[Amino acid composition and subunit structure of rabbit muscle aldolase in experimental atherosclerosis]

Under atherosclerosis the fractions corresponding to alpha-subunits are focused at a more alkaline pH than the same fractions in the norm. The curve of the enzymic activity of the fractions with atherosclerosis is higher. beta-subunits of aldolase from muscles of intact rabbits and those with sclerosis are identical in the amino acidic composition. In the enzyme alpha-subunits under conditions of atherosclerosis the content of lysine, serine, glycine, valine gets higher. On the basis of the previous research which reveals peptide having no analogs in the norm in the C-terminal fragment of aldolase molecule an assumption is advanced that under conditions of atherosclerosis the intermediate C-terminal site of the enzyme alpha-chain changes.