PMID: 15374237May 1, 1995Paper

An in vitro model of aging: the influence of increasing physical density on enzyme activities of trypsin, xanthine oxidase and superoxide dismutase

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
M J Van Der SandenI Zs -Nagy

Abstract

The enzyme activities of trypsin (using an artificial substrate, Nalpha-benzoyl-L-arginine-ethylester = BAEE), xanthine oxidase (XOD) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) were measured in the absence and presence of various concentrations of the following inert, water-soluble polymer viscogens: polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP-40), polyethyleneglycol (PEG-6000) and bovine serum albumin (BSA). Enzyme activities measured in the absence of viscogens were taken as 100%. In the presence of the viscogens, enzyme activities decreased considerably as follows: (i) Trypsin: to 2 or 12% in reaction mixtures containing 64 mg/ml PVP-40 or 481 mg/ml PEG-6000, respectively. (ii) XOD: to 29.3% in a reaction mixture containing 116 mg/ml PVP-40, to 68.9% in a medium containing 266 mg/ml PEG-6000, and 38.1% in the presence of 138 mg/ml BSA. (iii) SOD: to 40.0, 19.9 and 16.6% in the same media as listed for XOD, respectively. The observations are consistent with the predictions of the molecular enzyme kinetic model (MEKM), and are also of importance for the membrane hypothesis of aging, since the latter explains the loss of cell functions by an age-dependent increase of intracellular density which may cause serious enzyme inhibitions.

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