Role of protein degradation in the growth of livers after a nutritional shift
- 15 August 1976
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 158 (2) , 385-390
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1580385
Abstract
Fractional rates of synthesis and degradation of liver porteins were estimated during the rapid restoration of liver mass observed in protein-depleted mice when they are fed with an adequate diet. 1. Net protein gain was fastest 12h after the nutritional shift, when it reached a rate of 48% per day. 2. The RNA/protein ratio in livers of protein-depleted animals was essentially the same as in normal livers; it increased by a maximum of 13% 12h after the nutritional shift. 3. Rates of protein synthesis in vivo were measured by the incorporation into liver protein of massive amounts of L-[1-14C]leucine. In protein-depleted animals, the rate of synthesis per mg of RNA was 72% of that in normal livers. Normal rates were recovered within 12h of the nutritional shift. 4. The fraction of newly synthesized protein retained by the liver was studied after they were pulse-labelled by the intravenous injection of radioactive leucine, and, 5 min later, pactamycin (an inhibitor of the initiation of protein synthesis); 3h later the livers in both experimental situations retained 58% of the newly synthesized protein. 5. Fractional rates of protein degradation were estimated either from the difference between the synthesis of stable liver proteins and the net protein increase, or by the disappearance of radioactivity from the liver protein previously labelled by the administration to the mice of NaH14CO3. Both procedures demonstrated a large decrease in the rate of protein degradation during liver growth.Keywords
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