title: Activities of enzymes of amino acid metabolism in rat brown adipose tissue.
abstract: There was a nil arginase and serine dehydratase activities in interscapular brown adipose tissue, but the activity of adenylate deaminase, glutamine synthetase, glutamate dehydrogenase and the aspartate, alanine and branched chain amino acid transaminases was higher than those of white adipose tissue; the differences were diminished when expressed per unit of protein weight. Brown adipose tissue enzyme activities were in a range between those of liver and muscle. The high amino acid handling capabilities, together with its physiological role, suggest that brown adipose tissue can metabolize significant amounts of amino acids, its enzyme pattern being different both from white adipose tissue, as well as of liver and muscle.
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: López-Soriano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alemany
mesh_terms: D000659:AMP Deaminase / Q000378:metabolism; D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000201:enzymology; D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown / Q000201:enzymology*; D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000378:metabolism; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D005969:Glutamate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D005974:Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase / Q000378:metabolism; D009928:Organ Specificity; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D000637:Transaminases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D005969:Glutamate Dehydrogenase; D000637:Transaminases; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D000410:Alanine Transaminase; C019798:branched-chain-amino-acid transaminase; D000659:AMP Deaminase; D005974:Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase