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  • Title: The regulation of N-acetylglutamate synthetase in rat liver by protein intake.
    Author: Colombo JP, Pfister U, Cervantes H.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1990 Nov 15; 172(3):1239-45. PubMed ID: 2244909.
    Abstract:
    Urea cycle enzymes are subjected to regulation by dietary proteins. We have shown that this is also the case for N-acetylglutamate synthetase (EC 2.3.1.1.) (NAGS). Four different groups (n = 7) of male Wistar rats received either a low protein (8.7%) or a high (32% and 51%) protein diet and a control diet of 17% protein. The NAGS-activity in the liver, assayed after 15 days of feeding the different diets, increased from 25 +/- 7 (controls, 17% protein) to 31 +/- 5 (32% protein) and to 52 +/- 17 (51% protein) nmoles.min-1.g-1 wet weight. It decreased in the group with low protein diet (8.7%) to 5 +/- 3. The ratio of the arginine stimulated to the unstimulated enzyme activity remained constant over the range of protein intake. Similar changes were observed for carbamylphosphate synthetase, ornithine carbamyltransferase and arginase. As it is known for these enzymes adaptive mechanisms in relation to variations in dietary protein consumption also could be demonstrated for the enzyme NAGS.
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