The dynamics of local kinetic parameters of glutamate dehydrogenase in rat liver.

Histochem Cell Biol

Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, The Netherlands.

Published: October 1996

Kinetic parameters of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH, EC 1.4.1.2) for glutamate were determined in periportal and pericentral zones of adult male and female rat liver lobules under normal fed conditions and after starvation for 24 h. GDH activity was measured as formazan production over time against a range of glutamate concentrations in serial cryostat sections using image analysis. Captured gray value images were transformed to absorbance images and local initial velocities (Vini) were calculated. A hyperbolic function was used to describe the relationship between substrate concentration and local Vini. Under fed conditions, Vmax values were similar in male and female rats (8 +/- 2 and 16 +/- 2 mumol min-1 cm-3 liver tissue in periportal and pericentral zones, respectively). Starvation increased Vmax, especially in pericentral zones of females (to 27 +/- 1 mumol min-1 cm-3 liver tissue). Under fed conditions, the affinity of GDH for glutamate was similar in male and female rats (2.5 +/- 0.5 mM and 3.5 +/- 0.8 mM in periportal and pericentral zones, respectively). Starvation had no effect on K(m) values in male rats, but in female rats affinity for glutamate decreased significantly in both zones (K(m) values of 4.0 +/- 0.1 mM and 8.6 +/- 0.8 mM, respectively). These local changes in the kinetic parameters of GDH indicate that conversion of glutamate to alpha-oxoglutarate cannot be predicted on the basis of GDH concentrations or zero-order activity in the different zones of liver lobules alone.

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