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Query: EC:1.1.1.37 (malate dehydrogenase)
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A comparative study was carried out on the glucose metabolism in Babesia microti (BM) and Babesia rodhaini (BR) by analyzing the enzyme activities. The lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity in BM showed significantly lower values than that in BR, whereas citrate synthase (CS) and malate dehydrogenase (MDH) activities were remarkably higher in BM. In addition, pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH), isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH), alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (KGDH), and succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) activities also tended to be higher in BM. Then, the change of enzyme activities related to the proliferation of parasites was examined. In BM infected mice, the parasitemia increased from day 15 to day 19 after inoculation (a.i.). While BM showed decrease of G6PD and LDH activities at day 19 a.i., it showed remarkably increased activities in CS and MDH (368 and 8,842 nmol/min.mg protein, respectively). In addition, PDH, ICDH, KGDH, and SDH activities also tended to increase from day 15 to 19 a.i. In BR infected mice, parasitemia increased from day 9 to day 12 a.i. LDH activity showed a considerable increase at day 12 a.i. (12,920 IU/mg.protein). Although CS and MDH activities also showed a slight increase at day 12 a.i., the activities of PDH, ICDH, KGDH and SDH didn't change from day 9 to 12 a.i. Since these changes observed in the enzyme activities of BM and BR seemed to be correlated with their proliferation, it was suggested that BM and BR depended on aerobic and anaerobic pathways, respectively, for their glucose metabolism.
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PMID:Enzyme activities related to glucose metabolism in Babesia microti and Babesia rodhaini. 775 34

A simple and efficient osmotic lysis method was developed for enzyme studies in spiroplasmas. Log phase cells in R2 medium were harvested by centrifugation (19,600 x g for 30 min). Wash buffer supplemented with 0.23 M sucrose maintained the helicity of spiroplasma cells during washing. Osmotic lysis of spiroplasmas was achieved in H buffer that contained no sucrose. Sucrose at concentrations as low as 0.004 M dramatically increased the resistance of the spiroplasmas to osmotic lysis. NADH oxidase, lactate dehydrogenase, and malate dehydrogenase were detected in cell lysates of Spiroplasma floricola (23-6), Spiroplasma citri (R8A2), Spiroplasma apis (SR 3), and Spiroplasma melliferum (AS 576). Citrate synthase, aconitase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, succinyl coenzyme A synthetase, succinate dehydrogenase, and fumarase were not detected in cell lysates of S. floricola (23-6). NADH oxidase and malate dehydrogenase were found in the cytosol whereas lactate dehydrogenase was loosely associated with the cytomembrane.
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PMID:The osmotic lysis of Spiroplasma cells and its use in enzyme studies. 795 12

Succinate dehydrogenase activity was measured in rat pancreatic islet homogenates incubated in the presence of [1,4-14C]succinate, the reaction velocity being judged through the generation of 14CO2 in the auxiliary reactions catalysed by pig heart fumarase and chicken liver NADP-malate dehydrogenase. In the presence of 1.0 mM succinate, the reaction velocity averaged 5.53 +/- 0.44 pmol min-1 microgram-1 islet protein. The Km for succinate was close to 0.4 mM and the enzymic activity was restricted to mitochondria. These kinetic results indicate that, under the present experimental conditions, the activity of succinate dehydrogenase does not vastly exceed that of either NAD-isocitrate dehydrogenase or the 2-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex, at least when the latter enzymes are activated by ADP and/or Ca2+. Nevertheless, the activity of succinate dehydrogenase is sufficient to account for the increase in O2 uptake evoked in intact islets by the monomethyl ester of succinic acid. It could become a rate-limiting step of the Krebs cycle in models of B-cell dysfunction.
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PMID:Hexose metabolism in pancreatic islets: succinate dehydrogenase activity in islet homogenates. 840 29

Activities of the tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes were measured in subcellular fractions of liver from rats that had been fed clofibrate for 3 weeks. Large changes in these activities per gram tissue were found in the large particle fraction, which also showed an increase in total protein concentration of 76% under clofibrate treatment. The three regulatory enzymes of the cycle, namely citrate synthase, NAD(+)-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase, and 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase were significantly enhanced by 24% (P < 0.02), 54% (P < 0.02), and 153% (P < 0.005), respectively. Fumarase and malate dehydrogenase rose by 71% (P < 0.005) and 95% (P < 0.02), whereas succinate dehydrogenase remained unchanged. Enhancement of the citrate synthase, NAD-isocitrate dehydrogenase, and 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase may play a role in decreasing intracellular availability of acetyl-CoA for lipid metabolism.
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PMID:Clofibrate elevates enzyme activities of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in rat liver. 846 21

Mutants of Rhizobium leguminosarum were selected that were altered in the uptake activity of the general amino acid permease (Aap). The main class of mutant maps to sucA and sucD, which are part of a gene cluster mdh-sucCDAB, which codes for malate dehydrogenase (mdh), succinyl-CoA synthetase (sucCD) and components of the 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (sucAB). Mutation of either sucC or sucD prevents expression of 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase (sucAB). Conversely, mutation of sucA or sucB results in much higher levels of succinyl-CoA synthetase and malate dehydrogenase activity. These results suggest that the genes mdh-sucCDAB may constitute an operon. suc mutants, unlike the wild-type, excrete large quantities of glutamate and 2-oxoglutarate. Concomitant with mutation of sucA or sucD, the intracellular concentration of glutamate but no 2-oxoglutarate was highly elevated, suggesting that 2-oxoglutarate normally feeds into the glutamate pool. Elevation of the intracellular glutamate pool appeared to be coupled to glutamate excretion as part of an overflow pathway for regulation of the TCA cycle. Amino acid uptake via the Aap of R. leguminosarum was strongly inhibited in the suc mutants, even though the transcription level of the aap operon was the same as the wild-type. This is consistent with previous observations that the Aap, which influences glutamate excretion in R. leguminosarum, has uptake inhibited when excretion occurs. Another class of mutant impaired in uptake by the Aap is mutated in polyhydroxybutyrate synthase (phaC). Mutants of succinyl-CoA synthetase (sucD) or 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase (sucA) form ineffective nodules. However, mutants of aap, which are unable to grow on glutamate as a carbon source in laboratory culture, show wild-type levels of nitrogen fixation. This indicates that glutamate is not an important carbon and energy source in the bacteroid. Instead glutamate synthesis, like polyhydroxybutyrate synthesis, appears to be a sink for carbon and reductant, formed when the 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex is blocked. This is in accord with previous observations that bacteroids synthesize high concentrations of glutamate. Overall the data show that the TCA cycle in R. leguminosarum is regulated by amino acid excretion and polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthesis which act as overflow pathways for excess carbon and reductant.
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PMID:Regulation of the TCA cycle and the general amino acid permease by overflow metabolism in Rhizobium leguminosarum. 924 10

A study was undertaken to estimate the activities of the key enzymes of glycolysis, the pentose phosphate pathway and the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle in purified rat spermatocytes and spermatids, which have been shown to die in glucose-containing medium and require lactate/pyruvate for maintaining normal ATP concentrations. The aim was to elucidate the changes in the glycolytic and oxidative potential of germ cells undergoing meiosis. Pachytene spermatocytes and round spermatids from adult rat testis were purified to approximately 90% purity by trypsin digestion followed by a combination of centrifugal elutriation and Percoll density gradient centrifugation. After the purity and viability of these cells had been established, their contents of hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and LDH-X of glycolysis, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase of the pentose phosphate pathway and citrate synthase, aconitase, malate dehydrogenase and 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase of the TCA cycle were estimated. These enzymes were also estimated in epididymal spermatozoa for comparison with the testicular germ cells. The results indicate greater activity of glycolytic and pentose phosphate pathway enzymes in spermatocytes than in spermatids, which exhibited greater activity of TCA cycle enzymes than the former. The difference in activity was statistically significant for most of the enzymes studied. In contrast, spermatozoa exhibited markedly greater activity of glycolytic enzymes and significantly lower activity of pentose phosphate pathway and TCA cycle enzymes than did the testicular germ cells. We conclude that the unusual dependence of spermatids exclusively on lactate may be due to their lower glycolytic potential, whereas spermatocytes with comparatively greater glycolytic activity have an intermediate dependence on lactate and are therefore able to utilise lactate, pyruvate, or both, while retaining a better ability to utilise glucose. Spermatozoa with the greatest glycolytic potential and the lowest TCA cycle activity appear to be 'programmed' to utilise exclusively glucose/fructose for energy.
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PMID:Changes in carbohydrate metabolism of testicular germ cells during meiosis in the rat. 953 8

The effect of alpha-tocopherol pretreatment (6 mg/100 g body wt/day, orally for a period of 90 days) on mitochondrial electron transport in myocardial infarction induced by isoproterenol (20 mg/100 g body wt, subcutaneously for two days) was studied in rats. A significant decrease was observed in the activities of isocitrate dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, NADH dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase in heart mitochondria of isoproterenol administered rats. The cytochrome content and the oxidation of succinate in state 3 and state 4 decreased significantly in the cardiac mitochondria treatment. In alpha-tocopherol pretreated rats, the activities of TCA cycle enzymes, concentration of cytochromes and the oxidation of succinate in state 3 and state 4 were retained at near normal values, following isoproterenol administration.
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PMID:Effect of alpha-tocopherol on mitochondrial electron transport in experimental myocardial infarction in rats. 975 71

The maximum rate (Vmax) of some mitochondrial enzymatic activities related to the energy transduction (citrate synthase, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, cytochrome oxidase) and amino acid metabolism (glutamate dehydrogenase, glutamate-pyruvate-transaminase, glutamate-oxaloacetate-transaminase) was evaluated in non-synaptic (free) and intra-synaptic mitochondria from rat brain cerebral cortex. Three types of mitochondria were isolated from rats subjected to i.p. treatment with L-acetylcarnitine at two different doses (30 and 60 mg.kg-1, 28 days, 5 days/week). In control (vehicle-treated) animals, enzyme activities are differently expressed in non-synaptic mitochondria respect to intra-synaptic "light" and "heavy" ones. In fact, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, glutamate-pyruvate-transaminase and glutamate-oxaloacetate-transaminase are lower, while citrate synthase, cytochrome oxidase and glutamate dehydrogenase are higher in intra-synaptic mitochondria than in non-synaptic ones. This confirms that in various types of brain mitochondria a different metabolic machinery exists, due to their location in vivo. Treatment with L-acetylcarnitine decreased citrate synthase and glutamate dehydrogenase activities, while increased cytochrome oxidase and alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase activities only in intra-synaptic mitochondria. Therefore in vivo administration of L-acetylcarnitine mainly affects some specific enzyme activities, suggesting a specific molecular trigger mode of action and only of the intra-synaptic mitochondria, suggesting a specific subcellular trigger site of action.
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PMID:Action of L-acetylcarnitine on different cerebral mitochondrial populations from cerebral cortex. 982 Nov 51

The composition and properties of the tricarboxylic acid cycle of the microaerophilic human pathogen Helicobacter pylori were investigated in situ and in cell extracts using [1H]- and [13C]-NMR spectroscopy and spectrophotometry. NMR spectroscopy assays enabled highly specific measurements of some enzyme activities, previously not possible using spectrophotometry, in in situ studies with H. pylori, thus providing the first accurate picture of the complete tricarboxylic acid cycle of the bacterium. The presence, cellular location and kinetic parameters of citrate synthase, aconitase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutarate oxidase, fumarate reductase, fumarase, malate dehydrogenase, and malate synthase activities in H. pylori are described. The absence of other enzyme activities of the cycle, including alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, succinyl-CoA synthetase, and succinate dehydrogenase also are shown. The H. pylori tricarboxylic acid cycle appears to be a noncyclic, branched pathway, characteristic of anaerobic metabolism, directed towards the production of succinate in the reductive dicarboxylic acid branch and alpha-ketoglutarate in the oxidative tricarboxylic acid branch. Both branches were metabolically linked by the presence of alpha-ketoglutarate oxidase activity. Under the growth conditions employed, H. pylori did not possess an operational glyoxylate bypass, owing to the absence of isocitrate lyase activity; nor a gamma-aminobutyrate shunt, owing to the absence of both gamma-aminobutyrate transaminase and succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase activities. The catalytic and regulatory properties of the H. pylori tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes are discussed by comparing their amino acid sequences with those of other, more extensively studied enzymes.
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PMID:The tricarboxylic acid cycle of Helicobacter pylori. 1009 6

The effect of various metabolic inhibitors on the rate of oxygen consumption by procyclic culture forms of Trypanosoma congolense utilizing proline as substrate was investigated. Cyanide inhibited the rate of oxygen consumption by 81.0 +/- 6.7%, malonate inhibited the rate by 51.6 +/- 1.6% and Antimycin A by 73.1 +/- 5.9%. A combination of cyanide and malonate inhibited the rate of oxygen consumption by 84.9 +/- 6.7% while a combination of antimycin A and malonate inhibited the rate by 81.6 +/- 7.6%. Rotenone had no effect on the rate of respiration except when the intact cells were first permeabilized by digitonin after which rotenone decreased the rate of respiration by 20-30%. Salicylhydroxamate (SHAM) did not have any effect on the rate of oxygen consumption. Enzymes involved in the catabolism of proline with high activities were: proline dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, fumarase, NADP-linked malic enzyme, alanine aminotransferase and malate dehydrogenase. Activities of 1-pyrroline-5 carboxylate dehydrogenase, glutamate dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase and NAD-linked malic enzyme were detectable but lower. The end products of proline catabolism were alanine and glutamate. Unlike the case in Trypanosoma brucei brucei aspartate was not detected. Possible pathways of proline catabolism in procyclic culture forms of T. congolense and of electron transfer are proposed.
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PMID:Catabolism of proline by procyclic culture forms of Trypanosoma congolense. 1042 13


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