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Diurnal rhythms are demonstrated in five rat liver enzymes : argininosuccinate synthetase, ATP : citrate lyase, glutamate dehydrogenase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, and succinate dehydrogenase. In a 12 : 12 h light-dark cycle, maxima of enzyme activities occur at the beginning of the dark phase in the case of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, at the end of the dark phase in ATP : citrate lyase, and in the middle of the dark phase in the other three enzymes. The diurnal increase of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is blocked by cycloheximide, cordycepin, alpha-amanitin, and 5-azacytidine. The maximum of ATP : citrate lyase is likewise suppressed at the levels of both translation and transcription, as shown by administration of cycloheximide and 5-azacytidine, respectively. Hence, these two enzymes appear to be regulated transcriptionally. The diurnal rise of argininosuccinate synthetase an glutamate dehydrogenase is also totally inhibited by cycloheximide, whereas cordycepin, alpha-amanitin, and 5-azacytidine are ineffective in the first phase of enzyme accumulation. In a later phase, however, alpha-amanitin and 5-azacytidine become inhibitory. The two enzymes therefore seem to be regulated sequentially by post-transcriptional and transcriptional mechanisms. The diurnal increase of succinate dehydrogenase is nearly insensitive to alpha-amanitin and 5-azacytidine; cycloheximide is only partially inhibitory and, in particular, almost ineffective during the late rise. Thus, the rhythm of this enzyme might be controlled mainly by an activation and, perhaps, by a transitory post-transcriptional mechanism.
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PMID:Different levels of gene realization in the diurnal control of rat liver enzymes. 617 90

Parenchymal activities (mumol . min-1 . g liver-1) and distributions of mitochondrial succinate dehydrogenase, cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase were studied in regenerating rat liver after two thirds partial hepatectomy. Succinate dehydrogenase activity remained constant with a slight and transient increase for a few hours after operation. The typical periportal localization was changed to an almost even distribution from 8 h to 7 days; it was fully restored after 14 days. Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity was increased by 1.8 fold 24 h after surgery; it remained enhanced until about 72 h. The normal periportal to perivenous enzyme gradient was diminished or replaced by a homogeneous distribution between 8 h and 7 days; the zonal heterogeneity was regained after 14 days. Glucose-6-phosphatase activity remained constant after partial hepatectomy. The normal periportal maximum was lost between 4 h and 36 h; the activity became more equally distributed and was even shifted towards the perivenous zone. After 48 h the zonal distribution was reestablished. The results indicate that after partial hepatectomy the gluconeogenic capacity of the liver remnant is increased and that this increase is accompanied by a loss of the normal heterogeneity which is typical for the glucostat function of the organ. They reveal in addition that the three enzymes, representing three different subcellular compartments, change their zonal heterogeneity individually rather than synchronously.
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PMID:Alteration in zonation of succinate dehydrogenase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and glucose-6-phosphatase in regenerating rat liver. 632 5

14C-labeled bicarbonate was incorporated into trichloroacetic acid-insoluble material by cell suspensions of A. viscosus strain M100 and also into the four-carbon fermentation product, succinate, but not into the three-carbon fermentation product, lactate. The initial step in the conversion of 14C-labeled bicarbonate into both trichloroacetic acid-insoluble material and succinate was catalyzed by the enzyme phosphoenolypyruvate carboxylase, which served to convert the glycolytic intermediate, phosphoenolpyruvate, and bicarbonate to the four-carbon compound, oxalacetate. The metabolic fate of oxalacetate was its conversion to either trichloroacetic acid-insoluble material or succinate. One pathway by which oxalacetate may be metabolized into acid-insoluble material is via its conversion to the biosynthetic precursor aspartate by the action of glutamate aspartate aminotransferase. One source of the alpha-amino group of aspartate was the ammonium ion, which could be incorporated into glutamate, the substrate of the glutamate aspartate aminotransferase reaction, by the action of a reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase whose reducing equivalents could be derived from the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-dependent oxidative reactions of the hexose monophosphate pathway catalyzed by glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase. Alternatively, oxalacetate was converted to the fermentation product, succinate, through the sequential action of malate dehydrogenase, fumarase, and succinic dehydrogenase. The resolution and partial purification of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, glutamate aspartate aminotransferase, glutamate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, fumarase, and succinic dehydrogenase are also reported.
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PMID:Carbon dioxide metabolism by Actinomyces viscosus: pathways for succinate and aspartate production. 676 22

Parenchymal distributions and activities of mitochondrial succinate dehydrogenase and cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxy-kinase were studied during perinatal development of rat liver. 1. Succinate dehydrogenase activity increased almost linearly from day 5 before to day 5 after birth. Hepatocytes with higher enzyme activities were disseminated heterogeneously, zonal heterogeneity developed during the second week. 2. Cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase was not detectable before birth; it was induced to high levels during day 1 and increased further to a maximum during days 5 to 10. It decreased again to adult levels at the end of the third week. The enzyme distribution already showed signs of a zonal heterogeneity at day 1, which became fully developed during the second week. The results indicate that the zonal heterogeneity typical of adult liver was established for the two enzymes during the second week of life. They revealed in addition that the two enzymes, representing two different subcellular compartments, had an individual development towards the zonal heterogeneity.
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PMID:Perinatal development of the distributions of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and succinate dehydrogenase in rat liver parenchyma. 685 56

The energy metabolism of the English E-CMO strain of contagious equine metritis bacterium was studied in whole cells and cell extracts. This bacterium appears to have an active Krebs cycle and probably obtains energy by oxidative phosphorylation since glycolysis and the hexose monophosphate pathways appear to be absent. These conclusions are based on the findings that [U-14C]glucose incorporation by this bacterium is below the level of detection, and that respiration is stimulated by Krebs cycle intermediates (i.e., malate, citrate, and succinate), but not by glucose, fructose, maltose, or sucrose. Furthermore, support comes from the fact that enzymes generally associated with the Krebs cycle and electron transport (i.e., malate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, fumarate hydratase, malate dehydrogenase [decarboxylating], cytochrome oxidase, superoxide dismutase, NADH dehydrogenase, and catalase) were detected. Those enzymes normally associated with glycolysis and the hexose monophosphate pathways (i.e., hexokinase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, fructose biphosphate aldolase, glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, pyruvate kinase, phosphate acetyl transferase, acetate kinase, alcohol dehydrogenase, and lactate dehydrogenase) were below the level of detection.
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PMID:Energy metabolism of the contagious equine metritis bacterium. 708 71

Many enzymes are distributed heterogeneously within the liver lobule. The factors that play a determining role in the establishment and maintenance of these heterogeneous expression patterns have not yet been identified. To investigate whether the composition of the afferent hepatic blood plays a crucial role in the maintenance of the heterogeneity of gene expression of the parenchymal cells within the liver lobule, we changed the source of the afferent hepatic blood by microsurgical techniques. Three different groups of experimental animals were studied: rats with livers that are perfused with portal blood only (ligation of the hepatic artery), with caval blood only (portocaval transposition and ligation of the hepatic artery) and arterial blood only (portocaval shunt, arterialization of the distal end of the portal vein and ligation of the hepatic artery). To study differences in gene expression patterns, we chose enzymes that have a heterogeneous expression pattern within the liver lobule: the periportally located enzymes carbamoylphosphate synthase, succinate dehydrogenase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and the pericentrally located enzymes glutamine synthase, glutamate dehydrogenase and NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase. To eliminate the potential interference of the long half-lives of some of these proteins on the interpretation of the results, we also studied the distribution of the mRNAs of carbamoylphosphate synthase, glutamine synthase, glutamate dehydrogenase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase. The animals were studied 2 wk after the operations. On the basis of their changes in body weight the animals were in steady state for at least a week. The patterns of gene expression of the enzymes studied did not change, regardless of the source of the altered afferent hepatic blood. The changes in gene expression that were observed in animals that did not regain their preoperative weight were shown to be caused by a limited intake of food. This study demonstrates that the physiological position of the liver within the circulation (i.e., between the gastrointestinal tract and the systemic circulation) is not as critical as is often stated and is certainly not essential for the maintenance of liver cell heterogeneity. The data suggest that the direction of the bloodstream (i.e., the existence of an upstream and a downstream compartment) is a major determinant of zonation of gene expression.
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PMID:Experimental evidence that the physiological position of the liver within the circulation is not a major determinant of zonation of gene expression. 822 21

In vivo, bicarbonate can affect proximal tubule intermediary metabolism, including gluconeogenesis, ammoniagenesis and maintenance of the mitochondrial substrate supply. In vitro, rabbit proximal tubule cells (RPTC) in primary culture revert from gluconeogenesis to glycolysis and their mitochondrial metabolism remains lower than in vivo. To determine whether the bicarbonate buffer system could have an effect on these deregulations, RPTC in primary culture grown in the absence of insulin and glucose in the culture medium were developed either with the standard sodium bicarbonate buffer with 5% CO2 or with a Hepes hydrogen ion buffer in the presence of 0.5% CO2. Duration of the bicarbonate-free cultures was increased until at least day 17 after seeding, compared with day 11 in bicarbonate-buffered cultures. As could be expected, succinate dehydrogenase activity remained stable as a function of time in bicarbonate-free cultures while an early marked decrease of this activity occurred from seeding in cultures developed in the presence of bicarbonate buffer. Compared to bicarbonate-buffered cells, higher phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity concomitant with lower intracellular lactate dehydrogenase activity was observed in cultures developed in the absence of bicarbonate, which is indicative of closer carbohydrate metabolism orientation to the in vivo situation for RPTC. Immunofluorescence staining of RPTC with monoclonal antibodies directed to neutral endopeptidase (NEP), and dipeptidyl-peptidase IV (DPP II) showed similar extensive labelling with DPP and NEP in both culture conditions. Confocal microscopy analysis of NEP subcellular distribution, showed exclusive targetting of NEP to the apical plasma membranes. In both models, cAMP production was stimulated by parathyroid hormone and unaffected by arginine vasopressin. In conclusion, bicarbonate withdrawal from the culture medium (without changing the pH of the medium) allows a marked improvement of mitochondrial capacity and carbohydrate metabolism pattern without any loss of differentiated properties.
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PMID:Effects of the medium HCO3-/CO2 buffer system on differentiation and intermediary metabolism properties of rabbit proximal tubule cells in primary culture. 897 88

Cysticercoids as well as 6-, 10-, and 14-day Hymenolepis diminuta were evaluated in terms of enzymatic activities related to phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) utilization and mitochondrial succinate accumulation. The data obtained support a transition toward anaerobic electron-transport-dependent succinate accumulation, characteristic of adult H. diminuta, with development from cysticercoid to adult. This transition was reflected most prominently in the increasing activities of PEP carboxykinase (PEPCK), malate dehydrogenase, NADPH-->NAD+ transhydrogenase, and fumarate reductase. Developmental increases in PEPCK/pyruvate kinase (PK), fumarate reductase (FR)/NADH oxidase (NO), and FR/succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) activity ratios were also apparent. Evaluations of "egg-free" immature, mature, and pregravid-gravid segments of adult H. diminuta revealed that in general the greater levels of activity were associated with the immature and mature segments. Whereas FR/NO and FR/SDH ratios remained relatively constant in segment comparisons, the greatest PEPCK/PK ratio was associated with the pregravid-gravid segment.
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PMID:Metabolic transition in the development of Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda). 979 60

The mechanism of reversible transfer of the gamma-phosphate group of ATP by Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK) on to its substrate is of great interest. It is known that metallofluorides are accurate analogs of the transition state in the context of kinase mechanisms. Therefore, two complexes of PCK, one with AlF(3), Mg(2+) and ADP (complex I), the other with AlF(3), Mg(2+), ADP and pyruvate (complex II) were crystallized. The X-ray crystal structures of these two complexes were determined at 2.0 A resolution. The Al atom has trigonal bipyramidal geometry that mimics the transition state of phosphoryl transfer. The Al atom is at a distance of 2.8 A and 2.9 A from an oxygen atom of the beta-phosphoryl group of ADP in complex I and II, respectively. A water molecule in complex I and an oxygen atom of the pyruvate in complex II are located along the axis of the trigonal bipyramid on the side opposite to the beta-phosphoryl oxygen with respect to the equatorial plane, suggesting that the complexes are close mimics of the transition state. Along with the presence of positively charged species around the AlF(3) moiety, these results indicate that phosphoryl transfer occurs via a direct displacement mechanism with associative qualities.
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PMID:The phosphoryl-transfer mechanism of Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from the use of AlF(3). 1172 34

A stoichiometric model of central metabolism was developed based on new information regarding metabolism in this bacterium to evaluate the steady-state growth capabilities of the serine cycle facultative methylotroph Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 during growth on methanol, succinate, and pyruvate. The model incorporates 20 reversible and 47 irreversible reactions, 65 intracellular metabolites, and experimentally-determined biomass composition. The flux space for this underdetermined system of equations was defined by finding the elementary modes, and constraints based on experimental observations were applied to determine which of these elementary modes give a reasonable description of the flux distribution for each growth substrate. The predicted biomass yield, on a carbon atom basis, is 49.8%, which agrees well with the range of published experimental yield measurements (37-50%). The model predicts the cell to be limited by reduced pyridine nucleotide availability during methylotrophic growth, but energy-limited when growing on multicarbon substrates. Mutation and phenotypic analysis was used to explore a previously unknown region of the metabolic map and to confirm the stoichiometry of the pathways in this region used in the metabolic model. Based on genome sequence data and simulation results, three enzymes involved in C(3)-C(4) interconversion pathways were predicted to be mutually redundant: malic enzyme, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, and phosphoenolpyruvate synthase. Insertion mutations in the genes predicted to encode these enzymes were made and these mutants were capable of growing on all substrates tested, confirming the redundancy of these pathways. Likewise, pathway analysis suggests that the TCA cycle enzymes citrate synthase and succinate dehydrogenase are essential for all growth substrates. In keeping with these predictions, null mutants could not be obtained in these genes. Finally, a similar model was developed for the ribulose monophosphate pathway obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus flagellatum KT to compare the efficiency of carbon utilization in the two types of methylotrophic carbon utilization pathways. The predicted yield for this organism on methanol is 65.9%.
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PMID:Stoichiometric model for evaluating the metabolic capabilities of the facultative methylotroph Methylobacterium extorquens AM1, with application to reconstruction of C(3) and C(4) metabolism. 1192 Apr 46


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