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. 1982 Mar 15;202(3):777–783. doi: 10.1042/bj2020777

Cytosolic and mitochondrial isoenzymes of branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase during development of the rat.

H Kadowaki, W E Knox
PMCID: PMC1158175  PMID: 7092844

Abstract

The isoenzymic forms of branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase in mitochondria of rat tissues were compared with the better-known cytosolic forms in order to find any regular pattern of expression of these isoenzymes during development. Mitochondria of all tissues examined except brain contained only a type-I isoenzyme differing from the cytosolic type-I isoenzyme in heat stability and activation by mercaptoethanol. Foetal and adult brain mitochondria contained isoenzymes type III as well as type I. The large excess of type-I isoenzyme in foetal liver was localized in mitochondria, apparently of haematopoietic cells. The activity of this isoenzyme declined precipitously (by 80%) from day 19 of gestation at the same period and rate as does the volume fraction of haematopoietic cells that are then leaving the liver. Cortisol treatment accelerated the loss of these cells, and proportionally accelerated loss of the mitochondrial isoenzyme I. A development succession of type-I isoenzyme by the unique type II of liver parenchymal cell cytosols could not be demonstrated, since small, about equal, amounts of types I and II were always present in cytosols of foetal and adult liver. Developmental succession of isoenzymes within tissues was limited to cytosols and was demonstrated by the presence of cytosolic isoenzyme III in foetal and newborn skeletal muscle and kidney, organs which contain only isoenzyme I in the adult.

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