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Query: EC:1.1.1.37 (malate dehydrogenase)
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The possibility that some of the enzymes of the citric acid cycle may be loosely associated into a multienzyme cluster has been investigated using extracts prepared by gentle disruption of cells. Gel filtration and sucrose density gradient centrifugation have shown that five sequential enzymes of the cycle specifically associate into a cluster: fumarase, malate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, aconitase and isocitrate dehydrogenase. Ultrasonication destroys the abilities of the enzymes to associate. The cluster could catalyse the sequence of reactions leading from fumarate to oxoglutarate and has been found in extracts of several bacterial species as well as rat liver mitochondria.
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PMID:Organization of citric acid cycle enzymes into a multienzyme cluster. 308 26

Experimental hyperthyroidism induced in rats by daily injections of 3,3',5,5'-tetraiode-L-thyroxine (0.5 mg/kg i.p.) for 14 days resulted in a significant increase in heart weight and heart weight/body weight ratio. Hemodynamic and morphological studies were performed in one group. Thyroxine-treated rats showed a characteristic cardiovascular hyperdynamic state, such as tachycardia and augmented rate of contraction, but no evidence of heart failure such as elevated end-diastolic pressures. The cardiac cells in hyperthyroid rats had a significantly larger diameter and more mitochondria than did those of the control rats. In another group the activities of cardiac enzymes involved in energy utilization and liberation were measured biochemically and compared with those of normal controls. Hyperthyroidism resulted in increased specific activity of cytochrome C oxidase and actomyosin ATPase in the myocardium. The specific activity of long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase, carnitine palmityl-transferase, carnitine acetyltransferase, malate dehydrogenase and citrate synthase showed a moderate to marked increment, whereas the specific activity of lactate dehydrogenase and pyruvate kinase remained at the control values. These results suggest that in hyperthyroid rat hearts the functions of both energy liberation and utilization systems are enhanced to meet the added workload. Moreover, the increased activity of the enzymes participating in fatty acid metabolism suggest that in thyroxine-induced hypertrophic and hyperdynamic rat hearts, fatty acids contribute more to the energy supply than do carbohydrates.
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PMID:Biochemical and morphological study of cardiac hypertrophy. Effects of thyroxine on enzyme activities in the rat myocardium. 315 81

Tibialis anterior (TA) muscle of mouse, rat, guinea pig, and rabbit was indirectly stimulated for 10 h/day at 10 Hz up to 28 days. Changes in the activity levels of hexokinase (HK), phosphofructokinase (PFK), glyceraldehydephosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine kinase (CK), citrate synthase (CS), malate dehydrogenase (MDH), 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (HADH), and beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (HBDH) were compared. Although the direction of changes in the enzyme activity pattern was in accordance with previous findings on rabbit TA, the magnitude of the responses varied markedly between the mammals under study. Mouse TA was almost unaffected. A major effect of chronic stimulation in rat, guinea pig and rabbit was an increase in enzyme activities of aerobic-oxidative metabolism. According to intrinsic differences of the muscles under study, the increases varied among the species and appeared to be inversely related to the basal levels of these enzymes in the unstimulated muscles. Conversely, glycolytic enzyme activities (PFK, GAPDH, LDH) markedly decreased in rat, guinea pig, and rabbit, and were only slightly reduced in mouse. Changes in HK and HBDH activities displayed the largest variations in the induced change between species. These results indicate species-specific patterns of metabolic adaptation to increased contractile activity.
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PMID:Species-specific effects of chronic nerve stimulation upon tibialis anterior muscle in mouse, rat, guinea pig, and rabbit. 317 88

The effect of hypoxia and post-hypoxic recovery were studied in gastrocnemius muscle of young-adult and mature beagle dogs. Furthermore, the possible interference of pharmacological treatment with nicergoline was evaluated in these conditions. Muscular glycolytic fuels, intermediates and end-products (glycogen, glucose, glucose 6-phosphate, pyruvate, lactate), Kreb's cycle intermediates (citrate, alpha-ketoglutarate, succinate, malate) and related free amino acids (glutamate, alanine), ammonium ion, energy store and mediators (ATP, ADP, AMP and creatine phosphate), and the energy charge potential were evaluated. Furthermore, in the crude extract and/or mitochondrial fraction of another portion of the same gastrocnemius muscle the maximum rate (Vmax) of some muscular enzymes related to the anaerobic glycolytic pathway (hexokinase, lactate dehydrogenase), the Kreb's cycle (citrate synthase, malate dehydrogenase), the aminoacid pool related to the Krebs' cycle (glutamate dehydrogenase and aspartate aminotransferase), the electron transfer chain (cytochrome oxidase) and NAD+/NADH exchanges (total NADH cytochrome c reductase) was evaluated. Some glycolytic metabolites and Krebs' cycle intermediates were modified by acute hypoxia, while free amino acids and energy mediators remained practically unchanged. The pharmacological treatment maintained the glucose and succinate muscular concentrations within the normal range, during hypoxia. The behaviour of muscular metabolites during hypoxia and/or post-hypoxic recovery is an age-related event. In fact, only in young-adult animals did the altered values return to normal in post-hypoxic recovery. In the present experimental conditions, only minor changes were observed as far as muscular enzyme activities are concerned. In any case, some enzyme activities tested showed different Vmax in young-adult dogs in comparison with mature ones.
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PMID:Effect of hypoxia, aging and pharmacological treatment on muscular metabolites and enzyme activities. 322 9

Some key enzyme activities from the energy metabolism of A. pullulans have been studied during the ethanol-induced yeast-to-mycelium transition. Both the mycelial and yeast-like forms showed greater glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity than phosphofructokinase. During the morphological transition, the most outstanding variations occurred in large cells (3 days), especially for citrate synthase, malate dehydrogenase and isocitrate lyase activities. However, similar variations were detected in cultures without glucose or ethanol, which showed no morphological transition. Therefore, the observed changes in the enzymatic activities may be attributed to the absence of glucose. As this is not sufficient to induce the morphological transition, we conclude that there is no evidence of a clear-cut relationship between morphology and the activity of the enzymes studied.
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PMID:[Evolution of several enzyme activities of Aureobasidium pullulans during the transition from yeast to mycelium induced by ethanol]. 326 91

A general analysis of the regulation of the citric acid cycle is hampered by the intimate interplay believed to exist between the various surrounding pathways. Two main regulatory mechanisms are thought to determine the flux through the cycle: (1) regulation of individual cycle enzymes, and (2) reversible complex formation between various enzymes of the cycle and related pathways. The latter mechanism allows a cell to maintain a high flux of substrates with a moderate number of intermediates, and offers a means of metabolite channeling. We were able to demonstrate specific interactions between several vertebrate cycle enzymes in conditions of reduced water concentration, i.e. by using immobilized enzyme systems. From affinity chromatographic experiments, we have shown that the enzymes of the citric acid cycle and the aspartate-malate shuttle are organized as one huge multi-enzyme complex, and a stoichiometric arrangement of fumarase/malate dehydrogenase/citrate synthase/aspartate aminotransferase has been postulated. Affinity electrophoresis was used as a new experimental device by which the enzyme-enzyme interactions could be directly visualized.
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PMID:Enzyme-enzyme interactions as modulators of the metabolic flux through the citric acid cycle. 333 92

Maximal activities of rat skeletal muscle mitochondrial citrate synthase (CS), malate dehydrogenase (MDH), and alanine aminotransferase (ALT), as well as several other mitochondrial enzymes involved in various metabolic functions were significantly suppressed after a single bout of acute or exhaustive treadmill running. This enzymatic "down regulation" was maintained 24 and 48 h post exhaustion, especially in the untrained rats. Neither muscle cytosolic nor hepatic enzymes exhibited down regulation after exercise. Proteolysis was increased with exercise as assessed by the clearance of [3H]leucine previously incorporated into the proteins of the rats. Decreased CS, MDH, and ALT activities correlated with a significant loss of mitochondrial total protein sulfhydryl (r = 0.67, 0.68, 0.59, respectively, P less than 0.001) in untrained rats and both CS and MDH could be partially restored by incubation with dithiothreitol. Endurance-tested untrained and trained rats had significantly higher glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity in both muscle mitochondria and cytosol which correlated significantly with endurance time (r = 0.70 and 0.74, respectively). It is concluded that enzymatic down regulation is not caused by proteolysis alone; i.e., peroxides and oxygen free radicals produced in prolonged exercise may alter the intramitochondrial redox state by oxidizing free thiols that may be required at active sites of these enzymes. Training may enhance the ability of the muscle to resist the toxic oxygen species by increasing GPX activity.
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PMID:Enzymatic down regulation with exercise in rat skeletal muscle. 336 59

The specific interaction of yeast citrate synthase with yeast mitochondrial inner membranes was characterized with respect to saturability of binding, pH optimum, effect of ionic strength, temperature response, and inhibition by oxalacetate. The binding ability of the inner membranes is inhibited by proteolysis and heat treatment, which implies that the membrane component(s) responsible for binding is a protein. A protein fraction from inner membranes when added to liposomes will bind citrate synthase. In addition, the binding of yeast fumarase, mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase, and cytosolic malate dehydrogenase to yeast inner membranes was examined. For these studies the yeast mitochondrial matrix enzymes, citrate synthase (from two types of yeast), malate dehydrogenase, and fumarase, as well as cytosolic malate dehydrogenase, were purified using rapid new techniques.
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PMID:The interaction of yeast citrate synthase with yeast mitochondrial inner membranes. 353 36

Activities of eight enzymes were measured in the sonic muscle of the gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta, to determine the metabolic poise of this unique tissue and to evaluate potential sex related differences in metabolism. In contrast to a prior study (Pennypacker et al., '85, J. Exp. Zool., 239: 259-264), we observed substantial activities of M4-lactate dehydrogenase, 333 to 482 units/g wet sonic muscle weight. This observation and the presence of high activities of other enzymes of glycolytic and anaerobic metabolism (pyruvate kinase and creatine phosphokinase) lead us to conclude that this tissue has high anaerobic capacity. Also in contrast to the observations of Pennypacker et al. ('85), we found that the activities of some enzymes indicative of aerobic metabolism are relatively low. For example, the activities of citrate synthase found in sonic muscle (1.5 to 2.7 units/g) are only slightly higher than values obtained for toadfish white skeletal muscle (1.2 units/g). The discrepancies between the results obtained by the two studies appear to be methodological ones. Lastly, significant differences in enzyme activities between males and females were observed for lactate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, and citrate synthase, and possible explanations for these differences are discussed.
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PMID:Reexamination of metabolic potential in the toadfish sonic muscle. 355 99

Formation of a bienzyme complex of pig heart mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase and citrate synthase in a buffered system is demonstrated by means of a covalently attached fluorescent probe to citrate synthase. Assuming 1:1 stoichiometry of the enzymes in the complex, an apparent dissociation constant of 10(-6) M was calculated from fluorescence anisotropy measurements. The effect of various metabolites on the interaction was tested. NAD+, oxalacetate, citrate, ATP, and L(-)- or D(+)-malate had no effect on the association of the two enzymes, whereas alpha-ketoglutarate increased and NADH decreased it. The interaction of mitochondrial citrate synthase with cytosolic malate dehydrogenase was found to be much weaker, whereas interaction of citrate synthase with another cytosolic enzyme, aldolase, could not be detected. In kinetic experiments, the activation of malate dehydrogenase by citrate synthase was observed. The effect of pyridine nucleotides and alpha-ketoglutarate is discussed in relation to the direction of the metabolic flow of oxalacetate.
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PMID:Quantitation of the interaction between citrate synthase and malate dehydrogenase. 357 Dec 48


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