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. 1986 Dec 15;240(3):843–846. doi: 10.1042/bj2400843

Protein degradation in cat liver cells.

S V Silva, J R Mercer
PMCID: PMC1147496  PMID: 3827872

Abstract

Body proteins in cats were prelabelled with [14C]valine, and protein degradation was studied in isolated hepatocytes. Amino acids appeared to have a direct inhibitory effect on protein degradation, but the effects were generally smaller than those previously shown in the rat. The amino acid control of protein degradation in the cat differs from that in the rat, as shown by the lack of effects of glutamine, asparagine, arginine or methionine in cat hepatocytes. This may be related to the unique features of protein metabolism of this species. NH4Cl, leupeptin and amino acids, which suppress lysosomal protein degradation by different mechanisms, caused less than 30% inhibition of protein degradation when used at the optimum concentrations reported for the rat. The ability of the lysosomal system to respond to nutritional deprivation is apparently lower in the cat than in the rat.

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