Abstract:
:We have studied the relative roles of the glutaminase versus glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH) and purine nucleotide cycle (PNC) pathways in furnishing ammonia for urea synthesis. Isolated rat hepatocytes were incubated at pH 7.4 and 37 degrees C in Krebs buffer supplemented with 0.1 mM L-ornithine and 1 mM [2-15N]glutamine, [5-15N]glutamine, [15N]aspartate, or [15N]glutamate as the sole labeled nitrogen source in the presence and absence of 1 mM amino-oxyacetate (AOA). A separate series of incubations was carried out in a medium containing either 15N-labeled precursor together with an additional 19 unlabeled amino acids at concentrations similar to those of rat plasma. GC-MS was utilized to determine the precursor product relationship and the flux of 15N-labeled substrate toward 15NH3, the 6-amino group of adenine nucleotides ([6-15NH2]adenine), 15N-amino acids, and [15N]urea. Following 40 min incubation with [15N]aspartate the isotopic enrichment of singly and doubly labeled urea was 70 and 20 atom % excess, respectively; with [15N]glutamate these values were approximately 65 and approximately 30 atom % excess for singly and doubly labeled urea, respectively. In experiments with [15N]aspartate as a sole substrate 15NH3 enrichment exceeded that in [6-NH2]adenine, indicating that [6-15NH2]adenine could not be a major precursor to 15NH3. Addition of AOA inhibited the formation of [15N]glutamate, 15NH3 and doubly labeled urea from [15N]aspartate. However, AOA had little effect on [6-15NH2]adenine production. In experiments with [15N]glutamate, AOA inhibited the formation of [15N]aspartate and doubly labeled urea, whereas 15NH3 formation was increased. In the presence of a physiologic amino acid mixture, [15N]glutamate contributed less than 5% to urea-N. In contrast, the amide and the amino nitrogen of glutamine contributed approximately 65% of total urea-N regardless of the incubation medium. The current data indicate that when glutamate is a sole substrate the flux through GLDH is more prominent in furnishing NH3 for urea synthesis than the flux through the PNC. However, in experiments with medium containing a mixture of amino acids utilized by the rat liver in vivo, the fraction of NH3 derived via GLDH or PNC was negligible compared with the amount of ammonia derived via the glutaminase pathway. Therefore, the current data suggest that ammonia derived from 5-N of glutamine via glutaminase is the major source of nitrogen for hepatic urea-genesis.
journal_name
Arch Biochem Biophysjournal_title
Archives of biochemistry and biophysicsauthors
Nissim I,Cattano C,Nissim I,Yudkoff Mdoi
10.1016/0003-9861(92)90008-ksubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1992-02-01 00:00:00pages
393-401issue
2eissn
0003-9861issn
1096-0384pii
0003-9861(92)90008-Kjournal_volume
292pub_type
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