Robins R J, Davies D D
Biochem J. 1981 Jan 15;194(1):63-70. doi: 10.1042/bj1940063.
The rate of degradation of glutathione has been determined in the yeast Candida utilis by using a method that minimizes the effect of amino-acid recycling. When yeast are grown in amino-acid-free medium, the half-life of glutathione was found to be 230 min. C. utilis was also found to absorb various L-amino acids rapidly without producing any significant decrease in the half-life of glutathione. While the gamma-glutamyl cycle is thus operating in C. utilis, the rate of degradation of glutathione is found to be 100 times too slow for the cycle to be mediating the transport of these amino acids.
通过使用一种能将氨基酸循环影响降至最低的方法,测定了产朊假丝酵母中谷胱甘肽的降解速率。当酵母在无氨基酸培养基中生长时,发现谷胱甘肽的半衰期为230分钟。还发现产朊假丝酵母能迅速吸收各种L-氨基酸,而谷胱甘肽的半衰期没有任何显著降低。因此,虽然γ-谷氨酰循环在产朊假丝酵母中起作用,但发现谷胱甘肽的降解速率比该循环介导这些氨基酸转运的速率慢100倍。