Urine glycyl-L-proline increase and skin trophicity.

Abstract:

:Glycyl-L-proline (gly-pro) is an end product of collagen metabolism that is further cleaved by prolidase (EC 3.4.13.9); the resulting proline molecules are recycled into collagen or other proteins. We postulated a relationship between defective gly-pro hydrolysis, increased collagen degradation and skin destruction. This relationship was tested using HPLC to measure the gly-pro in urine. 24 hour urine samples were collected from 27 old people (86 +/- 6 years old), of whom 15 were suffering from skin pressure sores of the sacrum or calcaneus. The urine from patients with pressure sores contained significantly more gly-pro than the urine from the control. A cut-off at 7 mumol/mmol creatinine gave the test a positive predictive value of 70%. Collagen breakdown was also increased as indicated by the increase of hydroxyproline (hyp) in the urine. But this breakdown seemed to stop at the gly-pro step.

journal_name

Amino Acids

journal_title

Amino acids

authors

Le J,Perier C,Peyroche S,Rascle F,Blanchon MA,Gonthier R,Frey J,Chamson A

doi

10.1007/BF01366930

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-01-01 00:00:00

pages

315-22

issue

3

eissn

0939-4451

issn

1438-2199

journal_volume

17

pub_type

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