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  • Title: Rat intestinal peroxidase: inhibition by endogenous xanthine and xanthine oxidase.
    Author: Kimura S, Jellinck PH.
    Journal: Arch Biochem Biophys; 1985 Aug 15; 241(1):141-8. PubMed ID: 3839643.
    Abstract:
    The high-speed supernatant from homogenates of rat small intestine contains a heat-stable, dialyzable factor which showed a time-dependent inhibition of peroxidase activity in salt extracts of the tissue. The inhibitor was purified by chromatography on Dowex 50W-X8 and identified as xanthine. The inhibition of peroxidase by xanthine was prevented by allopurinol, an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase, and hypoxanthine was also found to be inhibitory. H2O2, produced in the reaction catalyzed by xanthine oxidase, was shown to be directly responsible for the observed inhibition. The time-dependent loss of peroxidase activity in the presence of xanthine or hypoxanthine occurred more rapidly in NH4Cl than in CaCl2 extracts of small intestine and was due to the difference in the initial concentration of H2O2 in these two extracts. The possible relationship between peroxidase and xanthine oxidase in the rat small intestine is discussed.
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