Changes in superoxide dismutase activity in liver and lung of old rats.
Superoxide dismutase activity was measured in liver and lung from 3 and 24 month-old rats. Both total SOD and Mn-SOD activity decreased significantly in the liver of old rats. Recent results from our laboratory have indicated that during aging, the activity of Cu/Zn-SOD decreases in rat liver and that there is an accumulation of altered protein. It was also shown that the old Cu/Zn-SOD had one histidine fewer than the young one. In the present study, the immunoprecipitation experiments showed that the amount of immunoprecipitable Mn-SOD from liver of old rats was greater than from young ones, but when amino acid residues were measured in purified young and old Mn-SOD from liver, no change was observed. In lung, no significant age-related differences in total SOD, Cu/Zn-SOD and Mn-SOD activity were found, nor was there accumulation of altered protein during aging.
Departamento de Bioquímica, Bromatología y Toxicología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla.
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D000375:Aging; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008168:Lung / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D008345:Manganese; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*
D000596:Amino Acids; D008345:Manganese; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase