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The H2O2-mediated oxidation of NADPH to NADP+ catalyzed by the heme-undecapeptide from cytochrome C.

NAD(P)H is known to be oxidized by singlet molecular oxygen, perhydroxyl radical, and hydroxyl radical. In marked contrast to these reactive oxygen species, NAD(P)H is stable in the presence of micromolar concentrations of H2O2. The experiments herein demonstrate that NADPH is rapidly oxidized by H2O2 in the presence of a heme-peptide. The oxidation product is enzymatically active NADP+. In the absence of NADPH, the heme-peptide undergoes rapid degradation via reaction with H2O2. In the presence of NADPH, the reduced nucleotide is oxidized to NADP and the heme-peptide is partially protected from oxidation. It is suggested that under certain conditions the reduced nucleotides may contribute to the protection of intracellular heme moieties from degradation engendered by endogenous or exogenous H2O2.

Catalysis↗

Recognition site of yeast glutathione reductase for 2'-phosphate of NADP+.

Phenyl glyoxal in borate buffer specifically inactivates the NADPH-linked activity of yeast glutathione reductase. While NAD+ is ineffective, NADP+ prevents the enzyme from inactivation, and in the process, protects two arginine residues from glyoxalation. These two arginine residues presumably function as the recognition site for the anionic 2'-phosphate group of NADP+.

Binding Sites↗

Periodate-oxidized NADP+ is a powerful inhibitor of human placental estradiol-17 beta dehydrogenase.

Periodate-oxidized NADP+ inhibits the NAD+-linked activity of human placental estradiol-17 beta dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.62). The inhibition appears to be competitive with respect to NAD+ and can be reversed by dialysis or gel filtration. The apparent inhibitor constant for the periodate-oxidized analogue is 0.047 microM. The presence in the incubation mixture of NAD+ protects the enzyme against inhibition. No inhibitory effects of the coenzyme analogue are observed on the NADP+-linked activity of the enzyme.

17-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases↗

Enantiospecific change in products for aldose reductase-mediated reaction of glyceraldehyde with bound NADP+.

Aldose reductase-mediated reaction of glyceraldehyde with enzyme-bound NADP+ gives different products depending on the enantiomer used. D-Glyceraldehyde reacts to form a chromophore (336 nm) similar to the covalent NADP-glycolaldehyde adduct characterized previously [Grimshaw et al. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 9936-9946]. L-Glyceraldehyde, however, reacts in a slow steady-state process to form an additional chromophore whose spectral properties (lambda max 290 nm, epsilon approximately 16,700 M-1cm-1) suggest that hydration of the nicotinamide 5,6-double bond has occurred. Several mechanisms are proposed to explain this unique stereoisomer-dependent change in reaction pathway.

Aldehyde Reductase↗

Modification of mammalian fatty acid synthetase activity by NADP.

Experiments are described which show that the mammalian fatty acid synthetase, in the presence of NADP, synthesizes stoichiometric amounts of enzyme-bound acetoacetyl moieties. The acetoacetyl moieties can neither undergo the normal transfer reaction to a CoA acceptor, nor participate in the normal reaction sequence once NADPH is made available. Our results indicate that, since it is the product of the condensation reaction which accumulates on the inhibited enzyme, the previously held view that NADP inhibits the condensation step in fatty acid synthesis is probably incorrect.

Acetyl Coenzyme A↗

Pyruvate uptake induced by a pH jump in mesophyll chloroplasts of maize and sorghum, NADP-malic enzyme type C4 species.

A sudden pH decrease (pH jump) of the medium enhanced pyruvate uptake in the dark in mesophyll chloroplasts (MCp) of Zea mays and Sorghum bicolor, NADP-malic enzyme type C4 plants, while it was reported that a Na+ jump enhanced pyruvate uptake in MCp of P. miliaceum, a NAD-malic enzyme type [(1987) FEBS Lett. 219, 347]. The enhancement effect of the pH jump decayed completely in 5 min and the decay was accelerated by proton gradient-collapsing reagents. The results suggest that active pyruvate uptake into MCp of NADP-malic enzyme type C4 species is primarily driven by the proton gradient across the envelope.

Biological Transport, Active↗

Cysteines of chloroplast NADP-malate dehydrogenase form mixed disulfides.

Chloroplast NADP-malate dehydrogenase (NADP-MDH) from pea and from spinach was N-terminally truncated by limited proteolysis with Staphylococcus aureus protease V8. The resulting monomeric enzymes lacking, respectively, the 37 and 38 N-terminal amino acids were inactive. Reduction and addition of low concentrations of guanidine-HCl (50-100 mM) resulted in a highly active enzyme of 850 units per mg protein. Equilibration of the truncated enzyme with various glutathione (GSH) redox buffers and assaying its activity in the presence of guanidine-HCl was used to establish the existence of protein-GSH mixed disulfides. This finding was further confirmed using incorporation of radioactively labelled thiol. The possible function of such cysteine modifications under oxidative stress and their regeneration by the thioredoxin system in the light is discussed.

Carbon Radioisotopes↗

An active-site cysteine of sorghum leaf NADP-malate dehydrogenase studied by site-directed mutagenesis.

The chloroplast NADP-malate dehydrogenase is activated through the reduction of two different disulfides per subunit. The activated enzyme, as well as a permanently active mutant where all four regulatory cysteines were replaced are still sensitive to thiol reagents. This observation suggested the presence of an additional important cysteine at the active site. In an attempt to identify that cysteine, site-directed mutagenesis was performed on the cDNA encoding sorghum leaf NADP-malate dehydrogenase. The replacement of Cys-175 by an alanine yielded an enzyme whose sensitivity to thiol reagents was markedly decreased whereas its catalytic activity was enhanced. This finding suggests that Cys-175 has no catalytic function but is located close to the active site.

Base Sequence↗

Changes of the NADP-linked malic enzyme in the developing rat skeletal muscle.

The activities of NADP-linked malic enzyme, hexose monophosphate shunt dehydrogenases and NADP-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase were studied during development of skeletal muscle and compared with those in the liver. The variation patterns of malic enzyme activity in the liver and in the skeletal muscle were very similar, however the amplitude of the changes was different. The enzyme activity increased approx 16-fold in the liver and about 2-fold in skeletal muscle at the same stage of development. In skeletal muscle the increase of the malic enzyme activity was only slightly higher than of lactic dehydrogenase and citrate synthase. Studies on the intracellular distribution of malic enzyme in skeletal muscle showed that both mitochondrial and extramitochondrial enzymes increased between 20th and 37th day of life, the increase of the extramitochondrial enzyme being more pronounced. The hexose monophosphate shunt dehydrogenases activity showed an increase in the liver but no change was observed in the skeletal muscle at the weaning time. Changes in the activity of the liver and skeletal muscle isocitrate dehydrogenase were not significant between 10th and 80th day of life. The results suggest that the malic enzyme in the liver is playing a different physiological role than in the skeletal muscle.

Animals↗

High-performance affinity chromatography of NADP+ dehydrogenases from cell-free extracts using a nucleotide analogue as general ligand.

An epoxy-activated silica column (50 cm x 0.45 cm I.D.) was derivatized with 8-[6-aminohexyl)amino]-2'-phosphoadenosine-5'-diphosphoribose; the bound ligand concentration was 11.4 mumol/g of dry silica, and the useful loading capacity was 2.3 mg of glutathione reductase. The new high-performance liquid chromatographic column specifically retained NADP(+)-dependent enzymes, which were quantitatively eluted specifically by NADP+ or, with better resolution, by potassium chloride. The new high-performance liquid chromatographic support was applied to the purification of glutathione reductase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from cell-free extracts of baker's yeast, fish liver and rabbit hemolysates, with high recoveries and excellent purification factors.

Animals↗

An NADP-linked prostacyclin dehydrogenase in rabbit kidney.

An NADP-linked 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase specific for prostacyclin was purified 1,300-fold from rabbit kidney. Prostaglandins E2, F2 alpha, and 6-keto PGF1 alpha and thromboxane B2 were oxidized by the purified enzyme with rates of reaction less than 4% that of PGI2. Unlike other rabbit kidney NADP-linked 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenases, this enzyme catalyzes oxido-reduction more rapidly at the 15- position than at the 9- position and does not utilize NAD as a cofactor. It has a molecular weight of 62,000 and migrates on polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis as a single diffuse band. The reaction product was identified by thin-layer chromatography as 6,15-diketo PGF1 alpha. Prostacyclin dehydrogenase is the first 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase described which is specific for the metabolism of prostacyclin.

6-Ketoprostaglandin F1 alpha↗

Purification and regulatory properties of the NADP-linked malic enzyme for Crithidia fasciculata.

The NADP-linked malic enzyme (EC 1.1.1.40) from the insect flagellate Crithidia fasciculata has been purified to electrophoretic homogeneity by a procedure involving ammonium sulphate fractionation, gel filtration on Sephadex G-200, and column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and hydroxylapatite. The regulatory properties of the purified enzyme have been studied, and compared with those of the two forms malic enzyme (I and II) present in Trypanosoma cruzi. The enzyme from C. fasciculata, like malic enzyme II from T. cruzi was activated by L-aspartate and succinate, which decreased the apparent Km values for both substrates, L-malate and NADP; L-aspartate in addition increased the apparent Vmax. The enzyme from C. fasciculata was inhibited by oxaloacetate, which was strictly competitive towards L-malate, with an apparent Ki (26 microM) intermediate between those reported for the two enzyme forms from T. cruzi. The C. fasciculata enzyme, like malic enzyme II from T. cruzi, was inhibited by adenine nucleotides, which were competitive towards both substrates; in addition, it was inhibited by acetyl-CoA, glyoxylate and NADH, which affected very little the activity of both enzyme froms forms T. cruzi. Thus the malic enzyme from C. fasciculata showed a regulatory pattern even more complex than that of the same enzyme from T. cruzi, despite the fact that there seems to be only one enzyme, present in the cytosol, in the insect trypanosomatid.

Animals↗

1H-NMR study and structure determination of 4,4- and 4,6-dimers from electrochemical reduction of NADP+.

The products arising from one-electron electrochemical reduction of the coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP+) have been studied by HPLC chromatography and 1H-NMR spectroscopy. HPLC and NMR analyses have shown seven dimeric species, the most abundant of which (40%) has been isolated and has resulted to be an NADP 4,4-linked dimer. The other two diastereoisomeric 4,4-dimers present for the 25% and 10%, respectively, have been detected in the crude reaction mixture, but have not been isolated. The 4,4-tetrahydrobipyridine structure and the stereochemistry at the ring-ring junction for these three isomers have been determined on the basis of their NMR parameters. Preparative HPLC chromatography also led to two fractions enriched in another four dimers, present in the crude mixture, which turned out to have a 4,6-tetrahydrobipyridine structure. All the chemical shifts and the H,H coupling constants of the 4,4- and 4,6-tetrahydrobipyridine systems have been obtained for the seven compounds. For the most abundant among the 4,4-dimers the NMR analysis also gave the coupling constant values of the ribose-diphosphate chain.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid↗

Purification and characterization of NADP-dependent 7 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase from Peptostreptococcus productus strain b-52.

An NADP-dependent 7 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase was purified 11.5-fold over the activity in crude cell extracts prepared from Peptostreptococcus productus strain b-52, by using Sephadex G-200 and DEAE-cellulose column chromatography. 7 beta-Dehydrogenation was the sole transformation of bile acids catalyzed by the partially purified enzyme. The enzyme preparation (spec. act. 2.781 IU per mg protein) had an optimum pH of 9.8. Lineweaver-Burk plots showed a Michaelis constant (Km) value of 0.05 mM for 3 alpha, 7 beta-dihydroxy-5 beta-cholanoic acid whereas higher values were obtained with 3 alpha,7 beta-dihydroxy-5 beta-cholanoyl glycine (0.20 mM), and 3 alpha,7 beta-dihydroxy-5 beta-cholanoyl taurine (0.26 mM). NADP but not NAD could function as an electron acceptor, and had a Km value of 0.30 mM. A molecular weight of 64000 was determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The addition of 0.4 mM of either bile acid to the growth medium suppressed not only cell growth, but also the enzyme yield.

Hydrogen-Ion Concentration↗

NADP-specific glutamate dehydrogenase in Metridium senile (L.).

1. An NADP-specific glutamate dehydrogenase (E.C. 1.4.1.4) of mitochondrial origin has been detected in M. senile, a sea anemone. 2. Substrate specificity and starch gel electrophoresis experiments indicated an absence of the NAD(P) glutamate dehydrogenase (E.C. 1.4.1.3). 3. This NADP specific GDH activity appears to be the sole GDH activity in species of the animal phylum Coelenterata.

Animals↗

Cytoplasmic NADP-linked dehydrogenase activities in avian tissues.

Cytoplasmic activities of NADP-linked malic enzyme (E.C. 1.1.1.40), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (E.C. 1.1.1.49) and NADP-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase (E.C. 1.1.1.42) were determined in tissues of selected avian species, and compared with those in mammals. Malic enzyme was generally more active in avian liver and kidney than in the corresponding mammalian tissues. Hepatic activities as high as 200 units/g wet wt and 100 units/g wet wt were recorded in the Nectariniidae and the Ploceidae respectively. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was generally less active in avian tissues than malic enzyme. In passerine birds activities were very low indeed, and in most cases spectrophotometrically undetectable. Malic enzyme and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were highly active in the adipose tissue of mammals but were inactive in the adipose tissue of birds. Marked increases in hepatic malic enzyme and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activities were associated in birds with premigratory fattening. Activities of isocitrate dehydrogenase were comparable in the corresponding avian and mammalian tissues, including adipose tissue.

Animals↗

Ferredoxin:NADP oxidoreductase of Cyanophora paradoxa: purification, partial characterization, and N-terminal amino acid sequence.

The ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase of the protist Cyanophora paradoxa, as a descendant of a former symbiotic consortium, an important model organism in view of the Endosymbiosis Theory, is the first enzyme purified from a formerly original endocytobiont (cyanelle) that is found to be encoded in the nucleus of the host. This cyanoplast enzyme was isolated by FPLC (19% yield) and characterized with respect to the uv-vis spectrum, pH optimum (pH 9), molecular mass of 34 kDa, and an N-terminal amino acid sequence (24 residues). The enzyme shows, as known from other organisms, molecular heterogeneity. The N-terminus of a further ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase polypeptide represents a shorter sequence missing the first four amino acids of the mature enzyme.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Effect of niacin deficiency on the thermal stability of NAD- and NADP-dependent dehydrogenases in liver and pectoral muscle of Japanese quail.

The objective of this study was to determine whether the concentration of pyridine nucleotides in muscle and liver tissue of quail affected the heat stability of aldolase and selected enzymes involved in the oxidation-reduction of these cofactors. The thermal stability of malic enzyme, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, lactic dehydrogenase, and aldolase in liver, and in pectoral muscle of quail was studied at incubation temperatures ranging from 27 to 60 degrees C. The concentrations of liver NAD, NADP, NADPH and the thermal inactivation of liver malic enzyme, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, lactic dehydrogenase, and aldolase were not affected by niacin deficiency. In contrast, pectoral muscle glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in the niacin deficient quail compared to that of the controls had a markedly reduced thermal stability. This was associated with a corresponding decrease in the concentration of NAD and possibly NADPH. However, lactic dehydrogenase and aldolase activities were not affected. A similar pattern of heat inactivation was obtained when dialysed muscle and liver extracts were spiked with NAD or NADP. In these studies, NAD(P) protected muscle glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase against heat inactivation to a much greater degree than that obtained with the other enzymes from muscle or liver tissue. These results suggest a causative relationship between the thermal stability of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and coenzyme status in pectoral muscle tissue. This effect of niacin deficiency on the thermal stability of enzymes appears to be quite selective and specific.

Animals↗