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Query: EC:1.1.1.37 (malate dehydrogenase)
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The mechanism of catabolite inactivation of three gluconeogenetic enzymes, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, has been studied in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The glucose-induced inactivation of the three enzymes is remarkably retarded by preincubation of the cells with different caffeine concentrations; however, a full conservation of activity has never been obtained, even at the highest drug concentration. Caffeine modifies the metabolic effects produced in the yeast cell by exposure to glucose. It reduces the consumption rate of glucose; changes the glycolytic intermediate pattern, giving rise to a crossover point at the level of the phosphofructokinase/fructose-bisphosphatase cycle; and increases the ATP level and the energy charge. Moreover, it substantially reduces the peak of intracellular cAMP content that immediately follows glucose entry; the magnitude of this effect is dependent on the drug concentration. The effect on the change of intracellular cAMP level appears, among all metabolic effects determined by caffeine, the only plausible one to explain the interference with catabolite inactivation of enzymes. Actually a strong negative correlation between residual activity of each of the three investigated enzymes and intracellular cAMP level has been demonstrated. The existence of a common mechanism of action of cAMP, as the mediating factor for catabolite inactivation of all three enzymes, is proposed.
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PMID:Effect of caffeine on glucose-induced inactivation of gluconeogenetic enzymes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A possible role of cyclic AMP. 629 33

Experimental conditions have been elaborated to test for reversibility of the malate dehydrogenase inactivation (E.C.1.1.1.37) after addition of glucose to derepressed yeast cells. Malate dehydrogenase inactivation was shown to be irreversible at all stages of inactivation. In contrast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase inactivation (E.C.3.1.11) remained reversible for at least 30 min after addition of glucose. Rapid reversible inactivation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase and irreversible inactivation of malate dehydrogenase were additionally investigated in glycolytic block mutants. Normal inactivation kinetics were observed in mutants without catalytic activity of phosphoglucose isomerase (E.C.5.3.1.9), phosphofructokinase (E.C.2.7.1.11), triosephosphate isomerase (E.C.5.3.1.1) and phosphoglycerate kinase (E.C.2.7.2.3). Hence, neither type of inactivation depended on the accumulation of any glucose metabolite beyond glucose-6-phosphate. Under anaerobic conditions irreversible inactivation was completely abolished in glycolytic block mutants. In contrast rapid reversible inactivation was independent of energy provided by respiration or fermentation. Reversibility of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase inactivation was tested under conditions which prevented irreversible malate dehydrogenase inactivation. In these experiments, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase inactivation remained reversible for at least 120 min, whereas reversibility was normally restricted to about 30 min. This indicated a common mechanism between the irreversible part of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase inactivation and irreversible malate dehydrogenase inactivation.
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PMID:Studies on rapid reversible and non-reversible inactivation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase and malate dehydrogenase in wild-type and glycolytic block mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 631 Nov 31

Aflatoxin production by pregrown cultures of Aspergillus parasiticus was completely inhibited by incorporation of 2 mg of caffeine per ml into the medium. This was accompanied by a decrease in glucose utilization and an inhibition of oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide evolution. Enzyme analyses indicated no significant differences in specific activities on glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, mannitol dehydrogenase, phosphofructokinase, fructose 1,6-diphosphatase, pyruvate kinase, or malate dehydrogenase. Glucose uptake kinetics indicated a linear dose-related inhibition of glucose uptake. It appears likely that caffeine inhibits aflatoxin synthesis by restricting the uptake of carbohydrates which are ultimately used by the mold to synthesize this family of mycotoxins.
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PMID:Caffeine inhibition of aflatoxin synthesis: probable site of action. 633 11

Evidence is presented for the occurrence of glycosomes (organelles resembling peroxisomes) in four major species of Leishmania (viz. L. major, L.m. mexicana, L. b. braziliensis and L. donovani), based on latency as well as differential and isopycnic centrifugation studies. The enzymes involved in glycolysis; (hexokinase, phosphoglucose isomerase, phosphofructokinase, fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase, triosephosphate isomerase, glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase and phosphoglycerate kinase); glycerol metabolism (sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and glycerol kinase); carbon dioxide fixation (phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and possibly malate dehydrogenase); together with an enzyme involved in the beta-oxidation of fatty acids (3-beta-hydroxybutyryl coenzyme A dehydrogenase); a key enzyme in the synthesis of ether lipids (dihydroxyacetone phosphate acyltransferase) as well as the ADP utilising enzyme adenylate kinase, were all found associated, at least in part, with a subcellular organelle which had a buoyant density in sucrose gradients of 1.21 to 1.24 g cm-3. Little variance in enzyme composition was found between the different species of Leishmania or in comparison with other members of the Trypanosomatidae, supporting the unifying principle that glycosomes are a unique characteristic of this family. The occurrence of important catabolic, anabolic and anaplerotic pathways in the glycosomes of Leishmania renders them prime targets for chemotherapy.
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PMID:The occurrence of glycosomes (microbodies) in the promastigote stage of four major Leishmania species. 644 18

Glucose-6-phosphatedehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49), lactatedehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.27), malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.38) and phosphofructokinase (EC 2.7.1.11) activities in loach (Misgurnus fossilis L.) embryos were determined after incubation of the latter in the media containing surfactants--alkyl benzol sulphonates NP-1, NP-3, RAS and secondary alkyl sulphate "Progress". The determined activities changed under the influence of the used surfactants. Minimal changes of the activities were observed in the media with sulphonol np-1, and maximal ones--with the "Progress" preparation. The dependence is revealed of the enzyme activities changes upon the surfactant concentration and the stage of the embryo development.
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PMID:[Effect of anionic surfactants on some dehydrogenases and phosphofructokinase activities in loach embryos]. 644 16

Livers were obtained from two lines of domestic broiler which had been selected for low (lean) and high (fat) plasma very-low-density lipoprotein concentration over three generations. The fat line possessed significantly higher hepatic specific activities of malate dehydrogenase (NADP), ATP citrate lyase and fatty acid synthase, and lower glucose bisphosphatase than the lean line. The glycolytic enzymes, pyruvate kinase and phosphofructokinase, were similar and so was the concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate. This recently discovered metabolic regulator was present at somewhat higher concentrations than previously reported in rats or mice. It exhibited a positive correlation with phosphofructokinase activity (only data for the fat line are shown), and stimulated enzyme activity when added to crude preparations.
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PMID:Lipogenic enzyme activity and fructose 2,6-bisphosphate concentration in livers of two lines of domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) selected for different body fat content. 654 85

Biopsies from 15 human gliomas, five meningiomas, four Schwannomas, one medulloblastoma, and four normal brain areas were analyzed for 12 enzymes of energy metabolism and 12 related metabolites and cofactors. Samples, 0.01-0.25 microgram dry weight, were dissected from freeze-dried microtome sections to permit all the assays on a given specimen to be made, as far as possible, on nonnecrotic pure tumor tissue from the same region. Great diversity was found with regard to both enzyme activities and metabolite levels among individual tumors, but the following generalities can be made. Activities of hexokinase, phosphorylase, phosphofructokinase, glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, and malate dehydrogenase levels were usually lower than in brain; glycogen synthase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were usually higher; and the averages for pyruvate kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, and beta-hydroxyacyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase were not greatly different from brain. Levels of eight of the 12 enzymes were distinctly lower among the Schwannomas than in the other two groups. Average levels of glucose-6-phosphate, lactate, pyruvate, and uridine diphosphoglucose were more than twice those of brain; 6-phosphogluconate and citrate were about 70% higher than in brain; glucose, glycogen, glycerol-1-phosphate, and malate averages ranged from 104% to 127% of brain; and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate and glucose-1,6-bisphosphate levels were on the average 50% and 70% those of brain, respectively.
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PMID:Diversity of metabolic patterns in human brain tumors: enzymes of energy metabolism and related metabolites and cofactors. 661 61

The activity of NAD-linked alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (NAD-G3PDH; EC 1.1.1.8) was depressed by 35% when the thyroid hormone 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (20 micrograms/liter) was added to the serum-free, hormonally supplemented medium of cultured neonatal rat heart cells. The degree of depression was greater (65%) when the medium contained normal serum levels of hydrocortisone and insulin. There is a dramatic inverse dose-response relationship between triiodothyronine levels and NAD-G3PDH activity. The classic elevation by thyroid hormones of the FAD-linked alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (FAD-G3PD; EC 1.1.99.5) was observed concurrently. The medium-glucose depletion rate in triiodothyronine-free cells was depressed 32% through 11 days-in-culture, indicating reduced glycolytic activity. The activities of nine other metabolically important enzymes which were measured during this study, including hexokinase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase, malate dehydrogenase, NAD-isocitrate dehydrogenase, NADH cytochrome c reductase, and succinic cytochrome c reductase, did not respond to varying triiodothyronine concentrations.
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PMID:Triiodothyronine depresses the NAD-linked glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity of cultured neonatal rat heart cells. 669 42

A serum-free, hormone-supplemented medium (SFHM) for maintaining neonatal rat heart cells in culture has been developed in this laboratory (Mohamed et al., 1983). Morphological assessment of heart cells grown in SFHM show it to be similar to commonly used serum-supplemented media. To quantitatively compare cell behavior in SFHM with serum-supplemented media, the activities of ten regulatory enzymes which represent four metabolic pathways were studied in heart cells cultured in SFHM. The enzyme activities which were measured included hexokinase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase, NAD+-linked sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, NAD+-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase, NADH-cytochrome c reductase, and succinic cytochrome c reductase. Rat heart cells maintained in culture on SFHM are not only qualitatively and quantitatively similar to those maintained in serum-supplemented medium but also provide a more suitable model system for metabolic studies of neonatal cardiac tissue for several reasons: 1) many enzyme activities that may represent dedifferentiation are elevated by serum; 2) NAD-linked glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in cells maintained on SFHM is similar to the in vivo activity; 3) cells beat at or near the in vivo frequency and can be maintained 3 months on SFHM; 4) the SFHM is chemically defined and thus can be completely manipulated by the investigator. The effects of three concentrations of hydrocortisone (HC) (5,000 ng/ml, 50 micrograms/ml, 0 ng/ml) on heart cells cultured in SFHM supported our previous conclusion that function (beating) and growth (protein accumulation) are inversely related in cultured neonatal rat heart cells.
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PMID:Control of enzyme activity levels by serum and hydrocortisone in neonatal rat heart cells cultured in serum-free medium. 674 46

The maximal rate of some cerebral enzymatic activities related to energy transduction (hexokinase; phosphofructokinase; lactate dehydrogenase; citrate synthase; malate dehydrogenase; total NADH-cytochrome c reductase; cytochrome oxidase), amino acid metabolism (glutamate decarboxylase; glutamate dehydrogenase) and cholinergic metabolism (acetylcholine esterase) were tested in the cerebral cortex and in sub-cortical area of rats. The evaluations were performed both in the homogenate in toto and in the crude mitochondrial fraction, before and after a postdecapitative normothermic ischemia of 5, 10, 20, and 40 min duration. The results are discussed also with respect to the pharmacological pretreatment with two biological substances which may modulate amino acid (L-alanine) and phospholipid metabolism (CDP-choline). The analysis of the present data suggests the occurrence in brain tissue of a variety of interrelated factors implicated in the ischemia-induced changes of the maximal rate of the enzymatic activities related to the energy transduction. These include: (a) rearrangement of the enzymatic activities because of the changed metabolic and chemico-physical condition; (b) decrease in the activity of enzymes related to the electron transfer chain and glycolysis; (c) changes in enzymes related to mitochondrial membranes. The effects of in vivo administration of alanine or CDP-choline, even if significant, are not consistent throughout the time period studied.
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PMID:Changes induced by ischemia on some cerebral enzymatic activities related to energy transduction and amino acid metabolism. 685 30


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