The activities of three key enzymes of glycerol metabolism were measured in liver samples from 37 human fetuses ranging in gestational age from 18 weeks to term, from neonates (1-3 days) and from infants to 2 years. Glycerol kinase specific activity was constant throughout the period of fetal development examined, and was comparable to that measured in neonates and infants. However, the subcellular distribution of the activity changed markedly, being predominantly particulate in fetal samples and cytoplasmic in postnatal samples. The particulate activity had an elevated Km for glycerol. Cytoplasmic glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity was very low in the fetal period, and then rose to adult levels during infancy. There were no kinetic differences between the fetal and postnatal activities. Mitochondrial glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity rose somewhat after birth to near adult levels. The data indicate that glycerol can be metabolized by human fetal, neonatal and infant liver.
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