AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 262, Issue 1 E118-E125, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Model equations for condensation biosynthesis using stable isotopes and radioisotopes

J. K. Kelleher and T. M. Masterson
Department of Physiology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20037.

Important syntheses in living systems occur by condensation reactions of the type nA----1B (where n is the number of A molecules needed to synthesize 1 molecule of B). Quantitative relationships for estimating the rate of synthesis of B from radioactive and stable isotope tracers are compared. With radioisotope tracers, only a single quantity is detected, the amount of radioactivity in B. In contrast, isotopes of varying mass produce multiple mass isotopomers B that are detected using mass spectrometry. The analysis demonstrates that the rate of synthesis of B is identifiable from stable isotope data but not from radioisotope data. This results because the isotopomer distribution of B at any time after tracer addition is a function of only the multinomial distribution representing the synthesis of B from n molecules of A and two parameters representing the fractional fluxes of isotopically enriched molecules to the sampled compartment of B. The model considers the possibility that the sampled compartment of B may not reach isotopic steady state during the experiment. A graphical method for obtaining initial estimates of the two parameters is presented.

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