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Leishmania organisms isolated from the sores of patients in Iraq suffering from cutaneous leishmaniasis were compared between themselves and with Leishmania major, L. tropica and L. donovani, all of which had been identified on clinical and geographical grounds. The comparisons were made by examination of the electrophoretic mobilities of seven soluble enzymes: malic enzyme E.C.1.1.1.40; glucose phosphate isomerase E.C.5.3.1.9; glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase E.C.1.1.1.49; phosphoglucomutase E.C.2.7.5.1; malate dehydrogenase E.C.1.1.1.37; aspartate aminotransferase E.C.2.6.1.1 and alanine aminotransferase E.C.2.6.1.2. following thin-layer starch-gel electrophoresis. The Iraqi isolations of Leishmania spp. from cutaneous lesions fell clearly into two groups, one of which gave isoenzyme patterns identical to those of a marker stock of L. major isolated in the USSR, and the other which gave patterns identical to those given by L. tropica also from the USSR. Previously it had been thought that L. tropica alone was responsible for cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iraq. The L. tropica and L. major isoenzyme patterns clearly differentiated these organisms from L. donovani.
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PMID:Leishmania spp. in Iraq. Electrophoretic isoenzyme patterns. II. Cutaneous leishmaniasis. 738 97

The effect of DL alpha-lipoic acid on the nephrotoxic potential of gentamicin was examined. Intraperitoneal injection of gentamicin (100 mg/kg/day) to rats resulted in decreased activity of the glycolytic enzymes-hexokinase, phosphoglucoisomerase, aldolase and lactate dehydrogenase. The two gluconeogenic enzymes--glucose-6-phosphatase and fructose-1,6-diphosphatase, the transmembrane enzymes namely the Na+, K(+)-ATPase, Ca(2+)-ATPase, Mg(2+)-ATPase and the brushborder enzyme alkaline phosphatase, also showed decreased activities. This decrease in the activities of ATPases and alkaline phosphatase suggests basolateral and brush border membrane damage. Decreased activity of the TCA cycle enzymes isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH), succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and malate dehydrogenase (MDH), suggests a loss in mitochondrial integrity. These biochemical disturbances were effectively counteracted by lipoic acid administration. Lipoic acid administration by gastric intubation at two different concentrations (10 mg and 25 mg/kg/day) brought about an increase in the activity of the glycolytic enzymes, ATPases and the TCA cycle enzymes. The gluconeogenic enzymes however showed a further decrease in their activities at both the concentrations of lipoic acid administered. These observations shed light on the nephroprotective action of lipoic acid against experimental aminoglycoside toxicity and the protection afforded at 25 mg/kg/day of lipoic acid was noted to be higher than that at 10 mg level.
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PMID:Role of DL alpha-lipoic acid in gentamicin induced nephrotoxicity. 765 73

Electrophoretic conditions including electrode and gel buffers, acrylamide concentration, use of stacking gels, voltage, current, and run time were investigated in order to produce isozyme bands of high resolution which would facilitate densitometric quantification of enzyme activity following polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE). Electrode buffers which provided optimal conditions for gels stained for the isozymes of malate dehydrogenase (MDH), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6-PGD), phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI), and shikimate dehydrogenase (SkDH) were 0.02 M Tris-glycine, pH 8.5, 0.1 M sodium borate, pH 6.0, 0.1 M sodium borate, pH 8.7, and 0.07 M sodium borate, pH 7.0, respectively. A 0.5 M Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, gel buffer was optimal for gels stained for the isozymes of 6-PGD, PGI and SkDH. A 0.5 M Tris-HCl, pH 8.5, gel buffer was best for gels stained for MDH. Stacking gels were found to be detrimental to enzyme activity and showed no improvement in resolution for any of the enzymes. Acrylamide concentration for gels stained for MDH were 8.7%, gels stained for 6-PGD and PGI were 7.5%, while gels stained for SkDH had an acrylamide concentration of 5.0%. Higher concentrations above these levels caused a reduction and in some cases loss of band activity, while below this concentration there was a decrease in band resolution.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Electrophoretic conditions for high resolution citrus isozymes in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. 773 89

Leishmania parasites isolated from two patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis from geographically different localities in Paraguay have been characterized by enzyme electrophoresis (zymodeme) and digestion profiles of kinetoplast DNA with restriction enzymes (schizodeme). Both Paraguayan isolates showed identical zymodeme profiles to each other using 14 enzymes (glutamic pyruvate transaminase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, enolase, fumarate hydratase, glucose phosphate isomerase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme, mannose phosphate isomerase, nucleoside phosphorylase, peptidase-D, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, phosphoglucomutase, and pyruvate kinase). Although two Paraguayan isolates showed different zymodeme profiles from those of six Leishmania reference strains of Old and New World Leishmania species, they showed identical zymodeme profiles to those of an L. major-like parasite from Ecuador. These observations were confirmed by schizodeme analysis using three restriction endonucleases (Msp I, Hae III, and Taq I). These results indicate that Leishmania parasites isolated in Paraguay are identified as an L. major-like parasite, and it is necessary to consider the existence of L. major-like parasites when classifying Leishmania isolates from the New World.
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PMID:Leishmania major-like parasite, a pathogenic agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Paraguay. 781 Aug 7

Isozymes from 18 isolates representing seven species of the Fusarium sections Arthrosporiella and Sporotrichiella were compared by isoelectric focusing in polyacrylamide gels. Of the six enzyme systems tested esterase and malate dehydrogenase showed the largest variation. A numerical analysis of the pI values determined for acid phosphatase, esterase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, phosphoglucose isomerase and phosphoglucomutase resulted in a dendrogam demonstrating the taxonomical relationships of the seven species. Fusarium avenaceum and Fusarium pallidoroseum were the two most closely related species. The high degree of isoenzyme dissimilarity among Fusarium chlamydosporum, Fusarium poae, Fusarium tricinctum, the fungi that produce pyriform or citriform microconidia, suggests that they are distinct species and their reduction to a variety level is not reasonable. The taxonomical distinctness of Fusarium camptoceras, a lesser known and rarely occurring fungus was also proven.
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PMID:Isoelectric focusing isozyme profiles and taxonomic distances among Fusarium species of the sections Arthrosporiella and Sporotrichiella. 830 9

Soluble extracts of the oocysts of Cryptosporidium parvum had demonstrable, but low, activities of malate dehydrogenase (MDH, EC. 1.1.1.37), carboxylesterase (ES, EC 3.1.1.1) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH, EC. 1.1.1.27) following thin-layer starch-gel electrophoresis. Much higher activities of glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI, EC. 5.3.1.9) and phosphoglucomutase (PGM, EC. 2.7.5.1) were found, and zymograms of these two enzymes were used to characterise isolates of C. parvum from human, bovine, ovine and cervine sources, C. muris from the brown rat and C. baileyi from young turkeys. PGM and GPI zymograms clearly distinguished between C. parvum, C. muris and C. baileyi. The five isolates of C. parvum showed the same electrophoretic mobility for GPI, whereas the PGM mobility of the single human isolate of C. parvum examined was clearly different from that of the other isolates. This is the first report of the use of isoenzymes to distinguish between species and isolates of Cryptosporidium.
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PMID:Isoenzyme variation within the genus Cryptosporidium. 841 44

The loci for three enzymes (hexokinase, phosphoglucomutase, and testicular esterase) and two eye-color mutants (brick and tan) are mapped on the X chromosome of Glossina palpalis palpalis. The loci occur in the order brick Hex (tan/Pgm) Est-t, with a recombination frequency of approximately 78% between the outer two loci. The locus for octanol dehydrogenase is located in linkage group II and the loci for malate dehydrogenase and phosphoglucose isomerase are separated by a recombination frequency of about 42.5% in linkage group III. Intrachromosomal recombination occurs at a much lower frequency in males than in females. The distribution of five biochemical marker genes in the linkage groups of G. p. palpalis is markedly different from that found in other higher flies.
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PMID:Genetics of Glossina palpalis palpalis: designation of linkage groups and the mapping of eight biochemical and visible marker genes. 853 97

Interstrain polymorphisms of isoenzyme profiles and mitochondrial (Mt) DNA fingerprints were observed among seven strains of Acanthamoeba isolated from different sources and morphologically assigned to A. polyphaga. Mt DNA fingerprints by eight restriction endonucleases (Bgl II, Sca I, Cla I, EcoR I, Xba I, Kpn I, Sal I, and Sst I) revealed considerable interstrain polymorphisms. Isoenzyme profiles revealed considerable interstrain polymorphisms for acid phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase while those for glucose phosphate isomerase, leucine aminopeptidase, and malate dehydrogenase showed similarity. Despite of the interstrain polymorphisms, the isoenzyme profiles and Mt DNA fingerprints of the strain Ap were found to be identical with those of the strain Jones. Mt DNA fingerprinting was found to be highly applicable for the strain identification, characterization, and differentiation.
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PMID:Interstrain polymorphisms of isoenzyme profiles and mitochondrial DNA fingerprints among seven strains assigned to Acanthamoeba polyphaga. 859 Oct 11

A total of 1128 rodents belonging to seven genera were examined for leishmanial parasites over a period of sixteen months. Parasites were isolated from 36 (12.5%) Tatera robusta, 3 (0.5%) Arvicanthis niloticus, and 2 (0.8%) Mastomys natalensis. All isolates were characterised by isoenzyme analysis using nine enzymes. The enzymes examined were: malate dehydrogenase (MDH), phosphoglucomutase (PGM), glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI), isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICD), nucleoside hydrolase (NH), glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), mannose phosphate isomerase (MPI), malic enzyme (ME) and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD). The enzyme profiles from these isolates were compared with those from Leishmania reference strains and also with isolates of Leishmania major from man and sandfly, P. duboscqci from the same area. All the isolates except one from a Mastomys were identified as L. major. The isolate from Mastomys was trypanosome-like and remains unidentified. The results in this study show that Tatera robusta is the main reservoir of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Baringo District. None of the animals trapped were found infected with Leishmania donovani suggesting that rodents do not play a role in the transmission of visceral leishmaniasis in this area.
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PMID:Animal reservoirs of leishmaniasis in Marigat, Baringo District, Kenya. 862 62

Morphological and biometric studies were performed in Trichuris skrjabini (Baskakov, 1924) collected from the caecum of Capra hircus. The LDH (EC 1.1.1.27.), G6PD (EC 1.1.1.49.), GPI (EC 5.3.1.9.), MDH (EC 1.1.1.37) and malic enzyme (ME) (EC 1.1.1.40) isoenzymatic patterns of T. skrjabini were determined by starch gel electrophoresis. The G6PD and GPI isoenzymatic patterns of T. skrjabini displayed two anodic bands for both enzymes: one fast migration band and one band near the origin. This isoenzymatic pattern was interpreted as two gene loci encoding both enzymes. The LDH isoenzymatic pattern of T. skrjabini was characterized by the presence of a cathodically migrating band, while the MDH isoenzymatic pattern showed a very slow cathodic band. These two phenotypes were interpreted as the expression of a homozygous state of a gene locus for LDH and MDH in T. skrjabini. The ME isoenzymatic pattern was characterized by the presence of a single anodic band. Further, comparative isoenzymatic studies were carried out between T. skrjabini and T. ovis. The different G6PD, GPI, LDH, MDH and ME isoenzymatic patterns observed for both species allowed us to distinguish them and therefore to use isoenzymatic patterns as a diagnostic tool to differentiate species of Trichuris.
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PMID:Characterization of Trichuris skrjabini by isoenzyme gel electrophoresis: comparative study with Trichuris ovis. 898 7


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