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ALDOLASE ISOZYMES OF HUMAN BRAIN TUMORS Te Chen Chien 1 1Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of medicine University of Tokyo pp.625-635
Published Date 1971/6/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406202911
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Three parental aldolases, termed A (muscle al-dolase), B (liver aldolase) and C (brain aldolase) have been detected in mammalian tissue.

These three enzymes have different substrate specificities towards fructose-1, 6-diphosphate (FDP) and fructose-l-phosphate (F 1 P) as well as different activity ratio FDP/F 1 P (50 in A, 1 in B and 10 in C).

The normal brain tissue shows bands of aldolase A and aldolase C with three hybrid bands (A4, A3C, A2C2, AC3 and C4) electrophoretically.

The specific activity of aldolase of the brain tumors is variable but FDP/FIP ratio is similar to that of the normal brain. Since there is no cor-relation detected between the activities of aldolase derived from different brain tumors, it is difficult to determine their natures by aldolase activity only.

As to isozyme pattern, A and C with three hy-brid bands in the normal brain and A4 and A3C mainly with a trace of A2C2 in the fetal brain (3 months) are separated by cellulose acetate mem-brane electrophoresis. These results in our study coincide with the reports by other authors.

In gliomas, which are of neuroepithelial origin, the isozyme pattern resembles that of the normal brain in general, but it seems to have a tendency that the bands of C4, AC3 and A2C2 disappear in relation to malignancy of tumors. In some of glio-blastoma, C4, AC3 and A2C2 are absent while only two bands of A4 and A3C exist. Thus aldolase C peptide is always present in neuroepithelial element.

On the other hand, in meningioma which is a mesodermal tumor, two patterns are obtained, namely a type of A4 and the other type of A4 and A3C.

From this fact, brain tumors originated from neuroepithelium or mesoderm may be distinguished by the difference of the isozyme patterns of aldolase C peptide.

In pituitary adenoma, the bands of A4 and a trace of A3C are seen.

In all the metastatic tumors of the brain, which the author so far has examined, such as from the lung, the stomach and the breast, the isozyme pattern reveals two bands of A4 and A3C.

As mentioned above, the aldolase isozyme pattern reflects the origin of tumors and it may be useful clinically for the diagnosis of brain tumors.


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