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Query: EC:3.2.1.17 (lysozyme)
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The relationship between lysozyme and sodium reabsorption by the kidney tubule was studied in the experimental Fanconi syndrome. Female, anesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats were injected intravenously with maleic acid (an inhibitor of sodium transport) neutralized with sodium hydroxide in doses of either 2 or 8 mmol/kg. Clearance studies were performed immediately afterward, and plasma and urine were analyzed for inulin, pH, sodium, glucose, and lysozyme. Two hours after the maleic acid injection, renal cortical tissue was removed and homogenized. Specific activity of Na-K-ATPase was assayed in the light microsomal fraction. The results showed that both concentrations of maleic acid caused significant increases in urinary volume, glucose excretion, and pH. There were significantly correlated decreases in TNafract and TLyfract. The slope of the regression line (TLyfract = 1.03 TNafract - 5.82; r = 0.92) approximated unity. Renal cortical Na-K-ATPase activity was significantly decreased by 25% in the animals receiving 2 mmol maleic acid and 43% in the animals receiving 8 mmol. The evidence suggests that lysozyme reabsorption in the proximal tubule might be mediated directly or indirectly by active tubular transport of sodium, a process that is related to the Na-K-ATPase transport system.
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PMID:Renal handling of lysozyme in experimental Fanconi syndrome. 14 77

During the acute renal tubular dysfunction of Fanconi syndrome and type 2 renal tubular acidosis (FS/RTA2) induced by maleic acid in the unanesthetized dog, we observed: 30 minutes after the onset of FS/RTA2, the urinary excretion of lysosomal enzymes, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase (NAG), beta-glucuronidase (beta-gluc) and beta-galactosidase (beta-galac), increased simultaneously with the anticipated increase in renal clearance of lysozyme; the severities of all these hyperenzymurias increased rapidly, progressively, and in parallel, all reaching a peak some 60 to 80 minutes after their onset; thereafter, while the FS/RTA2 continued undiminished in severity, the severity of the hyperenzymurias decreased rapidly, greatly, progressively, and in parallel; and sodium phosphate loading strikingly attenuated the FS/RTA2 and the hyperenzymurias. Thus, the maleic acid-induced FS/RTA2 is attended by an acute reversible-complex derangement in the renal tubular processing of proteins that: affects not only lysozyme which is normally filtered, but also NAG and other lysosomal enzymes, which are not; and is to some extent functionally separable from that of FS/RTA2. The findings suggest that the derangements in renal processing of lysozyme and lysosomal enzymes are linked, and that a phosphate-dependent metabolic abnormality in the proximal tubule can participate in the pathogenesis of both these derangements and the FS/RTA2.
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PMID:Coordinately increased lysozymuria and lysosomal enzymuria induced by maleic acid. 310 28