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Inhibition of kynureninase (L-kynurenine hydrolase, EC 3 . 7. 1 . 3) by oestrone sulphate: an alternative explanation for abnormal results of tryptophan load tests in women receiving oestrogenic steroids

Bender, DA; Wynick, D; (1981) Inhibition of kynureninase (L-kynurenine hydrolase, EC 3 . 7. 1 . 3) by oestrone sulphate: an alternative explanation for abnormal results of tryptophan load tests in women receiving oestrogenic steroids. British Journal of Nutrition , 45 (2) 269 - 275. 10.1079/BJN19810103. Green open access

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Abstract

1. A partial purification of kynureninase (L-kynurenine hydrolase, EC 3 . 7. 1 . 3) from rat liver and a total resolution of the apoenzyme have been achieved. The hypothesis that conjugates of oestrogenic steroids compete with pyridoxal phosphate for the cofactor binding site of the enzyme, and so disturb tryptophan metabolism, leading to apparent vitamin B6 deficiency, has been tested. 2. Kynureninase from rat liver was partially purified, and the cofactor-free apoenzyme was prepared. Oestrone sulphate inhibited the enzyme uncompetitively with respect to pyridoxal phosphate, and competitively with respect to kynurenine, with a mean (+/- SE) inhibitor constant (Ki) of 82 +/- 6 microM. 3. The addition of a saturating concentration of pyridoxal phosphate to unfractionated liver homogenates led to an approximately fivefold increase in kynureninase activity, indicating the presence of a relatively large amount of apo-kynureninase in the tissue. 4. It is suggested that the abnormal results of tryptophan load tests in women receiving oestrogens are the result of inhibition of kynureninase by oestrogen conjugates, and that there is no evidence for oestrogen-induced vitamin B deficiency in such cases.

Type: Article
Title: Inhibition of kynureninase (L-kynurenine hydrolase, EC 3 . 7. 1 . 3) by oestrone sulphate: an alternative explanation for abnormal results of tryptophan load tests in women receiving oestrogenic steroids
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1079/BJN19810103
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/BJN19810103
Language: English
Additional information: © 1981 The Nutrition Society
Keywords: Animals, Apoenzymes, metabolism, Binding, Competitive, Estrone, pharmacology, Female, Hydrolases, antagonists & inhibitors, Kinetics, Liver, enzymology, Pyridoxal Phosphate, Rats, Tryptophan
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Structural and Molecular Biology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/137529
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