MECHANISM OF HEME CATABOLISM - STUDY OF HEME BREAKDOWN IN SPLEEN MICROSOMAL FRACTION AND IN A MODEL SYSTEM BY O-18 LABELING AND METAL SUBSTITUTION
MECHANISM OF HEME CATABOLISM - STUDY OF HEME BREAKDOWN IN SPLEEN MICROSOMAL FRACTION AND IN A MODEL SYSTEM BY O-18 LABELING AND METAL SUBSTITUTION
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DOI:
10.1042/bj1740103
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
BROWN, SB
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作者:
KING, RFGJ;BROWN, SB
The mechanism of bile-pigment formation from heme breakdown was studied by using 18O labeling of the molecular O2 required for macrocyclic ring cleavage. For heme degradation by the rat spleen microsomal heme oxygenase system, mass spectrometry of the product bilirubin revealed that cleavage occurred by the 2-Molecule Mechanism, i.e., the terminal lactam O atoms in bilirubin were derived from 2 different O2 molecules. Degradation of myoglobin by coupled oxidation with ascorbate and O2 proceeded via the 2-Molecule Mechanism. Co and Mn complexes of protoporphyrin IX were not degraded by either the heme oxygenase system or the coupled oxidation system. The Fe atom possesses unique properties in facilitating prophyrin breakdown.