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Comparative substrate-inhibitor analysis of catalytic properties of liver monoamine oxidases (MAO) was performed in the mature males of the American mink Mustela vison and the European mink Mustela lutreola. The action on the MAO activity was studied of alkaloids of the benzo[c]phenanthridine group: sanguinarine and chelidonine, diisoquinoline alkaloid berberine, medicinal agents “Ukrain” and “Sanguirythrin” as well as derivatives of 2-propylamine: deprenyl and chlorgylin. The latter turned out to be irreversible inhibitor of the MAO A form, whereas deprenyl-irreversible inhibitor of the MAO B form in both studied mink species. The selectivity of action of each inhibitor on the corresponding liver MAO form for the species M. vison was one order of magnitude stronger than for the species M. lutreola. All studied alkaloids as well medicinal agents on their basis have been shown to be specific irreversible inhibitors of the intermediate strength of the liver MAO A form of both mink species. They inhibit the enzymatic deamination of serotonin, tyramine, and tryptamine without affecting the deamination reaction of benzylamine and β-phenylethylamine (at concentrations of 10 mM and lower). Out of five studied isoquinoline agents, the medication “Ukrain” and alkaloid chelidonine have the highest inhibitory action; the agent “Sanguirythrin” and alkaloids berberine and sanguinarine produce the weaker monoamine oxidase effect. The revealed specificity of action of the studied inhibitors is an indirect evidence for the presence in the liver enzymes of both mink species, like in the rat liver enzyme, of several molecular forms.
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Original Russian Text © O. V. Yagodina, 2010, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 380–386.
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Yagodina, O.V. Comparative substrate-inhibitor analysis of mink liver monoamine oxidases. J Evol Biochem Phys 46, 453–460 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002209301005004X
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