Summary
Canaline and gabaculine, inhibitors of γ-aminotransferases and thus of ornithine aminotransferase (E.C. 2.6.1.13), decreased the flow through ornithine carbamoyl transferase (E.C. 2.1.3.3) in isolated rat hepatocytes incubated with 10 mM NH4Cl and ornithine. The levels of acetylglutamate, an essential activator of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (ammonia) (E.C. 6.3.4.16), were also decreased, suggesting that the inhibitors had also caused a decrease in the rate of carbamoyl phosphate synthesis. Under these conditions, ornithine appears to be a precursor of acetylglutamate, via ornithine aminotransferase, possibly as a consequence of glutamate synthesis. The influence of aminooxyacetate, an aminotransferase inhibitor, has also been examined.
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Abbreviations
- AG:
-
Acetylglutamate
- CP:
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Carbamoyl Phosphate
- CPSI:
-
Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthetase (ammonia)
- OAT:
-
Ornithine Aminotransferase
- OTC:
-
Ornithine Carbamoyl Transferase
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Aniento, F., Garcia-España, A., Portolés, M. et al. Effects of inhibition of ornithine aminotransferase or of general aminotransferases on urea and citrulline synthesis and on the levels of acetylglutamate in isolated rat hepatocytes. Mol Cell Biochem 79, 107–112 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02424551
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