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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 256: H1565-H1572, 1989;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 256, Issue 6 1565-H1572, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Kinetics of adenine nucleotide catabolism in coronary circulation of rats

G. Fleetwood, S. B. Coade, J. L. Gordon and J. D. Pearson
Section of Vascular Biology, Medical Research Council Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

We have used the rat isolated, perfused heart to study the metabolism of adenine nucleotides on a single passage through the coronary circulation. Low doses (3-30 nmol) of ATP, ADP, or AMP injected as a bolus were extensively catabolized by ectoenzymes. Increasing doses of each nucleotide demonstrated saturability of catabolism that occurred at significantly lower doses of AMP than of ADP or ATP. The patterns of catabolites formed in each case were consistent with the major pathway of metabolism being sequential dephosphorylation of ATP----ADP----AMP----adenosine, although from experiments in which [3H]ATP was co-injected with unlabeled ADP, it appears that some direct conversion of ATP----AMP can occur. Furthermore, particularly in the presence of excess unlabeled ATP, [3H]ADP was phosphorylated to [3H]ATP, indicating that ectoenzymes capable of interconverting nucleotides are present. By evaluating recovery and metabolism in serial samples collected rapidly after bolus injection, we were able to use the integrated form of the Michaelis-Menten equation as developed by Bronikowski et al. (Math. Biosci. 61: 237-266, 1982) to derive Michaelis constant (Km) and maximum velocity times capillary plasma volume (Amax) values for adenosinetriphosphatase, adenosine diphosphatase, and 5'-nucleotidase (450, 300, and 93 microM; and 5.3, 5.9, and 1.7 mumol/min, respectively). This analysis also indicated that there is a high degree of heterogeneity of path lengths within the coronary circulation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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