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A variant of iodotyrosine-dehalogenase deficiency.

Three siblings (products of consanguineous marriage) affected with iodotyrosine-dehalogenase deficiency (presumed homozygotes) were found to have low thyroxine and large multinodular goiters, but none was mentally retarded. Iodide therapy corrected the serum T4 and thyroidal iodide uptake and discharge curve. The goiters shrank with iodide treatment. The subjects demonstrated significant ability to deiodinate intravenously injected L-mono-iodotyrosine (MIT) but not L-diiodotyrosine (DIT); 9.9% and 80.0% of an injected dose of 125I-MIT and 125I-DIT appeared unchanged in the urine 4 h, respectively. The data in presumed heterozygote subjects (both parents and two other siblings) were intermediate between controls and affected subjects. Thyroidal dehalogenase activity was measured in one of the affected subjects in vitro. The tissue showed greater ability to deiodinate MIT than DIT, but both activities were much lower than that of control tissue. The disease appears to be transmitted in an autosomal recessive fashion. The MIT-dehalogenase activity demonstrable in the affected individuals may explain the mild phenotype, in that MIT leaking from the goiter can be deiodinated to a significance degree and the liberated iodide reutilized.

Adult

Biosynthesis of thyroid hormone: basic and clinical aspects.

Thyroid hormone formation requires the coincident presence of peroxidase, H2O2, iodide, and acceptor protein at one anatomic locus in the cell. The peroxidase enzyme appears to be a protoporphyrin lX containing heme protein, with binding sites for both iodide and tyrosine. It is probable that both iodide and tyrosine are oxidized to free radical forms which unite to form iodotyrosine. The peroxidase is also involved through an uncertain mechanism in iodotyrosine coupling and probably in oxidation of sulfhydryl bonds in thyroglobulin. H2O2 may be supplied by microsomal NADPH-cytochrome c reductase or NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase. Other possible intracellular H2OI generating systems include monoamine oxidase and xanthine oxidase. The usual acceptor for iodide is thyroglobulin, which is currently believed to be iodinated within apical secretory vesicles at the cell border just prior to liberation into the colloid, or possibly after liberation into the colloid. Other soluble an insoluble proteins are also iodinated within the gland. The peroxidase is present in numerous cellular structures, but iodination activity occurs primarily, if not only, at the apical cell border. The controls of iodination are imperfectly known. Thyrotrophin modulation of iodide uptake, H2O2 generation, thyroglobulin synthesis, and peroxidase enzyme level obviously are the main regulations. Many of these actions are thought to involve mediation of adenyl cyclase and subsequent activation of intracellular phosphokinases. Antithyroid drugs of the thiocarbamide group are competitive inhibitors of iodination under some circumstances, but if much iodide is present, they react with the oxidized iodine intermediate and are irreversibly inactivated themselves. Clinical problems involving defective peroxidase function are among the most frequent hereditary defects of thyroid hormone formation. Recognized abnormalities include deficient peroxidase, abnormality in binding of the peroxidase apoprotein to its prosthetic group, and other less well-identified abnormalities in peroxidase structure and function. Peroxidase is typically elevated in thyroid tissue from patients with hyperthyroidism sometimes deficient in cold thyroid nodules, and frequently diminished in tissue from patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

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Spatial requirement for coupling of iodotyrosine residues to form thyroid hormones.

A linear random copolymer of tyrosine and lysine and two synthetic oligopeptides containing two tyrosine residues in addition to lysine residues give thyroid hormone (thyroxine and triodothyronine) residues in good yield upon enzymatic iodination with thyroid peroxidase. These synthetic peptides may serve as simple models for thyroglobulin, the protein in which biosynthesis of the thyroid hormone takes place. For the formation of significant amounts of hormone, such model compounds must contain at least two properly spaced tyrosine residues.

Iodide Peroxidase

Ionic strength dependence of the oxidation of iodide and ferrocyanide by compound I of horseradish peroxidase.

The kinetics of the oxidation of iodide and ferrocyanide by compound I of horseradish peroxidase have been studied at 25 degrees C as a function of ionic strength and pH. The ionic strength dependencies of the second-order rate constants are tested with an extended form of the Debye-Hückel equation for the activity coefficients of the reacting species. For the reaction of iodide with compound I it is shown that the pH variation of the rate constant at zero ionic strength is caused mainly by titrating a catalytically important acid group and not mainly by the varying charge of the protein. The ferrocyanide reaction rate with compound I does not correlate with enzyme net charge, at all pH values. The influence of electrostatic interactions on reaction rates is discussed.

Ferrocyanides

The irreversible inactivation of thyroid peroxidase by methylmercaptoimidazole, thiouracil, and propylthiouracil in vitro and its relationship to in vivo findings.

A reinvestigation of the mechanism of action of methylmercaptoimidazole, propylthiouracil, and thiouracil on thyroid peroxidase (TPO) was undertaken. A preliminary incubation of TPO and H2O2 with methylmercaptoimidazole, propylthiouracil, or thiouracil was carried out in the absence of oxidizable substrates (i.e. I- or guaiacol). This incubation resulted in irreversible inactivation of TPO. The extent of inactivation could be determined after removal of the drug by gel filtration or by dilution into the assay mixture. Preincubation, as above, in the presence of iodide or thiocyanate prevented the irreversible inactivation of TPO. Rats receiving doses of these drugs which completely inhibited protein-bound iodine formation showed normal levels of TPO in their thyroid glands 30 min after drug administration. These findings suggest that the initial in vivo action of these drugs is to block iodination by trapping oxidized iodide, not by acting as "general inhibitors" of the TPO.

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Antithyroid and antiperoxidase activity of tropolone and 3-hydroxy-4-pyrone.

Tropolone (TR) and 3-hydroxy-4-pyrone were investigated for antithyroid activity following the finding that the 2-hydroxy-oxo pyridine, 3-hydroxy-4(1H)-pyridone (DHP, I), is goitrogenic. Both compounds inhibited the thyroidal uptake of radioiodine in rats and resembled the thioamide drugs in inhibiting the organic binding of iodine by the thyroid gland rather than the trapping of iodide, but were weaker binding inhibitors than 6-methyl-2-thiouracil (MeTU). Both compounds also inhibited the iodination of bovine serum albumin and thyroglobulin, catalyzed by thyroidperoxidase (TPO), lactoperoxidase (LPO), chloroperoxidase (CPO) and horseradish peroxidase (HPO) in vitro. The inhibitory effect of TR but not that of 3-hydroxy-4-pyrone was antagonized by ferrous ions. When fed to mice at levels of intake expected to produce goitre both compounds were toxic and caused severe liver damage. Thyroid enlargement was not observed in any of these feeiding experiments, but the thyroids of mice fed 0.1% TR showed moderate hyperplasia. It was concluded that both compounds are weakly goitrogenic. Hyperactivity was observed in the mice fed TR which may be associated with inhibition of catechol methyl transferase (COMT).

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Role of thyroid gland on the peroxidase and iodinating enzymes of submaxillary gland.

The peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.7) and iodinase (EC 1.11.1.8) activities of rat submaxillary gland were found to be increased after thyroidectomy. The enzyme activities were maximal on the seventh day after operation and then decreased slightly. However, the enzyme activities were still more than 100% even 28 days following operation. Administration of thyroxine (10mug/100 g body weight) prevented the increase. Puromycin, cycloheximide, and actinomycin D, the inhibitors of protein synthesis, as well as thiouracil partially abolished the increase of activities. These results suggest that thyroxine acts as a regulator of the iodinase and peroxidase enzyme(s) of submaxillary gland,

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Rapid conversion of carbimazole to methimazole in serum; evidence for an enzymatic mechanism.

Carbimazole (CBZ) is one of the major drugs currently used for the treatment of Graves' disease. It is a carbethoxy derivative of methimazole (MMI), originally developed in the hope of obtaining a longer acting drug than methimazole. In the present study we have demonstrated that carbimazole is rapidly converted to methimazole in vitro by serum from rats and humans, and we have obtained evidence that this conversion is enzymatic. Experiments with [35S] CBZ in rats showed that the drug is so rapidly transformed to MMI after i.v. injection (within 3 min) that very little of the unchanged drug would be expected to reach the thyroid gland. The antithyroid action of CBZ in rats, therefore, can be ascribed entirely to the MMI to which it is rapidly converted. Although no experiments were performed with human subjects in vivo, the very rapid conversion of CBZ to MMI by human serum in vitro suggests that the antithyroid action of CBZ in humans can also be attributed to MMI. The original expectation of a longer acting drug has, therefore, not been met by CBZ. On the basis of the studies reported here there appears to be no advantage in using CBZ in preference to MMI for the treatment of Graves' disease. Although the in vivo action of CBZ must be attributed to its rapid conversion to MMI, the drug does possess inherent antithyroid activity. This was shown in the present study by the finding that CBZ is as potent as MMI in blocking thyroid peroxidase-catalysed iodination of thyroglobulin.

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Participation of thyroid D-aspartate oxidase in iodide oxidation and incorporation into thyroid proteins.

It was found that the H2O2 generating system containing D-aspartate oxidase isolated from the thyroid gland and D-aspartate, takes part in oxidation of iodides. The molecular I2 formed under experimental conditions is subsequently incorporated into thyroid proteins. Thiosemicarbazide, thiourea, methylthiouracyl, sulphathiazole, thiocyanate and azides were found to have an inhibiting effect on iodide oxidation. Methimazole inhibits both the oxidation of iodide and incorporation of 131I into protein. The iodide incorporation was inhibited by catalase. The findings of these investigations suggest an indirect participation of D-aspartate oxidase in the synthesis of the thyroid hormone by supplying the essential substrate for the iodide oxidation, H2O2.

Amino Acid Oxidoreductases

Localization of thyroid peroxidase and the site of iodination in rat thyroid gland.

The iodinated protein was localized in thyroid tissue slices by using radioautography. In unfixed tissue, the labelled protein was localized in the colloid, whereas, in tissue that was fixed before the 125I addition, the label was within the follicular cell. This localizes thyroid peroxidase largely on the endoplasmic reticulum of the cell.

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