title: Effect of starvation on the N-acetylglutamate system of rat liver.
abstract: Rats fasted for 3 and 6 days showed an increase in the activity, per g of liver but not per total liver, of the mitochondrial urea cycle enzymes, carbamylphosphate synthetase and ornithine transcarbamylase. The activity of N-acetylglutamate synthetase, both per g and per total liver, increased by the third day and then decreased on the sixth day of fasting. The cytosolic enzyme N-acetyldeacylase showed the same general pattern as the N-acetylglutamate synthetase except that the relative proportion of synthetase over deacylase was higher at the third day of starvation. The N-acetylglutamate level/g liver increases in relation to the number of days of fasting.
mesh_terms: D000123:Acetyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D000581:Amidohydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D051046:Amino-Acid N-Acetyltransferase; D000818:Animals; D002223:Carbamoyl-Phosphate Synthase (Glutamine-Hydrolyzing) / Q000378:metabolism; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology; D005971:Glutamates / Q000378:metabolism*; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D009954:Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013217:Starvation / Q000201:enzymology*; D014508:Urea / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005971:Glutamates; D014508:Urea; D009954:Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase; D000123:Acetyltransferases; D051046:Amino-Acid N-Acetyltransferase; D000581:Amidohydrolases; C032554:N-acetylglutamate deacylase; D002223:Carbamoyl-Phosphate Synthase (Glutamine-Hydrolyzing); C016195:N-acetylglutamic acid