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Oxidation of glucosamine by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

When exposed to a phagocytic stimulus (opsonized zymosan), human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) produced 14CO2 from [1-14C]glucosamine at a rate 10-25% of that produced from glucose under the same conditions. The production of CO2 from glucosamine by intact PMNs was inhibited by glucose and dependent upon activation of the hexosemonophosphate shunt (HMPS). However, the metabolic pathways for the oxidation of glucose and glucosamine by PMNs are not identical. This is suggested by the fact that glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, the initiating enzyme for the HMPS, did not utilize glucosamine-6-phosphate as a substrate. In addition, glucosamine was not oxidized by sonically disrupted PMNs whereas oxidation of glucose by the same preparation was increased sevenfold over intact cells. Taken together, the data suggest that PMNs oxidize glucosamine by converting it to a compound compatible with the enzymes of the HMPS. This conversion requires intact PMNs and/or an as yet unidentified cofactor.

Ascorbic Acid↗

Control of glycolytic enzyme binding: effect of changing enzyme substrate concentrations on in vivo enzyme distributions.

The effect of changing concentrations of glycolytic intermediates on the binding of phosphofructokinase, aldolase and pyruvate kinase to cellular particulate matter was investigated. Concentrations of glycolytic intermediates were altered by adding 2 mM iodoacetic acid (IAA) to an incubation medium containing tissues isolated from the channelled whelk Busycon canaliculatum. Iodoacetic acid inhibited glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity causing a 100-400 fold increase in the concentration of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate as well as 3-20 fold increases in glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 6-phosphate, and dihydroxyacetone phosphate levels depending on the experimental protocol. Cellular pH values were not statistically different in the presence of IAA. Measurement of enzyme binding to particulate matter showed that the binding of phosphofructokinase, aldolase and pyruvate kinase was unaffected by iodoacetic acid under any experimental condition. These results show that changes in the tissue concentrations of enzyme substrates and products do not regulate enzyme binding to particulate matter in the cell.

Animals↗

Citrate inhibition of rat-kidney cortex phosphofructokinase.

The regulatory properties of citrate on the activity of phosphofructokinase (PFK) purified from rat-kidney cortex has been studied. Citrate produces increases in the K0.5 for Fru-6-P and in the Hill coefficient as well as a decrease in the Vmax of the reaction without affecting the kinetic parameters for ATP as substrate. ATP potentiates synergistically the effects of citrate as an inhibitor of the enzyme. Fru-2,6-P2 and AMP at concentrations equal to Ka were not able to completely prevent citrate inhibition of the enzyme. Physiological concentrations of ATP and citrate produce a strong inhibition of renal PFK suggesting that may participate in the control of glycolysis in vivo.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

Enzymic potential for fructose 6-phosphate phosphorylation by guard cells and by palisade cells in leaves of the broad bean Vicia faba L.

Guard cells and palisade cells were dissected from freeze-dried leaflets of the broad bean, Vicia faba L. Individual cell samples (6-12 ng) were assayed for ATP-dependent and pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinases. The assay indicator, NADH loss, was monitored in real time in oil droplets with a computer-driven microfluorometer. On a protein basis, both activities were 10-fold higher in guard cells than in palisade cells, indicating (i) elevated carbon metabolism in guard cells to meet demands for energy and carbon skeletons required during stomatal opening, and (ii) parallel glycolytic pathways in guard cells, one responsive to the potent regulatory metabolite fructose 2,6-bisphosphate and the other not. Future work will be devoted to clarifying the roles of the cytosolic and chloroplastic compartments in guard cells.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

Influence of anoxia on glucose metabolism in pancreatic islets: lack of correlation between fructose-1,6-diphosphate and apparent glycolytic flux.

When equilibrated with O2-CO2 (95:5), pancreatic islets of non-inbred ob/ob-mice exhibited a sigmoidal dependence of 3H2O production on D-(5-3H)-glucose concentration; the rate was most sensitive to changes of glucose concentration around 5mM and tended to be maximum above about 15mM glucose. 3H2O production from more than 5 mM D-(5-3H)-glucose was about twice as fast as the production of 14CO2 from equimolar D-(U-14C)-glucose. Islets equilibrated with N2-CO2 (95:5) did not exhibit a sigmoidal dose-response curve for 3h2o production, the process being inhibited by anoxia at glucose concentrations above 5mM. Pieces of exocrine pancreas had a slower aerobic 3H2O production than the islets and showed a clear enhancement of the process during anoxia. In comparison with oxygenated islets, anoxic islets exhibited decreased concentrations of glucose-6-phosphate and increased concentrations of furctose-1,6-diphosphate. The concomitant inhibition of glycolytic flux may be due to a low lactate dehydrogenase activity in islets yielding a slow reoxidation of NADH and a slow phosphoglyceraldehyde oxidation under anaerobic conditions.

Aerobiosis↗

Gene dosage and Down's syndrome: metabolic and enzymatic changes in PC12 cells overexpressing transfected human liver-type phosphofructokinase.

Down's syndrome (DS) is a human genetic disease caused by triplication of the distal third of chromosome 21 and overexpression of an unknown number of genes residing in it. The gene for the liver-type subunit of phosphofructokinase (PFKL), a key glycolytic enzyme, maps to this region and the product is overproduced in DS erythrocytes and fibroblasts. These facts, together with abnormalities which occur in DS glycolysis, make PFKL overexpression a candidate for causing some aspects of the DS phenotype. A cellular model for examining the consequences of PFKL overexpression in DS was constructed by transfecting rat PC12 cells with the human PFKL cDNA. Phosphofructokinase (PFK) isolated from PFKL-overexpressing clones was more inhibited by ATP and citrate and less activated by fructose-6-phosphate than control PFK; similar results were obtained when PFK preparations from DS and control fibroblasts were compared. In vivo NMR measurements determined that cells overexpressing PFKL performed glycolysis 40% faster than controls. These results show that overexpression of PFKL is the cause for altered biochemical regulatory characteristics of PFK in DS fibroblasts and can result in enhancement of glycolysis rates. It is also shown that increased gene dosage can exert its influence not merely by enhancing the amounts of gene products but also by altering their biochemical nature.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

Cyclosporine and liver regeneration studied by in vivo 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

The changes in fructose-1-phosphate (F-1-P), intracellular pH, and ATP content of the liver after a fructose challenge were investigated noninvasively in vivo using phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of dog liver four days after a portacaval shunt (PCS) with or without portal venous infusion of cyclosporin (CsA). The F-1-P metabolism was slower in PCS dogs (N = 2) as compared to either the normal (N = 2) or PCS + CsA-treated dogs (N = 3) (P less than 0.05). The intracellular pH temporarily decreased from 7.3 +/- 0.05 to 7.0 +/- 0.05 during the fructose challenge. The regenerative indexes were increased in the PCS + CsA group (P less than 0.01). These data obtained in vivo using 31P-NMR spectroscopy in the liver following a portacaval shunt, suggest that: (1) the energy status of the liver and the metabolic response to fructose are reduced in PCS compared to normal animals and (2) CsA treatment enhances the regenerative response of the liver and prevents the reduction in hepatic function associated with portacaval shunting.

Acid-Base Equilibrium↗

Mathematical modelling for the generation of L-[3-2H,3-13C]lactic acid isotopomers by erythrocytes exposed to either D-[1-13C]glucose or D-[6-13C]glucose in the presence of 2H2O.

The production of C3-trisdeuterated, bisdeuterated, monodeuterated or non-deuterated L-[3-13C]lactate by human erythrocytes exposed to either D-[1-13C]glucose or D-[6-13C]glucose in the presence of 2H2O can be assessed by 13C NMR spectroscopy. Such a deuteration may occur at the level of the reactions catalyzed by phosphoglucoisomerase, phosphomannoisomerase, pyruvate kinase and glutamate-pyruvate transaminase. In this report, a mathematical model is proposed for the analysis of experimental data. It allows to estimate the relative extent of deuteration at each step of D-glucose metabolism. This approach may thus provide novel information on the extent of back-and-forth interconversion of either hexose 6-phosphates in both the phosphoglucoisomerase and phosphomannoisomerase reactions or pyruvate and L-alanine in the reaction catalyzed by glutamate-pyruvate transaminase.

Alanine Transaminase↗

[Diagnostic procedures in hereditary fructose intolerance (author's transl)].

In order to diagnose hereditary fructose intolerance up to now, there were only the dangerous fructose-load and the biochemical evidence of this metabolic defect from biopsies of liver, intestine or kidney. Since there are no screening tests nor tests for heterocygote carriers or prenatal diagnostic procedures, we tested a simple method to determine serum activities of the two enzymes concerned in this defect (fructose-1-phosphate aldolase, fructose-1,6-diphosphate aldolase). Even in completely healthy children we could measure both activities in a good range. Children with known liver lesion caused other than HFI had significantly increased activities of both enzymes. In 4 cases with HFI we could not measure any activity of fructose-1-phosphate aldolase and a decreased activity of fructose-1,6-di-phosphate aldolase in serum, despite an apparently damaged liver. We propose to define those two serum activities in any case of an obscure liver lesion, frequent vomiting and postprandial hypoglycemia in early childhood, in order to exclude HFI or to demonstrate its possible presence.

Aldehyde-Lyases↗

Interconversion phenomena between two kinetic forms of class a pyruvate kinase from Ehrlich ascites tumor cells.

1. The regulatory properties of two interconvertible kinetic forms of class A pyruvate kinase from Ehrlich ascites tumor cells have been studied with a partially purified enzyme preparation free of interfering enzymatic activities. 2. The hyperbolic form shows Michaelis-Menten kinetics for P-pyruvate, with high affinity for this substrate and low affinity for the inhibitory amino acids alanine and phenylalanine. The sigmoidal form displays positive cooperativity respect to P-pyruvate (n=1.4), with lower affinity for this substrate and higher affinity for the inhibitory amino acids. 3. The equilibrium between the hyperbolic and the sigmoidal forms of the enzyme is affected by substraetes and effectors. P-pyruvate, ADP and Fru-P2 shift the equilibrium to the hyperbolic form while ATP, alanine and phenylalanine stabilize the sigmoidal form. 4. Effector metabolites affect the molecular weight of the protein, acting on an equilibrium between dimers and tetramers. P-pyruvate and ADP associate the enzyme to a tetramer while ATP, alanine and phenylalanine favor the occurrence as a dimer. The positive modifier Fru-P2 did not associate the enzyme to the tetramer, even at 1 mM concentration. 5. A tentative molecular model for pyruvate kinase A on the basis of the kinetic and aggregation interconversion is proposed.

Animals↗

Cyanogen induced phosphorylation of D-fructose.

Cyanogen-induced phosphorylation of D-fructose at pH 8.8 led to the formation of a phosphorylated sugar identified as alpha-D-furcto-pyranose 2-phosphate on the basis of its chromatographic and electrophoretic properties, its lability to hydrolysis by alkaline phosphatase, the rate of its acid-catalysed hydrolysis, the results of periodate oxidation and optical rotatory measurements.

Biological Evolution↗