Half automated method for determining a L-leucinamide splitting enzymatic activity in human sera. In normal and pathological human sera, two distinct L-leucinamide splitting enzymatic activities have been demonstrated. One of them has an optimal activity at pH 9 (alcaline leucine amidase activity) and shows the most properties of a classic leucinaminopeptidase (E.C. 3.4.11.1). The other (neutral leucine amidase activity) has an optimal activity at pH : 7,5--7,8 and is not activated by Mg2+ ions. In the present work a semi-automated method permitting the determination of the "neutral leucine amidase activity" is presented. The mean of the reference values for normal human sera are established to 31,54 mUI/ml, and the upper normal limit is 48 mUI/ml. The neutral leucine amidase activity is studied in pathological sera comparatively with two other aminopeptidase activities : "alcaline leucine amidase activity", and "leucine-arylamidase". Our study shows that in pathological sera, the neutral leucine amidase activity" varies often without any correlation with those parameters.
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