Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 376, Issue 7, Pages 1069-1073Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-003-2025-8
Keywords
norepinephrine; catechol-O-methyltransferase; brain; hypertension
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A method to measure catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) activity using high performance liquid chromatography - fluorescence detection with norepinephrine (NE) as a natural substrate was optimized for both soluble (S-) and membrane-bound (MB-) COMT activities in rat brain areas, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, hippocampus, brain stem, hypophysis, and hypothalamus. The highest S-COMT activity in Sprague-Dawley rat brain was found in hippocampus. MB-COMT activities in all brain areas were about 3-8 times lower than S-COMT activities. However, considering Vmax/Km values, specificity constants for NE to S- and MB-COMT contributes mainly to the metabolism of NE in cerebral cortex and cerebellum.
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