Table 3

Kinetic parameters for free AMPD before and after removal of low molecular weight ions and metabolites by centrifugation through Sephadex G50 columns


Before spun columns
After spun columns


S0.5 AMP (mM)
nH
S0.5 AMP (mM)
nH


Control
2.16 ± 0.11
1.76 ± 0.06
1.35 ± 0.08a
2.37 ± 0.17 a
Frozen
2.19 ± 0.15
2.76 ± 0.10 a
1.68 ± 0.21 a
2.76 ± 0.27

Data are means ± SEM, for determinations on muscle preparations from n = 4 individual frogs. a – Significantly different from the corresponding free control value prior to desalting by the Student's t-test, P < 0.05.

Dieni and Storey BMC Biochemistry 2008 9:12   doi:10.1186/1471-2091-9-12