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The selective monoamine oxidase inhibitors clorgyline and (-)-deprenyl have been used to determine the activities of monoamine oxidase-A and -B towards tryptamine in several human tissues. The results were compared with those obtained with the A-form-selective substrate 5-hydroxytryptamine, the B-form-selective substrate 2-phenethylamine and the common substrate tyramine. Tryptamine was found to be a substrate for both forms of the enzyme in human liver, kidney cortex and medulla and in seven different brain regions. The Km values of the two forms towards this substrate were similar in all the human tissues examined but the maximum velocities differed. Thus the A-form would contribute approximately 50% of the total monoamine oxidase activity towards this substrate in human cerebral cortex, whereas it would contribute about 60% in kidney cortex and medulla and 75% in liver. These results suggest that both forms of monoamine oxidase would contribute to the metabolism of tryptamine in human tissues and are difficult to reconcile with suggestions that tryptamine excretion may provide a simple index of monoamine oxidase-A inhibition.
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