Mean half-life for total liver protein

Value 6.6 Days
Organism Rat Rattus norvegicus
Reference Kuehl L, Sumsion EN. Turnover of several glycolytic enzymes in rat liver. J Biol Chem. 1970 Dec 25 245(24):6616-23. p.6620 right column top sentencePubMed ID5482772
Method Rats were injected with 3H-leucine, and the change in radioactivity of total liver protein was followed as a function of time. This line is the sum of the (presumably) logarithmic decay curves for all the individual liver proteins.
Entered by Uri M
ID 106469