Starvation-induced adaptation of rat liver tyrosine transaminase and serine dehydrase

Résumé Les activités de la tyrosine transaminase et de la sérine déhydrase sont augmentées dans le foie de rats normaux ou surrénalectomisés soumis au jeûne. Ces augmentations, qui sont supprimées par la puromycine ou le glucose, ne sont dues ni à une sécrétion d'hormones surrénaliennes ni à une accumulation des substrats des enzymes.

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This work was supported by a grant (AM 07 249 02) from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Technical assistance of MmeYveline Van Heijenoort and MileCristiane Portemer (C.N.R.S.) is gratefully acknowledged.     

Effect of dietary cholic acid and cholesterol on liver and kidney cystathionase and cysteine sulfinate decarboxylase activities and taurine concentrations in the rat

Summary Hepatic cystathionase and cysteine sulfinate decarboxylase activities are drastically affected by cholic acid added to the diet without cholesterol. When cholic acid and cholesterol are given together, only cysteine sulfinate decarboxylase activity is changed. Neither kidney enzyme activity nor taurine concentrations in the liver and kidney are noticeably modified, whatever the diet.This research was supported by INSERM (Contract 78.152.3) and by CEA.     

Cysteine oxidase and cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase in developing rat liver

Summary The patterns of development of cysteine oxidase (CO) and cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase (CSD) in rat liver are not similar. It was observed that CO is not under sex control as CSD is. The results obtained agree with the idea that, in liver, as well as in brain, CSD is the limiting factor for the regulation of taurine biosynthesis.Acknowledments: The authors thank CEA for financial support for the purchasing of labelled substrates.