Comparison of folylpolyglutamate hydrolases of mouse liver, kidney, muscle and brain
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
- Vol. 43 (2), 81-87
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00423095
Abstract
The folylpolyglutamate hydrolase activities of mouse liver, kidney, muscle and brain were examined by incorporation of methylenetetrahydrofolate polyglutamate reaction products into a stable ternary complex with tritiated fluorodeoxyuridylate and L. casei thymidylate synthetase. Complexes were separated electrophoretically on the basis of charge associated with the polyglutamyl moieties to determine distribution of chain lengths throughout the time course of the reaction. Tissue folylpolyglutamate hydrolase activities were allowed to utilize endogenous folylpolyglutamate as substrates by incubating crude tissue extracts at pH 7.4 and pH 4.5. Kidney and muscle contained relatively reactive hydrolases which were capable of generating intermediates of essentially all chain lengths from folylpentaglutamate, the predominant endogenous species. The relatively low activity in brain also gave rise to all possible intermediates. Liver contained a high concentration of methylenetetrahydrofolate but little hydrolase activity. The activity present in liver gave rise to essentially no intermediates but yielded only the monoglutamate form of the cofactor. When purified lysosomal preparations from liver and kidney were allowed to react with synthetic folylpolyglutamates, the same specificity with regard to reaction products was observed as with endogenous substrates.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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