title: Differences in distribution of ribonuclease isoenzymes in cytosol and granules in normal human granulocytes and in granulocytes of patients with chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL).
abstract: Distribution of ribonuclease (RNAase), acid phosphatase (acid Ph-ase) and beta glucuronidase (BGU) between the granule, cytosol-soluble and post-granule fractions in normal human granulocytes and in granulocytes of chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) was studied. CGL granulocytes were found to display relative RNAase activity 1.2 times higher, relative acid Ph-ase activity 2.5 times higher than normal granulocytes. The granule fraction of CGL granulocytes showed 1.4 times higher relative RNAase activity but 0.87 times lower acid Ph-ase activity and the same BGU activity as normal granulocytes. On the other hand, the supernatant soluble fraction of CGL granulocytes showed 4.4 times higher relative RNAase activity, 1.2 times higher relative acid Ph-ase activity and BGU 2.2 times higher than in cytosol soluble fraction of normal granulocytes. Thus, cytosol soluble fraction of CGL granulocytes show a relative activity of the lysosomal enzymes studied which is remarkably higher than in normal granulocytes. The percentage distribution of RNAase, acid Ph-ase and BGU showed that CGL granulocytes contain only 36% of total RNAase activity versus 46% of that in normal ones. On the other hand, CGL granulocytes in cytosol soluble fraction will contain 48% of total RNAase versus 29% of total RNAase in cytosol of normal granulocytes. The isoenzyme profiles of RNAase of granule fractions were similar in normal and CGL granulocytes, while the RNAase isoenzyme profiles of cytosol fractions were different for normal and CGL granulocytes, indicating that some essential part of CGL granulocyte cytosol RNAase differs from RNAase contained in granules and in cytosol of normal granulocytes.
mesh_terms: D000135:Acid Phosphatase / Q000097:blood; D000328:Adult; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology*; D005260:Female; D005966:Glucuronidase / Q000097:blood; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000201:enzymology*; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000097:blood*; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012016:Reference Values; D012260:Ribonucleases / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D012260:Ribonucleases; D000135:Acid Phosphatase; D005966:Glucuronidase