Determination and significance of l-tyrosine O-sulphate and its deaminated metabolites in normal human and mouse urine.
Methods were developed for the determination of the O-sulphate esters of l-tyrosine, p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate, p-hydroxyphenylacetate and p-hydroxybenzaldehyde in human urine. The amounts of these esters normally present in human female urine were determined. The quantities and specific radioactivities of l-tyrosine O-sulphate and p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate O-sulphate in mouse urine after labelled tyrosine had been fed were determined and were consistent with the hypothesis that the sole source of p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate O-sulphate was l-tyrosine O-sulphate. It is suggested that the turnover of known polypeptides containing l-tyrosine O-sulphate residues can account for only a portion of the quantities of the ester and its metabolite(s) that are present in normal female human urine.
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Department of Biochemistry, University College, P.O. Box 78, Cardiff CF1 1XL, U.K.
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