A Sensitive Radiometric Assay for Ornithine Aminotransferase: Regional and Subcellular Distributions in Rat Brain

Abstract: A radiometric assay for ornithine aminotransferase was developed using [1‐14C]α‐ketoglutarate as the labeled substrate and glutamate decarboxylation as a linking step. This assay gives near total measurement of ornithine aminotransferase activities that are, respectively, about 1.5 and 10 times larger than those obtained by the spectrophotometric assay and the radiometric assay using [1‐14C]ornithine. It is also the most sensitive of the three assay procedures.

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