Affiliation:
1. Clinica Medica dell’Università di Catania, Ospedale Garibaldi, 95123 Catania, Italy
Abstract
Abstract
With respect to the enzymes of NADPH-forming metabolic pathways in human leukocytes: (a) Glucose-6phosphate dehydrogenase and phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating) were less active in leukocytes (mostly myeloblasts) from eight patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia (I) than in leukocytes (mostly granulocytes) from 16 normal subjects (II) or 16 patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia (III). (b) Of the enzymes of the citrate cleavage pathway, ATP citrate lyase and malate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating) (NADP+) were virtually absent in the cells studied. (c) Isocitrate dehydrogenase (NADP+), aspartate aminotransferase, and alanine aminotransferase, which, together with the much more active malate dehydrogenase, constitute a newly proposed NADPH-forming metabolic cycle, showed a higher activity in I than in II or III, and therefore could compensate, as concerns NADPHgeneration, for the low activity of pentose cycle dehydrogenases. We are not sure whether the enzymatic characteristic of I cells is attributable to their immaturity or to their leukemic nature.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Biochemistry, medical,Clinical Biochemistry
Cited by
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