Orlowski M, Wilk S
Biochem J. 1978 Feb 15;170(2):415-9. doi: 10.1042/bj1700415.
The synthesis of ophthalmic acid, an analogue of glutathione, was studied in vivo in mouse liver and kidney after administration of either L-alpha-aminobutyrate or L-gamma-glutamyl-L-alpha-aminobutyrate as precursor. L-alpha-aminobutyrate accumulated to a much greater extent, and induced a much greater synthesis of ophthalmic acid in the liver than in the kidney. In contrast, L-gamma-glutamyl-L-alpha-aminobutyrate initiated a large and more rapid synthesis of ophthalmic acid in the kidney than in the liver. Experiments with L-gamma-[G(-14)C]glutamyl-L-alpha-aminobutyrate showed that, although part of the dipeptide is degraded to its constituent amino acids, a significant proportion is directly incorporated into kidney ophthalmic acid. In contrast L-gamma-glutamyl-L-alpha-aminobutyrate serves poorly as a direct precursor of liver ophthalmic acid. The present results show that kidney gamma-glutamyl tripeptide synthesis can proceed directly from an exogenous gamma-glutamyl dipeptide precursor.
在以L-α-氨基丁酸酯或L-γ-谷氨酰-L-α-氨基丁酸酯作为前体给药后,在小鼠肝脏和肾脏中对谷胱甘肽类似物眼酸的合成进行了体内研究。L-α-氨基丁酸酯在肝脏中的积累程度要大得多,并且诱导肝脏中眼酸的合成比在肾脏中多得多。相比之下,L-γ-谷氨酰-L-α-氨基丁酸酯在肾脏中引发的眼酸合成比在肝脏中更大且更快。用L-γ-[G(-14)C]谷氨酰-L-α-氨基丁酸酯进行的实验表明,虽然部分二肽会降解为其组成氨基酸,但相当一部分会直接掺入肾脏眼酸中。相比之下,L-γ-谷氨酰-L-α-氨基丁酸酯作为肝脏眼酸的直接前体效果不佳。目前的结果表明,肾脏γ-谷氨酰三肽合成可以直接从外源性γ-谷氨酰二肽前体进行。