The main isozyme patterns of desialylated blood plasma or serum alpha-L-fucosidase (FUCA) were found to be almost identical to those of semen, urine, placental extracts, and leukocyte lysates, when detected by polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing, and activity staining using the fluorogenic substrate 4-methylumbelliferyl-alpha-L-fucopyranoside. Three phenotypes (1, 2-1, and 2) determined from plasma samples were identical to the phenotypes from urine and leukocyte lysates from the same individuals. A population study of plasma samples collected from 485 Japanese individuals indicated that the frequencies of the FUCA1*1 and FUCA1*2 alleles were 0.7505 and 0.2495, respectively. The mean plasma enzyme activities (+/- SD) of the three phenotypes were 318.8 +/- 116.7 nmol/ml per h for type 1, 268.0 +/- 108.3 nmol/ml per h for type 2-1, and 233.2 +/- 84.4 nmol/ml per h for type 2. The mean activities of types 1 and 2 suggest that, on average, the FUCA1*1 gene product in plasma has about 1.4 times the activity of FUCA1*2.
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