Inhibition of human glutamine synthetase by L-methionine-S,R-sulfoximine-relevance to the treatment of neurological diseases. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • 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 1.19 mM) 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.

publication date

  • October 18, 2013

Research

keywords

  • Convulsants
  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase
  • Methionine Sulfoximine
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins
  • Nervous System Diseases

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4180818

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84910668079

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s11011-013-9439-6

PubMed ID

  • 24136581

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 29

issue

  • 4