|
|
|
|
Molecular Pharmacology, Vol 3, 396-398, Copyright © 1967 by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
-Hydroxylase Activity
1 New York University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology,
Neurochemistry Laboratory, New York, New York 10016
Tetrahydropteridine (DMPH4) reacts with dopamine-
-hydroxylase anaerobically and
forms a reduced enzyme intermediate which aerobically catalyzes the
-hydroxylation of
tyramine-3H. Under aerobic conditions DMPH4, in combination with NADH, is effective
in the stimulation of enzymic
-hydroxylation. Oxidized DMPH4 inhibits the enzymic
activity.