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METABOLIC BRAIN DISEASE
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages 983-989Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-013-9439-6
Keywords
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Glutamine synthetase; Hyperammonemia; L-methionine-S,R-sulfoximine
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- National Institutes of Health [RO3-NS074286, RO1 ES 008421]
- Theresa Pantnode Santmann Foundation Award
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At high concentrations, the glutamine synthetase inhibitor L-methionine-S,R-sulfoximine (MSO) is a convulsant, especially in dogs. Nevertheless, sub-convulsive doses of MSO are neuroprotective in rodent models of hyperammonemia, acute liver disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and suggest MSO may be clinically useful. Previous work has also shown that much lower doses of MSO are required to produce convulsions in dogs than in primates. Evidence from the mid-20th century suggests that humans are also less sensitive. In the present work, the inhibition of recombinant human glutamine synthetase by MSO is shown to be biphasic-an initial reversible competitive inhibition (K-i 1.19mM) is followed by rapid irreversible inactivation. This K-i value for the human enzyme accounts, in part, for relative insensitivity of primates to MSO and suggests that this inhibitor could be used to safely inhibit glutamine synthetase activity in humans.
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