E. Vazquez et al., ISOLATION AND PARTIAL-PURIFICATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL AND CYTOSOLIC RHODANESE FROM LIVER OF NORMAL AND P-DIMETHYLAMINOAZOBENZENE TREATED MICE, International journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 27(5), 1995, pp. 523-529
Rhodanese (thiosulfate:cyanide sulfurtransferase, E.C, 2.8.1.1), an en
zyme involved in heme regulation, showed distinctive mitochondrial and
cytoplasmic activities in several models of tumorigenesis. To investi
gate the basis for these differences, the enzyme was partly purified a
nd characterized from the mitochondrial and cytosolic liver fraction o
f mice treated with the carcinogen p-dimethyl-aminoazobenzene (DAB). A
Linear relationship between incubation time and specific activity was
observed up to about 30 min for cytosolic enzyme and 15 min for mitoc
hondrial enzyme irrespective of whether or not the enzyme was derived
from treated or untreated animals, The optimum incubation temperature
was 3 degrees C for the enzyme of both fractions in control animals an
d 30 degrees C for treated animals in both cases, In control and DAB t
reated animals the cytoplasmic rhodanese exhibited a maximum at a lowe
r pH than for the mitochondrial enzyme, The enzyme showed typical Mich
aelis-Menten behavior with cyanide inhibition at concentrations higher
than 25 mM for controls and 10 mM for treated animals for both fracti
ons and thiosulfate inhibition at concentrations higher than 100 mM in
all cases studied, K-m values of 190 and 65.66 mM were obtained for t
hiosulfate and 6.37 and 9.79 mM for cyanide for both mitochondrial and
cytosolic fractions of control animals; while K-m values of 31.75 and
4.58 mM were obtained for thiosulfate and 0.61 and 1.11 mM for cyanid
e in both fractions of treated animals. We demonstrated differences in
the kinetics for rhodanese derived from mitochondrial and cytoplasmic
fractions of livers taken from tumor bearing mice, These differences
might provide an explanation for the abnormalities of heme synthesis p
reviously reported during hepatocarcinogenesis.