Effect of Bacterial Endotoxin and Inhibitors on Tryptophan Oxygenase Induction in Mouse Liver Slices1
AUTOR(ES)
Greene, Joyce M.
RESUMO
Tryptophan oxygenase activity in mouse liver slices maintained in cluture medium, in Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution, or in homologous whole blood declined within 3 hr to about one-half the original level. Actinomycin D and puromycin accelerated the rate of decline, but endotoxin did not. Direct addition of tryptophan to the medium resulted in a higher than normal tryptophan oxygenase activity within 1 hr, and this was maintained well above that of control liver slices up to 6 hr. Triamcinolone, at a dose that doubles tryptophan oxygenase activity in vivo, had no effect on the enzyme in liver slices. Actinomycin and endotoxin did not alter the substrate induction of tryptophan oxygenase; however, puromycin did, but to a limited extent. Liver slices prepared from mice 4 hr after an injection of cortisone had a greater tryptophan oxygenase activity than those of controls. Either endotoxin or actinomycin D resulted in a more rapid decline of the enzyme when added to the slices than was observed in the controls.
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