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J. physiol. biochem
; 68(4): 475-484, dic. 2012. ilus
Article
in English
| IBECS
| ID: ibc-122296
ABSTRACT
The effects of some pyrimidine compounds (PCs) including barbituric acid (BA) 5,5-diethyl barbituric acid (DEBA), 2-thiobarbituric acid (TBA), violuric acid (VA), 2-thiouracil (TU), and 6-amino-2-thiouracil (ATU) on the activity of rat brain monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) were investigated. The results revealed that MAO-B was activated by BA, DEBA, TBA, TU, and ATU, and the activation was structural, concentration, and time dependent. However, MAO-B was inhibited by VA in a noncompetitive and irreversible manner with an enzyme-inhibitor dissociation constant (K i value) of 32 nM and IC50 equals to 19 nM. All the studied PCs changed both the optimum pH and temperature of MAO-B (AU)