PROSSER 



Temperature Acclimation Temperature and Enzyme Per Cent by 

 Oxidative of Activity Per gm Wet Weight which Cold 



Enzymes Measurement or mg Protein Exceeds Warm 



Cold Warm 



Succinic dehydrogenase 

 eel liver 

 (Precht, 1951) 

 goldfish liver 

 (Murphy, 1961) 



goldfish muBcle 

 (Murphy, 1961) 



15° 

 25° 



11° 

 .43 

 5° 



15.9 JIl/g^^,/min 

 17 /il/g^/min 



8.11 Ml02/gw/™'° 



.24 



30" 



14.3 

 19.9 



6.64 



79% 



n.s. 

 n.s. 



21% 



Cocarboxylase 

 eel liver 

 (Carlsen, 1953) 

 eel muscle 

 (Carlsen, 1953) 



440 

 390 



345 

 367 



28% 

 n.s.? 



Malic dehydrogenase 

 goldfish liver 

 (Murphy, 1961) 



Cytochrome c oxidase 

 goldfish liver 

 (Murphy, 1961) 



goldfish muscle 

 (Murphy, 1961) 



15" 

 20° 



5° 30° 



9.15 ;il02/gw/hr 16.2 



14.7 Ml/gw/™in 22.5 



15U) M l/g/min 

 23.4 M l/g^/rain 

 .236 M l/mgpr/min 

 13.9 Ml02/gw/ni*° 



30° 

 15.9 

 22.8 



.183 

 12.3 



-44% 

 -34.5% 



n.s. 

 n.s. 

 29.5% 

 n.s. 



DPNH cytochrome reductase 

 goldfish liver 

 (Murphy, 1961) 



TPNH cytochrome reductase 

 goldfish liver 

 (Murphy, 1961) 



Catalase 

 carp gill 

 (Eld)erg, 1961) 

 eel liver 

 (Precht, 1951) 



23.5/g„ 



4.13/gv, 



CN inhibition 

 goldfish gill 

 (Ekberg, 1958) 

 goldfish liver 

 (EldDerg, 1958) 

 goldfish liver 

 (Kanungo, Prosser, 1959) 



79.1% Inhlb. 

 85.9% 



30<» 



57.5% 

 81.2% 



No significant difference in inhibition by GO, CN, azide. 



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