Three different methods were used. Unlike decay curves from homogeneous proteins, the curve did not fit a single exponential, but a good fit was obtained with 3 exponentials. By assuming that the mixture contained 3 major components with different turnover rates, the calculated value for the average turnover rate (k) was close to 40% /day; k was also calculated from the area under the decay curve, a method which makes no assumptions about the number of proteins in the mixture. This method also gave a value close to 40%/day. It was shown empirically, by stimulation of decay of label in model mixtures of protein and with the decay curve measured in vivo, that k can be calculated from the time taken for specific radioactivity to fall to 10% of its maximum value. This is an advantage, since the other 2 methods require the decay curve to be measured over a much longer period of time.