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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 27, 906-909, Copyright © 1981 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Specific spectrophotometric assay for the M isoenzymes of pyruvate kinase in plasma samples containing mixtures of the muscle (M) and liver (L) isoenzymes

RJ Edwards and DC Watts

Plasma pyruvate kinase (EC 2.7.1.40) activity contains two major isoenzymes. The "L" type originates from liver (erythrocytes contain a similar isoenzyme), the "M" type predominantly from skeletal muscle. The diagnostic use of pyruvate kinase as an index of muscle leakage requires an assay of only the M type. An M-type-selective assay for mixtures of the two isoenzymes was devised, based on the differences that the L form has a higher Km for phosphoenolpyruvate and is inhibited by about 95% by a high concentration of ADP. All relevant conditions of the assay have been examined and the reaction system has been optimized at 30 degrees C. The assay yields the expected Km values for M type pyruvate kinase. An apparent increase in activity in hemolysed plasma samples was found to be derived from leukocytes.


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