The specific activities of succinic dehydrogenase (SD) and cytochrome oxidase (COX) were determined for mitochondria of chick liver, heart, and skeletal muscle from the seventh day of incubation through the time of hatching. The levels of activity of both enzymes at hatching and the rate and course
The effect of ribonucleinase on succinic dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1945
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Volume
- 240
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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β¦ Synopsis
The Effect of Ribonucleinase on Succinic Dehydrogenase and Cytochrome Oxidase. --CHARLES A. ZITTLE. Succinic dehydrogenase has been shown by E. Adler, H. yon Euler and B. Skarzynski (Arkiv fiir Kemi, Mineralogi och Geologi, ITA, No. 2, 1943) to be inhibited by yeast adenylic acid and adenosine, an observation which has been confirmed in this laboratory (C. A. Zittle, to be published). This behavior of succinic dehydrogenase suggested that the finding of V. R. Potter and H. G.
Albaum (Journal of General Physiology, 26: 443, 1943) that succinic dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase were inhibited by ribonucleinase, although interprepted as indicating a loss of essential structure by the action of the rlbonucleinase, might have resulted from the formation of nucleotides in inhibitory amounts by the action of ribonucleinase on the nucleic acid which is present.
The enzymes for the investigation of the above hypothesis were prepared from pig hearts by the method of D. Keilin and E. F. Hartree
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